Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 6, 2023 Alipasha Vaziri, Ph.D. Professor and Head of Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics, The Rockefeller University; Director, Kavli Neural Systems Institute (KNSI) at The Rockefeller University; Janelia Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Revealing geometry of neuronal population dynamics using cortex-wide volumetric [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 13, 2023 Lamia Wahba, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Non-Canonical Modes of Inheritance, The Rockefeller University Probing the Causes and Consequences of Nongenetic Variation Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Wahba L., Hansen L. and Fire A. “An essential role for the piRNA [...]
Assistant University Librarian Rie Goto won an award for Outstanding Member at the annual Liberty Chapter meeting of the Medical Library Association. Rie was instrumental in organizing the most recent chapter meeting and serves as the Chair of the Liberty Chapter's Communications Committee. Congratulations, Rie!
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 3, 2023 Elizabeth Villa, Ph.D. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego Discovering New Jumbo Phage Biology with Cryo-electron Tomography Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Armbruster, Emily, et al. "Sequential membrane-and [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 27, 2023 Adrian R. Krainer, Ph.D. St. Giles Foundation Professor, Cancer Center Deputy Director of Research; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Antisense Therapies for Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Diffuse Midline Glioma Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Zhang, Qian, et al. "Antisense oligonucleotide therapy [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 6, 2023 Karen Miga, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering Department; Associate Director, UCSC Genomics Institute; University of California, Santa Cruz Expanding Studies of Global Genomic Diversity with Complete, Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Assemblies Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Kolmogorov, Mikhail, et al. "Scalable [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, September 22, 2023 Rafael Irizarry, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Statistical Challenges in scRNA-seq and Spatial Transcriptomics [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, September 29, 2023 Alison Goate, D.Phil. Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn Genomics Institute; Director, Ronald M Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s Disease; Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Neurology Genetic [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 10, 2023 Rickard Sandberg, Ph.D. Professor of Molecular Genetics, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet Single-cell Technologies to Study Transcriptional Bursting and Alternative Splicing Regulation Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Hagemann-Jensen, Michael, Christoph Ziegenhain, and Rickard Sandberg. "Scalable single-cell [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, September 11, 2023 Robert Darnell, M.D., Ph.D. Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor, Senior Attending Physician, Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Translating Discoveries in Synaptic Plasticity and Brain Disease Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles O'Connor, Sean, [...]
