Graduating Students 1999

 

 

The 1999 graduating students, their thesis topics and their faculty mentors follow.

• Alexander Akopian
  B.A., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
  Scaling Violation in Inclusive Jet Production
  Konstantin Goulianos

• Matthew Lawrence Albert Ý
  B.S., Brown University
  Resurrecting the Dead: Dendritic Cells Cross-present Antigen Derived from Apoptotic Cells for the Induction of Viral and Tumor-specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes
  Robert Darnell

• Lin Bai
  B.S., Tsinghua University
  Transcription of Mammalian Small Nuclear RNA Genes and the Involvement of NF1 Family Proteins in RNA Polymerase III Mediated Transcription
  Robert Roeder

• Rupal Satish Bhatt *
  A.B., Harvard University
  DDR, a Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Involved in Cerebellar Granule Cell Development
  Mary E. Hatten

• Alessandro Bianchi
  laurea, Universitá Degli Studi di Pavia
  Reaching the End: DNA Binding Activities at Human Telomeres
  Titia de Lange

• Guillermo A. Cecchi
  B.S., M.S., Universidad Nacional de La Plata
  Cracking a Code in the Bird's Brain
  Marcelo Magnasco

• Aaron Martin Cypess *
  A.B., Princeton University
  Signal Transduction by the Glucagon Receptor: From G Protein-coupling to MAP Kinase Activation
  Thomas Sakmar

• Fiona Doetsch
  B.Sc., McGill University
  The Origin and Migration Routes of New Neurons in the Adult Mammalian Brain
  Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

• Monique Floer
  DIPLOM, Universität zu Köln, Germany
  Mechanism of Nuclear Protein Import and Export: An in vitro Approach
  Günter Blobel

• Richard Haspel *
  B.S., Stanford University
  Inactivation of the JAK-STAT Pathway
  James Darnell

• Hristo Botev Houbaviy
  M.Sc., Weizmann Institute of Science
  Biochemical and Biophysical Studies of the Complex Formed by YY1 and the AAV P5 Promoter Initiator Element
  Stephen K. Burley

• Kristi Levine
  B.S., Cornell University
  Cyclins, CDKs, and Cyclin-specific Targeting of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  Frederick Cross

• Tsuyoshi Ozaki
  B.A., Columbia University
  The Global Neuromodulatory Effects of the Parabrachial Nucleus of the Brainstem on the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus of the Cat
  Ehud Kaplan

• Allan Canute Powe, Jr.
  B.A., University of Pennsylvania
  Bridging the GAP: Primary Structural Requirements for Gap1 Activity during Drosophila Retinal Development
  Ulrike Gaul

• José Luis Reyes Taboada
  B.S., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  The Prp8-centric View of Pre-mRNA Splicing: Biochemical and Genetic Analysis of the Prp8 Interaction With the 5' Splice Site
  M. Magda Konarska

• Adrian Rothenfluh
  DIPLOMA, University of Basel
  Dissecting the Drosophila Circadian Clock with Mutations of the timeless and double-time Genes
  Michael Young

• Tomoyuki Shishido
  B.S., University of Tokyo
  The Regulation of Tyrosine Kinases: c-Src Serves as a Suppressor of the c-Abl Kinase
  Hidesaburo Hanafusa

• G.V. Shivashankar
  M.S., Rutgers University
  DNA: Polymer and Molecular Code
  Albert Libchaber

   

* = Participant in the Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. program