Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 22, 2026 Charles Swanton, Ph.D., FRCP Deputy Clinical Director, The Francis Crick Institute Lung Cancer Promotion and Prevention: Myeloid Mayhem The Maclyn McCarty Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Winslow, Monte M., et al. "A Roadmap to Transform Lung Cancer Outcomes: Priorities in [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, May 4, 2026 Agata Smogorzewska, M.D., Ph.D. Skoler Horbach Family Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Genome Maintenance, The Rockefeller University Repairing the Crosslink: From Molecular Mechanism to Cancer Prevention Recommended Readings: Maxwell, Rochelle R., et al. "Tracking Cytopenias in FANCA-deficient Fanconi [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, May 11, 2026 Mary E. Hatten, Ph.D. Frederick P. Rose Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University The Cerebellum in Neurodevelopmental Disease Recommended Readings: Mätlik, Kärt, Eve-Ellen Govek, and Mary E. Hatten. "Histone bivalency in CNS development." Genes [...]
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 [...]
