Entering Classes Information
Our students come from a variety of backgrounds and interests as this picture of our most recent MD-PhD class shows.
Entering Class-2012
Mary Barden
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Providence College, B.S., 2010 (Biochemistry)
Gregory Breuer
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: University of Connecticut, B.S., 2012 (Biophysics and Computer Science)
Nashid Chaudhury
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Barnard College, B.A., 2011 (Neuroscience)
- Publication: Schobel S.A., Chaudhury N.H., Khan U.A., Paniagua B., Styner M.A., Asllani I., Inbar B.P., Corcoran, C.M., Lieberman J.A., Moore H., Small S.A. (2013) Imaging Patients with Psychosis and a Mouse Model Establishes a Spreading Pattern of Hippocampal Dysfunction and Implicates Glutamate as a Driver. Neuron. 78:81-93. PMID: 23583108
William Culligan
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: University of Notre Dame, B.S., 2010 (Chemistry)
Jessica Johnston
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: University of Utah, B.S., 2012 (Physics)
Angela Lee
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: University of Maryland College Park, B.S., 2011 (Physiology, Neuroscience and Psychology)
Alice Lu
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Cornell University, B.S., 2010 (Biology)
Matthew Meizlish
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Yale University, B.A., 2011 (History)
Kevin Perkins
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Rice University, B.S., 2012 (Biomedical Engineering)
Lorenzo Sewanan
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Trinity College, B.S., 2012 (Engineering and Physics)
Durga Thakral
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Yale University, B.S., 2012 (Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry)
Andrew Timberlake
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Yale University, B.S., 2011 (Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry)
- Publication: Chin A, Svejda B, Gustaffson BI, Granlund AB, Sandvik AK, Timberlake A, Sumpio B, Pragner R, Modlin IM, Kidd M. (2012) The role of mechanical forces and adenosine in the regulation of intestinal enterochromaffin cell serotonin secretion. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol: 302(3):G397-405. PMID: 22038827
Rebecca Treger
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Yale University, B.S., 2012 (Biology)
Jessica Ye
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Cornell University, B.A., 2012 (Biology and Chemistry)
Lee Ying
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 2011 (Molecular and Cellular Biology)
Laura Yockey
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Washington University, B.A., 2011 (Biology)
Mark Youngblood
- Year: 1
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Georgia Tech, B.S., 2007 (Electrical Engineering)
Entering Class - 2011
Alexandra Albert
- Year: 2
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: University of Maine, B.S., 2009 (Biochemistry, Mol. Cel. Biology)
Dipankan Bhattacharya
- Year: 2
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: UC Berkeley, B.A., 2010 (Mol. Cel. Biology)
- Publications: Jonas, Stephan et al. (2011) Microfluidic characterization of cilia-driven fluid flow using optical coherence tomography-based particle tracking velocimetry. Biomed Opt Express. 2(7): 2022–2034. PMCID: PMC3130586
- del Viso, F., Bhattacharya D., Kong, Y., Gilchrist M., & Khokha M. (2012) Exon capture and bulk segregant analysis: rapid discovery of causative mutations using high-throughput sequencing. BMC Genomics 13(1):649. PMID: 23171430
Sean Bickerton
- Year: 2
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: University of Amherst, B.S., 2010 (Biochemistry, Chemistry)
Dimitri de Kouchkovsky
- Year: 2
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: UC Berkeley, B.A., 2010 (Mol. Cel. Biology)
Ramak Khosravi
- Year: 2
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: University of Toronto, B.S., 2011 (Developmental Biology Specialist)
Amanda King
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- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: University of Pennsylvania, B.S., 2011 (Chemical Engineering)
Derek Kong
- Year: 2
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Tufts University, B.S., 2009 (Chemistry)
Ashton Lai
- Year: 2
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Duke University, B.S., 2011 (Chemistry)
Alice Li
- Year: 2
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: UCLA, B.S., 2011 (Physiological Sciences)
- Publications: Rajic, Z., Tovmasyan, A., Spasojevic, I., Sheng, H., Lu, M., Li, A.M., Gralla, E.B., Warner, D.S., Benov, L., Batinic-Haberle, I. (2012) A new SOD mimic, Mn(III) ortho N-butoxyethylpyridylporphyrin, combines superb potency and lipophilicity with low toxicity. Free Radic. Biol. Med. 52:1828-1834. PMID: 22336516.
