Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, April 4, 2025
Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D.
Sterling Professor of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Evolutionary Perspective on Health and Disease
Recommended Readings:
Wang, Andrew, Harding H. Luan, and Ruslan Medzhitov. “An evolutionary perspective on immunometabolism.” Science 363.6423 (2019): eaar3932.
Pope, Scott D., and Ruslan Medzhitov. “Emerging principles of gene expression programs and their regulation.” Molecular cell 71.3 (2018): 389-397.
Okabe, Yasutaka, and Ruslan Medzhitov. “Tissue biology perspective on macrophages.” Nature immunology 17.1 (2016): 9-17.
Okin, Daniel, and Ruslan Medzhitov. “Evolution of inflammatory diseases.” Current Biology 22.17 (2012): R733-R740.
Kopp, Elizabeth B., and Ruslan Medzhitov. “Perspective: infection and inflammation in somatic maintenance, growth and longevity.” Evolutionary Applications 2.1 (2009): 132-141.
