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Aaron M. Johnson

B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College Studies of ATP Site Function in Clamp Loader Complexes presented by Sidney Strickland (on behalf of Michael O’Donnell) All laboratories should be so lucky as to have a student like Aaron Johnson. Not only did Aaron develop into a brilliant independent scientist, bu...

Walton D. Jones

B.S., Eastern Nazarene College Insect Host Seeking: Investigations into the Molecular Mechanisms of Chemosensation presented by Leslie B. Vosshall Walton Jones is from Kansas. But as a student in the Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. Program, Walt provided insight into an important public health probl...

Jaehoon Kim

B.S., M.S., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology The Role of Histone H2B Ubiquitylation and Its Related Factors in Transcriptional Regulation in Mammalian Cells presented by Robert G. Roeder Jaehoon Kim was born and raised in Korea.  He received both bachelor and master of science d...

Meghan Alida Kirksey

B.S., University of Maryland, Baltimore County Exploring Counterimmune Mechanisms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis presented by George A.M. Cross (on behalf of John D. McKinney) Meghan Kirksey came to Rockefeller University from Simon’s Rock College of Bard, where she was enrolled at the age of 16 i...

Vivian Mae Lee

A.B., Harvard University Energy Homeostasis during Fasting and Fed States: Foxa2 Regulates Hepatic Amino Acid Uptake presented by Markus Stoffel Vivian Lee joined my laboratory five years ago as an M.D.-Ph.D. student. In my first meeting with her she explained that she wanted to work on a transla...

Mark Levenstien

B.Sc., Brown University Haplotype-based Association Studies: Approaches to Current Challenges presented by Derek Gordon (on behalf of Jürg Ott) It is my great honor to represent Jürg Ott in introducing Mark Levenstien. Mark was born and raised in Madison, New Jersey, where he graduated as valedic...

Conor Liston

A.B., Harvard University Chronic Stress Effects on Prefrontal Cortical Structure and Function presented by Bruce S. McEwen (on behalf of himself and B.J. Casey) Conor Liston was born in San Diego and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He went to Harvard University, where his undergraduate majors ...

Yang Luo

B.A., Mount Holyoke College A Genetic-Proteomic Approach to Identify Cellular Components That Interact with HIV-1 presented by Mark Muesing Yang Luo came to the United States from Wuhan, China in 1997, attending Mount Holyoke College on a full scholarship. There she attained high honors in chemis...

Eleonora Market

B.S., Lamar University The Double Life of AID: The Role in Antibody Diversification and Chromosomal Translocations presented by F. Nina Papavasiliou Mutations in the human genome are usually regarded as potentially terribly disastrous events that lead to inherited abnormalities as well as cancers...

Carine Waase Maurer

B.S., Cornell University Controlling the Onset of Cell Death in C. elegans by Transcriptional Induction of ced-3 Caspase presented by Shai Shaham It is a real pleasure for me to be here today, and to be a part of Carine’s graduation. Carine was the first student to officially join my lab, taking ...