Kavita Mistry
- Year: 2
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Yale, B.A., 2011 (English Literature, MB&B)
- Publications: Pluznick, J. L, Rodriguez-Gil, D. J., Hull, M., Mistry, K., Gattone, V., Johnson, C. A., Weatherbee, S., Greer, C. A., Caplan, M. J. (2011) Renal cystic disease proteins play critical roles in the organization of the olfactory epithelium. PLOS One. 6(5):e19694. PMID: 21614130.
Adele Ricciardi
- Year: 2
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: U. of North Carolina, B.S., 2010 (Biology, Chemistry)
Alexander Scherer
- Year: 2
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Stanford, B.S., 2011 (Chemistry)
Samuel Sondalle
- Year: 2
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Ripon College, B.A., 2011 (Biology, Chemistry)
- Publication: Yong Zhou, Timothy J. Cashman, Kathleen R. Nevis, Pablo Obregon, Sara A. Carney, Yan Liu, Aihua Gu, Christian Mosimann, Samuel Sondalle, Richard E. Peterson, Warren Heideman, Caroline E. Burns, & C. Geoffrey Burns. (2011) Latent TGF-b binding protein 3 identifies a second heart field in zebrafish. Nature 474:645-648. doi:10.1038/nature10094. PMID: 21623370.
Entering Class - 2010
Muhamed Hadzipasic
- Year: 3
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Johns Hopkins, B.A., 2010 (Neuroscience, Mathematics)
Adrian Haimovich
- Year: 3
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Columbia, B.S., 2010 (Applied Mathematics)
- Publications: Haimovich, AD (2011). Methods, challenges, and promise of next-generation sequencing in cancer biology. Yale J Biol Med 84(4):439-46. PMID: 22180681
- Zhu X, Ahmad SM, Aboukhalil A, Busser BW, Kim Y, Tansey TR, Haimovich A, Jeffries N, Bulyk ML, Michelson AM. Differential regulation of mesodermal gene expression by Drosophila cell type-specific Forkhead transcription factors. Development 139(8):1457-66. PMID: 22378636
Shihan Khan
- Year: 3
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: University of Michigan, B.S., 2010 (BME)
Rebecca Liu
- Year: 3
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Duke University, B.S., 2010 (Biology)
Kelsey Loeliger
- Year: 3
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), B.S., 2008 (Biology)
- Publication: Zhao Y.O., Kurscheid S., Zhang Y., Liu L., Zhang L., Loeliger K., Fikrig E. Survival of Plasmodium-Infected Mosquitoes during Starvation. 2012 Jul. PLoS ONE 7(7): e40556. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040556
Goran Micevic
- Year: 3
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Iowa State University, B.S., 2010 (Biochemistry)
Max Petersen
- Year: 3
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Augustana College, B.A., 2010 (Biochemistry, Pre-Med & Religious Studies)
Susan Scanlon
- Year: 3
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Yale University, B.S., 2010 ( MB& B & Physics)
Alexandra Thomas
- Year: 3
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Princeton University, B.A., 2009 (Public & International Affairs, Neuroscience)
Colin Tominey
- Year: 3
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: University of Washington, B.A., 2001; Oregon State University, B.S. , 2010 (Political Science & Biochemistry)
Laura West
- Year: 3
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: University of Texas, D.O., 2005 (Pharmacy)
Wendy Xiao
- Year: 3
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Emory University, B.S., 2009 (Anthropology & Neuroscience)
Genevieve Yang
- Year: 3
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: Columbia University, B.A., 2008 (Biology)
Ke Zhang
- Year: 3
- Mentor Information: James Jamieson
- Education: MIT, B.S., 2010 ( Chemistry & Physics)
Entering Class - 2009
Parwiz Abrahimi
- Year: 4
- Graduate Program: Immunobiology
- Mentor Information: Jordan Pober, Immunobiology
