Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 16, 2026 Michael Sixt, M.D. Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria Mechanics and Energetics of Leukocyte Locomotion The Ernst A. H. Friedheim Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Liu, Jiayi, et al. "Modelling chemotaxis of branched cells in complex environments provides insights [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 9, 2026 David Krakauer, Ph.D. President, William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems, Santa Fe Institute The Material Nature of Human Intelligence Recommended Readings: David C. Krakauer, Melanie Mitchell, John W. Krakauer. “Large language models and emergence: a complex systems perspective.” [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 2, 2026 Svante Pääbo, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology; Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Archaic Genomics The Fairfield Osborn Jr. Memorial Lecture and Postdoctoral Researchers’ Sponsored Friday Lecture Recommended Readings: Bossoms Mesa, Alba, et al. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
