Jason Barzel Ross
Jason Barzel Ross Presented by Sohail Tavazoie B.S., Stanford University Molecular Determinants of Tumor Re-initiation in Breast Cancer Jason received his undergraduate training in biology at Stanford University, where he was actively involved in stem cell research. Upon joining my la...
Joshua Salvi
Joshua Salvi Presented by A. James Hudspeth B.S., The Pennsylvania State University Mechanical Control of Sensory Hair-bundle Function Human hearing is truly remarkable: we can detect frequencies a thousandfold as great as those measured by our other senses; we can capture sounds down...
Johannes F. Scheid
Johannes F. Scheid Presented by Michel C. Nussenzweig Member of the graduating class of 2014 Diploma, University of Arts, Berlin M.D., Humboldt University – Charite, Berlin The Antibody Response against HIV This is the second Rockefeller graduation for Johannes Scheid, the first being f...
Roman Subbotin
Roman Subbotin Presented by Brian T. Chait B.S., M.S., Taras Shevchenko Kiev State University M.S., University of Minnesota Chemical Stabilization—A Path Towards Deciphering Protein-Protein Interactions in the Cellular Milieu Roman Subbotin was born in Stryi in the Soviet Ukraine. He studi...
He Tian
He Tian Presented by Thomas P. Sakmar B.S., Peking University Development of Novel Chemical Biology Tools for Probing Structure-Function Relationships in G Protein Coupled Receptors It is a challenge to describe chemistry in narrative form. Chemistry is a way of thinking. Chemistry is intel...
Yifan Xu
Yifan Xu Presented by Jeremy Dittman on behalf of Cori Bargmann B.S., Duke University Neural Circuit Dependence of Acute and Subacute Nociception in Caenorhabditis elegans Most grad students experience some type of pain during their thesis work. For Yifan’s thesis, she decided to work on p...
John Z. Xue
John Z. Xue Presented by Hironori Funabiki B.A., University of Cambridge Xenopus Dppa2 is a Direct Inhibitor of Microtubule Polymerization Required for Nuclear Assembly From John Xue’s eloquent British accent, it may be hard to imagine his origin. John was born and raised in Jingbia...
Daria A. Zamolodchikov
Daria A. Zamolodchikov Presented by Sidney Strickland A.B., Princeton University A New Role for b-Amyloid in Alzheimer’s Disease: Initiation of Thrombotic and Inflammatory Processes via Coagulation Factor XII and Fibrinogen Let’s consider American Pharoah. It takes intelligence, s...
Coming soon, to The David Rockefeller Graduate Program
As the graduating class of 2015 moves on to the next stages of life and career, the Rockefeller community welcomes the incoming group of graduate fellows. There were 689 applications received this year, and after careful consideration by the admissions committee, 81 applicants were offered admissio...
New faculty member probes actions of molecular machines in gene expression
Tiny machines, which convert chemical energy into mechanical work, drive nearly all aspects of life within a cell. Shixin Liu, a biophysicist and Rockefeller’s newest tenure-track faculty member, investigates how these individual motors interact, and, in many cases, cooperate with one another to a...