Monday Lectures Monday, November 6, 2017 3:45 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Seth Darst, Ph.D. Jack Fishman Professor and Head Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics The Rockefeller University Promoter Melting by Bacterial RNA Polymerase – One Step at a Time Recommended Readings: Feklistov, Andrey; Bae, Brian; Hauver, Jesse; et al. (2017). RNA polymerase motions during promoter melting. [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, October 23, 2017 3:45 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Timothy Ryan, Ph.D. Tri-Institutional Professor Department of biochemistry Weill Cornell Medical College The Cost of Thinking: Metabolic Fitness at the Synapse Level Recommended Readings: Jaime de Juan Sanz (2017). The surprising metabolism of "exercising" neurons. Plos Blogs http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/01/brain-cells-mobilize-sugar-response-increased-activity Ashrafi, Ghazaleh; Ryan, Timothy A. (2017). [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, October 06, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Tom Maniatis, Ph.D. Isidore S. Edelman Professor and Chair Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Columbia University Medical Center The Generation and Function of Protocadherin Cell Surface Diversity in Mammalian Neural Circuit Assembly Recommended Readings: Technology Networks - Wrong Wiring Causes Depression. Apr 28, 2017 [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, May 5th, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Sue Biggins, Ph.D. Member and Associate Director Division of Basic Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Sensing Tension at Kinetochores Recommended Readings: https://www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/chromosome-segregation.html Miller, Matthew P.; Asbury, Charles L.; Biggins, Sue (2016). A TOG Protein Confers Tension Sensitivity to Kinetochore-Microtubule Attachments. CELL. 165(6): 1428-1439 [...]
Monday Lectures Monday November 14, 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Shixin Liu Ph.D. Assistant Professor, The Rockefeller University Laboratory of Nanoscale Biophysics and Biochemistry Watching Biological Machines in Action Recommended Readings: Liu, Shixin; Chistol, Gheorghe; Hetherington, Craig L.; et al. A Viral Packaging Motor Varies Its DNA Rotation and Step Size to Preserve Subunit Coordination [...]
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 / Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture Friday, February 25, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Jue Chen, Ph.D., Head of Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Biophysics, The Rockefeller University Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Understanding Molecular Pumps: Insights from Structural BiologyRecommended Readings Empirical Articles Chen, S., Oldham, M. L., Davidson, A. L., & Chen, J. (2013). [...]
