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): [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, December 5, 2025 Helen Hobbs, M.D. Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute From Ancestry to Biochemistry in Steatotic Liver Disease The Joshua Lederberg Distinguished Lecture in Molecular Genetics Recommended Readings: [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 21, 2025 Charles Zuker, Ph.D. Principal Investigator, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute; Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics and Neuroscience, Columbia University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Body-Brain Axis Recommended Readings: Canovas, Jose A., et al. "A brain center [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 14, 2025 Olle Kämpe, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Endocrinology, Karolinska Institutet Understanding Autoimmunity Using Human Model Disorders The Nicholson Lecture Recommended Readings: Hirschberg, A. L., et al. "O-215 Immunomodulatory therapy can restore fertility in women with autoimmune premature ovarian insufficiency–a proof [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 7, 2025 Itai Yanai, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine Mechanisms of Cellular Plasticity and Adaptive Gene Regulation Recommended Readings: Hunter, Miranda V., et al. "Mechanical confinement governs [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 24, 2025 Dan Littman, M.D., Ph.D. Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology, Department of Pathology and Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute T Cell Homeostasis in Response to Food [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 17, 2025 Robert Fernandez, Ph.D. Co-founder and Executive Director, Científico Latino Building Pathways Towards Equitable Graduate School Admissions and STEM Careers The Annual Marie M. Daly Lecture Recommended Readings: Tornini, Valerie A., et al. "DEI infrastructures required for the best science [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
