Monday Lectures Monday, April 9, 2018 4:00 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Daniel Kronauer, Ph.D. Stanley S. and Sydney R. Shuman Associate Professor and Head Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior The Rockefeller University The Evolution of Eusociality in Ants Recommended Readings: Science News Substance that guides ant trail is produced by symbiotic bacteria. April 9, 2018. [...]
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, January 19, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Edward Egelman, Ph.D. Harrison Distinguished Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics University of Virginia Medical School Cryo-EM of Protein and Nucleoprotein Polymers at Near-Atomic Resolution Recommended Readings: Science News Kenny Walter. Virus Holds Key to Durable Material. (2017, Jul 20). Virus Holds Key to Durable Material. [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, November 20, 2017 3:45 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Ali H. Brivanlou, Ph.D. Robert and Harriet Heilbrunnand Professor and Head Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology The Rockefeller University Self-organization of Spatial Patterns in Artificial Human Embryos and Organoids Recommended Readings: News Patrick Monahan. May 4, 2016. Why this lab-grown human [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, September 22, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Nancy A. Moran, Ph.D. Leslie Surginer Endowed Professor Department of Integrative Biology University of Texas The evolution and function of gut communities in social bees Recommended Readings: Ashley P. Taylor. March 29, 2017. In Certain Social Bees, Gut Microbiomes Follow Phylogeny. TheScientist Kwong, Waldan K.; [...]
