Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, April 25, 2022 Thomas Tuschl, Ph.D. Professor, Head of the Laboratory of RNA Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University First-in-class non-covalent allosteric small-molecule inhibitors of SARS-CoV NSP14 methyltransferase Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Wang, X., Sacramento, C. Q., Jockusch, S., Chaves, O. A., Tao, C., Fintelman-Rodrigues, N., [...]
This month the Markus Library remembers lesser-known women scientists at The Rockefeller University Clara Nigg Clara Nigg. Courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center Clara Ida Nigg (1897-1986) was an American bacteriologist who developed methods of cultivating Rickettsia prowazekii and proved that this organism only reproduces in living cells. Clara Nigg was born [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Friday, April 8, 2022 Lalita Ramakrishnan, MBBS, Ph.D. Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Head of the Molecular Immunity Unit Centre for Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine University of Cambridge Group Leader, Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, UK A [...]
This month the Markus Library remembers lesser-known women scientists at The Rockefeller University Elaine Diacumakos Elaine Diacumakos with Peter Sellers and Merrill Chase at the June 11th alumni reunion, 1984 Elaine Diacumakos (1930-1984) was an American cell biologist and head of the cytobiology laboratory at The Rockefeller University who developed the first techniques [...]
This month the Markus Library remembers lesser-known women scientists at The Rockefeller University Evelyn Tilden Evelyn Butler Tilden poses with a microscope at the National Institutes of Health, 1940 Evelyn Butler Tilden (1891 – 1983) was an American microbiologist who researched rare carbohydrates, oral bacteria, fungal endotoxins, and animal infections. Tilden was born [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Friday, March 25, 2022 Geeta Narlikar, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Co-director Tetrad Graduate Program, UCSF Genome Regulation by ATP-dependent Chromatin Remodeling and Phase-separation Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Gamarra, N., & Narlikar, G. J. (2021). Histone dynamics play a critical role in SNF2h-mediated [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Friday, March 11, 2022 Aviv Regev, Ph.D. Executive Vice President, Genentech Research and Early Development (gRED) Cell Atlases as Roadmaps in Cancer Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Vickovic, S., Lötstedt, B., Klughammer, J., Mages, S., Segerstolpe, Å., Rozenblatt-Rosen, O., & Regev, A. (2022). SM-Omics is an automated [...]
Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, March 21, 2022 Thomas P. Sakmar, M.D. Richard M. & Isabel P. Furlaud Professor, Senior Physician, Rockefeller University Hospital, Director, Human Subjects Research Protection Program, Head of Laboratory of Chemical Biology & Signal Transduction The Rockefeller University Activity Profiling of Genetic Variants of the CYSLTR2 [...]
Webinar Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, March 14, 2021 Erich Jarvis, Ph.D. Professor, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Director of The Rockefeller University Field Research Center, Millbrook, NY, Co-director of The Rockefeller Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University The Vertebrate Genomes Project: [...]
Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, March 28, 2022 Eric D. Siggia, Ph.D. Viola Ward Brinning and Elbert Calhoun Brinning Professor, Head of Laboratory of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, The Rockefeller University Geometry and Genetics Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Valet, M., Siggia, E. D., & Brivanlou, A. H. (2022). Mechanical regulation [...]
