Monday Lectures Monday, April 1, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Paul Bieniasz, Ph.D. Professor and Head Laboratory of Retrovirology The Rockefeller University Virus and host discrimination of self and non-self RNA in HIV-1 infection Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Takata MA, Soll SJ, Emery A, Blanco-Melo D, Swanstrom R, Bieniasz PD. (2018). Global synonymous mutagenesis identifies [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, February 25, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Howard C. Hang Ph.D. Richard E. Salomon Family Associate Professor and Head Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Microbial Pathogenesis The Rockefeller University Microbiota Modulation of Host Immunity, the SagA continues Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Liu W, Zhou Y, Peng T, Zhou P, Ding X, [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, December 7, 2018 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Alexander Rudensky Ph.D. Tri-institutional Professor and Chair Immunology Program Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Faces and Functions of Regulatory T Cells Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Fan, Xiying; Moltedo, Bruno; Mendoza, Alejandra; et al. (2018). CD49b defines functionally mature Treg cells that survey skin and [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, October 19, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Howard C. Hang Ph.D. Richard E. Salomon Family Associate Professor and Head Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Microbial Pathogenesis The Rockefeller University Chemical Dissection of Host-Microbe Interactions Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Liu W, Zhou Y, Peng T, Zhou P, Ding X, Li Z, Zhong H, [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, May 11, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Stephen Goff Ph.D. Higgins Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Quiet, Please: Silencing Retroviral DNAs Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Lee, Andreia; CingOz, Oya; Sabo, Yosef; et al. (2018). Characterization of interaction between Trim28 and YY1 in silencing [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, April 23, 2018 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Gabriel D. Victora, Ph.D. Laurie and Peter Grauer Assistant Professor and Head Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics The Rockefeller University Clonal and Cellular Dynamics of Antibody Evolution Recommended Readings: Science News New tool for tracking ‘kiss-and-run’ communication between cells. January 30, 2018. ScienceDaily Empirical Articles [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, April 2, 2018 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Michael P. Rout, Ph.D. Professor Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology The Rockefeller University A Hole New View: Structure-Function Mapping of the Nuclear Pore Complex Recommended Readings: Science News March 15, 2018. Scientists map the portal to the cell’s nucleus. Science Daily. Empirical Articles [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, October 20, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Luciano Marraffini, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head Laboratory of Bacteriology The Rockefeller University CRISPR-Cas, Acquired Immunity in Prokaryotes Recommended Readings: Niewoehner, Ole; Garcia-Doval, Carmela; Rostol, Jakob T.; et al. (2017). Type III CRISPR-Cas systems produce cyclic oligoadenylate second messengers. NATURE. 548 (7669): 543-+ Modell, [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, May 2, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium James P. Allison, Ph.D. Professor and Vivian L. Smith Distinguished Chair of Immunology, Executive Director of the Immunotherapy Platform The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy: New Insights, Opportunities, and Prospects for a Cure Recommended Readings: http://thetartan.org/2017/5/1/scitech/immunotherapy Hazarika [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, April 17, 2017 3:45 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Vincent A. Fischetti, Ph.D. Professor and Head, Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology The Rockefeller University Exploiting phage evolution for the development of novel therapeutics Recommended Readings: David Bautz. March 20th 2017. CFRX: Phase 2 Trial of CF-301 to Initiate in mid-2017. Czaplewski, Lloyd; [...]
