Friday Lectures

Recommended Readings: Kristy Red-Horse, Ph.D., October 10, 2025

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Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 10, 2025 Kristy Red-Horse, Ph.D. Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, Director of Graduate Studies for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute   Dissecting Cross-species Anatomical Divergence with [...]

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Recommended Readings: Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., D.H., September 26, 2025

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Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, September 26, 2025 Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., D.H. Chen Professor, Departments of Bioengineering, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute   Brain-wide Screening for Evolutionarily-conserved Dynamical Principles The Student Sponsored Lecture   Recommended Readings: Kauvar, Isaac, et al. "Conserved brain-wide [...]

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Recommended Readings: David Reich, Ph.D., September 19, 2025

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Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, September 19, 2025 David Reich, Ph.D. Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute     Ancient DNA as a Window into Human History and Biology The Fairfield Osborn Jr. Memorial Lecture   Recommended [...]

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Recommended Readings: Kivanç Birsoy, Ph.D., June 6, 2025

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Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, June 6, 2025 Kivanç Birsoy, Ph.D. Chapman Perelman Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics, The Rockefeller University     Crossing the Line: Nutrient Transport and Metabolic Homeostasis   Recommended Readings: Khan, Artem, et al. "Solute carriers: The gatekeepers [...]

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Recommended Readings: Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D., May 23, 2025

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Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 23, 2025 Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D. President, Institut Pasteur     Immunological Control of Host Physiology The Philip Levine Memorial Lecture   Recommended Readings: Gribonika, Inta, et al. "Skin autonomous antibody production regulates host–microbiota interactions." Nature 638.8052 (2025): 1043-1053. Bousbaine, Djenet, et al. "Discovery [...]

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Recommended Readings: Hao Wu, Ph.D., May 30, 2025

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Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 30, 2025 Hao Wu, Ph.D. Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital; Asa and Patricia Springer Professor, Harvard Medical School     Supramolecular Structures that Drive Innate Immunity in Inflammation and Cancer   Recommended Readings: Fontana, Pietro, et al. [...]

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Recommended Readings: Kenneth Zaret, Ph.D., May 16, 2025

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Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 16, 2025 Kenneth Zaret, Ph.D. Joseph Leidy Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Director, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania     Overcoming Chromatin Barriers to Control Cell Fate   Recommended Readings: Barral, Amandine, and Kenneth S. [...]

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Recommended Readings: Nada Jabado, M.D., Ph.D., May 9, 2025

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Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 9, 2025 Nada Jabado, M.D., Ph.D. Pediatric Neuro-oncologist, Montreal Children’s Hospital; Professor of Pediatrics, McGill University    Histone 3 Mutations in Disease: "Every Amino Acid Matters" The Cancer Biology Lecture   Recommended Readings: Andrade, Augusto Faria, et al. "Immune landscape of oncohistone-mutant gliomas [...]

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Recommended Readings: Vishva Dixit, M.D., May 2, 2025

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Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 2, 2025 Vishva Dixit, M.D. Vice President and Senior Fellow, Physiological Chemistry, Research Biology, Genentech     Why So Many Ways To Die? The Maclyn McCarty Memorial Lecture   Recommended Readings: Pourmal, Sergei, et al. "Autoinhibition of dimeric NINJ1 prevents plasma membrane rupture." [...]

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Recommended Readings: Edward Holmes, Ph.D., FAA, April 11, 2025

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Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, April 11, 2025 Edward Holmes, Ph.D., FAA NHMRC Leadership Fellow, Professor of Virology, The University of Sydney     Redefining Virus Evolution and Emergence Using Metatranscriptomics The Ernst A. H. Friedheim Memorial Lecture   Recommended Readings: Liu, Shuqi, et al. "Meta-transcriptomic sequencing reveals divergent [...]

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