- Education: University of Washington, B.S., 2007 (Biomedical Engineering)
Alexander Bazazi
- Year: 4
- Graduate Program: EPH
- Mentor Information: Christian Tschudi, Public Health
- Education: Boston University, B.A., 2008 (Philosophy)
Emily Buchholz
- Year: 4
- Graduate Program: Public Health
- Mentor Information: Harlan Krumholz, Public Health
- Education: Yale, B.S., 2008, M.S., 2009 (Biology, M.C.D. Biology)
- Publication: Bucholz EM, Krumholz HM. Loneliness and living alone: what are we really measuring? [Commentary]. Arch Intern Med. 2012. PMID: 22710997
- Bucholz EM, Rathore SS, Reid KJ, Jones PG, Chan PS, Rich MW, Spertus JA, Krumholz HM. Body mass index and mortality in acute myocardial infarction patients. Am J Med. 2012. PMID: 22483510
Kara Furman
- Year: 4
- Graduate Program: INP
- Mentor Information: Ralph DiLeone, Neurobiology
- Education: Harvard, B.A., 2008 (Human Evolutionary Biology)
Simon Gray
- Year: 4
- Graduate Program: Immunobiology
- Mentor Information: Susan Kaech, Immunobiology
- Education: University of Maryland, B.S., 2008 (Chemical Engineering); University of Cambridge, M.O., 2009 (Chemical Engineering)
Edward Herman
- Year: 4
- Graduate Program: Immunobiology
- Mentor Information: Joseph Craft, Immunobiology
- Education: UCLA, B.S., 2007 (Microbiology)
Amanda Hernandez
- Year: 4
- Graduate Program: INP
- Mentor Information: David Hafler, Neurology
- Education: Columbia, B.A., 2008 (Neuroscience)
- Publications: Kubera C, Hernandez AL, Heng V, Bordey A. Transient mGlu(5)R inhibition enhances the survival of granule cell precursors in the neonatal cerebellum. Neuroscience. 2012 Sep 6;219:271-9 PMID: 22677205
- Hernandez AL, Blondin NA, Curiale G, Greer DM. Plantar Flexion with Noxious Dorsal Foot Stimulation in Brain Death. Neurocrit Care. 2012 Apr 13. PMID: 22528275
- Drouyer E, LeSauter J, Hernandez AL, Silver R. Specializations of gastrin-releasing peptide cells of the mouse suprachiasmatic nucleus. J Comp Neurol. 2010 Apr 15;518(8):1249-63. PMID: 20151358
Brendan Huang
- Year: 4
- Graduate Program: BME
- Mentor Information: Michael Choma, BME
- Education: Dartmouth College, B.A., 2008 (Chemistry, Physics)
Nathan Pirakitikulr
- Year: 4
- Graduate Program: MCDB
- Mentor Information: Anna Pyle, MCDB
- Education: Columbia University, B.A., 2009 (Biochemistry)
- Publication: Pirakitikulr N, Ostrov N, Peralta-Yahya P and Cornish VW (2010). PCRless libary mutagenesis via oligonucleotide recombination in yeast, Protein Sci19:2336-46. PMID: 20936671.
Marco Ramos
- Year: 4
- Graduate Program: History of the Science of Medicine
- Mentor Information: John Warner, History of Medicine
- Education: Columbia University, B.A., 2007 (Pre-Med)
- Publication: Ramos, Marco A. (2013) Psychiatry, Authoritarianism, and Revolution: The Politics of Mental Illness during the Military Dictatorships in Argentina, 1966-1983. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (in press).
Andrew Smith
- Year: 4
- Graduate Program: INP
- Mentor Information: Joel Gelernter, Neurobiology
- Education: Northwestern, B.A., 2004 (American Studies)
Gregory Stacheleck
- Year: 4
- Graduate Program: Genetics
- Mentor Information: Peter Glazer, Genetics
- Education: California Institute of Technology, B.S., 2007 (Biology, Chemistry)
- Publication: Inhibition of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase down-regulates BRCA1 and RAD51 in a pathway mediated by E2F4 and p130. Hegan DC, Lu Y, Stachelek GC, Crosby ME, Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Feb 2;107(5):2201-6. Epub 2010 Jan 19.
- Potentiation of temozolomide cytotoxicity by inhibition of DNA polymerase beta is accentuated by BRCA2 mutation. Stachelek GC, Dalal S, Donigan KA, Campisi Hegan D, Sweasy JB, Glazer PM. Cancer Res. 2010 Jan 1;70(1):409-17. Epub 2009 Dec 22.
