Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, March 9, 2026 Nathaniel Heintz, Ph.D. James and Marilyn Simons Professor, Director, Fischer Center for Alzheimer’s Research and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Molecular Insights into the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, March 16, 2026 Michael Rout, Ph.D. George and Ruby deStevens Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University A Tour of the Pore: Structural and Functional Mapping of the Nuclear Pore Complex Recommended Readings: Singh, Digvijay, [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, March 23, 2026 Michel Nussenzweig, M.D., Ph.D. Senior Physician, Zanvil A. Cohn and Ralph M. Steinman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute How the Immune System Maintains Antibody Diversity While Developing High Affinity Responses Recommended [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, March 2, 2026 Svetlana Mojsov, Ph.D. Lulu Chow Wang and Robin Chemers Neustein Research Associate Professor, The Rockefeller University GLP-1: From a Putative Peptide to Effective Medicines for Diabetes and Obesity Recommended Readings: Mojsov, Svetlana. "Discovery of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 and Its Biological [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, April 20, 2026 Cori Bargmann, Ph.D. Vice President for Academic Affairs and Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and Head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, The Rockefeller University How Serotonin Organizes Behaviors Across Timescales Recommended Readings: Feng, Likui, [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, December 8, 2025 Ali Brivanlou, Ph.D. Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Synthetic Embryology, The Rockefeller University Self-Organization and Symmetry Breaking in Human Embryo and Models Recommended Readings: De Santis, Riccardo, et al. "Crosstalk between tissue mechanics and [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, December 15, 2025 Charles Gilbert, M.D., Ph.D. Arthur and Janet Ross Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University Brain Dynamics Recommended Readings: Altavini, Tiago S., et al. "Expectation-dependent stimulus selectivity in the ventral visual cortical pathway." Proceedings of the [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, December 1, 2025 Erich Jarvis, Ph.D. Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Enhancing Brain Circuits for Vocal Communication Recommended Readings: Lee, Chul, et al. "Amino acid patterns in independent lineages of [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 24, 2025 Theodora Hatziioannou, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor, Laboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller University Virus vs Host: An Evolutionary Chess Match Recommended Readings: Wiatr, Marie, et al. "Memory B cell Development in Response to mRNA SARS-CoV-2 and Nanoparticle Immunization in Mice." [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 17, 2025 Seth Darst, Ph.D. Jack Fishman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University Visualizing the Bacterial Transcription Cycle in Action Recommended Readings: Brewer, Joshua, et al. "Structural basis for loading of Transcription Repair-Coupling factor Mfd onto [...]
