Friday Lectures Friday, March 6, 2020 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Rochelle Buffenstein, Ph.D. Senior Principal Investigator Calico Breaking the Mold; Insights into Aging from the Long-lived Cancer-resistant Naked Mole-Rat Recommended Readings: Science News Kai Kupferschmidt. Naked mole rats defy the biological law of aging. January 26, 2018. Science magazine Empirical Articles Hilton, Hugo G.; [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, February 7, 2020 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Alice Ting, Ph.D. Professor Laboratory of Genetics, Biology, and Chemistry Stanford University Optogenetic and Chemogenetic Technologies for Probing Molecular and Cellular Interactions Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Li J.; Han S.; Li H.; et al. (2020). Cell-Surface Proteomic Profiling in the Fly Brain Uncovers [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, September 20, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Gina G. Turrigiano Ph.D. Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science Department of Biology Brandeis University Firing Rate Homeostasis in Neocortical Networks Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Miska, Nathaniel J.; Richter, Leonidas M. A.; Cary, Brian A.; et al. (2018). Sensory experience inversely regulates [...]
Special Seminar Series Thursday, April 25, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Mandë Holford, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Chemistry and Biology The City University of New York – Hunter College & Graduate Center The Transformative Power of Venom in Evolution and Biomedical Applications Recommended Readings: Science News Emily Driscoll and Luke Groskin. (2017, Nov [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, November 30, 2018 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Molly Przeworski Ph.D. Professor Department of Biological Sciences and Systems Biology Columbia University An Evolutionary Perspective on Meiotic Recombination in Vertebrates Recommended Readings: Science News Hakhamanesh Mostafavi, Joe Pickrell and Molly Przeworski. Evolutionary geneticists spot natural selection happening now in people. September 11, 2017. [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, March 26, 2018 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Alison North, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor and Senior Director Bio-Imaging Resource Center The Rockefeller University A Resolution to Avoid an Evil: The Truth about Resolution, Aberrations, and Co-Localization Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Demmerle, Justin; Innocent, Cassandravictoria; North, Alison J.; et al. (2017). Strategic and [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, March 16, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Lewis Cantley, Ph.D. Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center and Professor of Cancer Biology in Medicine Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital PI 3-Kinase: Linking Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and Cancer Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Liu H, Murphy CJ, Karreth FA, [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, January 19, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Edward Egelman, Ph.D. Harrison Distinguished Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics University of Virginia Medical School Cryo-EM of Protein and Nucleoprotein Polymers at Near-Atomic Resolution Recommended Readings: Science News Kenny Walter. Virus Holds Key to Durable Material. (2017, Jul 20). Virus Holds Key to Durable Material. [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, September 22, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Nancy A. Moran, Ph.D. Leslie Surginer Endowed Professor Department of Integrative Biology University of Texas The evolution and function of gut communities in social bees Recommended Readings: Ashley P. Taylor. March 29, 2017. In Certain Social Bees, Gut Microbiomes Follow Phylogeny. TheScientist Kwong, Waldan K.; [...]
