Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 30, 2025 Hao Wu, Ph.D. Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital; Asa and Patricia Springer Professor, Harvard Medical School Supramolecular Structures that Drive Innate Immunity in Inflammation and Cancer Recommended Readings: Fontana, Pietro, et al. [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, May 19, 2025 Marcelo Magnasco, Ph.D. Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University The Dynamics of Recurrent Neural Networks: Traveling Waves, Short Term Memory, and Rapid Reconfiguration of Neural Circuits Recommended Readings: Magnasco, Marcelo O. "Input-driven circuit [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 16, 2025 Kenneth Zaret, Ph.D. Joseph Leidy Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Director, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Overcoming Chromatin Barriers to Control Cell Fate Recommended Readings: Barral, Amandine, and Kenneth S. [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 9, 2025 Nada Jabado, M.D., Ph.D. Pediatric Neuro-oncologist, Montreal Children’s Hospital; Professor of Pediatrics, McGill University Histone 3 Mutations in Disease: "Every Amino Acid Matters" The Cancer Biology Lecture Recommended Readings: Andrade, Augusto Faria, et al. "Immune landscape of oncohistone-mutant gliomas [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, May 5, 2025 Paul Cohen, M.D., Ph.D. Albert Resnick, M.D. Associate Professor, Senior Attending Physician and Head of the Weslie R. and William H. Janeway Laboratory of Molecular Metabolism, The Rockefeller University Brown Fat in Health and Disease: From Clinical Phenotypes to Molecular Mechanisms [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 2, 2025 Vishva Dixit, M.D. Vice President and Senior Fellow, Physiological Chemistry, Research Biology, Genentech Why So Many Ways To Die? The Maclyn McCarty Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Pourmal, Sergei, et al. "Autoinhibition of dimeric NINJ1 prevents plasma membrane rupture." [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, April 28, 2025 Shixin Liu, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biophysics and Biochemistry, The Rockefeller University Accelerate, Brake, and Reverse: Watch a Molecular Machine Shift Gears Recommended Readings: Wang, Yukun, et al. "Kinetic control of mammalian transcription elongation." [...]
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 [...]
Evnin-Sponsored NY Chemical Biology Discussion Group Meeting (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 [...]
Evnin-Sponsored NY Chemical Biology Discussion Group Meeting (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 [...]
