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Robert R. Flavell*

B.A., Wesleyan University Novel Interactions of the Hormone Leptin Revealed by PET Imaging in Rodents and Rhesus Macaques presented by Tom W. Muir Rob Flavell has been associated with my lab since the fading days of the Clinton administration. A lot has happened since then. He graduated from Wesl...

Michael Gelfand*

B.S., M.S., Yale University A Model of the Production of Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emission in the Tokay Gecko presented by A. James Hudspeth It’s my very considerable pleasure to recognize the incipient doctor, Michael Gelfand, who, like other members of our group works on the process of hearing. ...

Elizabeth A. George Cisar

B.S., The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Mechanism of Signal Transduction by the Staphylococcus aureus Quorum Sensing Receptor AgrC presented by Tom W. Muir Elizabeth George Cisar joined our graduate program right out of high school. Prior to high school, she’d actually graduated from...

Doruk Gölcü

B.S., Bilkent University Perceptual Learning of Object Shape presented by Charles D. Gilbert Doruk Gölcü came to Rockefeller after receiving an undergraduate degree in the department of molecular biology and genetics at Bilkent University in Anakara, Turkey. Doruk’s work at Rockefeller involved...

Doeke Romke Hekstra

M.Sc., Leiden University Population Dynamics in a Model Closed Ecosystem presented by Tom W. Muir (on behalf of Stanislas Leibler) Doeke Hekstra is an explorer of claustral ecology, a new field studying closed ecological systems. There are not many laboratories working in this field; there are no...

Elizabeth Anne Heller

B.A., University of Pennsylvania Synaptic Protein Profiling in the Mammalian Brain presented by Nathaniel Heintz Elizabeth Heller came to Rockefeller with an interest in molecular mechanisms of nervous system function, having graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Penn. Liz had been conducting behavioral ...

Jessica Howell

B.A., University of Pennsylvania Mechanistic and Physiological Studies of the Insulin-dependent Regulation of Foxa2 presented by Markus Stoffel Jessica Howell joined my lab in 2005. She came well prepared for her Ph.D. work, having graduated from U Penn and worked in the laboratory of another Roc...

Kuo-Chiang Hsia

B.S., Fu Jen Catholic University M.S., National Yang-Ming University Architecture of a Coat for the Nuclear Pore Membrane presented by André Hoelz (on behalf of Günter Blobel) Kuo was born in Taiwan. He received a master of science degree from the National Yang-Ming University in Taipei in 2000 ...

Martin Kampmann

M.A., University of Cambridge Biophysical Characterization of Structure and Dynamics of Nuclear Pore Complex Components presented by Sanford M. Simon (on behalf of Günter Blobel) Martin was born in Germany, received his undergraduate education at the University of Marburg, Germany, and then obtai...

Erica C. Keen

B.S., Yale University Transfer Properties of the Hair Cell-afferent Fiber Synapse presented by A. James Hudspeth I’m now honored and delighted to recognize the nascent doctor Erica Corinne Keen, who’s also carried out her research on the hearing process. Now I earlier introduced hair cells, whi...