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Seth A. Darst
Awards and Honors

Seth A. Darst honored with Gregori Aminoff Prize

Darst receives the honor for pioneering research on RNA polymerase, the molecular machine that transcribes RNA from DNA. His work is leading to new knowledge about the transcription process, as well as to insights enabling development of urgent antibiotic and antiviral treatments.

Recent Awards and Honors

Junyue Cao

Junyue Cao honored with NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

October 5, 2021

Cao receives this grant for work using single-cell genomic methods to enable developmental mapping of entire organisms. 

Luka Mesin

Luka Mesin named Blavatnik Regional Award Finalist

September 21, 2021

Mesin, from the Victora lab, is recognized for using novel techniques to better understand how B cells mature and evolve to create antibodies to fight off pathogens.

More awards and honors

Rockefeller in the News

The New York Times

If You’ve Had Covid, Do You Need the Vaccine?

Studies touting the durability and strength of natural immunity are hobbled by one crucial flaw. They are, by definition, assessing the responses only of people who survived Covid-19. The road to natural immunity is perilous and uncertain, Dr. Nussenzweig said.

Science Friday

See A Familiar Face? Thank These Brain Cells

Sofia Landi and Winrich Freiwald, two of the authors of the report, talk about the research, and what it may tell us about how the brain and memory are organized.

The Atlantic

A Better Way to Think About Your Risk for COVID

Jean-Laurent Casanova believes that anyone who gets severely ill or dies from COVID is “immunodeficient” by definition—even if there is no current explanation for why they fared so poorly. Researchers say that continued advances in genetic sequencing will help unravel some of that mystery.

Seek Issue 7 cover

Seek magazine

Rockefeller’s flagship publication is interested not just in scientific results, but in the people, ideas, and conversations that ignite discovery. The latest issue takes a look at how the brain’s internal states drive its remarkable ability to reach different conclusion based on the same information. Also: The latest from Rockefeller’s COVID labs, and much more.

From this issue

A mission to end metastasis

Only one cancer cell in 10,000 is capable of spreading, and researchers may have found its kryptonite.

America is getting vaccinated. Now what?

Rockefeller researchers who spent the past year on the front lines discuss the challenges ahead—for society and for science.

 

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Recent Scientific Publications

Reconstructing the evolutionary history of the oxytocin and vasotocin receptor gene family: Insights on whole genome duplication scenarios
Potassium channels and the development of arousal-relevant action potential trains in primary hindbrain neurons
Species relationships in the extremes and their influence on community stability