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.” bioRxiv (2025): 2025-02.
Wang, Ling, et al. “Head-on and co-directional RNA polymerase collisions orchestrate bidirectional transcription termination.” Molecular cell 83.7 (2023): 1153-1164.
Cramer, Patrick. “Eukaryotic transcription turns 50.” Cell 179.4 (2019): 808-812.
Jonkers, Iris, and John T. Lis. “Getting up to speed with transcription elongation by RNA polymerase II.” Nature reviews Molecular cell biology 16.3 (2015): 167-177.
Dangkulwanich, Manchuta, et al. “Molecular mechanisms of transcription through single-molecule experiments.” Chemical reviews 114.6 (2014): 3203-3223.
