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Perrin Megan Wilson

B.S., Lafayette College Riding the Glial Monorail: Astrotactins, Endocytosis and Motility presented by Mary E. Hatten Perrin Wilson grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Lafayette College with a strong interest and great expertise in cell biology. She came to my laboratory interested in a very...
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Wei-Ming Yu

B.V.M., M.S., National Taiwan University Role of Laminins in the Development of the Peripheral Nervous System presented by Sidney Strickland
Awards and Honors

Obesity researcher awarded Danone nutrition prize

The sixth Danone International Prize for Nutrition, an award that honors innovative nutritional research, was given to Rockefeller University’s Jeffrey Friedman today at the European Nutrition Conference in Paris. The prize, which is worth €120,000 — approximately $163,000 — recognizes scien...
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Removing a sugar turns protective antibodies into attackers

In autoimmune diseases like arthritis and lupus, proteins whose job it is to recognize and fight foreign invaders somehow stop recognizing the body as “self” and begin to attack. But exactly what happens to these antibody proteins to transform them into pathological “autoantibodies” capable ...
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Brain cells need microRNA to survive

There are lots of things that brain cells need to survive. Add to that list microRNAs. New research from Rockefeller University shows that neurons that cannot produce microRNAs, tiny single strands of RNA that regulate the expression of genes, slowly die in a manner similar to what is seen in suc...
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Subset of dendritic cells could be used to fight infection

Although few people in the United States have reason to have heard of it, leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that occurs in 88 different tropical and subtropical countries. Yet despite its prevalence, there is currently no vaccine to prevent transmission. Now, research by Rockefeller University...
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Critical protein prevents damaged DNA from persisting through generations

A protein long known to be involved in protecting a cell from genetic damage has been found to play an even more important role in protecting the cell’s offspring. New research shows that the protein, known as ATM, is not only vital for helping repair double-stranded breaks in the DNA of immune c...
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Ion flow through membrane channels is dictated by particle size

Ion channels are small passageways that control the movement of electrically charged particles across a cell’s membrane. But they’re persnickety gatekeepers: Each channel allows only one kind of ion to flow through. Now, new research from Rockefeller University reveals the thermodynamics behind ...
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Bloomberg, Wilson receive honorary degrees at Rockefeller commencement

The Hon. Michael R. Bloomberg, mayor of the City of New York, and Edward O. Wilson, an evolutionary biologist and naturalist, received honorary doctor of science degrees yesterday at Rockefeller University’s 49th Convocation for Conferring Degrees. Twenty-eight students from 12 countries, includi...
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Convocation is June 21. The Rockefeller community will celebrate the presentation of Ph.D. degrees to 28 graduate students at the 2007 Convocation on Thursday, June 21. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and naturalist Edward O. Wilson will receive honorary degrees. The David Rockefeller Award...
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