Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 14, 2025 Olle Kämpe, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Endocrinology, Karolinska Institutet Understanding Autoimmunity Using Human Model Disorders The Nicholson Lecture Recommended Readings: Hirschberg, A. L., et al. "O-215 Immunomodulatory therapy can restore fertility in women with autoimmune premature ovarian insufficiency–a proof [...]
Program Overview Matt Covey, our University Librarian, will review recent updates to NIH publishing and public access requirements, including compliance expectations for investigators and research staff. Our guest speaker, Dave Hansen, Executive Director of Authors Alliance (please see his bio below), will discuss authors’ rights in the evolving Open Access environment, including tools and resources available to you, and techniques to negotiate [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, November 7, 2025 Itai Yanai, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Institute for Systems Genetics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine Mechanisms of Cellular Plasticity and Adaptive Gene Regulation Recommended Readings: Hunter, Miranda V., et al. "Mechanical confinement governs [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, October 24, 2025 Dan Littman, M.D., Ph.D. Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology, Department of Pathology and Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute T Cell Homeostasis in Response to Food [...]
Evnin Chemical & Structural Biology Seminar Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Tuesday, November 11, 2025 Polly Fordyce, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics and ChEM-H Institute Fellow, Stanford University Microfluidics for Quantitative and High-Throughput Biophysics and Biochemistry Recommended Readings: Yang, Zijian, et al. "Continuous FACS Sorting of Double [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, November 3, 2025 Jean-Laurent Casanova, M.D., Ph.D. Levy Family Professor, Senior Attending Physician, and Head of the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases Recommended Readings: Langlois, Ryan [...]
René Dubos: An Annotated Bibliography Compiled by: Carol L. Moberg René Dubos (1901–1982), a prominent 20th century scientist, humanist, and philosopher, was a prolific author. Affiliated for more than 50 years with The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research/The Rockefeller University, his studies ranged from antibiotics and the role of bacteria in human diseases to formulating [...]
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 [...]
