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Convocation 2009

Following tradition, faculty mentors gave congratulatory tributes to this year’s graduates. Printed here are the transcripts of those speeches, as they were read on June 11. Three members of the class of 2009 — Taulant Bacaj, Sarah Garrett Injac and Satoshi Yoshimura — were unable to attend th...
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Sourabh Banerjee

B.Sc., St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology Studies of G Protein Coupled Receptors Incorporated into a Novel, Nanoscale, Membrane-mimetic System presented by Thomas P. Sakmar Sourabh Banerjee joined my laboratory in 2004 as a graduate student in the Tri...
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Cameron D. Bess

B.S., University of California, Santa Cruz Analysis of Cellular Factors Involved in Adeno-associated Virus Type 2 Entry presented by Sanford M. Simon As an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied yeast genetics, Cameron Bess was the first in his family to atten...
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Kıvanç Birsoy

B.S., Bilkent University Transcriptional Regulation of Adipocyte Function presented by Jeffrey M. Friedman Michaelangelo described his craft as follows: “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” This description well describes our experience as biologists. The marble is t...
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Prabhjot Singh Dhadialla*

B.S., B.A., University of Rochester A Role for Adult Stem Cells and Tumor Necrosis Factor in Peripheral Nerve Development presented by Sidney Strickland As science has accelerated the acquisition of information, the processing of this information has become a major challenge. How does one sort th...
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Nadya Dimitrova

Sc.B., Brown University Characterization of a Novel 53BP1-dependent Mechanism That Promotes Nonhomologous End Joining of Deprotected Telomeres by Increasing Chromatin Mobility presented by Titia de Lange Nadya Dimitrova was born and raised in Bulgaria. Like many former Soviet countries, Bulgaria ...
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Stefano Di Talia

Laurea, University of Naples Federico II Cell Size Control and Asymmetric Cell Fates in Start of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cell Cycle presented by Frederick R. Cross (on behalf of himself and Eric D.  Siggia) Stefano Di Talia came to Rockefeller with a strong background in physics. He chose to...
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Holger L.J. Dormann

Diplom, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen Regulation of Heterochromatin Protein 1 by Phosphorylation of Histone H3 and the HP1 Hinge Domain presented by C. David Allis Holger Dormann came to the Allis laboratory as a well-trained cell biologist, having received his undergraduate training in T...
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Ben Drapkin*

B.S., Yale University Peak Mitotic Cyclin Permits Mitotic Exit presented by Frederick R. Cross Ben Drapkin, a student in the M.D.-Ph.D. program, decided to carry out his Ph.D. work in my laboratory, with the aim of carrying out quantitative studies on the control of mitosis, the final step in cel...
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Elizabeth M. Duncan

A.B., Dartmouth College Regulated Histone H3 Proteolysis during Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation presented by C. David Allis Elizabeth Duncan came to Rockefeller from Dartmouth College, where she graduated with honors (cum laude) in English and flirted with a possible career in medicine....
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