Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, January 9, 2026
Stephen Elledge, Ph.D.
Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics and Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Spying on the Immune System
The Philip Levine Memorial Lecture
Recommended Readings:
Chen, Genghao, et al. “Conserved CD8 T cell vaccines without B cell epitopes drive robust protection against SARS-CoV-2 that is enhanced by intranasal boost.” Science Advances 11.47 (2025): eadx0037.
Kohlgruber, Ayano C., et al. “High-throughput discovery of MHC class I-and II-restricted T cell epitopes using synthetic cellular circuits.” Nature biotechnology 43.4 (2025): 623-634.
Cortese, Marianna, et al. “Serologic response to the Epstein-Barr virus peptidome and the risk for multiple sclerosis.” JAMA neurology 81.5 (2024): 515-524.
Shrock, Ellen L., et al. “Germline-encoded amino acid–binding motifs drive immunodominant public antibody responses.” Science 380.6640 (2023): eadc9498.
Shrock, Ellen L., Christine L. Shrock, and Stephen J. Elledge. “VirScan: high-throughput profiling of antiviral antibody epitopes.” Bio-protocol 12.13 (2022): e4464-e4464.
