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Wednesday, March 11 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Carson Family Auditorium (CRC)

Host Cell Defense Against Infection: Viewing Immunity at the Nanoscale

Seminars in Clinical Research

John D. MacMicking, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Microbial Pathogenesis & Immunobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Yale University School of Medicine

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Wednesday, March 11 | 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Carson Family Auditorium (CRC)

Cell Biology Course

Graduate Class

Barry Coller, M.D., David Rockefeller Professor, Physician in Chief, Vice President for Medical Affairs, Allen and Frances Adler Laboratory of Blood and Vascular Biology, The Rockefeller University

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Thursday, March 12 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Webinar

Understanding NIH's Policy for Making Articles Publicly Accessible

Other Lectures and Symposia

Carly Robinson, Ph.D., Senior Policy Fellow , SPARC

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Friday, March 13 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Caspary Auditorium

Stem Cell Clonality and the Niche

Friday Lecture Series

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

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Monday, March 16 | 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Caspary Auditorium

Colorectal cancers with distinct metastatic potential trigger divergent early T cell responses

Thesis Presentations

Marwa Saad, Graduate fellow, Mucida Laboratory

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Learning in a complex and high dimensional environment

March 19, 2026

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)

Neuroscience Seminar Series

Ilana Witten, Ph.D., Professor Role Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University

Rewriting the Chapter on Cystic Fibrosis

March 19, 2026

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM | CASPARY AUDITORIUM

Harvey Society

Michael Welsh, M.D., professor, department of internal medicine, University of Iowa; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Dining in the dark: ATP sensing in the female Aedes aegypti mosquito

March 20, 2026

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | CASPARY AUDITORIUM

Thesis Presentations

K. Adriana Rosas Villegas, graduate fellow, Vosshall Lab, The Rockefeller University

Tissue Biology: Cell Interactions, Homeostasis, and Inflammation

March 20, 2026

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | CASPARY AUDITORIUM

Friday Lecture Series

Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Specialized attachments of neuronal cilia to glia and the extracellular matrix

March 23, 2026

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM | 110 RRB

Other Seminars

Max Heiman, associate professor and Samuel A. Latt Chair in Genetics and Genomics, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital

Molecular and Cellular Regulation of Inflammation

March 23, 2026

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | ZUCKERMAN AUDITORIUM, MSKCC, 417 E. 68TH ST.

Immunology Program

Ivan Zanoni, Ph.D., Boston Children’s Hospital Associate Professor in the Field of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital

Uncovering new mechanisms of type III CRISPR inhibition and effector function

March 23, 2026

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | CASPARY AUDITORIUM

Thesis Presentations

Clare Cahir, graduate fellow, Marraffini Lab, The Rockefeller University

How the Immune System Maintains Antibody Diversity While Developing High Affinity Responses

March 23, 2026

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)

Monday Lecture Series

Michel Nussenzweig, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Physician, Zanvil A. Cohn and Ralph M. Steinman Professor and head, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The Formula for Better Health: Meet the Author

March 25, 2026

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)

Seminars in Clinical Research

Tom Frieden, M.D., President and CEO, Resolve to Save Lives, Inc.

Cell Biology Course

March 25, 2026

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM | CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)

Graduate Class

Robert H. Singer, Ph.D., Harold and Muriel Block Chair of Anatomy of Structural Biology, Professor of Cell Biology and Professor of Neuroscience, Co-Director of the Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center, and Senior Fellow of the Janelia Farm Research Campus of HHMI, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Academic Lectures and Symposia

A rich program of lectures and seminars featuring internal and external speakers help Rockefeller scientists keep abreast of their colleagues’ work and forge fruitful interdisciplinary collaborations.