Friday Lectures Friday, January 31, 2020 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Alipasha Vaziri, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics The Rockefeller University Towards Whole-brain Dynamic Maps of Neuronal Circuits Recommended Readings: Science News New Microscopy Technique Measures Activity of Deep Brain Regions. April 16, 2019. Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Empirical [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, January 17, 2020 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Patrick Cramer, Ph.D. Director Department of Molecular Biology Max Planck Institute Mechanisms of Chromatin Transcription Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Farnung, Lucas; Vos, Seychelle M.; Cramer, Patrick. (2018). Structure of transcribing RNA polymerase II-nucleosome complex. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 9 Boehning, Marc; Dugast-Darzacq, Claire; Rankovic, Marija; [...]
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 [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, April 12, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Sebastian Klinge Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Head Laboratory of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry The Rockefeller University Nucleolar Assembly of the Small Ribosomal Subunit Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Chaker-Margot, Malik; Klinge, Sebastian. (2019). Assembly and early maturation of large subunit precursors. RNA. 25 (4): [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, February 25, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Howard C. Hang Ph.D. Richard E. Salomon Family Associate Professor and Head Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Microbial Pathogenesis The Rockefeller University Microbiota Modulation of Host Immunity, the SagA continues Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Liu W, Zhou Y, Peng T, Zhou P, Ding X, [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, February 8, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium David Julius Ph.D. Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine Professor and Chair of Physiology University of California Natural Products as Probes of the Pain Pathway: From Physiology to Atomic Structure Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Gao, Yuan; Cao, Erhu; Julius, David; et al. (2016). [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, December 10, 2018 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Jue Chen, Ph.D. William E. Ford Professor and Head Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Biophysics The Rockefeller University CFTR, the Odd ABC Transporter Responsible for Cystic Fibrosis Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Kim, Youngjin; Chen, Jue. (2018). Molecular structure of human P-glycoprotein in the [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, October 19, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Howard C. Hang Ph.D. Richard E. Salomon Family Associate Professor and Head Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Microbial Pathogenesis The Rockefeller University Chemical Dissection of Host-Microbe Interactions Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Liu W, Zhou Y, Peng T, Zhou P, Ding X, Li Z, Zhong H, [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, April 2, 2018 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Michael P. Rout, Ph.D. Professor Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology The Rockefeller University A Hole New View: Structure-Function Mapping of the Nuclear Pore Complex Recommended Readings: Science News March 15, 2018. Scientists map the portal to the cell’s nucleus. Science Daily. Empirical Articles [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, March 19, 2018 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Sanford M. Simon, Ph.D. Professor and Head Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics The Rockefeller University ESCRTing Viruses out of the Cell: Lessons from HIV-1 Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Itano, Michelle S.; Arnion, Helene; Wolin, Sandra L.; et al. (2018). Recruitment of 7SL RNA to assembling [...]
