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The Rockefeller University Press’s ‘Google Earth’-like tool for cell biology
by LESLIE CHURCH In science, seeing the big picture is key. The Rockefeller University Press has taken that literally. Using an online image publishing tool they originally developed in 2008, The Journal of Cell Biology (JCB) has released what it believes is the largest image ever published onlin...
FY2012 budget closes with modest deficit
by ZACH VEILLEUX The university’s fiscal year 2012 operating budget ended with a $6.8 million deficit, largely the result of reduced endowment spending over the past three years. But the shortfall was expected and has been covered with reserve money from prior year budget surpluses. “The fis...
Gloria Chang DiGennaro
by LESLIE CHURCH Gloria Chang DiGennaro, an assistant director of human resources who worked at the university for 16 years, died August 25 after a long battle with cancer. She was 68 years old. “She was a very special person and a dear friend to us,” says Virginia Huffman, vice president fo...
Milestones
Awarded: C. David Allis, a grant from the Caring for Carcinoid Foundation, for research on tumor suppressor activities of ATRX and Daxx mutations through epigenomic profiling and animal models. Dr. Allis, the Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epige...
Nature online: October 3, 2012
Nature online: October 3, 2012 Adenoma-linked barrier defects and microbial products drive IL-23/IL-17-mediated tumour growth Sergei I. Grivennikov, Kepeng Wang, Daniel Mucida, C. Andrew Stewart, Bernd  Schnabl, Dominik Jauch, Koji Taniguchi, Guann-Yi Yu, Christoph H. Österreicher, Kenneth E. Hun...
Molecular Psychiatry online: October 2, 2012
Molecular Psychiatry online: October 2, 2012 Bidirectional regulation of emotional memory by 5-HT(1B) receptors involves hippocampal p11 T.M. Eriksson, A. Alvarsson, T.L. Stan, X. Zhang, K.N. Hascup, E.R. Hascup, J. Kehr, G.A. Gerhardt, J. Warner-Schmidt, M. Arango-Lievano, M.G. Kaplitt, S.O. Ögr...
Rockefeller fellow receives NIH ‘early independence award’ to study immune responses with high throughput sequencing
Brad Rosenberg, who completed his M.D.-Ph.D. through the Tri-Institutional program in May, is one of 14 early-career investigators across the country to receive an NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, which will allow him to establish his own research program at Rockefeller. He has been named...
Shai Shaham and Sean Brady receive promotions
Two Rockefeller faculty members have received promotions, both of which were approved by the Board at its June 7 meeting. Shai Shaham, head of the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics at The Rockefeller University, has been awarded tenure and promoted to professor; Sean Brady, head of the Laborat...
The Journal of Experimental Medicine 209: 1813-1823 (9-24-12)
The Journal of Experimental Medicine 209: 1813-1823 Macrophages induce differentiation of plasma cells through CXCL10/IP-10 Wei Xu, HyeMee Joo, Sandra Clayton, Melissa Dullaers, Marie-Cecile Herve, Derek  Blankenship, Maria Teresa De La Morena, Robert Balderas, Capucine Picard, Jean-Laurent Casan...
Nature Immunology online: September 23, 2012
Nature Immunology online: September 23, 2012 The proto-oncogene MYC is required for selection in the germinal center and cyclic reentry David Dominguez-Sola, Gabriel D Victora, Carol Y Ying, Ryan T Phan, Masumichi  Saito, Michel C Nussenzweig and Riccardo Dalla-Favera
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