Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 15, 2024 Suzanne Pierre, Ph.D. Founder, Executive Director, Principal Investigator, Critical Ecology Lab Founding an Independent Research Lab to Change our Planetary Future Recommended Readings: Patterson, Angelica E., et al. "Building Authentic Connections to Science Through Mentorship, Activism, and Community, [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 22, 2024 Anat Shahar, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland; Staff Scientist, Associate Science Deputy, Deputy for Research Advancement, Earth and Planets Lab, Carnegie Institution for Science Detecting “Life” on Exoplanets Recommended Readings: Balmer, William. “How astronomers search for life [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 23, 2024 Vanessa Ruta, Ph.D. Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Professor and Head of Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute From Milliseconds to Millennia: Mapping the Mechanisms of Adaptive Behavior Recommended [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 8, 2024 Gerd Blobel, M.D., Ph.D. Frank E. Weise Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Understanding Normal and Dysfunctional Gene Regulation through the Lens of the Hemoglobin Genes Recommended Readings: Qin, Kunhua, et al. "Molecular basis of [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 1, 2024 Elaine Hsiao, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles Uncovering Mechanisms for Microbiome-Nervous System Interactions Recommended Readings: Lynch, Jonathan B., and Elaine Y. Hsiao. "Toward understanding links between the microbiome and [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 16, 2024 Kivanç Birsoy, Ph.D. Chapman Perelman Associate Professor and Head of Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics, The Rockefeller University Metabolic Homeostasis in Organelles and Cancer Cells Recommended Readings: Liu, Yuyang, et al. "Autoregulatory control of mitochondrial glutathione homeostasis." [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 9, 2024 Sylvia Cremer, Ph.D. Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria Social Immunity: Cooperative Disease Defense in Insect Colonies Recommended Readings: Metzler, Sina, et al. "Trade-offs between immunity and competitive ability in fighting ant males." BMC Ecology and Evolution [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 2, 2024 Donita Brady, Ph.D. Harrison McCrea Dickson, M.D. and Clifford C. Baker, M.D. Presidential Professor and Assistant Dean for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Research Training, department of cancer biology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; Associate Investigator, Abramson Family [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 26, 2024 Rexford Ahima, M.D., Ph.D. Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Diabetes, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Public Health, Professor of Nursing, Director of Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 19, 2024 David Liu, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Associate Faculty Member, Harvard Microbial Sciences Initiative; Core Institute Member and Vice-Chair of the Faculty, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; Director, Chemical Biology [...]
