Marlene Hess Center Events
Each year the Hess Center puts on an academic symposium for The Rockefeller University campus community. This event showcases the work completed by researchers using grants from the center.
2026:
The second annual Hess Center Symposium will take place this fall on October 21st at The Rockefeller University. The symposium will be open to all members of the Rockefeller University campus community. Please see the Rockefeller University calendar of events for more information.
Presentations:
| Title | Speaker |
| Increased Synovial Inflammation in Women with Osteoarthritis: Implications for Progenitor Loss and Inadequate Cartilage Repair | Dana Orange, MD MSc |
| Molecular Mechanism of Transcription-Coupled Chromatin Maintenance | Shixin Liu, PhD |
| Investigating DDX3X as a Sex-Specific Regulator of Brown Fat Thermogenesis | Lishu Yue |
| Evaluating Sex Differences in the Astrocyte and Microglia Proteome to Develop Targeted Therapies for Neuroinflammation | Charlotte Wayne, PhD |
| Understanding Phenotypic Sex Differences in Healthy Individuals and Disease Samples | Li Zhao, PhD |
| Unique Transcriptional Co-activator Dependency in Female Skeletal Muscle | Keiichi Ito, PhD |
| Investigating Sexual Dimorphism in Lymphoid Aggregates During Chronic Viral Liver Pathogenesis | Marian Nogueira Batista, PhD |
| Examining Mechanisms Contributing to the Fidelity of Meiosis in Women | Lily Yu, PhD |
| Autism as a Perceptual Disorder in Females | Will Snyder, MSc |
There will also be poster presentations by Pyonghwa Kim PhD, Nicolas Gomez-Banoy MD, Nicolas Svetec PhD, Sicong Zhang PhD, and Natalie Alexander.
2025:
On October 29th, 2025, the inaugural symposium was held in the Carson Family Auditorium at The Rockefeller University. The symposium featured nine presentations and eight posters highlighting the work of our grantees.
To learn more about the 2025 inaugural symposium, please click here.
Past Symposium Photos
