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Cell 149: 1565-1577 (June 22, 2012)

Cell 149: 1565-1577 Tiki1 Is Required for Head Formation via Wnt Cleavage-Oxidation and Inactivation Xinjun Zhang, Jose Garcia Abreu, Chika Yokota, Bryan T. MacDonald, Sasha Singh, Karla Loureiro Almeida Coburn, Seong-Moon Cheong, Mingzi M. Zhang, Qi-Zhuang Ye, Howard C. Hang, Hanno Steen and Xi He

Employees honored for longtime service to university

Members of the Rockefeller faculty and staff were recognized for their service to the university with two recent events. The Employee Recognition Cocktail Reception in February honored employees who had worked at the university for 20 and 25 years. Fifty-nine employees celebrated 20 years of serv...

Genome Center to operate at Rockefeller in interim

by LESLIE CHURCH The New York Genome Center (NYGC), the nonprofit institution set to become one of the largest bioinformatics and genomics facilities in North America, is launching its pilot lab operations at The Rockefeller University while a search is conducted for a permanent facility. Rockef...

Thomas P. Maniatis elected to Board

by LESLIE CHURCH The university Board of Trustees elected Thomas P. Maniatis as its newest member at its spring meeting on March 14, bringing the total number of trustees to 43. Dr. Maniatis is the Isidore S. Edelman Professor and Chairman of the department of biochemistry and molecular biophysi...

Milestones

Awarded: Jesse H. Ausubel, the 2012 National Ocean Champion Award, presented by the Urban Coast Institute of Monmouth University in New Jersey, for his contributions to marine science and management. Mr. Ausubel joins a distinguished group of awardees, including Jean-Michel Cousteau, who won in 2...

In the news

Peak planet: Are we starting to consume less?   “That leads demographer Joel Cohen to predict that ‘many of us may live to see population peak in the middle of this century.’ If so, that would fulfill the first necessary condition to begin to reduce our demands on the planet.” “An analy...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: June 20, 2012

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: June 20, 2012 Apoptotic and antitumor activity of death receptor antibodies require inhibitory Fcγ receptor engagement Fubin Li and Jeffrey V. Ravetch

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: June 18, 2012

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: June 18, 2012 Mouse model of endemic Burkitt translocations reveals the long-range boundaries of Ig-mediated oncogene deregulation Alexander L. Kovalchuk, Camilo Ansarah-Sobrinho, Ofir Hakim, Wolfgang Resch, Helena Tolarová, Wendy  Duboi...

Rockefeller’s 54th convocation awards Ph.D.s to 40 graduating students

The Rockefeller University will award doctoral degrees to 40 students at its convocation ceremony today. Additionally, two esteemed researchers will receive honorary doctor of science degrees: James E. Darnell Jr., Vincent Astor Professor Emeritus and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biol...

Vanessa Ruta named Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences

Vanessa Ruta, head of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, has been chosen as a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Ruta is among twenty-two early-career researchers who are being honored for showing outstanding promise in ...