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 [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, April 4, 2025 Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D. Sterling Professor of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Evolutionary Perspective on Health and Disease Recommended Readings: Wang, Andrew, Harding H. Luan, and Ruslan Medzhitov. "An evolutionary perspective on immunometabolism." Science 363.6423 [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, April 7, 2025 Steve Bonilla, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Head of the Laboratory of RNA Structural Biology and Biophysics, The Rockefeller University Quantitative Dissection of Dynamic RNA 3D Structural Ensembles that Regulate Viral Replication Recommended Readings: Bonilla, Steve L., Alisha N. Jones, and [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, March 24, 2025 Thomas Walz, Ph.D. Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Electron Microscopy, The Rockefeller University The Diverse Members of the MscS-like Channel Family Recommended Readings: Shaheen, Aqsa, et al. "Identification of additional mechanistically important residues in the multidrug [...]
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 [...]
