Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 5, 2024 Pascale Cossart, Ph.D. Visiting Scientist, EMBL-Heidelberg; Professor, Pasteur Institute; Secrétaire Perpétuel honoraire de l’Académie des Sciences How We Raised a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm Recommended Readings: Cossart, Pascale. "Raising a bacterium to [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, December 15, 2023 Diana Bautista, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Neuroimmune Mechanisms of Itch, Pain and Airway Inflammation Recommended Readings: Misery, Laurent, et al. "Basic mechanisms of itch." Journal of [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, December 8, 2023 Ulrich Hartl, M.D., Ph.D. Director and Professor, Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry Chaperone-assisted Protein Folding in Health and Disease Recommended Readings: Yuste‐Checa, Patricia, Andreas Bracher, and F. Ulrich Hartl. "The chaperone Clusterin in [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, December 1, 2023 Daniel Kronauer, Ph.D. Stanley S. and Sydney R. Shuman Associate Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Evolution of Ant Societies Recommended Readings: Hart, Taylor, et al. [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 3, 2023 Elizabeth Villa, Ph.D. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego Discovering New Jumbo Phage Biology with Cryo-electron Tomography Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Armbruster, Emily, et al. "Sequential membrane-and [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 27, 2023 Adrian R. Krainer, Ph.D. St. Giles Foundation Professor, Cancer Center Deputy Director of Research; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Antisense Therapies for Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Diffuse Midline Glioma Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Zhang, Qian, et al. "Antisense oligonucleotide therapy [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 6, 2023 Karen Miga, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering Department; Associate Director, UCSC Genomics Institute; University of California, Santa Cruz Expanding Studies of Global Genomic Diversity with Complete, Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Assemblies Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Kolmogorov, Mikhail, et al. "Scalable [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, September 22, 2023 Rafael Irizarry, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Statistical Challenges in scRNA-seq and Spatial Transcriptomics [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, September 29, 2023 Alison Goate, D.Phil. Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn Genomics Institute; Director, Ronald M Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s Disease; Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Neurology Genetic [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 10, 2023 Rickard Sandberg, Ph.D. Professor of Molecular Genetics, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet Single-cell Technologies to Study Transcriptional Bursting and Alternative Splicing Regulation Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Hagemann-Jensen, Michael, Christoph Ziegenhain, and Rickard Sandberg. "Scalable single-cell [...]
