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Omar Ahmad

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 12. D.C.S., Marianopolis College; M.D., C.M., McGill University Noises off: Two (Pairs of) Views of the Active Hair Bundle pres...

Kenta Asahina

B.S., The University of Tokyo Receptors, Neurons and Circuits Supporting Odor Detection presented by Sidney Strickland (on behalf of Leslie B. Vosshall) In the summer of 2002, Kenta Asahina left The University of Tokyo and his family behind and moved to New York to pursue Ph.D. training abroad. A...

Helen S. Bateup

B.S., The Pennsylvania State University The Differential Involvement of Striatonigral and Striatopallidal Neurons in Psychostimulant and Antipsychotic Responses: A Dual Role for DARPP-32 presented by Sidney Strickland (on behalf of Paul Greengard) Among millions of people who are addicted to diff...

Jeffrey A. DeGrasse

B.S., The George Washington University Proteomic, Bioinformatic and Functional Characterization of the Nuclear Pore Complex of the African Trypanosome presented by Brian T. Chait Sometimes one can only wonder at the events that ultimately bring a young person into your lab to do research. Jeff De...

Ilana J. DeLuca

B.S., Yale University The Hu Syndrome: At the Intersection of Cancer and Autoimmunity presented by Robert B. Darnell It is a pleasure to introduce Ilana DeLuca to you. Ilana spent four years working in the laboratory as one of the most focused, albeit relaxed, students I have ever seen. She came ...

Jill Donigian

B.A., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey TIN2 Assists TRF2 in Suppressing the ATM-dependent DNA Damage Response at Telomeres presented by Titia de Lange When Jill Donigian joined my lab, she already had extensive experience in biomedical research. Jill hails from New Jersey, where she we...

Yair Dorsett

B.A., The Colorado College A Role for AID and microRNA-155 in c-myc to IgH DNA Translocations presented by Michel C. Nussenzweig I have had the pleasure of knowing Yair Dorsett for 20 years. I first met him at a dinner party at his parents’ home in Boston. At the time, his father, Dale, was a pos...

Christopher Gafuik

B.Sc., University of Alberta; M.Sc., McGill University; M.D., University of Alberta Identification and Characterization of a Viable ras Hypermorph in Drosophila presented by Hermann Steller The overall goal of Chris Gafuik’s thesis project has been to gain insight into the regulation of programme...

Michael E. Hahn

B.S., Brandeis University Semisynthesis of the Transcription Factor Smad2 Containing Caging Groups and Phosphoaminoacid Analogs presented by Tom W. Muir Michael Hahn joined the M.D.-Ph.D. program in the fall of 2000 and after his initial medical training, his interests in protein chemistry led hi...

Kristina Marie Hoke

B.S., The College of William and Mary A Novel Phosphorylation Site in the Telomeric Protein TRF2 Is Regulated by the ATR Kinase and Plays a Role in Relieving Replication Stress at the Telomere presented by Titia de Lange Kristina Hoke is a biomedical fellow in our terrific Tri-Institutional M.D.-...