Jessica Sook Yuin Ho Presented byAlexander Tarakhovsky B.S., University of Wisconsin–Madison Chromatin Control of the Antiviral Response to Influenza Jessica Ho joined the university as part of the A*STAR program from Singapore. She entered as a “star” and never ceased t...

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 Matt Holt hails from Seattle and, like many from that part of the world, was lure...

James Letts Presented bySidney Strickland on behalf of Roderick MacKinnon B.Sc., University of Victoria Functional and Structural Studies of the Human Voltage-gated Proton Channel I apologize, James, for not being here in person to celebrate this well deserved accomplishment. ...

Jeff Liesch Presented byLeslie B. Vosshall B.S., University of Maryland–College Park The Neuropeptide Regulation of Host-seeking Behavior in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes I am pleased to present Jeff Liesch to you today. Jeff came to Rockefeller with impressive research credentia...

María Maldonado Presented byFrederick 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 When we enter a different country we need valid p...

Christina B. Marney Presented byRobert B. Darnell B.Sc., University of East Anglia RNA Deregulation in Metastatic Breast Cancer 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...

Jacob N. Oppenheim Presented byMarcelo O. Magnasco A.B., Princeton University Charting the Vasculome: High Resolution Maps of the Vasculature of Entire Organs Richard Feynman said prophetically in 1959, as he heralded both nanotechnology and molecular biophysics, that “there...

Norah Pencheva Presented by Sohail Tavazie B.A., Kenyon College Identification of a MicroRNA Network that Regulates Melanoma Metastasis and Angiogenesis by Targeting ApoE Nora hails from a tiny town in central Bulgaria. There are two things that she absolutely loves: her nightli...

K. Rashid Rumah Presented byVincent A. Fischetti B.S. Stanford University The Origin of Multiple Sclerosis Revisited: The Case for a Soluble Toxin Multiple sclerosis is a devastating neurological disease that attacks people in the prime of their lives. Though intensive res...

Neel Shah Presented by Tom Muir B.S., New York University Split Inteins: From Mechanistic Studies to Novel Protein Engineering Technologies Neel Shah joined the Rockefeller graduate program in the fall of 2008 following undergraduate studies at NYU where he graduated with top ho...