Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, February 20, 2026
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D.
Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and Head of the Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Memories: Are They Just for the Brain?
Graduate Student Recruitment Lecture
Recommended Readings:
Novak, Jesse SS, et al. “The integrated stress response fine-tunes stem cell fate decisions upon serine deprivation and tissue injury.” Cell metabolism (2025).
Fiore, Vincent F., Jorge Almagro, and Elaine Fuchs. “Shaping epithelial tissues by stem cell mechanics in development and cancer.” Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 26.6 (2025): 442-455.
Naik, Shruti, and Elaine Fuchs. “Inflammatory memory and tissue adaptation in sickness and in health.” Nature 607.7918 (2022): 249-255.
Niec, Rachel E., Alexander Y. Rudensky, and Elaine Fuchs. “Inflammatory adaptation in barrier tissues.” Cell 184.13 (2021): 3361-3375.
Hsu, Ya-Chieh, and Elaine Fuchs. “Building and maintaining the skin.” Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology 14.7 (2022): a040840.
