James Letts
James Letts Presented by Sidney Strickland on behalf of Roderick MacKinnon B.Sc., University of Victoria Functional and Structural Studies of the Human Voltage-gated Proton Channel I apologize, James, for not being here in person to celebrate this well deserved accomplishment. ...
Jeff Liesch
Jeff Liesch Presented by Leslie B. Vosshall B.S., University of Maryland–College Park The Neuropeptide Regulation of Host-seeking Behavior in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes I am pleased to present Jeff Liesch to you today. Jeff came to Rockefeller with impressive research credentia...
María Maldonado
María Maldonado Presented by Frederick R. Cross on behalf of Tarun Kapoor member of the graduating class of 2013 B.A., M.Sci., University of Cambridge Examining the Regulation of Cell Division by the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint When we enter a different country we need valid p...
Christina B. Marney
Christina B. Marney Presented by Robert B. Darnell B.Sc., University of East Anglia RNA Deregulation in Metastatic Breast Cancer Tina was a top honors, straight A student as an undergrad at the University of East Anglia, which turns out to be just beneath a place called the Twe...
Jacob N. Oppenheim
Jacob N. Oppenheim Presented by Marcelo O. Magnasco A.B., Princeton University Charting the Vasculome: High Resolution Maps of the Vasculature of Entire Organs Richard Feynman said prophetically in 1959, as he heralded both nanotechnology and molecular biophysics, that “there...
Nora Pencheva
Norah Pencheva Presented by Sohail Tavazie B.A., Kenyon College Identification of a MicroRNA Network that Regulates Melanoma Metastasis and Angiogenesis by Targeting ApoE Nora hails from a tiny town in central Bulgaria. There are two things that she absolutely loves: her nightli...
K. Rashid Rumah
K. Rashid Rumah Presented by Vincent A. Fischetti B.S. Stanford University The Origin of Multiple Sclerosis Revisited: The Case for a Soluble Toxin Multiple sclerosis is a devastating neurological disease that attacks people in the prime of their lives. Though intensive res...
Neel Shah
Neel Shah Presented by Tom Muir B.S., New York University Split Inteins: From Mechanistic Studies to Novel Protein Engineering Technologies Neel Shah joined the Rockefeller graduate program in the fall of 2008 following undergraduate studies at NYU where he graduated with top ho...
Frej Tulin
Frej Tulin Presented by Frederick R. Cross M.S., KTH Royal Institute of Technology Exploration of Cell Cycle-specific Essential Gene Functions in the Microbial Plant Chlamydomonas reinhardtii My laboratory has worked in the budding yeast model system for some years. Many labs ha...
Siddarth Venkatesh
Siddarth Venkatesh Presented by Paul Bieniasz B. Tech, University of Madras Ph.D. Auburn University Mechanism and Evolutionary Origins of HIV-1 Virion Entrapment by Tetherin For his thesis project Siddarth Venkatesh worked on a protein, called tetherin, that is expressed in res...