Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, April 11, 2025 Edward Holmes, Ph.D., FAA NHMRC Leadership Fellow, Professor of Virology, The University of Sydney Redefining Virus Evolution and Emergence Using Metatranscriptomics The Ernst A. H. Friedheim Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Liu, Shuqi, et al. "Meta-transcriptomic sequencing reveals divergent [...]
Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Wednesday, April 30, 2025 Tom Muir, Ph.D. Van Zandt Williams Jr. Class of 1965 Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University Harnessing Inteins in Synthetic Biology From Triggers to Logic Gates Recommended Readings: Kofoed, Christian, et al. "Cell surface sculpting using logic-gated [...]
Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Wednesday, April 30, 2025 Yael David, Ph.D. Associate Member, Chemical Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Leveraging Chemical Biology to Uncover Epigenetic Mechanisms in Disease Recommended Readings: Prescott, Nicholas A., et al. "A nucleosome switch primes Hepatitis B Virus [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, April 4, 2025 Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D. Sterling Professor of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Evolutionary Perspective on Health and Disease Recommended Readings: Wang, Andrew, Harding H. Luan, and Ruslan Medzhitov. "An evolutionary perspective on immunometabolism." Science 363.6423 [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, April 7, 2025 Steve Bonilla, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Head of the Laboratory of RNA Structural Biology and Biophysics, The Rockefeller University Quantitative Dissection of Dynamic RNA 3D Structural Ensembles that Regulate Viral Replication Recommended Readings: Bonilla, Steve L., Alisha N. Jones, and [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, March 24, 2025 Thomas Walz, Ph.D. Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Electron Microscopy, The Rockefeller University The Diverse Members of the MscS-like Channel Family Recommended Readings: Shaheen, Aqsa, et al. "Identification of additional mechanistically important residues in the multidrug [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 28, 2025 Stephen West, Ph.D., FMedSci Principal Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute Maintaining our Genome:- It Takes Two to Tango The William H Stein Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Jiang, Huadong, et al. "BPS2025-Mechanosensory function of ANKLE1 endonuclease in [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 21, 2025 Bing Brunton, Ph.D. Professor and Richard and Joan Komen University Chair, Department of Biology, University of Washington Embodied Intelligence through Integrated Neuromechanical Models for Natural Behavior Recommended Readings: Boyacıoğlu, Burak, et al. "Neural-Inspired Measurement Observability." Journal of Guidance, Control, [...]
Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Tuesday, April 15, 2025 Shu-ou Shan, Ph.D. Altair Professor of Chemistry and Executive Officer for Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology Decision Making during Protein Biogenesis: on the Ribosome and Beyond Recommended Readings: Lentzsch, Alfred M., et al. [...]
On February 5th, 2025, over 140 Rockefeller community members gathered in the Great Hall to hear former Rockefeller University President Sir Paul Nurse speak about his recent book What is Life? Five Great Ideas In Biology. The insightful lecture was followed by a fruitful Q&A session and a reception in the Markus Library's Main Reading Room. [...]
