Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, September 25, 2026 Bruce Spiegelman, Ph.D. Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School; Stanley J. Korsmeyer Professor of Cell Biology and Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Regulation of Systemic Metabolism Through Adipose Bioenergetics and Thermogenesis Recommended Readings: Zammit, Nathan W., et al. "Regulatory [...]
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. [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 15, 2026 Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D. David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Professor of Physics, Harvard University; Investigator, HHMI Spatially Resolved Single-cell Genomics and Functional Genomics The Postdoctoral Researchers Sponsored Lecture Recommended Readings: Venkatramani, Aditya, et [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 29, 2026 Cigall Kadoch, Ph.D. Professor and Meredith and Billy Starr Investigator, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School; Institute Member and Epigenomics Program Co-director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Structure and [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 22, 2026 Charles Swanton, Ph.D., FRCP Deputy Clinical Director, The Francis Crick Institute Lung Cancer Promotion and Prevention: Myeloid Mayhem The Maclyn McCarty Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Winslow, Monte M., et al. "A Roadmap to Transform Lung Cancer Outcomes: Priorities in [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, May 4, 2026 Agata Smogorzewska, M.D., Ph.D. Skoler Horbach Family Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Genome Maintenance, The Rockefeller University Repairing the Crosslink: From Molecular Mechanism to Cancer Prevention Recommended Readings: Maxwell, Rochelle R., et al. "Tracking Cytopenias in FANCA-deficient Fanconi [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, May 11, 2026 Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D. Frederick P. Rose Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University The Cerebellum in Neurodevelopmental Disease Recommended Readings: Mätlik, Kärt, Eve-Ellen Govek, and Mary E. Hatten. "Histone bivalency in CNS development." Genes [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 8, 2026 William Kaelin, M.D. Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute The von Hippel-Lindau Hereditary Cancer Syndrome: Insights into Cancer, Oxygen Sensing, and Drugging the Undruggable The Annual Cancer Biology Lecture Recommended [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 1, 2026 Joseph Heitman, M.D., Ph.D. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine Epimutations Evoke Transient, Inheritable Antimicrobial Drug Resistance The Detlev W. Bronk Alumni Lecture Recommended Readings: Calo, [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, April 17, 2026 Mark Anderson, M.D., Ph.D. A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Robert B. Friend and Michelle M. Friend Professor of Diabetes Research, Director, UCSF Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco Unlocking Autoimmunity: From the [...]