Nicholas Theodosakis
- Year: 4
- Graduate Program: Experimental Pathology
- Mentor Information: Marcus Bosenberg, Pathology
- Education: University of Virginia, B.A.,2008; University of Virginia, B.S., 2008 (Psychology, Biochemistry)
Eleanor Thomas
- Year: 4
- Graduate Program: INP
- Mentor Information: Arthur Horwich, Genetics
- Education: Brown University Brown University, B.A., B.S. 2007 (Classics, Neuroscience)
Samir Zaidi
- Year: 4
- Graduate Program: Genetics
- Mentor Information: Richard Lifton, Genetics
- Education: MIT, B.S., 2009 (Biology)
Brian Zhao
- Year: 4
- Graduate Program: Genetics
- Mentor Information: Richard Lifton, Genetics
- Education: Princeton, B.A., 2009 (Molecular Biology)
- Publications: Choi M, Scholl UI, Yue P, Björklund P, Zhao B, Nelson-Williams C, Ji W, Cho Y,Patel A, Men CJ, Lolis E, Wisgerhof MV, Geller DS, Mane S, Hellman P, Westin G, Åkerström G, Wang W, Carling T, Lifton RP. (2011) K+ channel mutations in adrenal aldosterone-producing adenomas and hereditary hypertension. Science. 331:768-72. PMID: 21311022.
- Swem LR, Swem DL, O'Loughlin CT, Gatmaitan R, Zhao B, Ulrich SM, Bassler BL. A quorum-sensing antagonist targets both membrane-bound and cytoplasmic receptors and controls bacterial pathogenicity. Mol Cell. 2009 Jul 1;35(2):143-53. PubMed PMID: 19647512; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2741501.
Entering Class - 2008
Jason Brown
- Year: 5
- Graduate Program: Exp. Pathology
- Mentor Information: David Rimm, Pathology
- Education: Duke University, B.S., 2008 (Chemistry)
Raj Chovatiya
- Year: 5
- Graduate Program: Immunobiology
- Mentor Information: Ruslan Medzhitov, Immunobiology
- Education: University of Pittsburgh, B.S., 2008 (M.C. Biology, Neuroscience)
Victoria Clark
- Year: 5
- Graduate Program: INP
- Mentor Information: Muret Gunel, Neurobiology
- Education: Harvard, B.A., 2008 (Biochemistry)
- Publication:Clark V.E., et al. (2013) Genomic analysis of non-NF2 meningiomas reveals mutations in TRAF7, KLF4, AKT1, and SMO. Science. 339(6123):1077-80. PMID: 23348505.
Kelly Fitzgerald
- Year: 5
- Graduate Program: Pharmacology
- Mentor Information: David Spiegel, Chemistry
- Education: Boston College, B.S., 2008 (Biochemistry)
Samir Gautam
- Year: 5
- Graduate Program: Cell Biology
- Mentor Information: David Spiegel, Chemistry
- Education: Boston College, B.S., 2006 (Biology, Music)
Ken Hui
- Year: 5
- Graduate Program: CBB
- Mentor Information: Judy Cho, Hongyu Zhao; Genetics
- Education:Yale, M.S., B.S., 2008 (Mathematics, Biology)
- Publications: Jostins, L., Ripke, S., Weersma, R., Duerr, R., McGovern, D., Hui, K.Y., et al. Host-microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease. Genes & Immunity.
PMID 23615072
- Zhang, W., Ferguson, J., Ng, S.M., Hui, K., Goh, G., Lin, A., Esplugues, E., Flavell, R.A., Abraham, C., Zhao, H., Cho, J.H. (2012) Effector CD4+ T Cell Expression Signatures and Immune-Mediated Disease Associated Genes. PLoS One. 7(6):e38510. Epub 2012 Jun 8.
