Vanessa Ruta, head of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, has been chosen as a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Ruta is among twenty-two early-career researchers who are being honored for showing outstanding promise in ...

Cancer Cell 21: 765-766 Telomere-driven tetraploidization occurs in human cells undergoing crisis and promotes transformation of mouse cells Teresa Davoli and Titia de Lange

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: June 11, 2012 Dynamics of TGF-β signaling reveal adaptive and pulsatile behaviors reflected in the nuclear localization of transcription factor Smad4 Aryeh Warmflash, Qixiang Zhang, Benoit Sorre, Alin Vonica, Eric D. Siggia and Ali H. Br...

Science online: June 7, 2012 dSarm/Sarm1 Is Required for Activation of an Injury-Induced Axon Death Pathway Jeannette M. Osterloh, Jing Yang, Timothy M. Rooney, A. Nicole Fox, Robert Adalbert, Eric H. Powell, Amy E. Sheehan, Michelle A. Avery, Rachel Hackett, Mary A. Logan, Jennifer M. MacDonald,...

Cornelia Bargmann, Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, is the recipient of the 2012 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced today. Bargmann, who is also an investigator at the How...

Cell 149: 1164-1173 Contingency and statistical laws in replicate microbial closed ecosystems Doeke R. Hekstra and Stanislas Leibler  

Cell 149: 1152-1163 Identification of the Cortical Neurons that Mediate Antidepressant Responses Eric F. Schmidt, Jennifer L. Warner-Schmidt, Benjamin G. Otopalik, Sarah B. Pickett, Paul Greengard and Nathaniel Heintz

Knowing that a drug works is great. Knowing how it works is a luxury. And until now, determining a drug’s mechanism of action has been a tedious and difficult process for scientists. Researchers led by Tarun Kapoor at The Rockefeller University, in collaboration with Olivier Elemento at Weill Cor...

Two Rockefeller University postdoctoral fellows have been named winners in the 2012 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists competition from The New York Academy of Sciences. Andrey Feklistov, from Seth Darst’s Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, and Nicholas Stavropoulos, from Michael Young’s Lab...

Journal of Experimental Medicine online: May 21, 2012 Expression of the zinc finger transcription factor zDC (Zbtb46, Btbd4) defines the classical dendritic cell lineage Matthew M. Meredith, Kang Liu, Guillaume Darrasse-Jeze, Alice O. Kamphorst, Heidi A. Schreiber, Pierre Guermonprez, Juliana Ido...