Friday Lecture Series Norton Zinder Lecture Michael Levine, Ph.D. Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton Univ. Anthony B. Evnin Professor, Dept Molecular Biology, Princeton Univ. Visualization and evolution of transcriptional enhancers Recommended Readings: Bothma, J.P., Garcia, H.G., Ng, S., Perry, M.W., Gregor, T., and Levine, M. (2015). Enhancer additivity and nonadditivity are determined by [...]
Friday Lecture Series Gaby Maimon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function Quantitative Neural Computations in Behaving Drosophila Recommended Readings: Kim, A.J. et al. Cellular evidence for efference copy in Drosophila visuomotor processing. Nature Neuroscience. 18, 1247–1255 (2015). Rien, D.; kern, R. and R. Kurtz. Octopaminergic modulation of a fly visual motion-sensitive neuron during stimulation with [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, June 10, 2016 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Richard Lifton, M.D., Ph.D. President-elect, The Rockefeller University Sterling Professor of Genetics and Professor of Medicine (Nephrology), Chair, Department of Genetics, Yale University Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute From Genes and Genomes to Biology and Health Recommended Readings: Choi, M., Scholl, U. I., Ji, [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday, May 23, 2016 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Mary Hynes, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor, Laboratory of Neural Specification and Development, The Rockefeller University Widespread Differential Expression of 3’ UTR and Cognate Coding Region Sequences in Neurons and Other Tissues Recommended Readings: Heiman, M., Kulicke, R., Fenster, R. J., Greengard, P., [...]
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., [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, June 3, 2016 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D., Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology and Radiology (By Courtesy), Stanford University Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Precision Glycocalyx Editing for Cancer Immune Therapy Recommended Readings: Agarwal, P., Beahm, B. J., Shieh, [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, May 27, 2016 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Angelika Amon, Ph.D. Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor of Cancer Research, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Causes and Consequences of Aneuploidy Recommended Readings: Sheltzer, J. M., Blank, H. M., Pfau, S. J., Tange, [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, May 13, 2016 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Joseph Schlessinger, Ph.D. William H. Prusoff Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine Cell Signaling by Receptor Tyrosine Kinases: From Basic Principles to Cancer Therapy Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Bae, J. H., Lew, E. D., Yuzawa, S., Tomé, F., Lax, I., [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, May 6, 2016 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Tom A. Rapoport, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute How an Organelle Gets into Shape Recommended Readings: Hu, J., Shibata, Y., Voss, C., Shemesh, T., Li, Z., Coughlin, M., ... & Prinz, W. A. (2008). Membrane [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday, May 2, 2016 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D. Senior Attending Physician, The Rockefeller University Hospital Patrick E. and Beatrice M. Haggerty Professor and Head, Laboratory of the Biology of Addictive Diseases, The Rockefeller University 50th Anniversary of First Research Paper on Methadone Maintenance Treatment: Update on [...]