Monday Lectures Monday October 31, 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Marcello Magnasco, Ph.D. Professor, Mathematical Physics The Rockefeller University Recommended Readings: Janik VM, and Slater PJB. Vocal Learning in Mammals. Advances in the Study of Behavior, 26:59-99 1997 Request through Markus Library at librequest@rockefeller.edu Reiss D, and McCowan B. Spontaneous Vocal Mimicry and [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday October 24, 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D. Rebecca Lancefield Professor Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development Skin Stem Cells in Silence, Action and Cancer Recommended Readings: Quist, S. R.; Eckardt, M.; Kriesche, A.; et al. Expression of epidermal stem cell markers in skin and adnexal malignancies. BRITISH JOURNAL OF [...]
Monday Lectures Monday October 31, 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Joel E. Cohen Ph.D. Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations The Rockefeller University and Departments of International and Public Affairs; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology; and Statistics of Columbia University The Variation is the Theme: Taylor’s law from Chagas Disease Vector Control [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday October 7, 2016 3:45 p.m. The Fairfield Osborn Memorial Lecture Caspary Auditorium Nicole King Professor, and HHMI Investigator Dept.of Molecular and Cell Biology, Division of Genetics, Genomics and Development University of California Berkeley Bacteria as Master Regulators and Aphrodisiacs Recommended Readings: Anderson, Douglas P.; Whitney, Dustin S.; Hanson-Smith, Victor; et al. Evolution [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday October 28 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Uri Alon Professor, Department of Molecular Cell Biology Weizmann Institute of Science Evolutionary Trade Offs and the Geometry of Phenotype Space Recommended Readings: Keren, Leeat; Hausser, Jean; Lotan-Pompan, Maya; et al. Massively Parallel Interrogation of the Effects of Gene Expression Levels on Fitness. CELL 166(5):1282-+ [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday October 21, 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Rebecca Saxe, Ph.D. Professor, MIT, Brain and Cognitive Sciences It's the Thought that counts: Progress in understanding the Neural basis of Theory of Mind Recommended Readings: Chakroff, Alek; Dungan, James; Koster-Hale, Jorie; et al. When minds matter for moral judgment: intent information is neurally encoded [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday October 14, 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Ole Kiehn, Ph.D. Professor, Mammalian Locomotor Laboratory, Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institut Deciphering the Functional Organization of Neuronal Circuits Controlling Locomotion Recommended Readings: Kiehn, Ole. Decoding the organization of spinal circuits that control locomotion. NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE 17(4): 224-238 APR 2016 Bouvier, Julien; Caggiano, Vittorio; Leiras, Roberto; [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday October 10, 2016 4 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Jesse Ausubel, M.A. Director and Senior Research Associate Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University Nature Rebounds Recommended Readings: Donlan, J; Berger, J; Bock, CE; et al. Re-wilding North America. NATURE 436 (7053):913-914 AUG 18 2005 Ausubel, Jesse H. and Paul E. Waggoner. Dematerialization: [...]
Friday Lecture Series Norton Zinder Lecture Michael Levine, Ph.D. Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton Univ. Anthony B. Evnin Professor, Dept Molecular Biology, Princeton Univ. Visualization and evolution of transcriptional enhancers Recommended Readings: Bothma, J.P., Garcia, H.G., Ng, S., Perry, M.W., Gregor, T., and Levine, M. (2015). Enhancer additivity and nonadditivity are determined by [...]
Friday Lecture Series Gaby Maimon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function Quantitative Neural Computations in Behaving Drosophila Recommended Readings: Kim, A.J. et al. Cellular evidence for efference copy in Drosophila visuomotor processing. Nature Neuroscience. 18, 1247–1255 (2015). Rien, D.; kern, R. and R. Kurtz. Octopaminergic modulation of a fly visual motion-sensitive neuron during stimulation with [...]