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Do I Know You? From Face Perception to Individual Recognition

| CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)
Academic Lectures, Thesis Presentations
Sofia Landi, graduate fellow, Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University

The 18th Annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences

| CASPARY AUDITORIUM
Academic Lectures, Friday Lecture Series
Svante Pääbo, Ph.D., director, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
David Reich, Ph.D., professor, department of genetics, Harvard Medical School; associate member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Memorial Sloan Kettering Innovations in Brain Tumor Management

| AUDITORIUM, ROCKEFELLER RESEARCH LABORATORIES, MSKCC, 430 E. 67TH ST.
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), Other Tri-Institutional Events
Day Two: Living with a Brain Tumor
Elena Pentsova, M.D., course director; associate director, neuro-oncology fellowship program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Dietary Control of Intestinal Stem Cells in Physiology and Disease

| 105 ZRC, MSKCC, 417 E. 68TH ST.
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), Cell Biology Seminars
Omer Yilmaz, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Geometric Principles of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Second Messengers in Dendritic Spines

| A LEVEL PHYSICS SEMINAR ROOM, ROOM A30, SMITH HALL ANNEX (CRC)
Seminars, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology Seminars
Padmini Rangamani, Ph.D., associate professor, University of California, San Diego

Global Analysis of Proteolysis in Cancer and Infectious Disease

| 105 ZRC, MSKCC, 417 E. 68TH ST.
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry Program
Charles Carik, Ph.D., co-director, chemistry and chemical biology graduate program, department of pharmaceutical chemistry, University of California, San Francisco

CBPartners networking event

| 305 WRB
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), Other Tri-Institutional Events

Memorial Sloan Kettering Update on the Treatment of Pituitary Diseases: Emerging Therapies

| ZUCKERMAN AUDITORIUM, MSKCC, 417 E. 68TH ST.
Tri-Institutional Events (at MSK & WCM), Other Tri-Institutional Events
Continuing Medical Education Course
Viviane Tabar, M.D., course director; chair, department of neurosurgery, Theresa Feng Chair in Neurosurgical Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Eliza B. Geer, M.D., course director; medical director, pituitary and skull base tumor center, associate attending, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Marc A. Cohen, M.D., MPH, course director; surgical director, pituitary and skull base tumor center, associate attending, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Nucleolar Assembly of the Small Ribosomal Subunit

| CASPARY AUDITORIUM
Academic Lectures, Friday Lecture Series
Sebastian Klinge, Ph.D., assistant professor and head, Laboratory of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, The Rockefeller University

Regulation of Protein Degradation by ADP-ribosylation

| CASPARY AUDITORIUM
Academic Lectures, Thesis Presentations
Yetis Gultekin, graduate fellow, Strang Laboratory of Apoptosis and Cancer Biology, The Rockefeller University

Tri-Institutional Calendars

The close proximity among the three institutions which comprise the Tri-I has led to a culture that encourages interinstitutional interactions and shared resources, including access to lectures and seminars from internationally renowned scientists and clinicians:

Upcoming Events

Pre-Seminar Coffee and Cookies

| LOWER LEVEL GREENBERG BUILDING (CRC)

Some Observations on How AlphaFold Predicts, and Learns to Predict, Protein Structures.

| CARSON FAMILY AUDITORIUM (CRC)

Winter Chamber Concert

| CASPARY AUDITORIUM
Winter Chamber Concert Featuring Rockefeller Student-Musicians
Doors open at 6:30pm, concert at 7pm. Works by Schubert, Popper, Gaubert, and Brahms. Free Admission!

News

Intriguing science discoveries of 2025

Across fields as diverse as evolution, mechanobiology, and antibiotic discovery, here are some of the intriguing discoveries that came out of Rockefeller in 2025.

This new, one-two punch could knock out drug-resistant TB

Researchers found that pairing the antibiotic rifampicin with a second compound turned multidrug resistance into a weakness—providing proof of concept for using basic science to design life-saving dual-drug strategies.

Hess Center for Research on Women’s Health and Biomedicine holds its inaugural symposium

Covering topics from osteoarthritis to neurodevelopment, the inaugural symposium of the Marlene Hess Center showcased research that illuminates how biological sex shapes health and disease.

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