2025 Friday Evening Lectures
Whether you91יre in Woods Hole or halfway around the world, join us for this venerable MBL 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.
E.B. Wilson History and Philosophy of Science Lecture
Holden Thorp, Editor-in-Chief, Science Magazine
Juneteenth Lecture
Gerald Downes, Professor, Biology Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst
This lecture was not recorded.
Phil Newmark, Burnell R. Roberts Chair in Regenerative Biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research
Glassman Lecture
Mary Lou Guerinot, Ronald and Deborah Harris Professor in the Sciences, Department of Biology, Dartmouth College
Geraldine Seydoux, Sheldon Professor of Medical Discovery, Investigator, HHMI, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Forbes Lecture
Vanessa Ruta, Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Professor; Investigator, HHMI, The Rockefeller University
Jennifer Morgan, MBL Senior Scientist and Director of the Bell Center
Porter Lecture
Ethan Bier, Professor of Biology, University of California San Diego
Blanton Tolbert, Jacob Gershon-Cohen Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania
This lecture will not be recorded.