Monday Lectures Monday, October 28, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium James A. Hudspeth, Ph.D. F.M. Kirby Professor and Head Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience The Rockefeller University Structural and Developmental Investigations of Sensory Hair Cells in the Inner Ear and Lateral-line System Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Bartsch, Tobias F.; Hengel, Felicitas E.; Oswald, Aaron; [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, October 8, 2018 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Michael W. Young, Ph.D. Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and Head Laboratory of Genetics The Rockefeller University Genes Controlling Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Recommended Readings: Science News Rosemary Braun. A Simple Blood Test Could Tell You the Time Inside Your Body. September 12, 2018. Discover [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, April 16, 2018 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Shai Shaham, Ph.D. Richard E. Salomon Family Professor and Head Laboratory of Developmental Genetics The Rockefeller University Uncovering Cell Death Treasure Hiding in Plain Sight Recommended Readings: Science News Brandon Specktor. See How a Single Cell Dies in Gory, Intricate Detail. (March 28, 2018). [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, April 9, 2018 4:00 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Daniel Kronauer, Ph.D. Stanley S. and Sydney R. Shuman Associate Professor and Head Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior The Rockefeller University The Evolution of Eusociality in Ants Recommended Readings: Science News Substance that guides ant trail is produced by symbiotic bacteria. April 9, 2018. [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, March 23rd, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head Laboratory of Neural Systems The Rockefeller University On the Neural Circuits of Social Cognition Recommended Readings: Science News Cory Rosenberg. July 8, 2017. How do we know what other people are thinking? This monkey study may offer clues. [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, March 2nd, 2018 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Erich Jarvis, Ph.D. Professor and Head Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language The Rockefeller University Insights from non-human animals into the neurobiology of spoken language Recommended Readings: Science News Jordana Cepelewicz. In Birds’ Songs, Brains and Genes, He Finds Clues to Speech. (2018, Jan 30). Quanta [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, September 15, 2017 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Daniel Kronauer, Ph.D. Stanley S. and Sydney R. Shuman Assistant Professor and Head Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior The Rockefeller University Communication and Social Behavior in Ants Recommended Readings: News provided by NYU Langone Health (2017). Mutant Ants provide insights into social interaction. Trible, [...]
Monday Lectures Monday, May 1, 2017 3:45 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Alipasha Vaziri, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head, Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics The Rockefeller University Optical Tools for Unraveling Whole-brain Neuronal Circuit Dynamics Underlying Behavior Recommended Readings: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20170302/Advances-in-optogenetics.aspx http://news.mit.edu/2017/multifunctional-tiny-fibers-brain-0221 Prevedel, Robert; Verhoef, Aart J.; Pernia-Andrade, Alejandro J.; et al. (2016). Fast volumetric calcium imaging across [...]
