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Edmund Ching Schwartz
B.S., University of Virginia Controlling Bacterial Transcription: Regulation of the Sigma Factor presented by Tom W. Muir Ed Schwartz joined my group in the fall of 2001 following undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia. It soon became clear to me that Ed was an unusual talent. I can ...
Amandeep Singh
A.B., Cornell University Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Leptin’s Metabolic Effects presented by Jeffrey M. Friedman In 1900, Theodore Roosevelt published an article that put forth his view of all American men, writing, “He must not be a coward or a weakling, a bully, a shirk or a ...
Sriram
B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur High-precision Measurement of Bacterial Growth Rates: A Step toward Understanding of Deleterious Fitness Effects of High Mutation Rates presented by Stanislas Leibler Sriram, also known as Sri Ram, came to New York from Kanpur, India, where he did hi...
Pete Stavropoulos
B.S., State University of New York, Stony Brook Crystal Structure and Mechanism of Human Lysine-specific Demethylase-1 presented by Günter Blobel Pete had already a great deal of exposure to research when he joined Rockefeller’s  graduate program. His first experience in a laboratory was during ...
Megan Elizabeth van Overbeek
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; D.E.A., Université Pierre et Marie Curie The Apollo Nuclease Binds to TRF2 and Protects Telomeres in S Phase presented by Titia de Lange The third student to graduate from my lab this year and the speaker at today’s luncheon, Megan van Overbeek, joined ...
Lisa C. Zaba
B.S., Stanford University Dendritic Cells in Normal and Inflamed Human Skin James G. Krueger Lisa Zaba came to the laboratory almost at the end of medical school (at Weill Cornell Medical College) for what I thought was only a short research elective. Instead, the research she began intrigued her...
Julie Biyuan Zang
B.A., University of California, Berkeley Identification of Loss of Specific FMRP-RNA Interactions as a Cause of Fragile X Syndrome presented by Robert B. Darnell It is a pleasure to introduce Julie Zang to you, on behalf of myself and her thesis coadviser, Jennifer Darnell. After working with us ...
Celestial clues hint at eclipse in Homer's Odyssey
Among countless other debates about Homer’s Odyssey — not the least of which is whether the entire poem can be attributed to Homer himself — is whether Odysseus returns home to experience a total solar eclipse. Total eclipses, when the moon briefly but completely blocks the sun, happen prett...
Scientists identify a key regulator of DNA mutations
As a general rule, your DNA is not something you want rearranged. But there are exceptions – especially when it comes to fighting infections. Since the number of microbes in the world far surpasses the amount of human DNA dedicated to combat them, specialized cells in the immune system have adopt...
Rockefeller University to hold 50th commencement June 12
The Rockefeller University will award doctoral degrees to 26 students in its 50th graduating class at a commencement ceremony on Thursday, June 12. Three distinguished alumni will also receive honorary doctor of science degrees: Gerald M. Edelman, class of ’60, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in P...
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