Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 21, 2025 Charles Zuker, Ph.D. Principal Investigator, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute; Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics and Neuroscience, Columbia University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Body-Brain Axis Recommended Readings: Canovas, Jose A., et al. "A brain center [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 24, 2025 Theodora Hatziioannou, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor, Laboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller University Virus vs Host: An Evolutionary Chess Match Recommended Readings: Wiatr, Marie, et al. "Memory B cell Development in Response to mRNA SARS-CoV-2 and Nanoparticle Immunization in Mice." [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 17, 2025 Seth Darst, Ph.D. Jack Fishman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University Visualizing the Bacterial Transcription Cycle in Action Recommended Readings: Brewer, Joshua, et al. "Structural basis for loading of Transcription Repair-Coupling factor Mfd onto [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 14, 2025 Olle Kämpe, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Endocrinology, Karolinska Institutet Understanding Autoimmunity Using Human Model Disorders The Nicholson Lecture Recommended Readings: Hirschberg, A. L., et al. "O-215 Immunomodulatory therapy can restore fertility in women with autoimmune premature ovarian insufficiency–a proof [...]
Program Overview Matt Covey, our University Librarian, will review recent updates to NIH publishing and public access requirements, including compliance expectations for investigators and research staff. Our guest speaker, Dave Hansen, Executive Director of Authors Alliance (please see his bio below), will discuss authors’ rights in the evolving Open Access environment, including tools and resources available to you, and techniques to negotiate [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 7, 2025 Itai Yanai, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine Mechanisms of Cellular Plasticity and Adaptive Gene Regulation Recommended Readings: Hunter, Miranda V., et al. "Mechanical confinement governs [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 24, 2025 Dan Littman, M.D., Ph.D. Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology, Department of Pathology and Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute T Cell Homeostasis in Response to Food [...]
Evnin Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Tuesday, November 11, 2025 Polly Fordyce, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics and ChEM-H Institute Fellow, Stanford University Microfluidics for Quantitative and High-Throughput Biophysics and Biochemistry Recommended Readings: Yang, Zijian, et al. "Continuous FACS Sorting of Double [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 3, 2025 Jean-Laurent Casanova, M.D., Ph.D. Levy Family Professor, Senior Attending Physician, and Head of the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases Recommended Readings: Langlois, Ryan [...]
René Dubos: An Annotated Bibliography Compiled by: Carol L. Moberg René Dubos (1901–1982), a prominent 20th century scientist, humanist, and philosopher, was a prolific author. Affiliated for more than 50 years with The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research/The Rockefeller University, his studies ranged from antibiotics and the role of bacteria in human diseases to formulating [...]
