Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 21, 2025 Charles Zuker, Ph.D. Principal Investigator, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute; Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics and Neuroscience, Columbia University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Body-Brain Axis Recommended Readings: Canovas, Jose A., et al. "A brain center [...]
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 [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 14, 2025 Olle Kämpe, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Endocrinology, Karolinska Institutet Understanding Autoimmunity Using Human Model Disorders The Nicholson Lecture Recommended Readings: Hirschberg, A. L., et al. "O-215 Immunomodulatory therapy can restore fertility in women with autoimmune premature ovarian insufficiency–a proof [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 7, 2025 Itai Yanai, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine Mechanisms of Cellular Plasticity and Adaptive Gene Regulation Recommended Readings: Hunter, Miranda V., et al. "Mechanical confinement governs [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 24, 2025 Dan Littman, M.D., Ph.D. Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology, Department of Pathology and Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute T Cell Homeostasis in Response to Food [...]
Evnin Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Tuesday, November 11, 2025 Polly Fordyce, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics and ChEM-H Institute Fellow, Stanford University Microfluidics for Quantitative and High-Throughput Biophysics and Biochemistry Recommended Readings: Yang, Zijian, et al. "Continuous FACS Sorting of Double [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 3, 2025 Jean-Laurent Casanova, M.D., Ph.D. Levy Family Professor, Senior Attending Physician, and Head of the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases Recommended Readings: Langlois, Ryan [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 17, 2025 Robert Fernandez, Ph.D. Co-founder and Executive Director, Científico Latino Building Pathways Towards Equitable Graduate School Admissions and STEM Careers The Annual Marie M. Daly Lecture Recommended Readings: Tornini, Valerie A., et al. "DEI infrastructures required for the best science [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 10, 2025 Kristy Red-Horse, Ph.D. Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, Director of Graduate Studies for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Dissecting Cross-species Anatomical Divergence with [...]
