Monday Lectures Monday, April 15, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Li Zhao, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Head Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics The Rockefeller University The Origin and Evolution of De Novo Genes Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Matthews, Benjamin J.; Dudchenko, Olga; Kingan, Sarah B.; et al. (2018). Improved reference genome of [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, January 11, 2018 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium David Baker Ph.D. Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Institute for Protein Design University of Washington The Coming of Age of De Novo Protein Design Recommended Readings: Science News Scientists program proteins to pair exactly. December 19, 2018. Science Daily Empirical Articles Shen, [...]
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.; [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, March 2nd, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Erich Jarvis, Ph.D. Professor and Head Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language The Rockefeller University Insights from non-human animals into the neurobiology of spoken language Recommended Readings: Science News Jordana Cepelewicz. In Birds’ Songs, Brains and Genes, He Finds Clues to Speech. (2018, Jan 30). Quanta [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, November 17, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Vamsi Mootha, M.D. Professor Systems Biology and Medicine Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital Genome-scale Approaches to Mitochondrial Disease Recommended Readings: Science News Howard Hughes Medical Institute. (2017, May 8). Low oxygen reverses mitochondrial disease in mice. ScienceDaily Empirical Articles Ferrari, Michele; Jain, Isha [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, April 28, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Jack W. Szostak, Ph.D. Professor of Genetics, Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University Distinguished Investigator Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology Massachusetts General Hospital The Surprising Chemistry of Nonenzymatic RNA Replication Recommended Readings: https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2013/12/new-szostak-pro.html Li, Li; Prywes, Noam; Tam, [...]
