Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 8, 2026 William Kaelin, M.D. Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute The von Hippel-Lindau Hereditary Cancer Syndrome: Insights into Cancer, Oxygen Sensing, and Drugging the Undruggable The Annual Cancer Biology Lecture Recommended [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 1, 2026 Joseph Heitman, M.D., Ph.D. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine Epimutations Evoke Transient, Inheritable Antimicrobial Drug Resistance The Detlev W. Bronk Alumni Lecture Recommended Readings: Calo, [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, April 17, 2026 Mark Anderson, M.D., Ph.D. A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Robert B. Friend and Michelle M. Friend Professor of Diabetes Research, Director, UCSF Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco Unlocking Autoimmunity: From the [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, April 13, 2026 Thomas Sakmar, M.D. Senior Physician and Richard M. and Isabel P. Furlaud Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Signal Transduction, The Rockefeller University Multiplexed Proteomics Approaches to Study GPCRs Recommended Readings: Bendes, Annika, et al. "Highly [...]
Evnin Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Tuesday, May 5, 2026 Bryan Dickinson, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago Harnessing In Vivo Evolution to Decode and Control Molecular Recognition Recommended Readings: Yang, Jingzhou, Eddy Pineda, and Bryan C. Dickinson. "Toward universal binder discovery: [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, April 6, 2026 Jeanne Garbarino, Ph.D. Executive Director, RockEDU Science Outreach, The Rockefeller University What It Takes to Persist in STEM: Over a Decade of Evidence from RockEDU Recommended Readings: Graham, Mark J., et al. "Increasing persistence of college students in STEM." Science [...]
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 [...]
