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Paul William Furlow
Paul William Furlow Presented by Sohail Tavazoie B.S., Michigan State University M.S., Northwestern University Mutations in a Mechanosensitive Channel Enable Intravascular Metastatic Cell Survival 听 听 听 听 听 Paul infuses a large dose of vitality into all that he does. This is most apparent...
Daniel B. Gilmer
Daniel B. Gilmer Presented by听Vincent A. Fischetti B.S., Howard University Studies of a Novel Phage Lytic Enzyme, PlySs2 听 听 听 听 听 Bacteriophages, or phages for short, are viruses that infect bacteria. There are about 10 million phages per gram of soil or milliliter of water, so recent e...
Claire Ellen Hamilton
Claire Ellen Hamilton Presented by听F. Nina Papavasiliou B.S., Yale University Transcriptome-wide Characterization of APOBEC1-catalyzed RNA Editing Events in Macrophages 听 听 听 听 听 It is uncommon for a graduate student to work in a brand new area, especially in a branch of biology, such as...
Evan Heller
Evan Heller Presented by听Elaine Fuchs B.A., Columbia University Forces Generated by Cell Intercalation Tow Epidermal Sheets in Mammalian Tissue Morphogenesis 听 听 听 听 听 Evan Heller contacted me shortly after he was accepted to Rockefeller鈥檚 Ph.D. Program, and inquired about a possible r...
Jessica Sook Yuin Ho
Jessica Sook Yuin Ho Presented by听Alexander Tarakhovsky B.S., University of Wisconsin鈥揗adison Chromatin Control of the Antiviral Response to Influenza 听 听 听 听 听 Jessica Ho joined the university as part of the A*STAR program from Singapore. She entered as a 鈥渟tar鈥� and never ceased t...
Matthew Thomas Holt
Matthew Thomas Holt Presented by Tom Muir B.S., Western Washington University Identification of a Functional Hotspot on Ubiquitin Required for Stimulation of Methyltransferase Activity on Chromatin 听 听 听 听 听 Matt Holt hails from Seattle and, like many from that part of the world, was lure...
James Letts
James Letts Presented by听Sidney Strickland on behalf of Roderick MacKinnon B.Sc., University of Victoria Functional and Structural Studies of the Human Voltage-gated Proton Channel 听 听 听 听 听 I apologize, James, for not being here in person to celebrate this well deserved accomplishment. ...
Jeff Liesch
Jeff Liesch Presented by听Leslie B. Vosshall B.S., University of Maryland鈥揅ollege Park The Neuropeptide Regulation of Host-seeking Behavior in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes 听 听 听 听 听 I am pleased to present Jeff Liesch to you today. Jeff came to Rockefeller with impressive research credentia...
Mar铆a Maldonado
Mar铆a Maldonado Presented by听Frederick R. Cross on behalf of Tarun Kapoor member of the graduating class of 2013 B.A., M.Sci., University of Cambridge Examining the Regulation of Cell Division by the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint 听 听 听 听 听 When we enter a different country we need valid p...
Christina B. Marney
Christina B. Marney Presented by听Robert B. Darnell B.Sc., University of East Anglia RNA Deregulation in Metastatic Breast Cancer 听 听 听 听 听 Tina was a top honors, straight A student as an undergrad at the University of East Anglia, which turns out to be just beneath a place called the Twe...
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