- Pang H, George SL, Hui K., Tong T. (2012) Gene Selection using Iterative Feature Elimination Random Forests for Survival Outcomes. IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform. [Epub ahead of print]
Jeremy Jacox
- Year: 5
- Graduate Program: Immunobiology
- Mentor Information: Ruslan Medzhitov, Immunobiology
- Education:MIT, B.S., 2008 (Physics)
Alexandria Marino
- Year: 5
- Graduate Program: INP
- Mentor Information: James Mazer, Neurobiology
- Education:Yale University, B.A., 2005 (Cognitive Science)
Nicole Ali McNeer
- Year: 5
- Graduate Program: BME
- Mentor Information: Mark Saltzman, BME
- Education:Harvard, B.A., 2008 (Physics)
- Publications: McNeer, Nicole Ali., Chin, J.Y., Schleifman, E.B., Fields, R.J., Glazer, P.M., Saltzman, W.M. Nanoparticles Deliver Triplex-forming PNAs for Site-specific Genomic Recombination in CD34(+) Human Hematopoietic Progenitors. Molecular Therapy 2011. PMID: 20859257
- McNeer, Nicole Ali, Schleifman, EB, Glazer, PM, Saltzman, WM. Polymer delivery systems for site-specific genome editing. J Control Release. 2011 May 18. [Epub ahead of print]
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Alyssa Nylander
- Year: 5
- Graduate Program: INP
- Mentor Information: David Hafler, Neurology
- Education:Harvard University, B.A., 2008 (Biology)
Curtis Perry
- Year: 5
- Graduate Program: Immunobiology
- Mentor Information: Susan Kaech, Immunobiology
- Education:Yale University, B.S., 2007 (Biochemistry)
Brian Rosenberg
- Year: 5
- Graduate Program: Cell Biology
- Mentor Information: Tony Koleske, MB&B
- Education:Harvard University, B.A., 2008 (Biology)
Molly Weiner
- Year: 5
- Graduate Program: Cell Biology
- Mentor Information: Haifan Lin, Cell Biology
- Education:Barnard College, B.A., 2007 (Biochemistry)
- Publication: Drosophila Piwi functions in Hsp90-mediated suppression of phenotypic variation. Authors Gangaraju VK, Yin H, Weiner MM, Wang J, Huang XA, Lin H. Journal Nature Genetics. 2011 Feb;43(2):153-8. PMID 21186352
Entering Class - 2007
Nancy Allen
- Year: 6
- Graduate Program: Immunobiology
- Mentor Information: Ruslan Medzhitov, Immunobiology
- Education: UCLA, B.S., 2005 (Biology)
Christopher Bartley
- Year: 6
- Graduate Program: Neurobiology
- Mentor Information: Angelique Bordey, Neurobiology
- Education: Yale, B.S., 2004 (Neuroscience)
- Publications: Feliciano DM, Lin TV, Hartman NW, Bartley CM, Kubera C, Hsieh L, Lafourcade C, O'Keefe RA, Bordey A. A circuitry and biochemical basis for tuberous sclerosis symptoms: from epilepsy to neurocognitive deficits. Int J Dev Neurosci. 2013 Feb 26; PMID: 23485365
- Hashimoto-Torii K, Torii M, Sarkisian MR, Bartley CM, Shen J, Radtke F, Gridley T, Sestan N, Rakic P (2008 ). “Interaction between Reelin and Notch signaling regulates neuronal miration in the cerebral cortex.” Neuron 60(2):273-84. PMID:18957219
- Sarkisian MR, Bartley CM, Rakic P (2008). “Trouble making the first move: interpreting arrested neuronal migration in the cerebral cortex.” Trends Neurosci. 31(2):54-61. PMID: 18201775
- Sarkisian MR*, Bartley CM*, Chi H, Nakamura F, Hashimoto-Torii K, Torii M, Flavell RA, Rakic P (2006). “MEKK4 Deficiency Results in Periventricular Heterotopia, Impaired Neuronal Migration and Abnormal Filamin Expression.” Neuron 52(5):789-801. PMID: 17145501
- Linseman DA, Bartley CM, Le SS, Laessig TA, Bouchard RJ, Meintzer MK, Li M, Heidenreich KA (2003). “Inactivation of the Myocyte Enhancer Factor-2 Repressor Histone Deacetylase-5 by endogenous Ca2/Calmodulin-dependent Kinase II Promotes Depolarization-mediate Cerebellar Granule Neuron Survival.” JBC 278: 41472 – 41481. PMID: 12896970
Jennifer Guo
- Year: 6
- Graduate Program: INP
- Mentor Information: Hal Blumenfeld, Neuroscience
- Education: Johns Hopkins, B.A., M.S., 2007 (Neuroscience)
Kaufman, Adam
- Year: 6
- Graduate Program: INP
- Mentor Information: Stephen Strittmatter, INP
- Education: Columbia University, B.A., 2007 (Biochemistry)
Joshua Motelow
- Year: 6
- Graduate Program: INP
- Mentor Information: Hal Blumenfeld, Neuroscience
- Education: Yale University, B.A., 2006 (Computer Science); Yale University, Post-Bacc., 2006
