Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 7, 2025 Stefan Hell, Ph.D. Director, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research; Director, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences Molecule-scale Resolution and Dynamics in Fluorescence Microscopy The Jerry A. Weisbach Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Moosmayer, Thea, et al. "MINFLUX fluorescence nanoscopy [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 31, 2025 Edith Heard, Ph.D. Professor, Collège de France; Director General, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Life with Two X Chromosomes The Richard M. Furlaud Distinguished Lecture Recommended Readings: Hauth, Antonia, et al. "Escape from X inactivation is directly modulated by levels [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 24, 2025 Jesse Bloom, Ph.D. Professor, Division of Basic Sciences and Computational Biology Program, Fred Hutch Cancer Center; Investigator, Howards Hughes Medical Institute Interpreting Viral Evolution Recommended Readings: Loes, Andrea N., et al. "High-throughput sequencing-based neutralization assay reveals how repeated vaccinations [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 17, 2025 Bil Clemons, Ph.D. Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor, Department of Biochemistry, California Institute of Technology Multum in Parvo: Mechanisms of Phage Derived Protein Antibiotics WISeR, RockOut, & RiSi Sponsored Friday Lecture Recommended Readings: Orta, Anna K., et al. [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 10, 2025 Laura Attardi, Ph.D., FAACR Catharine and Howard Avery Professor of the School of Medicine, Departments of Radiation Oncology and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine Deciphering How p53 Governs Cell State Transitions in Cancer and Tissue Regeneration Recommended [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, December 6, 2024 Leonid A. Mirny, Ph.D. Richard J. Cohen (1976) Professor in Medicine and Biomedical Physics, and Physics, MIT; Associate Member, Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT Chromosomes as Communication and Memory Machines Recommended Readings: Dekker, Job, and Leonid A. [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, December 13, 2024 Elly Tanaka, Ph.D. Scientific Director, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) How are Adult Tissues Regenerated at Scale? The Postdoctoral Researchers’ Sponsored Lecture Recommended Readings: Can my body regenerate? BBC CrowdScience Podcast (2024) Poss, Kenneth D., and Elly M. [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 22, 2024 Rotem Sorek, Ph.D. Visiting Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Director, Knell Family Center for Microbiology, Weizmann Institute of Science The Immune System of Bacteria: Beyond CRISPR Recommended Readings: Sorek Lab. “The immune [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 8, 2024 Navdeep Chandel, Ph.D. David W. Cugell, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Northwestern University Mitochondria as Signaling Organelles Control Physiology and Disease Recommended Readings: Chandel, Navdeep S. "Mitochondria." Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology 13.3 (2021): [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 15, 2024 Jonathan Losos, Ph.D. Director, Living Earth Collaborative, William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor, Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis Using Experiments in Nature to Study Evolution in Real Time: Research on Lizard Adaptation in the Bahamas [...]
