Cosloy-Blank Lecture Series
Dr. Sharon Cosloy was a member of the City College Biology faculty for 27 years and served as Chair of the Biology Department for six years. She was a beloved mentor, educator, wife and mother and a passionate investigator of life and science. The Professor Sharon Cosloy and Edward Blank Family Distinguished Scientist Lectureship is regarded as the preeminent scientific lecture on campus. The City College of New York is grateful to Edward Blank and his family for their generous support.
2023
"Interrogating a Protein's Energy Landscape: from protein folding to coronavirus."
Susan Marqusee, Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology and Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley
October 10th, 2023
2022
"Telomere shortening: why and how?"
Dr. Titia de Lange, Leon Hess Professor and the Director of the Anderson Center for Cancer Research at the Rockefeller University
September 21st, 2022
2021
"Nature's Guide for Uncertain Times"
Dr. Ruth DeFries, Denning Family Chair of Sustainable Development Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University
October 12th, 2021
2020
"Brain Rhythms in Health and Disease"
Dr. Nancy Kopell, Professor of Mathematics & Statistics, Boston University
October 7th, 2020
2018
"Our Preposterous Universe"
Dr. Sean Carroll, Research Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology
October 17th, 2018
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2017
"A Brief History of Environmental Successes"
Dr. Susan Solomon, Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
October 11th, 2017
2016
"The Search for Randomness"
Dr. Persi Diaconis, MacArthur Fellow and Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Stanford University
September 15th, 2016
2015
"The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map: How We Got Here and Where We Are Going"
Dr. John O’Keefe, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London and 2014 Nobel Prize Recipient in Physiology or Medicine
May 28th, 2015
2014
"Chromosome Dynamics from Bacteria to Mammalian Cells"
Dr. Nancy Kleckner, Herschel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology, Harvard University
October 23rd, 2014
2013
"Noncoding RNAs: With a Viral Twist"
Dr. Joan Steitz, Yale University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
November 11th, 2013
2012
"Bacterial Circuits with Small RNA Regulators"
Dr. Susan Gottesman, Co-Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Biology & NIH Distinguished Investigator, National Cancer Institute, U.S. National Institute of Health
October 18th, 2012
2011
"Life and Death of a Microbial Community"
Dr. Richard Losick, Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology, Harvard University
November 11th, 2011
2010
"The Human Gut Microbiome: Dining in with Trillions of Friends"
Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University, Professor, Washington University School of Medicine
December 8th, 2010
2009
"Engineering Simple Cells to Study Complex Human Diseases"
Dr. Susan Lindquist, Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 19th, 2009
2008
"Stem Cells of the Skin: Their Biology & Medical Promise"
Dr. Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Rockefeller University
November 6th, 2008
2007
"Dissecting a Circuit for Olfactory Behavior in C. Elegans"
Dr. Cornelia I. Bargmann, Tornsten N. Wiesel Professor, Rockefeller University
2006
"Tiny Conspiracies: Cell to Cell Communication in Bacteria"
Dr. Bonnie Bassler, Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
November 2nd, 2006
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