100 years ago, on January 16th, 1923, Ezechiel Godert David “Eddie” Cohen, the Professor Emeritus at The Rockefeller University and leader in statistical physics and nonequilibriu statistical mechanics, was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, into a Jewish family. His father, David Ezechiel Cohen, studied medicine in Amsterdam and after receiving his Ph.D. in 1913, specialized [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, February 3, 2023 Michael T. Laub, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute New Players in the Molecular Arms Race Between Bacteria and Phages Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Zhang, T., Tamman, H., Coppieters 't Wallant, K., Kurata, [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, January 27, 2023 Danny Reinberg, Ph.D. Terry and Mel Karmazin Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine, Smilow Research Center, New York, NY Polycomb, Inheritance and Disease Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Escobar, T. M., Yu, J. [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to Tri-I community) Friday, January 20, 2023 Margaret Gardel, Ph.D. Horace B. Horton Professor Department of Physics, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, James Franck Institute & Institute for Biophysical Dynamics Director, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Mechanical Information Processing by Epithelial Tissue Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Lynch, A. [...]
Happy New Year! Markus Library's Monthly Training Sessions return and it is scheduled on every 2nd Thursdays of the month from 1pm to 2pm. The library offers curated training sessions of selected library resources and services. They are offered online via Zoom. Training sessions are open to all Rockefeller University employees and affiliates with Rockefeller University ID card. [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I community) Friday, January 13, 2023 Yukiko Yamashita, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Susan Lindquist Chair for Women in Science, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Unexpected Mechanisms of Germline Immortality Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Li, D., Gandhi, D., Kumon, [...]
Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, January 9, 2023 Tim Stearns, Ph.D. Dean of Graduate & Postgraduate Studies, VP of Educational Affairs, Head of the Laboratory The Rockefeller University Olfactory Sensory Neurons: Centrioles and Cilia in Sensation Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Buss, G., Stratton, M. B., Milenkovic, L., & Stearns, T. (2022). [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to Tri-I community) Friday, January 6, 2023 Priyamvada Rajasethupathy, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Neural Dynamics & Cognition, The Rockefeller University The Evolving Memory Trace Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Yadav, N., Noble, C., Niemeyer, J. E., Terceros, A., Victor, J., Liston, C., & Rajasethupathy, P. (2022). [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Tri-I Community) Friday, December 16, 2022 Li Zhao, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Head of the Laboratory Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics, The Rockefeller University The Birth and Evolution of New Genes Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Witt E, Langer CB, Svetec N, Zhao L. (2021) Transcriptional and mutational signatures of the [...]
Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, December 19, 2022 Jeremy Rock, Ph.D. Penrhyn E. Cook Assistant Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Host-Pathogen Biology, The Rockefeller University A chemical-genetic map of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Poulton, N. C., Azadian, Z. A., DeJesus, M. A., & Rock, [...]
