Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, October 16, 2026
Michael Sixt, M.D.
Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Mechanics and Energetics of Leukocyte Locomotion
The Ernst A. H. Friedheim Memorial Lecture
Recommended Readings:
Liu, Jiayi, et al. “Modelling chemotaxis of branched cells in complex environments provides insights into immune cell navigation.” PLOS Computational Biology 22.2 (2026): e1013934.
Li, Ziqiang P., and Michael Sixt. “Cell migration: How animal cells run and tumble.” Current Biology 35.18 (2025): R890-R892.
Uçar, Mehmet Can, et al. “Self-generated chemotaxis of mixed cell populations.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122.34 (2025): e2504064122.
Reis-Rodrigues, Patricia, et al. “Migrating immune cells globally coordinate protrusive forces.” Nature Immunology 26.8 (2025): 1258-1266.
Nourshargh, Sussan, Peter L. Hordijk, and Michael Sixt. “Breaching multiple barriers: leukocyte motility through venular walls and the interstitium.” Nature reviews Molecular cell biology 11.5 (2010): 366-378.
