Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 2, 2025 Vishva Dixit, M.D. Vice President and Senior Fellow, Physiological Chemistry, Research Biology, Genentech Why So Many Ways To Die? The Maclyn McCarty Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Pourmal, Sergei, et al. "Autoinhibition of dimeric NINJ1 prevents plasma membrane rupture." [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, April 11, 2025 Edward Holmes, Ph.D., FAA NHMRC Leadership Fellow, Professor of Virology, The University of Sydney Redefining Virus Evolution and Emergence Using Metatranscriptomics The Ernst A. H. Friedheim Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Liu, Shuqi, et al. "Meta-transcriptomic sequencing reveals divergent [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, April 4, 2025 Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D. Sterling Professor of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Evolutionary Perspective on Health and Disease Recommended Readings: Wang, Andrew, Harding H. Luan, and Ruslan Medzhitov. "An evolutionary perspective on immunometabolism." Science 363.6423 [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 28, 2025 Stephen West, Ph.D., FMedSci Principal Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute Maintaining our Genome:- It Takes Two to Tango The William H Stein Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Jiang, Huadong, et al. "BPS2025-Mechanosensory function of ANKLE1 endonuclease in [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 21, 2025 Bing Brunton, Ph.D. Professor and Richard and Joan Komen University Chair, Department of Biology, University of Washington Embodied Intelligence through Integrated Neuromechanical Models for Natural Behavior Recommended Readings: Boyacıoğlu, Burak, et al. "Neural-Inspired Measurement Observability." Journal of Guidance, Control, [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 14, 2025 Pierre Gönczy, Ph.D. Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Mechanisms of Centriole Assembly and Disassembly The Detlev W. Bronk Alumni Lecture Recommended Readings: Woglar, Alexander, et al. "Mechanisms of axoneme and centriole elimination in Naegleria gruberi." EMBO reports [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 7, 2025 Inigo Martincorena, Ph.D. Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute Somatic Mutation and Selection in Ageing Tissues Recommended Readings: Cagan, Alex, et al. "Somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan across mammals." Nature 604.7906 (2022): 517-524. Abascal, Federico, et al. "Somatic mutation [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 28, 2025 Titia de Lange, Ph.D. Leon Hess Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University 2.7 Billion Years of Shelterin and T-loops: From Telomere Protection to Cancer Prevention Graduate Student Recruitment Lecture Recommended Readings: [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 21, 2025 Gaby Maimon, Ph.D. Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Space, Flies, Memory Graduate Student Recruitment Lecture Recommended Readings: Mussells Pires, Peter, et al. "Converting an allocentric goal [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 14, 2025 Jason Chin, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge; Programme Leader, Division of Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Reprogramming the Genetic Code Recommended Readings: Tian, Rongzhen, et al. [...]