Daniel Okin
- Year: 6
- Graduate Program: Immunobiology
- Mentor Information: Ruslan Medzhitov, Immunobiology
- Education: Columbia University, B.S., 2007 (Chemical Engineering)
- Publication: Okin D and Medzhitov R (2012). Evolution of Inflammatory Diseases. Current Biology. 22 (17): R733-R740. PMID: pending
Robert Ross
- Year: 6
- Graduate Program: Cell Biology
- Mentor Information: Haifan Lin, Immunobiology
- Education: University of Florida, B.S., 2005, (Chemistry); Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences, Post-Bacc. 2007
Chen Wang
- Year: 6
- Graduate Program: Immunobiology
- Mentor Information: Jordan Pober, Immunobiology
- Education: University of Colorado, B.A., 2007 (Biochemistry, Molecular Biology)
Ruth Wang'ondu
- Year: 6
- Graduate Program: Cell Biology
- Mentor Information: I.G. Miller, EPH
- Education: Wellesley College, B.A., 2007 (Biochemistry , Sociology)
- Publications:Wang’ondu, R.W. & Murray, S. T. (2011). Relapse of polymicrobial endocarditis in an intravenous drug user. Yale J Biol Med. 84(3): 321-324. PMID: 21966051
- Park, R., Wang’ondu, R., Heston, L., Shedd, D., & Miller, G. (2011). Efficient induction of nuclear aggresomes by specific mis-sense mutations in the DNA-binding domain of a viral AP-1 homolog. J. Biol. Chem. 286 (11): 9748-9762. PMID: 21233201
- Daigle, D., Gradoville, L., Tuck, D., Schulz, V., Wang’ondu, R., Ye, J., Gorres, K., & Miller, G. (2011). Valproic acid antagonizes the capacity of other HDAC inhibitors to activate the Epstein-Barr virus lytic cycle. J. Virol. 85 (11): 5628-5643. PMID: 21411522
- Tran, L. T., Wang'ondu, R.W., Weng, J.B., Wanjiku, G.W., Fong, C. M., Kile, A.C., Koepp, D.M., & Hood-DeGrenier, J. K. (2010). TORC1 kinase and the S-phase cyclin Clb5 collaborate to promote mitotic spindle assembly and DNA replication in S. cerevisiae. Curr. Genet. 56 (6): 479-493. PMID: 20697716
Entering Class - 2006
Feras Akbik
- Year: 7
- Graduate Program: INP
- Mentor Information: Stephen Strittmatter, INP
- Education: Emory University, B.S., 2005 (Biology, Chemistry, Philosophy)
- Publication: Akbik FV, Bhagat SM, Patel PR, Cafferty WB, Strittmatter SM. Anatomical plasticity of adult brain is titrated by nogo receptor 1. Neuron. 2013 Mar 6;77(5):859-66. PMID: 23473316
- Akbik F, Cafferty WB, Strittmatter SM. "Myelin associated inhibitors: A link between injury-induced and experience-dependent plasticity." Exp Neurol. 2011 Jun 15
- Akbik, Feras (2013). Anatomical Plasticity of Adult Brain is Titrated by Nogo Receptor 1. Neuron 77:859. 23473316
Jonathan Belman
- Year: 7
- Graduate Program: Cell Biology
- Mentor Information: Jonathan Bogan, Cell Biology
- Education: Penn State, B.S., 2004 (Biochemistry)
Adriana Blakaj
- Year: 7
- Graduate Program: Cell Biology
- Mentor Information: Richard Bucala, Cell Biology
- Education: Yale, B.S., 2004 (MB&B)
Allison Campbell
- Year: 7
- Graduate Program: Immunobiology
- Mentor Information: Mark Shlomchik, Immunobiology
- Education: Amherst College, B.A., 2005 (Biology)
Barbara Hirschman Chaiyachati
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- Graduate Program: Cell Biology
- Mentor Information: Tian Chi, Immunobiology
- Education: Macalester College, B.A., 2006 (Biology)
Dylan Davey
- Year: 7
- Graduate Program: EPH
- Mentor Information: Michael Cappello, EPH
- Education: Yale, B.S., 2005 (Biology)
Louis Fazen
- Year: 7
- Graduate Program: EPH
- Mentor Information: Christian Tschudi, Elizabeth Bradley; EPH
- Education: Brown University, B.A., 2002 (Modern Culture & Media Studies), Johns Hopkins, 2005 (Post Bac)
Maya Kasowski
- Year: 7
- Graduate Program: MCDB
- Mentor Information: Sherman Weissman, Genetics
- Education: U. Pennsylvania, B.A., 1999 (Biology)
- Publications: The ENCODE Project Consortium (2011) A User's Guide to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE).+ 9(4): e1001046. This publication has an extensive author’s list, as it is a collaboration among several ENCODE laboratories. My name is listed in the Stanford-Yale, Harvard, University of Massachusetts Medical School, University of Southern California/UCDavis Group.
