Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, February 27, 2026
Gabriel Victora, Ph.D.
Laurie and Peter Grauer Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Replaying Germinal Center Evolution
Graduate Student Recruitment Lecture
Recommended Readings:
Ralph, Duncan K., et al. “Inference of germinal center evolutionary dynamics via simulation-based deep learning.” ArXiv (2025): arXiv-2508.
Castaño, Diana, et al. “Distinct components of mRNA vaccines cooperate to instruct efficient germinal center responses.” Cell 188.26 (2025): 7461-7480.
DeWitt, William S., et al. “Replaying germinal center evolution on a quantified affinity landscape.” bioRxiv (2025).
Johnson, Mackenzie M., et al. “Nucleotide context models outperform protein language models for predicting antibody affinity maturation.” PLOS Computational Biology 21.12 (2025): e1013758.
Victora, Gabriel D., and Michel C. Nussenzweig. “Germinal centers.” Annual review of immunology 40.1 (2022): 413-442.
