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 problem...
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 vi...
Amandeep Singh
A.B., Cornell University Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Leptin’s Metabolic Effects presented by Jeffrey M. Friedman In 1900, Theodore Roosevelt published an article that put forth his view of all American men, writing, “He must not be a coward or a weakling, a bully, a shirk or a ...
Sriram
B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur High-precision Measurement of Bacterial Growth Rates: A Step toward Understanding of Deleterious Fitness Effects of High Mutation Rates presented by Stanislas Leibler Sriram, also known as Sri Ram, came to New York from Kanpur, India, where he did his ...
Pete Stavropoulos
B.S., State University of New York, Stony Brook Crystal Structure and Mechanism of Human Lysine-specific Demethylase-1 presented by Günter Blobel Pete had already a great deal of exposure to research when he joined Rockefeller’s graduate program. His first experience in a laboratory was during ...
Megan Elizabeth van Overbeek
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; D.E.A., Université Pierre et Marie Curie The Apollo Nuclease Binds to TRF2 and Protects Telomeres in S Phase presented by Titia de Lange The third student to graduate from my lab this year and the speaker at today’s luncheon, Megan van Overbeek, joined ...
Lisa C. Zaba
B.S., Stanford University Dendritic Cells in Normal and Inflamed Human Skin James G. Krueger Lisa Zaba came to the laboratory almost at the end of medical school (at Weill Cornell Medical College) for what I thought was only a short research elective. Instead, the research she began intrigued her so...
Julie Biyuan Zang
B.A., University of California, Berkeley Identification of Loss of Specific FMRP-RNA Interactions as a Cause of Fragile X Syndrome presented by Robert B. Darnell It is a pleasure to introduce Julie Zang to you, on behalf of myself and her thesis coadviser, Jennifer Darnell. After working with us fo...
Rockefeller University to hold 50th commencement June 12
The Rockefeller University will award doctoral degrees to 26 students in its 50th graduating class at a commencement ceremony on Thursday, June 12. Three distinguished alumni will also receive honorary doctor of science degrees: Gerald M. Edelman, class of ’60, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Ph...