Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 27, 2026 Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz, Ph.D. Bren Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology Deciphering Early Mammalian Development Using Stem Cell-Based Models Recommended Readings: Lamba, Adiyant, et al. "Asynchronous mouse embryo polarization leads to heterogeneity in cell fate [...]
Evnin Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Tuesday, March 31, 2026 Vincent Tagliabracci, Ph.D. Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Michael L. Rosenberg Scholar in Medical Research, UT Southwestern Medical Center Expanding the Kinome Recommended Readings: Tatge, Lexus, et al. "Silencing lipid catabolism [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 20, 2026 Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D. Sterling Professor of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Tissue Biology: Cell Interactions, Homeostasis, and Inflammation The Jerry A. Weisbach Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Erickson, S., et al. "Environmentally driven immune imprinting [...]
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 [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 13, 2026 Leonard Zon, M.D. Director of the Stem Cell Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Grousbeck Professor of Pediatric Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stem Cell Clonality and the Niche [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 6, 2026 Sebastian Lourido, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, Whitehead Institute Parasite Persistence, Resilience, and Innovation The Ernst A. H. Friedheim Memorial Lecture and WRR Sponsored Lecture Recommended Readings: Male, Frances, et al. "Perforation of [...]
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 [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 27, 2026 Gabriel Victora, Ph.D. Laurie and Peter Grauer Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Replaying Germinal Center Evolution Graduate Student Recruitment Lecture Recommended Readings: Ralph, Duncan K., et [...]
