Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, November 13, 2026
Nicholas Bellono, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
The Evolution of Sensation
The Student Sponsored Lecture
Recommended Readings:
James, Martin, et al. “Amphibian water to land transition reveals physical limits of olfaction.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.20765 (2026).
Coyle, Maxwell C., et al. “An ancient receptor family illuminates the evolution of animal sensation.” bioRxiv (2026): 2026-06.
Akyuz, Nurunisa, et al. “Evolutionary tuning of an auditory transduction channel.” Current Biology 36.7 (2026): 1800-1810.
Valencia-Montoya, Wendy A., et al. “Infrared radiation is an ancient pollination signal.” Science 390.6778 (2025): 1164-1170.
Allard, Corey AH, et al. “Evolution of novel sensory organs in fish with legs.” Current Biology 34.19 (2024): 4349-4356.
