Monday Lecture Series Monday, December 14, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Paul Bieniasz, Ph.D. Professor and Head, Laboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller University and Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Retroviruses vs. Cells in Ancient and Modern Times Recommended Reading Empirical Articles Busnadiego, I., Kane, M., Rihn, S. J., [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, December 4, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Thomas Jessell, Ph.D. Claire Tow Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University Medical Center Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Strategies and Circuits for Skilled Movement Recommended Reading Empirical Articles Azim, E., Jiang, J., Alstermark, B., & Jessell, T. M. [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday, December 7, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Titia de Lange, Ph.D. Leon Hess Professor and Head, Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University Telomere-derived Genome Instability in Cancer Recommended Readings Davoli, T., & de Lange, T. (2011). The causes and consequences of polyploidy in normal development and [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday, November 30, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) David C. Gadsby, Ph.D. Patrick A. Gerschel Family Professor and Head Laboratory of Cardiac and Membrane Physiology, The Rockefeller University Motions that gate single CFTR channels, the ABC proteins whose failure causes cystic fibrosis Recommended Readings Chaves, L. A. P., & Gadsby, D. [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, November 20, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Mitzi Kuroda, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine, Departments of Genetics and Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School Nucleation and Spreading of Chromatin Domains in Epigenetic Models and in Cancer Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Alekseyenko, A. A., Gorchakov, A. A., Kharchenko, P. V., & [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, November 13, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Joanna Wysocka, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University On Peculiarities of Being a Human: Gene Regulatory Mechanisms in Human Development and Evolution Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Buecker, C., Srinivasan, R., Wu, Z., Calo, E., Acampora, D., [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday, November 16, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Robert G. Roeder, Ph.D. Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor and Head, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms in Animal Cells Recommended Readings Cevher, M. A., Shi, Y., Li, D., Chait, B. T., Malik, S., & Roeder, [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday, November 9, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Jeffrey V. Ravetch, M.D., Ph.D. Theresa and Eugene M. Lang Professor and Head, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology, The Rockefeller University Diversification of antibody effector function Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Bournazos, S., Klein, F., Pietzsch, J., Seaman, M. S., Nussenzweig, M. [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday, November 2, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Seth Darst, Ph.D. Jack Fishman Professor and Head, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University CarD, an Essential Transcription Factor in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Uses a Minor Groove Wedge Mechanism to Stabilize the RNA Polymerase Open Promoter Complex Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Bae, B., [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, October 30, 2015 3:45 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University Face to Face: New Vistas on the Neural Mechanisms of Social Cognition Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Fisher, C., & Freiwald, W. A. (2015). Contrasting specializations for facial motion within the [...]