Hybrid Monday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller community)
Monday, May 4, 2026
Agata Smogorzewska, M.D., Ph.D.
Skoler Horbach Family Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Genome Maintenance, The Rockefeller University
Repairing the Crosslink: From Molecular Mechanism to Cancer Prevention
Recommended Readings:
Maxwell, Rochelle R., et al. “Tracking Cytopenias in FANCA-deficient Fanconi Anemia.” medRxiv (2025): 2025-12.
Grandis, Jennifer R., et al. “Patient-derived xenograft models of Fanconi anemia–associated head and neck cancer identify personalized therapeutic strategies.” The Journal of clinical investigation 136.4 (2026).
Jung, Moonjung, et al. “ALDH9A1 deficiency as a source of endogenous DNA damage that requires repair by the Fanconi anemia pathway.” Journal of Cell Biology 224.7 (2025): e202407141.
Webster, Andrew LH, et al. “Genomic signature of Fanconi anaemia DNA repair pathway deficiency in cancer.” Nature 612.7940 (2022): 495-502.
Kottemann, Molly C., and Agata Smogorzewska. “Fanconi anaemia and the repair of Watson and Crick DNA crosslinks.” Nature 493.7432 (2013): 356-363.
