Public Lectures

In association with the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, the Center for Genomics and Systems Biology organizes talks for high profile scientists to help educate the public on various scientific topics relevant to their day to day life. The invited speakers' list includes the following Nobel Prize winners:

Edvard Moser (The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014).
Randy Schekman (The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013).
Jack W. Szostak (The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009).

Can We Cure Aging?

Linda Partridge
DBE, FRS, FRSE, FMedSci, Professorial Research Fellow, University College London

February 22, 2023

mTOR Signaling in Growth and Metabolism: How an Unhealthy Diet Causes Diabetes

Michael N. Hall
Professor of Biochemistry and Head of Research Group, University of Basel

February 17, 2020

The Rhythms of Life From Fruit Fly Brains to Human Obesity

Justin Blau
Professor of Biology and Neural Science and Chair, Department of Biology, NYU

January 15, 2020

The Taming of Plants: Domestication of the Food Species We Eat

Michael Purugganan
Silver Professor; Professor of Biology; Dean for Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU

February 4, 2019

A World without Parasitic Worms: Why, When and How?

Timothy Geary
Canada Research Chair in Parasite Biotechnology; Institute Director, McGill University

January 4, 2018

The Role of Technology in Feeding 10 Billion People

Nina Fedoroff
Evan Pugh Professor Emerita, Penn State University

February 6, 2018

Grid Cells and The Brain’s Map of Space

Edvard Moser
Nobel Laureate; Founding Director, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience; Professor of Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

February 7, 2017

The Evolution of Date Palms

Michael Purugganan
Silver Professor; Professor of Biology; Dean for Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU

November 19, 2017

How Cells Export Proteins and Small RNAs

Randy Schekman
Nobel Laureate; Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

February 17, 2015

Autism, New Mutations, Genes and Pathways

Evan Eichler
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington

February 18, 2014

What Does Your Genome Say About Who You Are?

Brenda Andrews
Director of the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research and Professor, University of Toronto

February 8, 2013

Circadian Rhythms Writ Large and Small

Michael Rosbash
Professor of Biology, Brandeis University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

February 14, 2012