Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, February 13, 2026
David Ginty, Ph.D.
Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology and Head of the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Making Sense of Touch
Recommended Readings:
Santiago, Celine, et al. “Activity-dependent development of the body’s touch receptors.” Neuron 113.11 (2025): 1758-1773.
Huey, Erica L., et al. “The auditory midbrain mediates tactile vibration sensing.” Cell 188.1 (2025): 104-120.
Handler, Annie, et al. “Three-dimensional reconstructions of mechanosensory end organs suggest a unifying mechanism underlying dynamic, light touch.” Neuron 111.20 (2023): 3211-3229.
Koutsioumpa, Charalampia, et al. “Skin-type-dependent development of murine mechanosensory neurons.” Developmental cell 58.20 (2023): 2032-2047.
Turecek, Josef, Brendan P. Lehnert, and David D. Ginty. “The encoding of touch by somatotopically aligned dorsal column subdivisions.” Nature 612.7939 (2022): 310-315.
