Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, March 20, 2026
Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D.
Sterling Professor of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Tissue Biology: Cell Interactions, Homeostasis, and Inflammation
The Jerry A. Weisbach Memorial Lecture
Recommended Readings:
Erickson, S., et al. “Environmentally driven immune imprinting protects against allergy.” Nature (2026): 1-10.
Bachtel, Nathaniel D., et al. “Intestinal mast cell–derived leukotrienes mediate the anaphylactic response to ingested antigens.” Science 389.6760 (2025): eadp0246.
Wu, Zhongyang, et al. “Regulation of inflammatory responses by pH-dependent transcriptional condensates.” Cell 188.20 (2025): 5632-5652.
Waizman, Daniel A., et al. “Skin damage signals mediate allergic sensitization to spatially unlinked antigen.” Science immunology 10.106 (2025): eadn0688.
Korn, Lisa L., et al. “Adverse food reactions: physiological and ecological perspectives.” Annual review of nutrition 44.1 (2024): 155-178.
