Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 16, 2026 Shai Shaham, Ph.D. Richard E. Salomon Family Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, The Rockefeller University How C. elegans Nose Glia Smell Trouble Recommended Readings: Liu, Simin, et al. "C. elegans CEH-43/DLX drives convergent astrocyte differentiation by [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 9, 2026 E. Katya Vinogradova, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chemical Immunology and Proteomics, The Rockefeller University Chemical Proteomics to Define and Target Functional Proteoforms in Immunity Recommended Readings: Plucińska, Kaja, et al. "Cell-type-specific proximity labeling of organ [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 2, 2026 Hironori Funabiki, Ph.D. Tri-Institutional Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chromosome and Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University RNA on Mitotic Chromosomes: Peculiar Regulation of Centromeres for Faithful Chromosome Segregation Recommended Readings: Shih, Rochelle M., et al. "Impacts of DNA [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, October 19, 2026 Li Zhao, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics, The Rockefeller University Born from Scratch: The Origin and Evolution of De Novo Genes and Proteins Recommended Readings: Li, Cong, et al. "Regulatory divergence and [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, September 28, 2026 Jeffrey Friedman, M.D., Ph.D. Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Leptin: From the Regulation of Feeding to the Response to Cancer Recommended Readings: Sainsbury, Amanda, Gregory [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, May 4, 2026 Agata Smogorzewska, M.D., Ph.D. Skoler Horbach Family Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Genome Maintenance, The Rockefeller University Repairing the Crosslink: From Molecular Mechanism to Cancer Prevention Recommended Readings: Maxwell, Rochelle R., et al. "Tracking Cytopenias in FANCA-deficient Fanconi [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, May 11, 2026 Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D. Frederick P. Rose Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University The Cerebellum in Neurodevelopmental Disease Recommended Readings: Mätlik, Kärt, Eve-Ellen Govek, and Mary E. Hatten. "Histone bivalency in CNS development." Genes [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, April 13, 2026 Thomas Sakmar, M.D. Senior Physician and Richard M. and Isabel P. Furlaud Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Signal Transduction, The Rockefeller University Multiplexed Proteomics Approaches to Study GPCRs Recommended Readings: Bendes, Annika, et al. "Highly [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, April 6, 2026 Jeanne Garbarino, Ph.D. Executive Director, RockEDU Science Outreach, The Rockefeller University What It Takes to Persist in STEM: Over a Decade of Evidence from RockEDU Recommended Readings: Graham, Mark J., et al. "Increasing persistence of college students in STEM." Science [...]
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 [...]
