Special Seminar Tuesday, January 30, 2024 Srdjan Ostojic, Ph.D. Director of Research, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris Linking Structure and Function in Recurrent Neural Network Models of Cognitive Tasks Recommended Readings: Beiran, Manuel, et al. "Parametric control of flexible timing through low-dimensional neural manifolds." Neuron 111.5 (2023): 739-753. Shao, Yuxiu, and Srdjan Ostojic. [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 26, 2024 Rexford Ahima, M.D., Ph.D. Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Diabetes, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Public Health, Professor of Nursing, Director of Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, January 29, 2024 Albert James Hudspeth, M.D., Ph.D. F. M. Kirby Professor and Head, Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Critical Thing About Hearing Recommended Readings: Abeytunge, Sanjeewa, et al. "Rapid mechanical stimulation of inner-ear hair [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 19, 2024 David Liu, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Associate Faculty Member, Harvard Microbial Sciences Initiative; Core Institute Member and Vice-Chair of the Faculty, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; Director, Chemical Biology [...]
Special Seminar Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Elizabeth Campbell, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University Unraveling Molecular Mechanisms in Bacterial and Viral Pathogens Recommended Readings: Delbeau, Madeleine, et al. "Structural and functional basis of the universal transcription factor NusG pro-pausing activity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis." Molecular Cell 83.9 (2023): 1474-1488. [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 12, 2024 Katherine Richardson, Ph.D. Professor in Biological Oceanography, Globe Institute; Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and Leader, University of Copenhagen’s Sustainability Science Centre; Adj. Senior Researcher, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Climate, Biodiversity, and Sustainability: Three Components of a [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 5, 2024 Pascale Cossart, Ph.D. Visiting Scientist, EMBL-Heidelberg; Professor, Pasteur Institute; Secrétaire Perpétuel honoraire de l’Académie des Sciences How We Raised a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm Recommended Readings: Cossart, Pascale. "Raising a bacterium to [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, December 15, 2023 Diana Bautista, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Neuroimmune Mechanisms of Itch, Pain and Airway Inflammation Recommended Readings: Misery, Laurent, et al. "Basic mechanisms of itch." Journal of [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, December 4, 2023 Robert Roeder, Ph.D. Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Microbiology, The Rockefeller University Mechanistic Studies of Transcriptional Regulation in Hematopoietic Malignancies Recommended Readings: Crump, Nicholas T., et al. "MLL-AF4 cooperates with PAF1 and FACT [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, December 11, 2023 Viviana Risca, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Genome Architecture and Dynamics, The Rockefeller University Probing kilobase-scale chromatin architecture and its regulation Recommended Readings: Mansisidor, Andrés R., and Viviana I. Risca. "Chromatin accessibility: Methods, mechanisms, and biological insights." Nucleus [...]
