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New faces on campus
The newest graduate students are here and ready to don their lab coats. There are 27 students — 18 are a part of the Rockefeller Ph.D. program, one student is in the Tri-Institutional Chemical Biology program and eight are M.D.-Ph.D. students. First row: Mariel Bartley, Joan Pulupa, Dylan Kwart...
Following in dad's footsteps
by LESLIE CHURCH Frank Pansini has done stone setting work all over New York City, but restoring the marble path in front of Caspary has a special meaning for him — it’s the same path his father put in place 50 years ago. Mr. Pansini, owner of U.S. Stone Setting, Inc., was hired by Turner Const...
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...
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