Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, 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. [...]
In honor of Black History Month 2025, the Markus Library Staff have interviewed and profiled Senior Institutional Review Board Specialist Dale Miller, BA, CIP, a valued member of the Rockefeller Community who has served on the Institutional Review Board (IRB) since 1999. Interview and article by Alisa Jackson and Claire Warner. For the last [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, March 10, 2025 Tarun Kapoor, Ph.D. Pels Family Professor and Head of the Selma and Lawrence Ruben Laboratory of Chemistry and Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University Chemical Activators of VCP, an Unfoldase Required for Proteostasis Recommended Readings: Jones, Natalie H., et al. "Allosteric [...]
Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, April 1, 2025 Chaitan Khosla, Ph.D. Wells H. Rauser and Harold M. Petiprin Professor and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University Chemical Biology-Led Unraveling of the TG2/LRP1 Pathway for Antigen Presentation in Celiac Disease [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 14, 2025 Pierre Gönczy, Ph.D. Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Mechanisms of Centriole Assembly and Disassembly The Detlev W. Bronk Alumni Lecture Recommended Readings: Woglar, Alexander, et al. "Mechanisms of axoneme and centriole elimination in Naegleria gruberi." EMBO reports [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 7, 2025 Inigo Martincorena, Ph.D. Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute Somatic Mutation and Selection in Ageing Tissues Recommended Readings: Cagan, Alex, et al. "Somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan across mammals." Nature 604.7906 (2022): 517-524. Abascal, Federico, et al. "Somatic mutation [...]
Black History Month 2025: Library Resources In honor of Black History Month, the Markus Library Staff have compiled a list of our resources and featured holdings related to racial justice and the contributions of Black people to scientific research, both historical and present-day. DEI Book Collection The Markus Library hosts a growing collection of fiction [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, February 24, 2025 Leslie Vosshall, Ph.D. Robin Chemers Neustein Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University; Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Mosquitoes: A Flexible and Dangerous Predator of Humans Recommended Readings: Morita, [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 28, 2025 Titia de Lange, Ph.D. Leon Hess Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University 2.7 Billion Years of Shelterin and T-loops: From Telomere Protection to Cancer Prevention Graduate Student Recruitment Lecture Recommended Readings: [...]
