Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, February 5, 2024 Jeremy Rock, Ph.D. Penrhyn E. Cook Assistant Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Host-Pathogen Biology, The Rockefeller University Functional Genomics of Tuberculosis Recommended Readings: Ju, Xiangwu, et al. "Incomplete transcripts dominate the Mycobacterium tuberculosis transcriptome." bioRxiv (2023): 2023-03. Poulton, [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, January 29, 2024 Albert James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D. F. M. Kirby Professor and Head, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Critical Thing About Hearing Recommended Readings: Abeytunge, Sanjeewa, et al. "Rapid mechanical stimulation of inner-ear hair [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, December 4, 2023 Robert Roeder, Ph.D. Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Microbiology, The Rockefeller University Mechanistic Studies of Transcriptional Regulation in Hematopoietic Malignancies Recommended Readings: Crump, Nicholas T., et al. "MLL-AF4 cooperates with PAF1 and FACT [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, December 11, 2023 Viviana Risca, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Genome Architecture and Dynamics, The Rockefeller University Probing kilobase-scale chromatin architecture and its regulation Recommended Readings: Mansisidor, Andrés R., and Viviana I. Risca. "Chromatin accessibility: Methods, mechanisms, and biological insights." Nucleus [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 6, 2023 Alipasha Vaziri, Ph.D. Professor and Head of Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics, The Rockefeller University; Director, Kavli Neural Systems Institute (KNSI) at The Rockefeller University; Janelia Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Revealing geometry of neuronal population dynamics using cortex-wide volumetric [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 13, 2023 Lamia Wahba, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Non-Canonical Modes of Inheritance, The Rockefeller University Probing the Causes and Consequences of Nongenetic Variation Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Wahba L., Hansen L. and Fire A. “An essential role for the piRNA [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, September 11, 2023 Robert Darnell, M.D., Ph.D. Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor, Senior Attending Physician, Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Translating Discoveries in Synaptic Plasticity and Brain Disease Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles O'Connor, Sean, [...]
Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, May 15, 2023 Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D. Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Neural Systems, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Price Family Center for the Social Brain, The Rockefeller University Moving Faces Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Yang, Z., & Freiwald, W. A. (2023). Encoding of [...]
Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, March 13, 2023 Michael W. Young, Ph.D. Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Head of the Laboratory of Genetics, The Rockefeller University What Happens to a Lonely Fly? Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Wang, Z., Lincoln, S., Nguyen, A. D., Li, W., & [...]
Webinar Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, February 27, 2023 Hironori Funabiki, Ph.D. Tri-Institutional Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Chromosome and Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University Friend or Foe? Navigating DNA Methylation on the Nucleosome Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Funabiki, H., Wassing, I. E., Jia, Q., Luo, J. D., & [...]
