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Recommended Readings: Luciano Marraffini, Ph.D., Friday October 20th, 2017
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Recommended Readings: Luciano Marraffini, Ph.D., Friday October 20th, 2017

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Recommended Readings: Luciano Marraffini, Ph.D., Friday October 20th, 2017

By Ilaria Ceglia|2019-08-02T18:55:27+00:00October 17th, 2017|Categories: Cell Biology, Friday Lectures, Genetics, Genomics, Immunology, Microbiology, Virology|Tags: CRISPR/Cas, DNA, immune response, prokaryotes, RNA|

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, [...]

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Recommended Readings: Ian A. Wilson D. Phil., D. Sci., Friday February 10, 2017

By Carol Feltes|2019-08-02T18:55:37+00:00February 10th, 2017|Categories: Friday Lectures, Immunology, Infectious Disease/Mechanisms, Microbiology, Recommended Readings, Retroviruses, Virology|Tags: HA, Hemagglutanin, influenza, Universal vaccine, viruses|

Friday Lectures Friday, February 10, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Ian A. Wilson D. Phil., D.Sci. Hansen Professor of Structural Biology, and Chair, Dept. of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology The Scripps Research Institute Broad Neutralization of Influenza Viruses and Implications for a Universal Vaccine and Therapy Recommended Readings: Dreyfus, Cyrille; Laursen, Nick S.; Kwaks, [...]

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Recommended Readings: Tania Baker Ph.D. Friday, November 18, 2016

By Carol Feltes|2019-08-02T18:55:49+00:00November 17th, 2016|Categories: Cellular and Molecular Biology, Friday Lectures, HHMI, Microbiology, Recommended Readings, Science|Tags: AAA+, enzyme catalysis, protein unfolding|

Friday Lectures Friday, November 18, 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Tania Baker, Ph.D. Edwin C. Whitehead Professor of Biology, MIT Investigator, HHMI Operations of AAA+ Unfoldase Motors: Powerful Destroyers and Activators of Protein Function Selected Publications: Baker, Tania A.; Sauer, Robert T. ClpXP, an ATP-powered unfolding and protein-degradation machine. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL [...]

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Recommended Readings: Shixin Liu Ph.D. Monday November 14 2016

By Carol Feltes|2019-08-02T18:55:49+00:00October 21st, 2016|Categories: Biophysics, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Methods, Microbiology, Monday Lectures, Science|Tags: Biomolecular machines, force manipulation, nanoscale devices, single-molecule fluorescence detection|

Monday Lectures Monday November 14, 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Shixin Liu Ph.D. Assistant Professor, The Rockefeller University Laboratory of Nanoscale Biophysics and Biochemistry Watching Biological Machines in Action Recommended Readings: Liu, Shixin; Chistol, Gheorghe; Hetherington, Craig L.; et al. A Viral Packaging Motor Varies Its DNA Rotation and Step Size to Preserve Subunit Coordination [...]

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Recommended Readings: Nicole King Ph.D. October 7 2016

By Carol Feltes|2019-08-02T18:55:50+00:00October 6th, 2016|Categories: Bacteriology, Evolution, Friday Lectures, HHMI, Microbiology, Recommended Readings, Science, Special Seminar Series|Tags: horizontal gene transfer, Pre-metazoan ancestry, Unicellular relatives|

Friday Lecture Series Friday October 7, 2016 3:45 p.m. The Fairfield Osborn Memorial Lecture Caspary Auditorium Nicole King Professor, and HHMI Investigator Dept.of Molecular and Cell Biology, Division of Genetics, Genomics and Development University of California Berkeley Bacteria as Master Regulators and Aphrodisiacs Recommended Readings: Anderson, Douglas P.; Whitney, Dustin S.; Hanson-Smith, Victor; et al. Evolution [...]

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Recommended Readings: Sean Brady, Ph.D., May 16

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:55:51+00:00May 9th, 2016|Categories: Cellular and Molecular Biology, Genomics, Microbiology, Monday Lectures, Recommended Readings, Science|Tags: commendamide, HEK293, human microbiome, Metagenomics, Molecular Sequence Data, small molecule discovery|

Monday Lecture Series Monday, May 16, 2016 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Sean Brady, Ph.D. Tri-Institutional Associate Professor, Evnin Associate Professor and Head, Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, The Rockefeller University Early Career Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bioactive Metabolites from the Human Microbiome: Natural Cures or Snake Oil Recommended Readings: Cohen, L. J., [...]

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Recommended Readings: Ying Lu, Ph.D., February 29

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:56:10+00:00January 21st, 2016|Categories: Microbiology, Recommended Readings, Science, Special Seminar Series|Tags: 26S proteasome, Anaphase Promoting Complex, cryo-electron microscopy, protein degredation, protein expression, protein synthesis|

Special Lecture Series Monday, February 29 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Ying Lu, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School Specificity, Efficiency and Processivity in the Eukaryotic Protein Degradation System Recommended Readings Lu, Y., Lee, B. H., King, R. W., Finley, D., & Kirschner, M. W. (2015). Substrate degradation by the [...]

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Recommended Readings: Franziska Bleichert, Ph.D., March 21

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:56:10+00:00January 19th, 2016|Categories: Cellular and Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Recommended Readings, Science|Tags: DNA replication, license, ORC, origin recognition complex, X-ray crystallography|

Special Lecture Series Monday, March 21, 2016 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Franziska Bleichert, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Molucular Mechanisms for Initiating DNA Replication in Eukaryotes Recommended Reading Bleichert, F., Balasov, M., Chesnokov, I., Nogales, E., Botchan, M. R., & Berger, J. M. [...]

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Recommended Readings: Julie Segre, Ph.D., February 12

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:56:11+00:00January 19th, 2016|Categories: Cellular and Molecular Biology, Friday Lectures, Infectious Disease/Mechanisms, Microbiology, Recommended Readings, Science, Translational medicine|Tags: biogeography, microbial communities, microbial genomics, microbiome, skin, skin barrier|

Friday Lecture Series Friday, February 12, 2016 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Julie Segre, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Microbial Genomics Section, Chief, Translational and Functional Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health Human Skin Microbiome in Health and Disease Recommended Reading Empirical Papers Conlan, S., Thomas, P. J., Deming, C., Park, M., Lau, A. [...]

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Recommended Readings: Talia Lerner, Ph.D., March 10

By John Borghi|2019-08-02T18:56:11+00:00January 13th, 2016|Categories: Microbiology, Neurobiology, Neuroscience, Recommended Readings, Science, Special Seminar Series|Tags: CLARITY, COLM, dopamine, dorsolateral striatum, dorsomedial striatum, fiber photometry, optogenetics, striatum, substantia nigra pars compacta, viral tracing|

Special Lecture Series Thursday, March 10, 2016 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Talia Lerner, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University Distinct Information Encoding in Circuit-Defined Nigrostriatal Dopamine Neuron Subpopulations Recommended Reading Adhikari, A., Lerner, T. N., Finkelstein, J., Pak, S., Jennings, J. H., Davidson, T. J., ... & Kim, S. Y. (2015). [...]

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