Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, September 19, 2025 David Reich, Ph.D. Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Ancient DNA as a Window into Human History and Biology The Fairfield Osborn Jr. Memorial Lecture Recommended [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, September 8, 2025 Junyue Cao, Ph.D. Fisher Center Foundation Assistant Professor and head, Laboratory of Single-Cell Genomics and Population Dynamics, The Rockefeller University Decoding Cellular Dynamics Across Mammalian Aging Through Scalable Genomic Approaches Recommended Readings: Lu, Ziyu, et al. "Organism-wide cellular dynamics and [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, June 6, 2025 Kivanç Birsoy, Ph.D. Chapman Perelman Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics, The Rockefeller University Crossing the Line: Nutrient Transport and Metabolic Homeostasis Recommended Readings: Khan, Artem, et al. "Solute carriers: The gatekeepers [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 23, 2025 Yasmine Belkaid, Ph.D. President, Institut Pasteur Immunological Control of Host Physiology The Philip Levine Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Gribonika, Inta, et al. "Skin autonomous antibody production regulates host–microbiota interactions." Nature 638.8052 (2025): 1043-1053. Bousbaine, Djenet, et al. "Discovery [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 30, 2025 Hao Wu, Ph.D. Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital; Asa and Patricia Springer Professor, Harvard Medical School Supramolecular Structures that Drive Innate Immunity in Inflammation and Cancer Recommended Readings: Fontana, Pietro, et al. [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, May 19, 2025 Marcelo Magnasco, Ph.D. Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University The Dynamics of Recurrent Neural Networks: Traveling Waves, Short Term Memory, and Rapid Reconfiguration of Neural Circuits Recommended Readings: Magnasco, Marcelo O. "Input-driven circuit [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 16, 2025 Kenneth Zaret, Ph.D. Joseph Leidy Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Director, Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Overcoming Chromatin Barriers to Control Cell Fate Recommended Readings: Barral, Amandine, and Kenneth S. [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 9, 2025 Nada Jabado, M.D., Ph.D. Pediatric Neuro-oncologist, Montreal Children’s Hospital; Professor of Pediatrics, McGill University Histone 3 Mutations in Disease: "Every Amino Acid Matters" The Cancer Biology Lecture Recommended Readings: Andrade, Augusto Faria, et al. "Immune landscape of oncohistone-mutant gliomas [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, May 5, 2025 Paul Cohen, M.D., Ph.D. Albert Resnick, M.D. Associate Professor, Senior Attending Physician and Head of the Weslie R. and William H. Janeway Laboratory of Molecular Metabolism, The Rockefeller University Brown Fat in Health and Disease: From Clinical Phenotypes to Molecular Mechanisms [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, May 2, 2025 Vishva Dixit, M.D. Vice President and Senior Fellow, Physiological Chemistry, Research Biology, Genentech Why So Many Ways To Die? The Maclyn McCarty Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Pourmal, Sergei, et al. "Autoinhibition of dimeric NINJ1 prevents plasma membrane rupture." [...]
