Jabez Bok
Jabez Bok Presented by Sidney Strickland on behalf of Robert G. Roeder B.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison Mechanism of Action of ING4 as a Transcriptional Coactivator of p53 Jabez Bok hails from Singapore, and after earning his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin, ...
Christine E. Cho
Christine E. Cho Presented by Leslie B. Vosshall on behalf of Cori Bargmann Sc.B., Brown University Mechanisms of Olfactory Plasticity in Caenorhabditis elegans Although many religions warn us against fortune tellers, it’s the brain’s job to predict the future. What does a new sti...
Eliot Dow
Eliot Dow Presented by A. James Hudspeth B.S., Ohio State University Synapse Formation in the Zebrafish Lateral Line Although our brains do not always function well, it is actually implausible that they should function at all. A human brain contains something like a hundred billion ne...
Akinori F. Ebihara
Akinori F. Ebihara Presented by Winrich Freiwald on behalf of himself and Marcelo O. Magnasco B.S., The University of Tokyo Normalization Among Heterogeneous Population Confers Stimulus Discriminability on the Macaque Face Patch Neurons As I introduce Akinori Ebihara to you, I find ...
Clark Fisher
Clark Fisher Presented by Winrich Freiwald A.B., Princeton University Effect of Temporal and Spatial Context within the Macaque Face-Processing System Social life relies on faces. A day like today—when lots of people come together all wearing pretty much the same outfit—would be u...
Ariel Halper-Stromberg
Ariel Halper-Stromberg Presented by Michel C. Nussenzweig B.S., University of Maryland, College Park Therapeutic Uses of Broadly Neutralizing Anti-HIV-1 Antibodies in Humanized Mice Ari Halper-Stromberg grew up in Maryland and went to college at the University of Maryland, College Par...
Jeffrey G. Johnson
Jeffrey G. Johnson Presented by Sidney Strickland on behalf of Tom Muir B.A., Knox College Studies on the Maturation of Secreted Quorum Sensing Peptides That Regulate S. aureus Virulence Jeffrey Johnson received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Knox College in Illinois befo...
Shaheen Kabir
Shaheen Kabir Presented by Titia de Lange B.S., Haverford College Investigating Mechanisms of Telomere End-protection Despite being young, Shaheen Kabir’s life has already involved five continents. Born to Pakistani parents, Shaheen grew up in beautiful Tanzania. She went to Austral...
Anna Katherine Kruyer
Anna Katherine Kruyer Presented by Erin Norris on behalf of herself and Sidney Strickland B.A., Fordham College at Lincoln Center The Effect of Chronic Hypertension on Neuropathology in the TgSwDI Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease When Anna Kruyer moved to New York City from a smal...
Johannes Larsch
Johannes Larsch Presented by Leslie B. Vosshall on behalf of Cori Bargmann M.Sc., University of Konstanz A Mechanism for Spatial Orientation Based on Sensory Adaptation in Caenorhabditis elegans In his work on the unity of opposites, hodos ano kato, the pre-Socratic philosopher Herac...