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. [...]
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 [...]
