Webinar Friday Lecture Series (only open to the Rockefeller University community) Friday, May 22, 2020 Cesar Victora, M.D., Ph.D. Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology International Center for Equity in Health Universidade Federal de Pelotas Think Locally, Act Globally: How Research from the South Helped Shape Global Child Health Policies Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles da [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (only open to the Rockefeller University community) Friday, May 15, 2020 Michael Nachman, Ph.D. Professor Department of Integrative Biology University of California The Genomic Basis of Environmental Adaptation in House Mice Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Bittner, Noelle K.J.; Mack, Katya L.; Nachman, Michael W. (2020). Plasticity in gene expression [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (only open to the Rockefeller University community) Friday, May 8, 2020 William C. Earnshaw, Ph.D. Professor Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology University of Edinburgh Evolution of the Dynamic Chromosome Proteome during Mitotic Chromosome Formation Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Rata, Scott; Rodriguez, Maria F. Suarez Peredo; Joseph, Stephy; et [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (only open to the Rockefeller University community) Friday, June 5, 2020 Harmit Malik, Ph.D. Member and Associate Director Division of Basic Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Genetic Conflicts: Rapidly Evolving Tales of Rapidly Evolving Histones Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Schroeder, Courtney M.; Malik, Harmit S. (2019). Meiosis: How Gambling [...]
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 [...]
