Webinar Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, September 27, 2021 Charles Gilbert, M.D., Ph.D. Arthur and Janet Ross Professor and Head Laboratory of Neurobiology The Rockefeller University Cortical Dynamics Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Ramalingam, N.; McManus, Justin N. J.; Li, W.; Gilbert, Charles D. (2013). Top-Down Modulation of Lateral Interactions in [...]
Special Seminar Series Monday, March 4, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium David Keays, Ph.D. Group Leader Research Institute of Molecular Pathology – Vienna, Austria The Mysterious Magnetoreceptors Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Landler, Lukas; Keays, David A. (2018). Cryptochrome: The magnetosensor with a sinister side? PLOS BIOLOGY. 16 (10) Engels, Svenja; Treiber, Christoph Daniel; Salzer, [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, November 12, 2018 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D. Frederick P. Rose Professor and Head Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology The Rockefeller University Neuronal Migration and the Formation of the Cerebellar Circuitry Recommended Readings: Science News Florian Rosado. Insights Into Autism From The Protein Modulator ASTN2. September 23, 2018. RELIAWIRE [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, September 7, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium John Hardy Ph.D. Head of the Department of Molecular Neuroscience Chair of the Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease University College London Genomic Analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease and other Neurodegenerative Disorders Recommended Readings: Science News Rebecca Hiscott. AT THE BENCH: John Hardy, PhD, on Unraveling the [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, May 4, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Beth Stevens Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Neurology Harvard Medical School – Boston Children’s Hospital How the Immune System Sculpts Brain Circuitry Recommended Readings: Science News Beth Stevens and Todd E. Golden. Deciphering neurodegeneration: Inflammation, immune response, and Alzheimer’s. (Webinar – February 7, 2018). Science [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, March 9th, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Michael Greenberg, Ph.D. Department Chair and Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor Department of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School How Nature and Nurture Conspire to Control Brain Development and Function Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Kalish, Brian T.; Cheadle, Lucas; Hrvatin, Sinisa; et al. (2018). Single-cell transcriptomics of the [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, December 15, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Rachel Wilson, Ph.D. Martin Family Professor Department of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School Neural Correlates of Orienting Behaviors and Latent Action Biases Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Azevedo, Anthony W.; Wilson, Rachel I. (2017). Active Mechanisms of Vibration Encoding and Frequency Filtering in Central Mechanosensory Neurons. [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, March 03, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Leslie B. Vosshall, Ph.D. Robin Chemers Neustein Professor and Head, Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University NEUROBIOLOGY OF THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL Recommended Readings: Bezzina A. Malaria infection smells irresistible to mosquitoes. Cosmos. Feb 9 2017 Hurd H. Afraid of malaria? [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, February 17, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Edward S. Boyden, Ph.D. Associate Professor MIT Media Lab Optical Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Complex Biological Systems Recommended Readings: Boyden, Edward S. (2015). Optogenetics and the future of neuroscience. NATURE NEUROSCIENCE. 18(12): 1862-1862 Chen, Fei; Tillberg, Paul W.; Boyden, Edward S. (2015). Expansion microscopy. SCIENCE. 347(6221): 543-548 [...]
Monday Lectures Monday October 31, 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Marcello Magnasco, Ph.D. Professor, Mathematical Physics The Rockefeller University Recommended Readings: Janik VM, and Slater PJB. Vocal Learning in Mammals. Advances in the Study of Behavior, 26:59-99 1997 Request through Markus Library at librequest@rockefeller.edu Reiss D, and McCowan B. Spontaneous Vocal Mimicry and [...]
