Monday Lecture Series Monday, November 2, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Seth Darst, Ph.D. Jack Fishman Professor and Head, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University CarD, an Essential Transcription Factor in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Uses a Minor Groove Wedge Mechanism to Stabilize the RNA Polymerase Open Promoter Complex Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Bae, B., [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, October 30, 2015 3:45 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University Face to Face: New Vistas on the Neural Mechanisms of Social Cognition Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Fisher, C., & Freiwald, W. A. (2015). Contrasting specializations for facial motion within the [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday, October 19, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Stephen Quake, Ph.D. Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Single Cell Genomics Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Braslavsky, I., Hebert, B., Kartalov, E., & Quake, S. R. (2003). Sequence information can be obtained from [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, October 23, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Michael Lenardo, M.D. Chief, Molecular Development Section, Laboratory of Immunology, Director, NIAID Clinical Genomics Program, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health Genomic Approaches to Solving Primary Immune Disorders Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Kuehn, H. S., Ouyang, W., Lo, B., [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, October 2nd, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Graeme Davis, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco The Stable Brain: Homeostatic Control of Neural Function Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Ford, K. J., & Davis, G. W. (2014). Archaerhodopsin voltage imaging: synaptic calcium and BK [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, October 9th, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Luciano Marraffini, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Head, Laboratory of Bacteriology, The Rockefeller University CRISPR-Cas: The Adaptive Immune System of Prokaryotes Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Goldberg, G. W., Jiang, W., Bikard, D., & Marraffini, L. A. (2014). Conditional tolerance of temperate phages via transcription-dependent CRISPR-Cas [...]
Special Lecture Monday, October 12th, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Denes Hnisz, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms Defining Cell Identity Recommended Readings Dowen, J. M., Fan, Z. P., Hnisz, D., Ren, G., Abraham, B. J., Zhang, L. N., ... & Young, R. A. (2014). Control of cell [...]
Special Lecture Monday, September 28th, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Erich Jarvis, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Dissecting the Molecular Mechanisms of Vocal Learning and Spoken Language Recommended Readings Jarvis, E. D., Mirarab, S., Aberer, A. J., Li, B., Houde, P., Li, C., [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, September, 25th 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Beth Levine, M.D. Charles Cameron Sprague Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science, Director, Center for Autophagy Research, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Molecular Regulation and Functions of Beclin 1 and the Autophagy [...]
Monday Lecture Series Monday, September 14th, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Susan Kaech, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine Early Career Scientist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute PEPing Up T Cell-mediated Immunity to Viruses and Cancer Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Cui, G., Staron, M. M., Gray, S. M., Ho, P. C., [...]