B.S., Brandeis University The Role of GDF-3 in Patterning the Early Embryo presented by Ali H. Brivanlou Since Ariel Levine first joined my laboratory as a graduate student in 2002, I have come to cherish her, both as a person and as a scientist. Her acute intuition has allowed her to unravel emb...

B.A., Williams College Immunological Voyeurism: Visualizing Dendritic Cells with Transgenic Mice presented by Michel C. Nussenzweig Randall Lindquist is a native of New York City and a graduate of Stuyvesant High School and Williams College. He was inspired to go into medicine and science by his ...

B.A., Williams College Identification and Characterization of Histone Modifications in Trypanosoma brucei presented by George A.M. Cross Veena came to us from Williams College with the highest honors and the Leverett Mears Prize in Chemistry. Among other achievements, she was a writing tutor at W...

B.Tech., Anna University Understanding Dendritic Cell Regulation of Peripheral Tolerance in Polyclonal T Cell Repertoires presented by Michel C. Nussenzweig Revati was born and educated in India, where she received her bachelor’s degree from the Anna University in Madras. She came to Rockefeller ...

B.A., Reed College Dividing the Preplate: Characterization of the Earliest Neuronal Populations of the Cerebral Cortex presented by Mary E. Hatten Hilleary’s doctoral thesis concerns early phases of cortical development. In her research, Hilleary has harnessed the tools of molecular biology, mous...

Vordiplom, Humboldt University; M.S., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Small Molecules as Probes for Cell Division and Intracellular Transport presented by Tarun Kapoor When Ulf joined my lab he told me that he wanted to figure out exactly how a drug works, one of the most challenging probl...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...