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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 29, 2026 Cigall Kadoch, Ph.D. Professor and Meredith and Billy Starr Investigator, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School; Institute Member and Epigenomics Program Co-director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Structure and [...]
