Webinar Monday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Monday, October 19, 2020 Leslie B. Vosshall, Ph.D Robin Chemers Neustein Professor and Head Laboratory of Neurogenics and Behavior The Rockefeller University Sex and the Single Splice: Making Male Mosquitoes Love Humans Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Jové, V, Z Gong, FJH Hol, Z Zhao, et [...]
Webinar Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, September 11, 2020 David C. Page, M.D. Professor Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Males and Females as Products of Alternative, Dynamic Readings of the Genome Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Godfrey AK, et al. (2020) Quantitative analysis of Y-chromosome gene expression in 36 [...]
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, 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 [...]
Webinar Monday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Monday, November 1, 2020 Shixin Liu Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Head The Rockefeller University Laboratory of Nanoscale Biophysics and Biochemistry Unraveling the World of Chromatin: May the Force Be With You Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Wang, Ling; Johnson, Zachary Lee; Wasserman, Michael [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, March 23, 2020 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Leslie B. Vosshall, Ph.D Robin Chemers Neustein Professor and Head Laboratory of Neurogenics and Behavior The Rockefeller University The Taste of Blood Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Liu, Molly Z.; Vosshall, Leslie B. (2019). General Visual and Contingent Thermal Cues Interact to Elicit [...]
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 [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, February 10, 2020 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Paul Cohen, M.D., Ph.D. Albert Resnick, M.D., Assistant Professor and Head Laboratory of Molecular Metabolism The Rockefeller University Exploiting inefficiencies for metabolic benefit Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Wang, Wenshan; Ishibashi, Jeff; Trefely, Sophie; et al. (2019). A PRDM16-Driven Metabolic Signal from Adipocytes Regulates [...]
