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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
