Past Weill Institute Symposia
Sixth Biennial Weill Institute Symposium
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Speakers:
Dominique Bergmann
Stanford University
Iain Cheeseman
Whitehead Institute
Andrew Dillin
UC Berkeley, HHMI
Steve Gygi
Harvard Medical School
Barry Honig
Columbia Medical Center
Ralph Isberg
Tufts University
Tom W. Muir
Princeton University
Kang Shen
Stanford University, HHMI
Fifth Biennial Weill Institute Symposium
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Speakers:
Thijn Brummelkamp
Netherlands Cancer Institute
John Diffley
The Francis Crick Institute
Anne-Claude Gingras
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital
Tamir Gonen
Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Douglas Green
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Paula Hammond
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Clare Waterman
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Detlef Weigel
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Fourth Biennial Weill Institute Symposium
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Speakers:
Craig Roy
Yale University School of Medicine
Microbial ménage à trois: Autophagy, mTOR and Intracellular Infection
Peter Walter
University of California, San Francisco
From protein folding to cognition: the serendipitous pathway of discovery
Ramanujan Hegde
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Mechanisms of membrane protein biogenesis and quality control
Kevan Shokat
University of California, San Francisco; University of California, Berkeley; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Non-traditional approaches to Drugging Traditional Targets
Hidde Ploegh
Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
From MHC trafficking and quality control to developing sortase as a new protein fusion tool
Kristin Scott
University of California, Berkeley
Gustatory Processing in Drosophila
Craig Thompson
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Examining the role of growth factor signaling in the regulation of cellular metabolism
Third Biennial Weill Institute Symposium
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Speakers:
Brenda Andrews
University of Toronto
Exploring biological pathways and networks using yeast functional genomics
Eric Betzig
Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI
Imaging life at high spatiotemporal resolution
Sean Cutler
University of California, Riverside
Abscisic acid receptors and their importance for plant drought tolerance
F. Ulrich Hartl
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Molecular chaperones: role in protein folding and proteostasis
Ari Helenius
ETH Zürich
Virus entry and uncoating
Grant Jensen
California Institute of Technology
How electron cryotomography is opening a new window into cell biology
Jeff Lichtman
Harvard University
Imaging the connectome
Gero Miesenböck
University of Oxford
Lighting up the brain: a decade of optogenetic control in neuroscience
Second Biennial Weill Institute Symposium
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Speakers:
Stephen Elledge
Harvard Medical School, HHMI
Adventures in Mammalian Genetics
Angelika Amon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, HHMI
Consequences of aneuploidy
Scottie Robinson
University of Cambridge
Machinery for making clathrin-coated vesicles
Michael Rosen
UT Southwestern Medical Center @ Dallas, HHMI
Regulation of Actin Assembly by WASP Family Proteins: From Angstroms to Microns
Bonnie Bassler
Princeton University, HHMI
Manipulating Quorum Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenicity
Pascale Cossart
Institut Pasteur
The infection by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes: from cell biology to epigenetics
Gary Ruvkun
Harvard Medical School
Xenobiotic surveillance and countermeasures by C. elegans small RNA pathways
Robert Lefkowitz
Duke University Medical Center, HHMI
7 Transmembrane Receptors
First Biennial Weill Institute Symposium
Tuesday, October 12, 2009
Speakers:
University President David J. Skorton
Cornell University
Welcome
Raymond Deshaies
California Institute of Technology, HHMI
Mechanisms of ubiquitin chain synthesis
Jonathan Weissman
UC San Francisco, HHMI
Genome-wide analysis in vivo of translation with nucleotide resolution using ribosome profiling
Dafna Bar-Sagi
NYU School of Medicine
Ras signaling in health and disease
Michael Yaffe
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Systems biology of DNA damage signaling and cell cycle control in cancer
Pietro De Camilli
Yale University School of Medicine, HHMI
Endocytic mechanisms in physiology and disease
Wes Sundquist
University of Utah
Structure and restriction of the HIV capsid
Eva Nogales
UC Berkeley, HHMI
Cytoskeletal self-assembly processes essential for cell division
Tobias Meyer
Stanford University
Signaling systems biology of cell migration and proliferation