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...
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...
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 cell...
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. H...
Robert R. Flavell*
B.A., Wesleyan University Novel Interactions of the Hormone Leptin Revealed by PET Imaging in Rodents and Rhesus Macaques presented by Tom W. Muir Rob Flavell has been associated with my lab since the fading days of the Clinton administration. A lot has happened since then. He graduated from Wesley...
Michael Gelfand*
B.S., M.S., Yale University A Model of the Production of Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emission in the Tokay Gecko presented by A. James Hudspeth It’s my very considerable pleasure to recognize the incipient doctor, Michael Gelfand, who, like other members of our group works on the process of hearing. ...
Elizabeth A. George Cisar
B.S., The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Mechanism of Signal Transduction by the Staphylococcus aureus Quorum Sensing Receptor AgrC presented by Tom W. Muir Elizabeth George Cisar joined our graduate program right out of high school. Prior to high school, she’d actually graduated from...
Doruk Gölcü
B.S., Bilkent University Perceptual Learning of Object Shape presented by Charles D. Gilbert Doruk Gölcü came to Rockefeller after receiving an undergraduate degree in the department of molecular biology and genetics at Bilkent University in Anakara, Turkey. Doruk’s work at Rockefeller involved...
Doeke Romke Hekstra
M.Sc., Leiden University Population Dynamics in a Model Closed Ecosystem presented by Tom W. Muir (on behalf of Stanislas Leibler) Doeke Hekstra is an explorer of claustral ecology, a new field studying closed ecological systems. There are not many laboratories working in this field; there are no s...
Elizabeth Anne Heller
B.A., University of Pennsylvania Synaptic Protein Profiling in the Mammalian Brain presented by Nathaniel Heintz Elizabeth Heller came to Rockefeller with an interest in molecular mechanisms of nervous system function, having graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Penn. Liz had been conducting behavioral ...