Schedule of Workshops and Trainings 2026-27 All events take place at 1pm-2pm unless otherwise noted. All in-person events take place in Markus Library Room 202 unless otherwise noted. 9/15/2026: General Library Orientation (Matt Covey) - Register here (virtual event) 10/20/2026: NIH Public Access Policy and Read/Publish Agreements (Matt Covey) - Register here (virtual event) 11/17/2026: [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 20, 2026 Sadaf Farooqi, Ph.D., FMedSci Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Honorary Consultant Physician, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge University Genetic and Neural Basis of Human Instinctive Behaviour The Joshua Lederberg Distinguished Lecture in Molecular Genetics Recommended Readings: Argente, Jesús, et [...]
Scientific Reports Under Review by NLM Nature's journal Scientific Reports has been paused from indexing in MEDLINE, PubMed, and PubMed Central while the National Library of Medicine reviews the journal. This will not affect articles that are already indexed in PubMed and/or archived in PubMed Central. Inability of articles to be archived in PubMed Central [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 13, 2026 Nicholas Bellono, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University The Evolution of Sensation The Student Sponsored Lecture Recommended Readings: James, Martin, et al. "Amphibian water to land transition reveals physical limits of olfaction." arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.20765 [...]
Evnin Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Tuesday, November 17, 2026 Radhika Subramanian, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School A GLI-ful Journey through the Primary Cilium Recommended Readings: Haque, Farah, et al. "How the non-motile kinesin KIF7 [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 23, 2026 Gerald Rubin, Ph.D. Head of Biology, Senior Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Discovering Molecular Machines within Neurons The Richard M. Furlaud Distinguished Lecture Recommended Readings: Berg, Stuart, et al. "Sexual dimorphism in the complete Drosophila [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 6, 2026 Julie Segre, Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Mary Sue Coleman Director, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan Human Skin Microbiome: Finding Friends Amongst the Foes Recommended Readings: Merrill, Eric Dean, et al. "The fungal pathogen Candida auris [...]
Evnin Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Tuesday, October 27, 2026 James Fraser, Ph.D. Department Chair and Professor, Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco Statistical Structural Biology Recommended Readings: Xu, Xinyu, et al. "Development of a random background to understand ligand optimization." Nature (2026): 1-9. Orta, [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 16, 2026 Shai Shaham, Ph.D. Richard E. Salomon Family Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, The Rockefeller University How C. elegans Nose Glia Smell Trouble Recommended Readings: Liu, Simin, et al. "C. elegans CEH-43/DLX drives convergent astrocyte differentiation by [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 9, 2026 E. Katya Vinogradova, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chemical Immunology and Proteomics, The Rockefeller University Chemical Proteomics to Define and Target Functional Proteoforms in Immunity Recommended Readings: Plucińska, Kaja, et al. "Cell-type-specific proximity labeling of organ [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 2, 2026 Hironori Funabiki, Ph.D. Tri-Institutional Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chromosome and Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University RNA on Mitotic Chromosomes: Peculiar Regulation of Centromeres for Faithful Chromosome Segregation Recommended Readings: Shih, Rochelle M., et al. "Impacts of DNA [...]
