Friday Lectures Friday, March 20, 2020 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Harmit Malik, Ph.D. Member and Associate Director Division of Basic Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Genetic Conflicts Shape Meiosis, Centromeres, and Species Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Schroeder, Courtney M.; Malik, Harmit S. (2019). Meiosis: How Gambling Chromosomes Beat the Rules. CURRENT BIOLOGY. 29 [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, March 13, 2020 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Ramanujan Hegde, Ph.D. Group Leader Laboratory of Molecular Biology MRC - University of Cambridge, UK Mechanisms of Multi-pass Membrane Protein Biogenesis Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Volkmar, Norbert; Thezenas, Maria-Laetitia; Louie, Sharon M.; et al. (2019). The ER membrane protein complex promotes biogenesis of sterol-related [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, March 6, 2020 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Rochelle Buffenstein, Ph.D. Senior Principal Investigator Calico Breaking the Mold; Insights into Aging from the Long-lived Cancer-resistant Naked Mole-Rat Recommended Readings: Science News Kai Kupferschmidt. Naked mole rats defy the biological law of aging. January 26, 2018. Science magazine Empirical Articles Hilton, Hugo G.; [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, February 21, 2020 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Priya Rajasethupathy, M.D., Ph.D. Jonathan M. Nelson Family Assistant Professor and Head Laboratory of Neural Dynamics and Cognition The Rockefeller University Memory: A Window in Time Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Nandi, Sayan; Chandramohan, Dhruva; Fioriti, Luana; et al. (2016). Roles for small noncoding RNAs [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, February 28, 2020 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Luciano Marraffini, Ph.D. Professor and Head Laboratory of Bacteriology The Rockefeller University CRISPR-Cas10: When DNA Cleavage Just Isn’t Enough Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Wang, Ling; Mo, Charlie Y.; Wasserman, Michael R.; et al. (2019). Dynamics of Cas10 Govern Discrimination between Self and Non-self in [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, February 7, 2020 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Alice Ting, Ph.D. Professor Laboratory of Genetics, Biology, and Chemistry Stanford University Optogenetic and Chemogenetic Technologies for Probing Molecular and Cellular Interactions Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Li J.; Han S.; Li H.; et al. (2020). Cell-Surface Proteomic Profiling in the Fly Brain Uncovers [...]
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 [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, January 17, 2020 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Patrick Cramer, Ph.D. Director Department of Molecular Biology Max Planck Institute Mechanisms of Chromatin Transcription Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Farnung, Lucas; Vos, Seychelle M.; Cramer, Patrick. (2018). Structure of transcribing RNA polymerase II-nucleosome complex. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 9 Boehning, Marc; Dugast-Darzacq, Claire; Rankovic, Marija; [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, January 10, 2020 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Christine Seidman, M.D. Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine and Genetics Cardiovascular Genetics Center Harvard Medical School Mutations, Mechanisms, and New Medicines for Cardiomyopathies Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Toepfer, Christopher N.; Sharma, Arun; Cicconet, Marcelo; et al. (2019). SarcTrack An Adaptable Software Tool [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, January 13, 2020 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Hermann Steller, Ph.D. Strang Professor and Head Laboratory of Apoptosis and Cancer Biology The Rockefeller University Life without Aggregates: Regulated Protein Degradation in Neuronal Function and Neurodegenerative Diseases Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Liu, K., Jones, S., Minis, A., Rodriguez, J., Molina, H., and [...]
