Special Seminar Lecture (open to the Rockefeller community) Friday, October 19, 2022 William Bialek, Ph.D. John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics Department of Physics, Lewis–Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Princeton University, NJ Information flow in neural and genetic networks Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Lynn, C. W., Holmes, C. M., Bialek, W., & Schwab, D. J. [...]
Special Seminar Series Thursday, April 25, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Mandë Holford, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Chemistry and Biology The City University of New York – Hunter College & Graduate Center The Transformative Power of Venom in Evolution and Biomedical Applications Recommended Readings: Science News Emily Driscoll and Luke Groskin. (2017, Nov [...]
Special Seminar Series Wednesday, March 6, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Christopher Chang, Ph.D. Chair Professor Department of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley Deciphering Transition Metal Signaling with Activity-Based Sensing Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Su TA, Shihadih DS, Cao W, Detomasi TC, Heffern MC, Jia S, Stahl A, [...]
Special Seminar Series Monday, March 4, 2019 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium David Keays, Ph.D. Group Leader Research Institute of Molecular Pathology – Vienna, Austria The Mysterious Magnetoreceptors Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Landler, Lukas; Keays, David A. (2018). Cryptochrome: The magnetosensor with a sinister side? PLOS BIOLOGY. 16 (10) Engels, Svenja; Treiber, Christoph Daniel; Salzer, [...]
Special Seminar Series Wednesday, December 13, 2017 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Ivan E de Araujo, DPhil, Ph.D. Principal Investigator, The John B. Pierce Laboratory and Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry and Cellular and Molecular Physiology Yale University School of Medicine The Gut-Brain Axis and Reward Recommended Readings: Science News Radboud University. (2017, Sept 25). Do [...]
Special Seminar Series Wednesday, September 20, 2017 4:00 p.m. Carson Family Auditorium Erika Pearce, Ph.D. Senior Group Leader and Director Department of Immunometabolism Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics Mitochondrial Shapeshifting in the T Cell Response Recommended Readings: Erika Pearce. (2017). The Influence of Metabolism on the Function of T Cell Types. Latest Thinking. [...]
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 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 [...]
Special Lecture Wednesday, March 30 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Lydia Finley, Ph.D. Jack Sorrell Fellow, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Metabolic Regulation of Cell Fate Decisions Recommended Readings Carey, B. W., Finley, L. W., Cross, J. R., Allis, C. D., & Thompson, C. [...]
Special Lecture Series Monday, February 29 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Ying Lu, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School Specificity, Efficiency and Processivity in the Eukaryotic Protein Degradation System Recommended Readings Lu, Y., Lee, B. H., King, R. W., Finley, D., & Kirschner, M. W. (2015). Substrate degradation by the [...]
