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 [...]
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, April 20, 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, [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 16, 2026 Lisa Giocomo, Ph.D. Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Adapting the Structure of Spatial Maps Recommended Readings: Attinger, Alexander, et al. "Environmental Novelty Modulates Rapid Cortical Plasticity During Navigation." bioRxiv (2025): [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, December 8, 2025 Ali Brivanlou, Ph.D. Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Synthetic Embryology, The Rockefeller University Self-Organization and Symmetry Breaking in Human Embryo and Models Recommended Readings: De Santis, Riccardo, et al. "Crosstalk between tissue mechanics and [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, December 15, 2025 Charles Gilbert, M.D., Ph.D. Arthur and Janet Ross Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University Brain Dynamics Recommended Readings: Altavini, Tiago S., et al. "Expectation-dependent stimulus selectivity in the ventral visual cortical pathway." Proceedings of the [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, December 1, 2025 Erich Jarvis, Ph.D. Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Enhancing Brain Circuits for Vocal Communication Recommended Readings: Lee, Chul, et al. "Amino acid patterns in independent lineages of [...]
