2025 Friday Evening Lectures

This page will be updated as more information becomes available.

Whether you’re in Woods Hole or halfway around the world, join us for this venerable С��Ƶ lecture series.

Lectures are free and open to the public for in-person and virtual attendance. No registration required for in-person attendance. Doors open at 7:30 PM, lectures start at 8 PM in the Cornelia Clapp Auditorium.

Suggestions for future Friday Evening Lecturers are welcome and may be sent to FEL@mbl.edu.

June 13 - “Staying True to the Indispensable Values of Science”

E.B. Wilson History and Philosophy of Science Lecture
Holden Thorpe, Editor-in-Chief, Science

June 20 - Title TBD

Juneteenth Lecture
Gerald Downes, Associate Professor, College of Natural Sciences, UMASS Amherst

June 27 - “From Planarians to Parasites: Mechanisms Regulating Germ Cells and Developmental Plasticity”

Phil Newmark, Burnell R. Roberts Chair in Regenerative Biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research

July 11 - “It’s Elementary: Making Food More Nutritious”

Glassman Lecture
Mary Lou Guerinot, Professor of Biology, Dartmouth University

July 18 - “Physics Meets Biology: How Vinaigrette Informed Our Understanding of Cellular Organization”

Geraldine Seydoux, Sheldon Professor of Medical Discovery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

July 25 - Title TBD

Forbes Lecture
Vanessa Ruta, Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Professor; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

August 1 - “No Ordinary Vampire Fish: Insights from Sea Lampreys on Neuroscience and Human Health”

Jennifer Morgan, С��Ƶ Senior Scientist and Director of the Bell Center

August 8 - “The Promise of Gene-Drives and Other Active Genetic Systems”

Porter Lecture
Ethan Bier, Professor of Biology, University of California Davis

August 15 - “From Curiosity to Discovery: My Quest for Excellence in RNA Science”

Blanton Tolbert, Jacob Gershon-Cohen Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania

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