Happy New Year! Discover new library resources and learn new skills with us! Monthly Training Sessions are offered virtually on every 3rd Tuesday from 1pm to 2pm. All the classes are open for Rockefeller University employees and students. Registration is required. Please e-mail markuslibrary[at]rockefeller.edu to register. January 16, 2024 - LaTeX/Overleaf. NEW CLASS! Instructor: Claire [...]
Our Monthly Virtual Training Sessions introduce you to a variety of resources and services that the library offers. Monthly Training Sessions are offered virtually on every 3rd Tuesday from 1pm to 2pm. All the classes are open for Rockefeller University employees. Registration is required. Please e-mail markuslibrary[at]rockefeller.edu to register. September 19th, 2023 - General [...]
Data Management Service @ Markus Library Research Data Management comprises the activities related to the collection, processing, analysis, preservation, and publication of data to ensure easy reuse of the data by the original researcher and the effective sharing of the data with the research community. In response to the new NIH Policy of Data Management [...]
Pneumococcus colony. Avery et al.: Transformation of pneumococcal types. From J Exp Med 1944, 79(2): 137-158 On February 1, 1944, The Journal of Experimental Medicine published an account by Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty of what Nobelist Peter Medawar called “the most interesting and portentous biological experiment of the 20th century.” [...]
100 years ago, on January 16th, 1923, Ezechiel Godert David “Eddie” Cohen, the Professor Emeritus at The Rockefeller University and leader in statistical physics and nonequilibriu statistical mechanics, was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, into a Jewish family. His father, David Ezechiel Cohen, studied medicine in Amsterdam and after receiving his Ph.D. in 1913, specialized [...]
WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY'S RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT TRAINING SERIES! These classes are designed to help you prepare for the upcoming NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy, which will take effect on January 25, 2023. This special series will occur every 2nd Thursday of the month online via Zoom. Please register to attend! In addition, we [...]
This month the Markus Library remembers lesser-known women scientists at The Rockefeller University Clara Nigg Clara Nigg. Courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center Clara Ida Nigg (1897-1986) was an American bacteriologist who developed methods of cultivating Rickettsia prowazekii and proved that this organism only reproduces in living cells. Clara Nigg was born [...]
This month the Markus Library remembers lesser-known women scientists at The Rockefeller University Elaine Diacumakos Elaine Diacumakos with Peter Sellers and Merrill Chase at the June 11th alumni reunion, 1984 Elaine Diacumakos (1930-1984) was an American cell biologist and head of the cytobiology laboratory at The Rockefeller University who developed the first techniques [...]
This month the Markus Library remembers lesser-known women scientists at The Rockefeller University Evelyn Tilden Evelyn Butler Tilden poses with a microscope at the National Institutes of Health, 1940 Evelyn Butler Tilden (1891 – 1983) was an American microbiologist who researched rare carbohydrates, oral bacteria, fungal endotoxins, and animal infections. Tilden was born [...]
Microbiology Society and Bioscientifica (Society for Endocrinology) have joined our growing list of Read and Publish journals! Microbiology Society, the publisher of Microbiology, Journal of General Virology, Journal of Medical Microbiology, Microbial Genomics, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology and Access Microbiology, offers unlimited number of open-access articles (OA) in all of their journals [...]
