Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 7, 2025 Inigo Martincorena, Ph.D. Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute Somatic Mutation and Selection in Ageing Tissues Recommended Readings: Cagan, Alex, et al. "Somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan across mammals." Nature 604.7906 (2022): 517-524. Abascal, Federico, et al. "Somatic mutation [...]
Black History Month 2025: Library Resources In honor of Black History Month, the Markus Library Staff have compiled a list of our resources and featured holdings related to racial justice and the contributions of Black people to scientific research, both historical and present-day. DEI Book Collection The Markus Library hosts a growing collection of fiction [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, February 24, 2025 Leslie Vosshall, Ph.D. Robin Chemers Neustein Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University; Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Mosquitoes: A Flexible and Dangerous Predator of Humans Recommended Readings: Morita, [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 28, 2025 Titia de Lange, Ph.D. Leon Hess Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University 2.7 Billion Years of Shelterin and T-loops: From Telomere Protection to Cancer Prevention Graduate Student Recruitment Lecture Recommended Readings: [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 21, 2025 Gaby Maimon, Ph.D. Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Space, Flies, Memory Graduate Student Recruitment Lecture Recommended Readings: Mussells Pires, Peter, et al. "Converting an allocentric goal [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 14, 2025 Jason Chin, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge; Programme Leader, Division of Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Reprogramming the Genetic Code Recommended Readings: Tian, Rongzhen, et al. [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 7, 2025 Stefan Hell, Ph.D. Director, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research; Director, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences Molecule-scale Resolution and Dynamics in Fluorescence Microscopy The Jerry A. Weisbach Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Moosmayer, Thea, et al. "MINFLUX fluorescence nanoscopy [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, February 10, 2025 Joel Cohen, Ph.D., Dr.P.H. Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Populations, The Rockefeller University Older People Have More, and More Diverse, Chronic Comorbidities: Tests of Taylor’s Law of Fluctuation Scaling in Four U.S. Health Systems Recommended [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 31, 2025 Edith Heard, Ph.D. Professor, Collège de France; Director General, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Life with Two X Chromosomes The Richard M. Furlaud Distinguished Lecture Recommended Readings: Hauth, Antonia, et al. "Escape from X inactivation is directly modulated by levels [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 24, 2025 Jesse Bloom, Ph.D. Professor, Division of Basic Sciences and Computational Biology Program, Fred Hutch Cancer Center; Investigator, Howards Hughes Medical Institute Interpreting Viral Evolution Recommended Readings: Loes, Andrea N., et al. "High-throughput sequencing-based neutralization assay reveals how repeated vaccinations [...]
