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 [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, April 1, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Paul Bieniasz, Ph.D. Professor and Head Laboratory of Retrovirology The Rockefeller University Virus and host discrimination of self and non-self RNA in HIV-1 infection Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Takata MA, Soll SJ, Emery A, Blanco-Melo D, Swanstrom R, Bieniasz PD. (2018). Global synonymous mutagenesis identifies [...]
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, January 25, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Tom Muir Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and Chair Department of Chemistry Painting Chromatin with Synthetic Protein Chemistry Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Nacev, B.A., Feng, L., Bagert, J.D. Lemiesz, A., et al. (2019). The expanding landscape of ‘oncohistone’ mutations in human cancers. NATURE, in press Wojcik, [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, October 15, 2018 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Titia de Lange, Ph.D. Leon Hess Professor and Head Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics The Rockefeller University Understanding DSB Repair: How Telomeres Gave Us a Break(through) Recommended Readings: Science News Scientists discover a mechanism of drug resistance in breast and ovarian cancer. July 18, [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, October 8, 2018 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Michael W. Young, Ph.D. Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and Head Laboratory of Genetics The Rockefeller University Genes Controlling Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Recommended Readings: Science News Rosemary Braun. A Simple Blood Test Could Tell You the Time Inside Your Body. September 12, 2018. Discover [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, September 28, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Peter Reddien Ph.D. Professor and Associate Department Head Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology How Stem Cells and Positional Information Lead to Planarian Regeneration Recommended Readings: Science News Lisa Girard. A blueprint for regeneration. March 15, 2018. MIT News Empirical Articles Fincher, Christopher T.; [...]
