Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 6, 2026 Julie Segre, Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Mary Sue Coleman Director, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan Human Skin Microbiome: Finding Friends Amongst the Foes Recommended Readings: Merrill, Eric Dean, et al. "The fungal pathogen Candida auris [...]
Evnin Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Tuesday, October 27, 2026 James Fraser, Ph.D. Department Chair and Professor, Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco Statistical Structural Biology Recommended Readings: Xu, Xinyu, et al. "Development of a random background to understand ligand optimization." Nature (2026): 1-9. Orta, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
