Past Lectures

Prof. Alexander Rudensky

December 16, 2019

Keeping Order in the Immune System and Beyond

Keeping Order in the Immune System and Beyond

Prof Feng Zhang

November 6, 2019

Exploration of Microbial Diversity for Genome Editing and Beyond

Exploration of Microbial Diversity for Genome Editing and Beyond

Prof Daniel Douek

October 28, 2019

Host genetic factors that affect HIV acquisition and vaccine efficacy

Host genetic factors that affect HIV acquisition and vaccine efficacy

Prof Anthony Hyman

June 17, 2019

Phase separation in biochemistry and disease

Phase separation in biochemistry and disease

Prof. Jeffrey Friedman

May 27, 2019

Leptin and the Endocrine Control of Food Intake and Body Weight

Wolf Prize Laureate 2019
Rockefeller University
New York, USA

Prof. Jonathan Kagan

May 6, 2019

Regulation of Innate Immunity

Boston Children's Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Prof. Gregg Gundersen

April 15, 2019

Mechanical LINCages to the nucleus in cell polarity, migration and disease

Columbia University 

Medical Center

Prof. Roberto Kolter

March 11, 2019

Life at the edge of sight

Dept. of Microbiology and Immunobiology

Harvard Medical School 

Prof. Andrew J. Pollard

December 17, 2018

The ultimate model of Salmonella Typhi infection

Dept. of Paediatrics

University of Oxford, UK

Prof. Jan van Deursen

October 15, 2018

Senescent cells in health and disease

Mayo Clinic, Minnesota

Prof. Christopher Walsh

June 7, 2018

Single cell analysis of genomic mosaicism in human brain throughout the lifespan

HHMI

Prof. Hidde Ploegh

May 14, 2018

Imaging Immunity

Boston Children's Hospital

Prof. Bernardo Sabatini

April 16, 2018

Atypical circuitry and cells of the basal ganglia

Harvard University

Prof. Jeffrey W. Pollard

March 19, 2018

Macrophage Maleficence in Cancer

MRC Center for Reproductive Health

The University of Edinburgh 

Prof. Ronald Germain

December 4, 2017

Imaging Immunity - Using Advanced Optical Microscopy to Develop a Spatiotemporal Understanding of Host Defense

National Institutes of Health

Prof. David Mangelsdorf

November 13, 2017

The Secret Life of FGF21

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Prof. Oliver Hobert

October 23, 2017

Organizational principles of nervous system specification

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Prof. Rachel Green

September 18, 2017

Ribosome rescue and homeostasis in health and disease

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 

Prof. James Ferrell

September 11, 2017

Trigger waves in cellular regulation

Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Biochemistry
Stanford School of Medicine

Prof. Brian K. Shoichet

June 6, 2017

A chemo-evolutionary basis for polypharmacology

Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF

Li-Huei Tsai

April 3, 2017

Bringing gamma back: Using noninvasive sensory stimulation to modify Alzheimer’s disease

MIT, Cambridge

Prof. Christine Jacobs-Wagner

March 20, 2017

Cellular dynamics: From glassy cytoplasm to motor-free intracellular transport

Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
Microbial Pathogenesis Department, Yale School of Medicine
Howard Hughes Medical Institute 

Prof. Danny Reinberg

February 20, 2017

Epigenetics: One Genome, Multiple Phenotypes

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
NYU Langone School of Medicine at Smilow Research Center
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, New York

Dianne K. Newman

December 26, 2016

The importance of growing slowly: roles for redox-active “antibiotics” in microbial survival and development

Professor of Biology and Geobiology
California Institute of Technology
Depts. of Biology and Geological and Planetary Sciences
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Prof. Alexander Rudensky

December 12, 2016

Regulatory T Cells and Control of Inflammation

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Prof. Jared Rutter

November 14, 2016

Mitochondria, Metabolism and Cellular Decisions: Entwined in Health and Disease

Professor of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City

Mini Symposium for the Wolf Prize Winners

May 31, 2016

Joint Life Sciences & Chemistry Colloquium

Prof. Stuart Schreiber, Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University
"Chemistry towards novel mechanism-of-action (nMoA) compounds in therapeutics discovery"

Prof. Ronald Kahn, Harvard Medical School, USA
"New Mechanisms of Adipose Tissue Communication and Regulation of Metabolism"

Prof. Al Burlingame

April 11, 2016

O-GlcNAc Biology: the pursuit of substrates, modification sites and biological functions of a major post-translational signaling mechanism

Depts. of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF, San Francisco

Prof. Luca Scorrano

February 15, 2016

Keeping mitochondria in shape: a matter of life and death

Director, Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine,
Chair of Biochemistry, Dept. of Biology,
University of Padua, Italy

Prof. Dr. Matthias H. Tschop

January 18, 2016

Gastric bypass without the surgery? Re-inventing obesity therapy

Research Director, Helmholtz Diabetes Center
Director, Institute for Diabetes and Obesity
Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

Prof. Tyler Jacks

December 28, 2015

Modeling Cancer in the Mouse

Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Prof. Michael Katze

October 26, 2015

Systems Biology of infection and Immunity-Deadly Virus Infections in the 21st Century: Successes, Challenges, Ebola, and Networks to Nowhere?

Associate Director, Washington National Primate Research Center

Department of Microbiology,

University of Washington, USA

Prof. Hans Clevers

October 12, 2015

Lgr5 stem cell organoids and disease

Director Research of the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology

Hubrecht Institue, The Netherlands

Prof. Bruce Beutler, 2011 Nobel Prize recipient

September 7, 2015

Real-time identification of mutations that affect mammalian immunity

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Director, Center for the Genetics of Host Defense

Dallas, Texas, USA

Prof. Stephen Quake

June 15, 2015

Single Cell Genomics

Departments of Applied Physics and Bioengineering

Stanford University adn Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Stanford, USA

Prof. John Kappler, Winner of Wolf Prize in Medicine - 2015

June 1, 2015

Breaking through immunological tolerance

Winner of Wolf Prize in Medicine - 2015

Prof. Philippa Marrach, Winner of Wolf Prize in Medicine - 2015

June 1, 2015

An unexpected population of B cells that links infection and autoimmunity

National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado

Prof. Jeffrey Ravetch, Winner of Wolf Prize in Medicine - 2015

June 1, 2015

How antibodies diversify their effector functions: structural and functional heterogeneity of the Fc domain

Prof. Jeffrey Ravetch, Rockefeller University, New York 

Prof. Linda Saif, Winner of Wolf Prize in Agriculture - 2015

June 1, 2015

Gut reactions to human rotavirus in a germfree piglet model: Novel use of probiotics to immunomodulate rotavirus diarrhea and vaccine efficacy in infants

The Ohio State University, USA

Prof. Matthias Hentze

May 11, 2015

RNA-binding proteins, metabolism and a new function for the genome?

Co-Director of the EMBL/Heidelberg University

Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit

Heidelberg, Germany

Prof. Dan Littman

March 16, 2015

Shaping of the host immune response by the commensal microbiota

Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine
New York University School of Medicine\Howard Hughes Medical Int.

Prof. Ian Baldwin

January 19, 2015

Timing is everything in Ecology

Department of Molecular Ecology

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Prof. Barry J. Dickson

December 1, 2014

The Neurobiology of Courtship Behaviour in Drosophila

Janelia Farm Research Campus Howard Hughes Medical Institute