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 [...]
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 [...]
