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Convocation 2007
Following tradition, faculty mentors gave tributes to this year’s crop of graduates. Printed here are the transcripts of those speeches, as they were read on June 21.
Mary C. Abraham
B.A., M.Sci., University of Cambridge A New Type of Programmed Cell Death in C. elegans presented by Shai Shaham I have been remarkably lucky to have strong capable scientists pass through my lab. Mary Abraham is certainly a reflection of this luck. Mary was the second student to officially join ...
Sung Hee Ahn-Upton
B.A., Oberlin College Regulation of Histone Covalent Modifications during Yeast Apoptosis presented by C. David Allis It is my great pleasure to introduce Sung Hee Ahn-Upton, my first Rockefeller graduate student. Sung, as she is called, was always ahead of me. When we first met at the University...
Alexandra M. Deaconescu
B.E., The Cooper Union Structural Studies of the MFD ATPase — Coupling Transcription and DNA Repair in Bacteria with a dsDNA-tracking Motor presented by Sidney Strickland (on behalf of Seth A. Darst) Alex joined my laboratory as a graduate student in the summer of 2002. She grew up in Romania but...
Claire Elizabeth Dunne Fraser
A.B., Princeton University KH Domains on Brain Polyribosomes: FMRP and Nova in Translational Regulation presented by Robert B. Darnell (on behalf of himself and Jennifer Darnell) Claire Dunne Fraser came to our laboratory from Princeton University with an outstanding record of 3.7 grade point ave...
Andrés C. Gottfried
B.S., National Autonomous University of Mexico The Role of Microglia in the Effects of Steroid Hormones on Brain Inflammation presented by Bruce S. McEwen (on behalf of himself and Karen Bulloch) Andrés Blackmore Gottfried graduated from the National University of Mexico and came to Rockefeller U...
Dirk Friedrich Hockemeyer
Diploma, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen The Role of POT1 in the Protection and Maintenance of Telomeres presented by Titia de Lange Half a century ago, highly talented young Americans with an interest in biomedical research would go to Europe to get training. In the 1960s this trend comple...
Aaron M. Johnson
B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College Studies of ATP Site Function in Clamp Loader Complexes presented by Sidney Strickland (on behalf of Michael O’Donnell) All laboratories should be so lucky as to have a student like Aaron Johnson. Not only did Aaron develop into a brilliant independent scientist, bu...
Walton D. Jones
B.S., Eastern Nazarene College Insect Host Seeking: Investigations into the Molecular Mechanisms of Chemosensation presented by Leslie B. Vosshall Walton Jones is from Kansas. But as a student in the Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. Program, Walt provided insight into an important public health probl...
Jaehoon Kim
B.S., M.S., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology The Role of Histone H2B Ubiquitylation and Its Related Factors in Transcriptional Regulation in Mammalian Cells presented by Robert G. Roeder Jaehoon Kim was born and raised in Korea.  He received both bachelor and master of science d...
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