James Martenson
- Year: 7
- Graduate Program: INP
- Mentor Information: Susumu Tomita, Physiology
- Education: Northwestern University, B.A. 2006 (Chemistry)
Qing Yang
- Year: 7
- Graduate Program: MCDB
- Mentor Information: Paul Forscher, MCDB
- Education: Yale University, B.S., 2006 (Molecular Biology)
- Publications: Yang Q, Zhang X-F, Pollard T, Forscher P. Arp2/3 complex and myosin II act in concert to orchastrate actin veil integrity and dynamic behavior in Aplysia growth cones. Nature Cell Biology. submitted.
- Yang Q. Review of Small Molecule Therapy for Genetic Diseases. Yale J Biol Med. in press.
- Yang Q. Review of Color Atlas of Human Anatomy: Nerve System and Sensory Organs, Vol. 3. Yale J Biol Med. 2011 Mar; 84 (1) : 65–66.
- Yang Q, Zhang XF, Pollard T, and Forscher P. Inhibition of Arp2/3 complex with CK666 damps growth cone dynamicity by disrupting peripheral actin networks. Mol Biol Cell. 2010 Dec; 21 (suppl) number 79.
- Yang Q. Gain weight by “going diet”!? Artificial sweeteners and the neurobiology of sugar cravings. Yale J of Biol Med. 2010 Jun; 83(2): 101–108. PMID 20589192
- Yang Q, Van Goor D, Forscher P. (2009) Protein kinase C effects on actin filament dynamics and branching in neuronal growth cones. Mol Biol Cell 20 (suppl) number 1906.
- Uramatsu S, Liu G, Yang Q, Uramatsu M, Chi H, Lu J, Yamashita K, Kodama H. Characterization of prolidase I and II purified from normal human erythrocytes: comparison with prolidase in erythrocytes from a patient with prolidase deficiency. Amino Acids. 2009 Sep; 37(3): 543-51 PMID 19263194
- Burgess, KA, Yang, Q, Wagner, WR, Federspiel, W. Development of Microfabricated Biohybrid Artificial Lungs. ASAIO J 2005 Mar/Apr; 51(2):53A.
- Yang Q, Yang G, Zhang J, Masuoka N, Riffle YZ, Wang Z, Ebinuma H, Kodama H. Effect of Agkistroden blomhoffi (mamushi) on the proliferation of human fibroblasts. Clin Biochem. 2004 Feb; 37(2): 138-45. PMID 14725945
Entering Class - 2005
Martin Dominguez
- Year: 8
- Graduate Program: Neurobiology
- Mentor Information: Pasko Rakic, Neurobiology
- Education: Yale, B.S., 2005 (Biology)
Maya Kotas
- Year: 8
- Graduate Program: Immunobiology
- Mentor Information: Ruslan Medzhitov, Immunobiology
- Education: Yale, B.S., 2005 (BME)
Rachel Rosenstein
- Year: 8
- Graduate Program: Immunobiology
- Mentor Information: Ruslan Medzhitov, Immunobiology
- Education: Princeton, B.A., 2005 (Molecular Biology)
- Publications:Brauer, M.J., Huttenhower, C., Airoldi, E.M., Rosenstein, R., Matese, J.C., Gresham, D., Boer, V.M., Troyanskaya, O.G., and Botstein, D. (2008). Coordination of growth rate, cell cycle, stress response, and metabolic activity in yeast. Mol Biol Cell 19, 352-367. PMID:17959824
- Palm, N.W.*, Rosenstein, R.K.*, and Medzhitov, R. (2012). Allergic host defences. Nature 484, 465-472. PMID:22538607
Katherine Uyhazi
- Year: 8
- Graduate Program: Cell Biology
- Mentor Information: Haifan Lin, Cell Biology
- Education: The College of New Jersey, B.S., 2005 (Biology)
- Publications: Chen D, Zheng W, Lin A, Uyhazi K, Zhao H, and Lin H. (2012) Pumilio 1 Suppresses Multiple Activators of p53 to Safeguard Spermatogenesis. Curr Biol 22: 420-425. PMID 22342750.
