Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, March 2, 2026 Svetlana Mojsov, Ph.D. Lulu Chow Wang and Robin Chemers Neustein Research Associate Professor, The Rockefeller University GLP-1: From a Putative Peptide to Effective Medicines for Diabetes and Obesity Recommended Readings: Mojsov, Svetlana. "Discovery of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 and Its Biological [...]
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 [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 20, 2026 Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D. Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and Head of the Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Memories: Are They Just for the Brain? Graduate Student Recruitment Lecture [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 13, 2026 David Ginty, Ph.D. Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology and Head of the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Making Sense of Touch Recommended Readings: Santiago, Celine, et al. "Activity-dependent [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, February 23, 2026 Michael Rout, Ph.D. George and Ruby deStevens Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University A Tour of the Pore: Structural and Functional Mapping of the Nuclear Pore Complex Recommended Readings: Singh, Digvijay, [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 6, 2026 David Julius, Ph.D. Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine, Professor, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco Structural Energetics of Cold Sensitivity The William H. Stein Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Choi, Kevin Y., et al. "The [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 30, 2026 Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Ph.D. Dennis Cunningham Professor, Professor of Biology and of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Shining Light on Bacterial Physiology and Host Defenses The Norton Zinder Lecture Recommended Readings: Thappeta, Y., Cañas-Duarte, S.J., [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, January 26, 2026 Cori Bargmann, Ph.D. Vice President for Academic Affairs and Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and Head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, The Rockefeller University How Serotonin Organizes Behaviors Across Timescales Recommended Readings: Feng, Likui, [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 23, 2026 Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D. Scientific Director, Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine; Scientific Director, Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology (Allen-CZI-UW); Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Molecular Recording of Mammalian Development The Richard M. [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 9, 2026 Stephen Elledge, Ph.D. Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics and Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Spying on the Immune System The Philip Levine Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Chen, Genghao, [...]
