Monday Lecture Series Monday, April 27, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) A. James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D. F.M. Kirby Professor and Head, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Making an Effort to Listen: the Active Process of the Cochlea Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Fisher, J. A., Nin, F., [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday, April 20, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Michael W. Young, Ph.D. Vice President for Academic Affairs, Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and Head, Laboratory of Genetics, The Rockefeller University Genes that Regulate Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Levy, C., Zoltowski, B. D., Jones, A. R., Vaidya, [...]
Special Lecture Series Wednesday, April 29, 2015 3:45 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) David Baker, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry, University of Washington Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Post-Evolutionary Biology: Design of Novel Protein Structures, Functions and Assemblies Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Bradley, P., Misura, K. M., & Baker, D. (2005). Toward high-resolution de novo structure [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, April 10, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium David Tollervey, Ph.D., Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh Lighting Up RNA Interactions Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Granneman, S., Kudla, G., Petfalski, E., & Tollervey, D. (2009). Identification of protein binding sites on U3 snoRNA and pre-rRNA by UV cross-linking [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday, April 6, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D., President, Carson Family Professor and Head, Laboratory of Brain Development and Repair, The Rockefeller University Sculpting Neuronal Connections: The Logic and Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Pruning Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Leyva-Díaz, E., del Toro, D., Menal, M. J., [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, March 20, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Jos Jonkers, Ph.D. Head, Division of Molecular Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute Unraveling Therapy Response and Resistance in Mouse Models of Human Breast Cancer Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Bouwman, P., Aly, A., Escandell, J. M., Pieterse, M., Bartkova, J., van der Gulden, H., ... & [...]
The February 2015 edition of the library's newsletter is now available! Please follow this link to download our inaugural issue featuring: A tutorial on renewing library material online A list of new books in our scientific and recreational reading collections. Book recommendations from the library's science informationist, John Borghi A description of select services offered by [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, March 13, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Jef Boeke, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Director, Institute for systems genetics, New York University Synthesis of Designer Chromosomes from Scratch Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Annaluru, N., Muller, H., Mitchell, L. a, Ramalingam, S., Stracquadanio, G., Richardson, S. M., … Chandrasegaran, [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, March 27, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Tom Muir, Ph.D. Van Zandt Williams Jr. Class of ‘65 Professor of Chemistry, Chair, Department of chemistry Princeton University ‘Houdini’ Proteins: Discovery and Applications of Ultrafast Inteins Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Shah, N. H., Dann, G. P., Vila-Perelló, M., Liu, Z., & Muir, T. [...]
Special Lecture Monday, March 9, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Gabriel Victora, Ph.D. Principal Investigator, Whitehead Fellow, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Darwin in Miniature: Antibody Evolution in Germinal Centers Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Schwickert, T. a, Victora, G. D., Fooksman, D. R., Kamphorst, A. O., Mugnier, M. R., Gitlin, A. D., … [...]