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 [...]
Evnin Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Tuesday, November 17, 2026 Radhika Subramanian, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School A GLI-ful Journey through the Primary Cilium Recommended Readings: Haque, Farah, et al. "How the non-motile kinesin KIF7 [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 23, 2026 Gerald Rubin, Ph.D. Head of Biology, Senior Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Discovering Molecular Machines within Neurons The Richard M. Furlaud Distinguished Lecture Recommended Readings: Berg, Stuart, et al. "Sexual dimorphism in the complete Drosophila [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 6, 2026 Julie Segre, Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Mary Sue Coleman Director, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan Human Skin Microbiome: Finding Friends Amongst the Foes Recommended Readings: Merrill, Eric Dean, et al. "The fungal pathogen Candida auris [...]
Evnin Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Tuesday, October 27, 2026 James Fraser, Ph.D. Department Chair and Professor, Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco Statistical Structural Biology Recommended Readings: Xu, Xinyu, et al. "Development of a random background to understand ligand optimization." Nature (2026): 1-9. Orta, [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 16, 2026 Shai Shaham, Ph.D. Richard E. Salomon Family Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, The Rockefeller University How C. elegans Nose Glia Smell Trouble Recommended Readings: Liu, Simin, et al. "C. elegans CEH-43/DLX drives convergent astrocyte differentiation by [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 9, 2026 E. Katya Vinogradova, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chemical Immunology and Proteomics, The Rockefeller University Chemical Proteomics to Define and Target Functional Proteoforms in Immunity Recommended Readings: Plucińska, Kaja, et al. "Cell-type-specific proximity labeling of organ [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 2, 2026 Hironori Funabiki, Ph.D. Tri-Institutional Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chromosome and Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University RNA on Mitotic Chromosomes: Peculiar Regulation of Centromeres for Faithful Chromosome Segregation Recommended Readings: Shih, Rochelle M., et al. "Impacts of DNA [...]
ReproducibiliTea Journal Club We are excited to announce the revival of the ReproducibiliTea Journal Club, focused on open science, academic publishing, the reproducibility crisis, and responsible research practices. ReproducibiliTea is a grassroots movement aimed at improving the transparency and reproducibility of scientific research. This initiative aims to foster discussions and promote awareness around these critical [...]
