Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 6, 2026 Sebastian Lourido, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, Whitehead Institute Parasite Persistence, Resilience, and Innovation The Ernst A. H. Friedheim Memorial Lecture and WRR Sponsored Lecture Recommended Readings: Male, Frances, et al. "Perforation of [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 27, 2026 Gabriel Victora, Ph.D. Laurie and Peter Grauer Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Replaying Germinal Center Evolution Graduate Student Recruitment Lecture Recommended Readings: Ralph, Duncan K., et [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 20, 2026 Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D. Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and Head of the Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Memories: Are They Just for the Brain? Graduate Student Recruitment Lecture [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 13, 2026 David Ginty, Ph.D. Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology and Head of the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Making Sense of Touch Recommended Readings: Santiago, Celine, et al. "Activity-dependent [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 6, 2026 David Julius, Ph.D. Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine, Professor, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco Structural Energetics of Cold Sensitivity The William H. Stein Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Choi, Kevin Y., et al. "The [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 30, 2026 Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Ph.D. Dennis Cunningham Professor, Professor of Biology and of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Shining Light on Bacterial Physiology and Host Defenses The Norton Zinder Lecture Recommended Readings: Thappeta, Y., Cañas-Duarte, S.J., [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 23, 2026 Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D. Scientific Director, Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine; Scientific Director, Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology (Allen-CZI-UW); Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Molecular Recording of Mammalian Development The Richard M. [...]
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: [...]
