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Ayse Begum Tekinay
B.S., Bilkent University Targeted Disruption of lynx2 Reveals Distinct Functions for lynx Homologues in Learning and Behavior presented by Nathaniel Heintz Ayse Tekinay is brilliant; having placed second among a million and a half students on the national university entrance exam, she entered Bil...
Donna M. Tscherne
B.S., Cornell University Viruses on Acid: Studies of HCV and BVDV Cell Entry presented by Charles M. Rice Donna Tscherne is a Jersey girl, who graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University in Ithaca. During her undergraduate years, Donna became hooked on research through her experiences as an...
Perrin Megan Wilson
B.S., Lafayette College Riding the Glial Monorail: Astrotactins, Endocytosis and Motility presented by Mary E. Hatten Perrin Wilson grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Lafayette College with a strong interest and great expertise in cell biology. She came to my laboratory interested in a very...
Wei-Ming Yu
B.V.M., M.S., National Taiwan University Role of Laminins in the Development of the Peripheral Nervous System presented by Sidney Strickland
Obesity researcher awarded Danone nutrition prize
The sixth Danone International Prize for Nutrition, an award that honors innovative nutritional research, was given to Rockefeller University’s Jeffrey Friedman today at the European Nutrition Conference in Paris. The prize, which is worth €120,000 — approximately $163,000 — recognizes scien...
Removing a sugar turns protective antibodies into attackers
In autoimmune diseases like arthritis and lupus, proteins whose job it is to recognize and fight foreign invaders somehow stop recognizing the body as “self” and begin to attack. But exactly what happens to these antibody proteins to transform them into pathological “autoantibodies” capable ...
Brain cells need microRNA to survive
There are lots of things that brain cells need to survive. Add to that list microRNAs. New research from Rockefeller University shows that neurons that cannot produce microRNAs, tiny single strands of RNA that regulate the expression of genes, slowly die in a manner similar to what is seen in suc...
Subset of dendritic cells could be used to fight infection
Although few people in the United States have reason to have heard of it, leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that occurs in 88 different tropical and subtropical countries. Yet despite its prevalence, there is currently no vaccine to prevent transmission. Now, research by Rockefeller University...
Critical protein prevents damaged DNA from persisting through generations
A protein long known to be involved in protecting a cell from genetic damage has been found to play an even more important role in protecting the cell’s offspring. New research shows that the protein, known as ATM, is not only vital for helping repair double-stranded breaks in the DNA of immune c...
Ion flow through membrane channels is dictated by particle size
Ion channels are small passageways that control the movement of electrically charged particles across a cell’s membrane. But they’re persnickety gatekeepers: Each channel allows only one kind of ion to flow through. Now, new research from Rockefeller University reveals the thermodynamics behind ...
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