Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 11, 2024 Tiago Branco, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Neuroscience and Behaviour, Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London Computation of Instinctive Escape Decisions Recommended Readings: Lefler, Yaara, and Tiago Branco. "How the brain plays musical statues." Nature [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 25, 2024 Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, Ph.D. Professor of Glial Cell Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics and Epigenomics of Oligodendroglia in Neural Development and in Multiple Sclerosis The Nicholson Lecture Recommended Readings: Foerster, Sarah, [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, October 14, 2024 Stanislas Leibler, Ph.D. Gladys T. Perkin Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Living Matter, The Rockefeller University Towards Systems Agriculture: on predicting and controlling (hyper)complex systems Recommended Readings: Moreira, Bruna, et al. "Intercropping Systems: An Opportunity for Environment Conservation [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 4, 2024 Michael Fischbach, Ph.D. Liu (Liao) Family Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University Understanding and Manipulating Immune Modulation by the Microbiome Recommended Readings: He, Yiming, et al. “Microbiome modulation of antigen presentation in tolerance and inflammation.” Current Opinion in [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, September 23, 2024 Luciano Marraffini, Ph.D. Kayden Family Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Bacteriology, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute CRISPR-CARF Immunity: Sacrificing the Host for the Benefit of the Population Recommended Readings: Baca, Christian F., et al. "The [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, September 27, 2024 Pierre Friedlingstein, Ph.D. Professor, Chair in Mathematical Modeling of the Climate System, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Exeter The Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change. Where We are and Where We Need to Be The Fairfield Osborn [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, September 13, 2024 Jeremy Nathans, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Department of Neuroscience, Samuel Theobald Professor, Wilmer Eye Institute (Department of Ophthalmology), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Molecular Genetic Studies of Central [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, September 20, 2024 Venki Ramakrishnan, Ph.D. MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University Initiation of Translation in Eukaryotes Recommended Readings: Brito Querido, Jailson, Irene Díaz-López, and V. Ramakrishnan. "The molecular basis of translation initiation and its regulation in eukaryotes." Nature Reviews [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 31, 2024 Sarah Teichmann, Ph.D. Professor of Stem Cell Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge University Mapping Tissue Microenvironments One Cell at A Time The Philip Levine Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Boerner, Katy, et al. "Human BioMolecular [...]
Hybrid Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, June 7, 2024 Gabriel Victora, Ph.D. Laurie and Peter Grauer Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics, The Rockefeller University Clonal and Cellular Dynamics of the Antibody Response Recommended Readings: Cohen, Alexander A., et al. "Mosaic sarbecovirus vaccination [...]
