Hybrid Monday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller community)
Monday, November 3, 2025
Jean-Laurent Casanova, M.D., Ph.D.
Levy Family Professor, Senior Attending Physician, and Head of the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases
Recommended Readings:
Langlois, Ryan A., and Jean-Laurent Casanova. “The potential impacts of human genetics on virus emergence.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122.39 (2025): e2504318122.
Casanova, Jean-Laurent. “Human immunity.” Journal of Human Immunity 1.1 (2025): e20250001.
Casanova, Jean-Laurent, and Laurent Abel. “The microbe, the infection enigma, and the host.” Annual Review of Microbiology 78 (2024).
Zhang, Shen-Ying, and Jean-Laurent Casanova. “Genetic defects of brain immunity in childhood herpes simplex encephalitis.” Nature 635.8039 (2024): 563-573.
Abel, Laurent, and Jean-Laurent Casanova. “Human determinants of age-dependent patterns of death from infection.” Immunity 57.7 (2024): 1457-1465.
