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Evan Zane Macosko*

A.B., Harvard College The Neural Circuitry of Social Behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans presented by Cori Bargmann Evan Zane Macosko, from the Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. Program, is a New Yorker, a Harvard graduate, a musician, a poet, a political idealist and a Renaissance man. With his educat...
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Trudy M. McCall

B.S., University of California, Irvine The Manipulation of Apical Dendritic Plasticity and the Consequences for the Effects of Chronic Stress presented by Bruce S. McEwen Trudy McCall graduated from the University of Calfornia, Irvine, in 2001, majoring in neuroscience. At UC Irvine, Trudy became...
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Melissa Noel

B.S., University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Novel Roles for the Tissue Plasminogen Activator System in the Development of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Regulation of Contextual Learning after Stress presented by Sidney Strickland Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is the most prevalent birth defect b...
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Jonathan Nowak*

B.A., The University of Chicago Specification and Function of Early Hair Follicle Stem Cells presented by Elaine Fuchs Jonathan Nowak received his B.A. from The University of Chicago with majors in biology and economics. We now celebrate his completion of the Ph.D. program at The Rockefeller Univ...
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Justin C. Paul*

B.A., The Johns Hopkins University Fibrin Formation and Dissolution in the Progression of Amyloid-β Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease presented by Sidney Strickland Alzheimer’s disease, first characterized about 100 years ago in Germany, is a scourge of old age. This disease destroys short-term ...
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Valentin Piëch

M.Sc., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich Perceptual Learning, Long-range Horizontal Connections and Top-Down Influences in Primary Visual Cortex presented by George N. Reeke Jr. (on behalf of himself and Charles D. Gilbert) Computational neuroscience attempts to construct computer mode...
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Andrew James Schile

B.S., Harvey Mudd College Regulation of Apoptosis by XIAP Ubiquitin Ligase Activity presented by Hermann Steller Andy’s exceptional as a student in a number of ways, highly courageous, very independent, and very determined, and he came to my lab to investigate the regulation of programmed cell de...
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Mark Schroeder

B.S., Cornell University Hierarchy and Cis Regulation in Drosophila Segmentation: Rules for Pattern Formation and Clues to Evolution presented by Ulrike Gaul It is a great pleasure to present Mark Schroeder as a graduate today. Mark is one of the few and the brave who seek to bridge the divide be...
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Nicolai Siegel

Sc.B., Brown University Regulation of Gene Expression in Trypanosoma brucei presented by George A.M. Cross Nicolai become interested in the pathology of parasitic diseases after a 1997 visit to Bolivia, where Chagas disease, caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, was endemic. After high school he returned ...
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Duncan Smith

B.A., University of Cambridge The Role and Fate of Branch Site-U2 snRNA Pairing during Pre-messenger RNA Splicing presented by M. Magda Konarska From the very first day when Duncan came to my lab I was certain that he would not be an easy student to mentor, and I was equally certain that mentorin...
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