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Yun-Yuan Hsu

B.S., The University of Texas, Austin Structural Analysis of Cif, a Cyclomodulin from Pathogenic Escherichia coli presented by C. Erec Stebbins As anyone who stares at a medium-rare hamburger with trepidation knows, infections with pathogenic Escherichia coli are a serious matter. Worldwide, infe...

Heather Anne King

B.S., The College of William and Mary Structural and Biochemical Analysis of the Drosophila Protein Period, a Conserved and Essential Component of the Circadian Clock presented by Michael W. Young Heather came to my group with an unusual background in chemistry. Rockefeller has a collaborative pr...

William J. Lane

B.E., Hofstra University The Molecular Evolution of Multisubunit RNA Polymerases presented by Tom W. Muir (on behalf of Seth A. Darst) Bill Lane has a very rare combination of talents — he is a card-carrying wet-lab biochemist and x-ray crystallographer. In addition, Bill is an exceptionally gift...

Ariel Levine

B.S., Brandeis University The Role of GDF-3 in Patterning the Early Embryo presented by Ali H. Brivanlou Since Ariel Levine first joined my laboratory as a graduate student in 2002, I have come to cherish her, both as a person and as a scientist. Her acute intuition has allowed her to unravel emb...

Randy Lindquist

B.A., Williams College Immunological Voyeurism: Visualizing Dendritic Cells with Transgenic Mice presented by Michel C. Nussenzweig Randall Lindquist is a native of New York City and a graduate of Stuyvesant High School and Williams College. He was inspired to go into medicine and science by his ...

Veena Mandava

B.A., Williams College Identification and Characterization of Histone Modifications in Trypanosoma brucei presented by George A.M. Cross Veena came to us from Williams College with the highest honors and the Leverett Mears Prize in Chemistry. Among other achievements, she was a writing tutor at W...

Revati Masilamani

B.Tech., Anna University Understanding Dendritic Cell Regulation of Peripheral Tolerance in Polyclonal T Cell Repertoires presented by Michel C. Nussenzweig Revati was born and educated in India, where she received her bachelor’s degree from the Anna University in Madras. She came to Rockefeller ...

Hilleary B. Osheroff

B.A., Reed College Dividing the Preplate: Characterization of the Earliest Neuronal Populations of the Cerebral Cortex presented by Mary E. Hatten Hilleary’s doctoral thesis concerns early phases of cortical development. In her research, Hilleary has harnessed the tools of molecular biology, mous...

Ulf Peters

Vordiplom, Humboldt University; M.S., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Small Molecules as Probes for Cell Division and Intracellular Transport presented by Tarun Kapoor When Ulf joined my lab he told me that he wanted to figure out exactly how a drug works, one of the most challenging probl...

Edmund Ching Schwartz

B.S., University of Virginia Controlling Bacterial Transcription: Regulation of the Sigma Factor presented by Tom W. Muir Ed Schwartz joined my group in the fall of 2001 following undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia. It soon became clear to me that Ed was an unusual talent. I can ...