Friday Lectures Friday, December 13, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, Ph.D. Chair and Professor Developmental Biology Program Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Guts and Gastrulation: The Lineages & Dynamics Driving the Morphogenesis of the Gut Endoderm in Mammals Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Nowotschin, Sonja; Setty, Manu; Kuo, Ying-Yi; et al. [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, November 15, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Loren Frank, Ph.D. Professor Department of Physiology University of California Understanding the Brain's Model of the External World Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Yu, Jai Y.; Liu, Daniel F.; Loback, Adrianna; et al. (2018). Specific hippocampal representations are linked to generalized cortical representations [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, November 15, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Brenda Schulman, Ph.D. Director and Scientific Member Department of Molecular Machines and Signaling Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry How a Ubiquitin-like Protein Brings Ubiquitylation to Life Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Huttenhain, Ruth; Xu, Jiewei; Burton, Lily A.; et al. (2019). ARIH2 Is a [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, November 8, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Carol A. Gross, Ph.D. Professor Department of Cell and Tissue Biology University of California New Insights into the Transcriptional Organization and Cellular Economy of Bacteria Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Peters, Jason M.; Koo, Byoung-Mo; Patino, Ramiro; et al. (2019). Enabling genetic analysis of [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, October 25, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Z. Jeffrey Chen, Ph.D. D. J. Sibley Centennial Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics Department of Molecular Biosciences University of Texas Circadian and Epigenetic Regulation of Hybrid Vigor Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Kirkbride, Ryan C.; Lu, Jie; Zhang, Changqing; et al. (2019). [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, October 11, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Adrian Bird Ph.D. Buchanan Professor of Genetics The University of Edinburgh The Genetics and Epigenetics of Rett Syndrome Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Cholewa-Waclaw, Justyna; Shah, Ruth; Webb, Shaun; et al. (2019). Quantitative modelling predicts the impact of DNA methylation on RNA polymerase II [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, November 1, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Patrik Ernfors Ph.D. Professor of Tissue Biology Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Karolinska Institute The Cellular Basis for Somatosensation and Pain Recommended Readings: Science News Karolinska Institutet. New pain organ discovered in the skin. August 15, 2019. EurekAlert! - AAAS Empirical [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, September 27, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Charles L. Sawyers M.D. Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chair Department of Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Lineage Plasticity in Prostate Cancer Recommended Readings: Science News Matthew Tontonoz. Researchers Unravel the Biology of a Distinct Prostate Cancer [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, September 20, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Gina G. Turrigiano Ph.D. Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science Department of Biology Brandeis University Firing Rate Homeostasis in Neocortical Networks Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Miska, Nathaniel J.; Richter, Leonidas M. A.; Cary, Brian A.; et al. (2018). Sensory experience inversely regulates [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, June 7, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Paola Arlotta Ph.D. Professor Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Harvard University Understanding Cortical Development and Disease: From Embryos to Brain Organoids Recommended Readings: Science News What you need to know about organoids. March 15, 2019. Journalist's Resource Empirical Articles Arlotta, Paola. [...]
