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 [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, September 29, 2025 Sohail Tavazoie, M.D., Ph.D. Leon Hess Professor, Senior Attending Physician, and Head of the Elizabeth and Vincent Meyer Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology, The Rockefeller University Metastasis as a Heritable Disease Shaped by our Infectious Evolutionary History and Nervous System [...]
Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Tuesday, October 14, 2025 Bronwyn Lucas, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology; Center for Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley Towards Single Molecule Structural Cell Biology with Cryo-EM Recommended Readings: Giammar, Matthew David, et al. "Leopard-EM: An [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, September 26, 2025 Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D., D.H. Chen Professor, Departments of Bioengineering, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Brain-wide Screening for Evolutionarily-conserved Dynamical Principles The Student Sponsored Lecture Recommended Readings: Kauvar, Isaac, et al. "Conserved brain-wide [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, September 19, 2025 David Reich, Ph.D. Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Ancient DNA as a Window into Human History and Biology The Fairfield Osborn Jr. Memorial Lecture Recommended [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, September 8, 2025 Junyue Cao, Ph.D. Fisher Center Foundation Assistant Professor and head, Laboratory of Single-Cell Genomics and Population Dynamics, The Rockefeller University Decoding Cellular Dynamics Across Mammalian Aging Through Scalable Genomic Approaches Recommended Readings: Lu, Ziyu, et al. "Organism-wide cellular dynamics and [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, June 6, 2025 Kivanç Birsoy, Ph.D. Chapman Perelman Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics, The Rockefeller University Crossing the Line: Nutrient Transport and Metabolic Homeostasis Recommended Readings: Khan, Artem, et al. "Solute carriers: The gatekeepers [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 23, 2025 Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D. President, Institut Pasteur Immunological Control of Host Physiology The Philip Levine Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Gribonika, Inta, et al. "Skin autonomous antibody production regulates host–microbiota interactions." Nature 638.8052 (2025): 1043-1053. Bousbaine, Djenet, et al. "Discovery [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 30, 2025 Hao Wu, Ph.D. Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital; Asa and Patricia Springer Professor, Harvard Medical School Supramolecular Structures that Drive Innate Immunity in Inflammation and Cancer Recommended Readings: Fontana, Pietro, et al. [...]
