Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, March 23, 2026 Michel Nussenzweig, M.D., Ph.D. Senior Physician, Zanvil A. Cohn and Ralph M. Steinman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute How the Immune System Maintains Antibody Diversity While Developing High Affinity Responses Recommended [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 13, 2026 Leonard Zon, M.D. Director of the Stem Cell Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Grousbeck Professor of Pediatric Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stem Cell Clonality and the Niche [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, March 6, 2026 Sebastian Lourido, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, Whitehead Institute Parasite Persistence, Resilience, and Innovation The Ernst A. H. Friedheim Memorial Lecture and WRR Sponsored Lecture Recommended Readings: Male, Frances, et al. "Perforation of [...]
Schedule of Workshops and Trainings 2025-26 9/23/2025: General Library Orientation (Rie Goto) - Recording here 10/21/2025: Updates to NIH Publishing Requirements (Matthew Covey and Dave Hansen) - Recording here 11/13/2025: Thesis Writing (Claire Warner and Rie Goto) - Recording here 11/18/2025: LaTeX and Overleaf (Claire Warner) 11/20/2025: R3 Seminar: Why Publish Negative Data? (Timothy Fessenden) [...]
Hybrid Monday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller community) Monday, March 2, 2026 Svetlana Mojsov, Ph.D. Lulu Chow Wang and Robin Chemers Neustein Research Associate Professor, The Rockefeller University GLP-1: From a Putative Peptide to Effective Medicines for Diabetes and Obesity Recommended Readings: Mojsov, Svetlana. "Discovery of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 and Its Biological [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 27, 2026 Gabriel Victora, Ph.D. Laurie and Peter Grauer Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Replaying Germinal Center Evolution Graduate Student Recruitment Lecture Recommended Readings: Ralph, Duncan K., et [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 20, 2026 Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D. Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and Head of the Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Memories: Are They Just for the Brain? Graduate Student Recruitment Lecture [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 13, 2026 David Ginty, Ph.D. Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology and Head of the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Making Sense of Touch Recommended Readings: Santiago, Celine, et al. "Activity-dependent [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, February 6, 2026 David Julius, Ph.D. Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine, Professor, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco Structural Energetics of Cold Sensitivity The William H. Stein Memorial Lecture Recommended Readings: Choi, Kevin Y., et al. "The [...]
Friday Lecture Series (open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities) Friday, January 30, 2026 Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Ph.D. Dennis Cunningham Professor, Professor of Biology and of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Shining Light on Bacterial Physiology and Host Defenses The Norton Zinder Lecture Recommended Readings: Thappeta, Y., Cañas-Duarte, S.J., [...]
