Wednesday, April 1, 2026
12:00 p.m.   Seminars in Clinical Research
HIV Reservoir Dynamics: A Path to Elimination Strategies and Cure

Mathias D. Lichterfeld, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School

 Thursday, April 2, 2026
2:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Investigating Primary Motor Cortex Involvement in Mouse Vocal Communication

Elena Waidmann, graduate fellow, Jarvis Lab, The Rockefeller University

3:00 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Spatial Landscaping of Stem Cell Niche Crosstalk in Barrier Tissues

Marina Schernthanner, graduate fellow, Fuchs Lab, The Rockefeller University

 Monday, April 6, 2026
1:30 p.m.   Immunology Program
Shaped by Survival: Natural Selection and Immune Variation Across Populations

Luis Barreiro, Ph.D., professor, department of genetic medicine, The University of Chicago

4:00 p.m.   Other Seminars
What It Takes to Persist in STEM: Over a Decade of Evidence from RockEDU

Jeanne Garbarino, Ph.D., executive director, RockEDU Science Outreach, The Rockefeller University

 Tuesday, April 7, 2026
2:00 p.m.   Other Community Events
RiSI Mental Health Break—Rockefeller Together Week
4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Disentangling the Roles of Distinct Cell Classes with Cell-Type Dynamical Systems

Jonathan Pillow, Ph.D., professor, Princeton University

 Wednesday, April 8, 2026
12:00 p.m.   Seminars in Clinical Research
Title TBA
1:15 p.m.   Other Meetings
NYC Genome Integrity Meeting
2:00 p.m.   Graduate Class
Cell Biology Course
Metabolism

Kivanc Birsoy, Ph.D., Joseph L. Goldstein Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics, The Rockefeller University

 Thursday, April 9, 2026
1:30 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
Decoding the Logic of Compartmentalized Cellular Metabolism

Yuyang Liu, graduate fellow, Birsoy Lab, The Rockefeller University

2:00 p.m.   Developmental Biology Program
The Regeneration of Tissue Pattern

Peter Reddien, Ph.D., professor, Whitehead Institute

2:00 p.m.   University Life and Community Engagement
Keynote Lecture

Amy Cheng Vollmer, Ph.D., executive director, Experimental Science Now; Isaac H. Clothier, Jr. Professor Emerita of Biology, Swarthmore College

 Friday, April 10, 2026
3:30 p.m.   Friday Lecture Series
The 24th Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
The Dawn of Connectomics

John White, Ph.D., emeritus professor of anatomy and molecular biology, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Gerald Rubin, Ph.D., senior group leader, HHMI Janelia Research Campus

Mala Murthy, Ph.D., director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the Karol and Marnie Marcin '96 Professor of Neuroscience, Princeton University

Sebastian Seung, Ph.D., Anthony B. Evnin Professor in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Computer Science, Princeton University

 Monday, April 13, 2026
10:00 a.m.   Other Seminars
Dengue Virus Antigenicity, Pathogenesis and Cell Entry Mechanism

Sheemei Lok, Ph.D., provost chair professor, Duke-NUS Medical School

4:00 p.m.   Monday Lecture Series
Multiplexed Proteomics Approaches to Study GPCRs

Thomas Sakmar, M.D., Senior Physician and Richard M. and Isabel P. Furlaud Professor and head, Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Signal Transduction, The Rockefeller University

 Wednesday, April 15, 2026
10:30 a.m.   Computational Systems and Biology Program
Improving Genomic Deep Learning with Perturbation Data

Peter Koo, Ph.D., associate professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

12:00 p.m.   Seminars in Clinical Research
Title TBA
2:00 p.m.   Graduate Class
Cell Biology Course
Spatial control of protein degradation

Judith Frydman, Ph.D., Donald Kennedy Chair in Humanities and Sciences, Professor in the Departments of Biology and Genetics, Stanford University

 Thursday, April 16, 2026
10:00 a.m.   Other Seminars
BioStudies Database: A Resource For Sharing And Publishing Life Sciences Data

Ugis Sarkans, Ph.D., team leader, EMBL-EBI

12:00 p.m.   Neuroscience Seminar Series
Using (fly) Clock Neurons to Understand How the Brain Works

Justin Blau, Ph.D., professor of biology and neural science, New York University

8:00 p.m.   Harvey Society
The Cellular Transport System

Sam Reck-Peterson, Ph.D., chair, department of biochemistry and biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

 Friday, April 17, 2026
3:30 p.m.   Friday Lecture Series
Unlocking Autoimmunity: From the Rare to the Common
The 33rd Annual Henry Kunkel Society Lecture

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

 Monday, April 20, 2026
1:30 p.m.   Immunology Program
Innate Immune Programs Shaping Neurodegeneration

Marco Colonna, M.D., Robert Rock Belliveau, MD Professor of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine

4:00 p.m.   Monday Lecture Series
How Serotonin Organizes Behaviors Across Timescales

Cori Bargmann, Ph.D., Vice President for Academic Affairs and Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and head, Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, The Rockefeller University

 Tuesday, April 21, 2026
2:00 p.m.   Thesis Presentations
G1896A Mutation Modulates Hepatitis B Virus Revese Transcription Through Alteration in Precore RNA Function

Mengyin Zhang, graduate fellow, Rice Lab, The Rockefeller University

 Monday, April 27, 2026
1:30 p.m.   Immunology Program
Chemical Proteomic Approaches to Study and Modulate T cell Function

Katya Vinogradova, Ph.D., Head of Laboratory of Chemical Immunology and Proteomics, The Rockefeller University

 Tuesday, April 28, 2026
3:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Pre-Seminar Coffee Reception
4:00 p.m.   Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Multimodal Predictive Computations in Mice and Fish.

Johnatan Aljadeff, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of California, San Diego

 Wednesday, April 29, 2026
12:00 p.m.   Seminars in Clinical Research
Oxytocin: New Metabolic Roles for an Ancient Hormone
The Michael Lyons Memorial Lecture

Evan Rosen, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism; Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Harvard Medical School

2:00 p.m.   Graduate Class
Cell Biology Course
Stem Cells: Making, Repairing, and Maintaining Tissues

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

7:30 p.m.   The Peggy Rockefeller Concerts
Stefan Jackiw
Stefan Jackiw
 Friday, May 1, 2026
3:30 p.m.   Friday Lecture Series
Epimutations Evoke Transient, Inheritable Antimicrobial Drug Resistance
The Detlev W. Bronk Alumni Lecture

Joseph Heitman, M.D., Ph.D., James B. Duke Distinguished Professor and Chair, department of molecular genetics and microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine