Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 1, 2024 Elaine Hsiao, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles Uncovering Mechanisms for Microbiome-Nervous System Interactions Recommended Readings: Lynch, Jonathan B., and Elaine Y. Hsiao. "Toward understanding links between the microbiome and [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 16, 2024 Kivanç Birsoy, Ph.D. Chapman Perelman Associate Professor and Head of Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics, The Rockefeller University Metabolic Homeostasis in Organelles and Cancer Cells Recommended Readings: Liu, Yuyang, et al. "Autoregulatory control of mitochondrial glutathione homeostasis." [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 9, 2024 Sylvia Cremer, Ph.D. Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria Social Immunity: Cooperative Disease Defense in Insect Colonies Recommended Readings: Metzler, Sina, et al. "Trade-offs between immunity and competitive ability in fighting ant males." BMC Ecology and Evolution [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, February 5, 2024 Jeremy Rock, Ph.D. Penrhyn E. Cook Assistant Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Host-Pathogen Biology, The Rockefeller University Functional Genomics of Tuberculosis Recommended Readings: Ju, Xiangwu, et al. "Incomplete transcripts dominate the Mycobacterium tuberculosis transcriptome." bioRxiv (2023): 2023-03. Poulton, [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 2, 2024 Donita Brady, Ph.D. Harrison McCrea Dickson, M.D. and Clifford C. Baker, M.D. Presidential Professor and Assistant Dean for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Research Training, department of cancer biology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; Associate Investigator, Abramson Family [...]
Special Seminar Tuesday, January 30, 2024 Srdjan Ostojic, Ph.D. Director of Research, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris Linking Structure and Function in Recurrent Neural Network Models of Cognitive Tasks Recommended Readings: Beiran, Manuel, et al. "Parametric control of flexible timing through low-dimensional neural manifolds." Neuron 111.5 (2023): 739-753. Shao, Yuxiu, and Srdjan Ostojic. [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 26, 2024 Rexford Ahima, M.D., Ph.D. Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Diabetes, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Public Health, Professor of Nursing, Director of Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, January 29, 2024 Albert James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D. F. M. Kirby Professor and Head, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Critical Thing About Hearing Recommended Readings: Abeytunge, Sanjeewa, et al. "Rapid mechanical stimulation of inner-ear hair [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 19, 2024 David Liu, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Associate Faculty Member, Harvard Microbial Sciences Initiative; Core Institute Member and Vice-Chair of the Faculty, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; Director, Chemical Biology [...]
Special Seminar Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Elizabeth Campbell, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University Unraveling Molecular Mechanisms in Bacterial and Viral Pathogens Recommended Readings: Delbeau, Madeleine, et al. "Structural and functional basis of the universal transcription factor NusG pro-pausing activity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis." Molecular Cell 83.9 (2023): 1474-1488. [...]
