Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, October 30, 2026
Eduardo Villablanca, Ph.D.
Professor, Karolinska Institutet
Decoding Cellular Circuits in Intestinal Regeneration and Tumorigenesis
Recommended Readings:
Belevich, Ilya, et al. “Golgi organization regulates stem cell function in the small intestine.” Nature Communications 17.1 (2026): 7606.
Suárez-Álvarez, Martín, María A. Ulloa, and Eduardo J. Villablanca. “Decoding the complexity of intestinal immunity with spatial transcriptomics.” Current Opinion in Immunology 101 (2026): 102806.
Díaz-Basabe, Angélica, Ning He, and Eduardo J. Villablanca. “Promoting intestinal regeneration without tumor risk in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases.” Trends in Immunology (2026).
Thorsson, Johan, et al. “Uncovering immune niches in health and disease using spatial transcriptomics.” European Journal of Immunology 56.4 (2026): e70185.
Castro, Rodrigo A. Morales, et al. “A zebrafish model of intestinal epithelial damage reveals macrophages and igfbp1a as major modulators of mucosal healing.” Mucosal Immunology (2025).