Webinar Friday Lecture Series (only open to the Rockefeller University community) Friday, May 8, 2020 William C. Earnshaw, Ph.D. Professor Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology University of Edinburgh Evolution of the Dynamic Chromosome Proteome during Mitotic Chromosome Formation Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Rata, Scott; Rodriguez, Maria F. Suarez Peredo; Joseph, Stephy; et [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, March 13, 2020 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Ramanujan Hegde, Ph.D. Group Leader Laboratory of Molecular Biology MRC - University of Cambridge, UK Mechanisms of Multi-pass Membrane Protein Biogenesis Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Volkmar, Norbert; Thezenas, Maria-Laetitia; Louie, Sharon M.; et al. (2019). The ER membrane protein complex promotes biogenesis of sterol-related [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, March 2, 2020 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Michael O'Donnell, Ph.D. Anthony and Judith Evnin Professor and Head Laboratory of DNA Replication The Rockefeller University What’s New in DNA Replication? Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Lewis, Jacob S.; Spenkelink, Lisanne M.; Schauer, Grant D.; et al. (2020). Tunability of DNA Polymerase [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, February 28, 2020 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Luciano Marraffini, Ph.D. Professor and Head Laboratory of Bacteriology The Rockefeller University CRISPR-Cas10: When DNA Cleavage Just Isn’t Enough Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Wang, Ling; Mo, Charlie Y.; Wasserman, Michael R.; et al. (2019). Dynamics of Cas10 Govern Discrimination between Self and Non-self in [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, January 13, 2020 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Hermann Steller, Ph.D. Strang Professor and Head Laboratory of Apoptosis and Cancer Biology The Rockefeller University Life without Aggregates: Regulated Protein Degradation in Neuronal Function and Neurodegenerative Diseases Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Liu, K., Jones, S., Minis, A., Rodriguez, J., Molina, H., and [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, December 16, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Agata Smogorzewska, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head Laboratory of Genome Maintenance The Rockefeller University Stress Response at the Replication Fork Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Rickman, K.A., Noonan, R., Lach, F.P., Sridhar, S., Wang, A.T., Abhyankar, A., Kelly, M., Auerbach, A.D., and Smogorzewska, [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, November 11, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Robert G. Roeder, Ph.D. Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor and Head Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology The Rockefeller University 50+ years of eukaryotic transcription: an expanding universe of factors and mechanisms Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Zhang D, Tang Z, Huang H, [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, November 4, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Viviana Risca, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Head Laboratory of Genome Architecture and Dynamics The Rockefeller University Probing Meso-Scale Chromatin Structure and Accessibility Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Risca, Viviana I. (2019). Nucleosome Orientation Map Finds Two New Chromatin Folding Motifs. CELL. 176 (3): 412-413 [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, May 20, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Kivanç Birsoy, Ph.D. Chapman Perelman Assistant Professor and Head Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics The Rockefeller University Metabolic Limitations of Cancer Cell Proliferation Recommended Readings: Science News Oxygen-Starved Cancer Cells Languish without Aspartate. Jun 25, 2018. Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Empirical [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, May 10, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium George R. Stark Ph.D. Distinguished Scientist Department of Cancer Biology Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Complex Regulation of Interferon-dependent Signaling in Cancer and Infectious Disease Recommended Readings: Science News Promising New Combination Drug Therapy Treats Several Models of Lethal Lung Cancer. March 1, 2018. Cleveland Clinic [...]
