Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, May 2, 2022 Ali H. Brivanlou, Ph.D. Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Synthetic Embryology, The Rockefeller University Synthetic by Design: Weaving Human Embryonic Patterns Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Piccolo, F. M., Kastan, N. R., Haremaki, T., Tian, Q., Laundos, T. L., [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Friday, April 22, 2022 Rafi Ahmed, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Director, Emory Vaccine Center, Eminent Scholar, Georgia Research Alliance, Investigator, Emory Center for Aids Research, Emory University T Cell Lifestyle during Chronic Viral Infection and Cancer: Implications for Immunotherapy Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Chang, [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Friday, April 29, 2022 Hans Clevers, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Molecular Genetics, University Utrecht Head of Pharma, Research and Early Development (pRED) Member of the Enlarged Executive Committee F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd Organoids to Model Human Disease Recommended Readings: Empirical Articles Kim, J., Koo, B. K., [...]
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 [...]
