Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I Community) Friday, December 09, 2022 David Tilman, Ph.D. Director, Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology, Regents Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota The Diversity of Nature and the Nature of Earth’s Diversity Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Beckman, N. G., [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, September 24, 2021 Sarah Tishkoff, Ph.D. David and Lyn Silfen University Professor Department of Genetics and Biology University of Pennsylvania Genomic Evolution and Adaptation in Africa: Implications for Health and Disease Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles McHenry, ML.; Bartlett, J.; Igo, RP.; et al. (2020). Interaction [...]
Webinar Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, April 12, 2021 Joel E. Cohen, Ph.D., Dr.P.H. Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor and Head Laboratory of Populations The Rockefeller University How Does Your Variance Change with Your Mean? And Tales of Heavy Tails Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Xu, Meng; Cohen, Joel E. (2021). Spatial [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, March 5, 2021 Rosemary Gillespie, Ph.D. Professor and Schlinger Chair in Systematic Entomology Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California Adaptive Radiation on Oceanic Islands: Isolation and Connection, Repeatability and Serendipity Recommended Readings: Science News Brett Israel. How brightly colored spiders [...]
Webinar Monday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Monday, November 16, 2020 Gaby Maimon, Ph.D Associate Professor and Head Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function The Rockefeller University How Brains Add Vectors Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Lyu, C., Abbott, L.F., and Maimon, G . (2020) A neuronal circuit for vector addition builds an allocentric [...]
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, January 24, 2020 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Peter Tyack, Ph.D. Professor School of Biology University of St. Andrews How Can Mammals Learn New Vocalizations and Can Humans Learn How to Reduce Environmental Stressors to Maintain Critical Ecosystem Functions? Recommended Readings: Science News Carolyn Wilke. Some mama whales may whisper to keep [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, December 9, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D. Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Associate Professor and Head Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior The Rockefeller University Themes and Variations: Circuit Mechanisms of Behavioral Evolution Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Handler, Annie; Graham, Thomas G. W.; Cohn, [...]
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, [...]
