Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, December 4, 2026 Martin Jonikas, Ph.D. Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Structure, Biogenesis, and Engineering of the Pyrenoid The Norton Zinder Lecture Recommended Readings: Burton, Micah I., et al. "SBE1 drives the circumferential growth of [...]
Evnin Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Tuesday, December 1, 2026 Abhishek Chatterjee, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemistry, Boston College Genetically Encoded Chemistries to Read and Write Biology Recommended Readings: Yared, Tarah J., et al. "Repurposing engineered aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases for proximity-dependent protein labeling through the [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, December 7, 2026 Daniel Kronauer, Ph.D. Stanley S. and Sydney R. Shuman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute How a Superorganism Generates Endogenous Rhythms Recommended Readings: Kronauer, Daniel JC. "The Biology of the [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 20, 2026 Sadaf Farooqi, Ph.D., FMedSci Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Honorary Consultant Physician, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge University Genetic and Neural Basis of Human Instinctive Behaviour The Joshua Lederberg Distinguished Lecture in Molecular Genetics Recommended Readings: Argente, Jesús, et [...]
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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, [...]
