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. [...]
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. [...]
