Monday Lectures December 5, 2016 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium CRC Frederick Cross Ph.D. Professor, Laboratory of Cell Cycle Genetics The Rockefeller University Evolution of Cell Cycle Control: Branches and a Green Microbe Recommended Readings: Tulin, Frej; Cross, Frederick R. Patching Holes in the Chlamydomonas Genome. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 6(7): 1899-1910 JUL 1 2016 Onishi, Masayuki; [...]
Monday Lectures December 12, 2016 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium CRC Michael O'Donnell Ph.D. HHMI Investigator, and Anthony and Judith Evnin Professor Laboratory of DNA Replication The Rockefeller University The Eukaryotic Replisome Recommended Readings: O'Donnell, Mike; Li, Huilin The Eukaryotic Replisome Goes Under the Microscope. CURRENT BIOLOGY 26(6): R247-R256 MAR 21 2016 Yuan, Zuanning; Bai, Lin; Sun, [...]
Friday Lecture Series December 2, 2016 3:45 p.m. (refreshments 3:15) Caspary Auditorium Eric N. Olson, Ph.D. Founding Chair, Department of Molecular Biology. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center The Molecules and Mechanisms of Muscle Development, Disease and Regeneration Recommended Readings: Shadrin, I. Y.; Khodabukus, A.; Bursac, N. Striated muscle function, regeneration, and repair. CELLULAR AND [...]
Friday Lectures Frfday, November 11, 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Jennifer A. Zallen, Ph.D. HHMI Investigator / Member, Sloan Kettering Institute Signals and Forces that Control Multicellular Organization in the Embryo Recommended Readings: Mao, Qiyan; Lecuit, Thomas Mechanochemical Interplay Drives Polarization in Cellular and Developmental Systems. Book Series: Current Topics in Developmental Biology Volume:116 Pages: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday October 28 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Uri Alon Professor, Department of Molecular Cell Biology Weizmann Institute of Science Evolutionary Trade Offs and the Geometry of Phenotype Space Recommended Readings: Keren, Leeat; Hausser, Jean; Lotan-Pompan, Maya; et al. Massively Parallel Interrogation of the Effects of Gene Expression Levels on Fitness. CELL 166(5):1282-+ [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday October 21, 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Rebecca Saxe, Ph.D. Professor, MIT, Brain and Cognitive Sciences It's the Thought that counts: Progress in understanding the Neural basis of Theory of Mind Recommended Readings: Chakroff, Alek; Dungan, James; Koster-Hale, Jorie; et al. When minds matter for moral judgment: intent information is neurally encoded [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday October 14, 2016 3:45 p.m. Caspary Auditorium Ole Kiehn, Ph.D. Professor, Mammalian Locomotor Laboratory, Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institut Deciphering the Functional Organization of Neuronal Circuits Controlling Locomotion Recommended Readings: Kiehn, Ole. Decoding the organization of spinal circuits that control locomotion. NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE 17(4): 224-238 APR 2016 Bouvier, Julien; Caggiano, Vittorio; Leiras, Roberto; [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday October 10, 2016 4 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Jesse Ausubel, M.A. Director and Senior Research Associate Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University Nature Rebounds Recommended Readings: Donlan, J; Berger, J; Bock, CE; et al. Re-wilding North America. NATURE 436 (7053):913-914 AUG 18 2005 Ausubel, Jesse H. and Paul E. Waggoner. Dematerialization: [...]