Friday Lecture Series Friday, March 13, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Jef Boeke, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Director, Institute for systems genetics, New York University Synthesis of Designer Chromosomes from Scratch Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Annaluru, N., Muller, H., Mitchell, L. a, Ramalingam, S., Stracquadanio, G., Richardson, S. M., … Chandrasegaran, [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, March 27, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Tom Muir, Ph.D. Van Zandt Williams Jr. Class of ‘65 Professor of Chemistry, Chair, Department of chemistry Princeton University ‘Houdini’ Proteins: Discovery and Applications of Ultrafast Inteins Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Shah, N. H., Dann, G. P., Vila-Perelló, M., Liu, Z., & Muir, T. [...]
Special Lecture Monday, March 9, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Gabriel Victora, Ph.D. Principal Investigator, Whitehead Fellow, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Darwin in Miniature: Antibody Evolution in Germinal Centers Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Schwickert, T. a, Victora, G. D., Fooksman, D. R., Kamphorst, A. O., Mugnier, M. R., Gitlin, A. D., … [...]
Friday Lecture Series / Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture Friday, March 6, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Jean-Laurent Casanova, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Attending Physician, Professor and Head, St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, The Rockefeller University Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Infectious Diseases of Childhood: Inborn Errors of Immunity? Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Casrouge, [...]
Special Seminar Wednesday, May 13, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Natasha Mhatre, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Toronto at Scarborough The Sensory Ecology and Evolutionary Origins of Actively Amplified Mechanotransduction: From Insects to Algae Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Mhatre, N., Montealegre-Z, F., Balakrishnan, R., & Robert, D. (2012). Changing resonator geometry to boost [...]
Friday Lecture Series / Ph.D. Recruitment Lecture Friday, February 25, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Jue Chen, Ph.D., Head of Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Biophysics, The Rockefeller University Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Understanding Molecular Pumps: Insights from Structural BiologyRecommended Readings Empirical Articles Chen, S., Oldham, M. L., Davidson, A. L., & Chen, J. (2013). [...]
Special Lecture Wednesday, February 25, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Lingyin Li, Ph.D., Merck Fellow of the Jane Coffins Child Memorial Fund, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School Chemical Biology of Anti-Cancer Innate Immunity Recommended Readings Kim, S., Li, L., Maliga, Z., Yin, Q., Wu, H., & Mitchison, T. J. (2013). Anticancer [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, February 20, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Eva Nogales, Ph.D. Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, University of California, Berkeley Senior Faculty Scientist, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cryo-EM Studies of the Human Transcription Initiation Machinery Recommended Readings Cianfrocco, M. a, & Nogales, [...]
Special Lecture, Wednesday, February 18th, 2015 4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC) Robert McGinty, M.D., Ph.D. Damon Runyun Postdoctoral Fellow, Dale F. Frey Breakthrough Scientist, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University Chemistry, Crystallography and Nucleosome Ubiquitylation Recommended Readings Empirical Articles Kim, J., Kim, J., McGinty, R. K., Nguyen, U. T., Muir, [...]
Friday Lecture Series Friday, February 13, 2015 3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium Pietro De Camilli, M.D. John Klingenstein Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Cell Biology, Director, Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration, and Repair, Yale University School of Medicine Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Lipid Signaling in the Control of Membrane Dynamics and Interactions Recommended Readings Empirical Articles [...]