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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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." [...]
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 [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, April 4, 2025 Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D. Sterling Professor of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Evolutionary Perspective on Health and Disease Recommended Readings: Wang, Andrew, Harding H. Luan, and Ruslan Medzhitov. "An evolutionary perspective on immunometabolism." Science 363.6423 [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 28, 2025 Stephen West, Ph.D., FMedSci Principal Group Leader, The Francis Crick Institute Maintaining our Genome:- It Takes Two to Tango The William H Stein Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Jiang, Huadong, et al. "BPS2025-Mechanosensory function of ANKLE1 endonuclease in [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 21, 2025 Bing Brunton, Ph.D. Professor and Richard and Joan Komen University Chair, Department of Biology, University of Washington Embodied Intelligence through Integrated Neuromechanical Models for Natural Behavior Recommended Readings: Boyacıoğlu, Burak, et al. "Neural-Inspired Measurement Observability." Journal of Guidance, Control, [...]