- Conrad NK, Shu MD, Uyhazi KE, and Steitz JA (2007). Mutational analysis of a viral RNA element that counteracts rapid RNA decay by interaction with the polyadenylate tail. PNAS 104 (25):10412-7. PMID: 17563387.
- Roux A, Uyhazi K, Frost A, and DeCamilli P (2006). GTP-dependent twisting of dynamin implicates constriction and tension in membrane fission. Nature 441 (7092):528-531. PMID: 16648839.
Neil Vasan
- Year: 8
- Graduate Program: Cell Biology
- Mentor Information: Karin Reinisch, Cell Biology
- Education: Harvard, M.A., 2005 (Chemistry)
- Publication: Vasan, N., Hutagalung, A., Novick, P., and Reinisch, K.M. Structure of a C-terminal fragment of its Vps53 subunit suggests similarity of Golgi-associated retrograde protein (GARP) complex to a family of tethering complexes. PNAS 107, 14176-81 (2010).
Ellen Vollmers
- Year: 8
- Graduate Program: Genetics
- Mentor Information: Peter Tattersall, Genetics
- Education: Tulane University, B.S., 2004 (Cell & Molecular Biology)
Julie Xanthopoulos
- Year: 8
- Graduate Program: Cell Biology
- Mentor Information: Fred Gorelick, Cell Biology
- Education: Lafayette College, B.S., 2004 (Biology)
Entering Class - 2004
Jacob Appelbaum
- Year: 9
- Graduate Program: Cell Biology
- Mentor Information: Alanna Schepartz, Chemistry
- Education: Amherst College, B.A., 2003 (Biology, Chemistry)
Danny Balkin
- Year: 9
- Graduate Program: Cell Biology
- Mentor Information: Pietro De Camilli, Cell Biology
- Education: Northwestern, B.A., 2004 (Biology)
- Publication: A phosphoinositide switch controls the maturation and signaling properties of APPL endosomes. Zoncu R, Perera R, Balkin DM, Toomre D, and De Camilli P. Cell. 2009 Mar 20;136(6):1110-21
- A PH domain within OCRL bridges clathrin mediated membrane trafficking to phosphoinositide metabolism. Mao Y, Balkin DM, Zoncu R, Erdmann K, Tomasini L, Hu F, Jin MM, Hodsdon ME, and De Camilli P.
- Selective recognition of protein tetraserine motifs with a cell-permeable, pro-fluorescent bis-boronic acid Halo TL, Appelbaum J, Hobert EM, Balkin DM, Schepartz A. J Am Chem Soc. 2009 Jan 21;131(2):438-9.
- Smad3 and Pitx2 cooperate in stimulation of FSHbeta gene transcription Suszko MI, Antenos M, Balkin DM and Woodruff TK Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2008 Jan 16;281(1-2):27-36. Epub 2007 Oct 13.
Jonathan Chen
- Year: 9
- Graduate Program: Cell Biology
- Mentor Information: Susan Kaech, Immunobiology
- Education: University of Chicago, B.S., 2003 (Biochemistry, Chemistry)
Alicia Little
- Year: 9
- Graduate Program: Immunobiology
- Mentor Information: David Schatz, Immunobiology
- Education: Amherst College, B.A., 2004 (Chemistry, Neuroscience)
- Publications: Yanhong Ji, Alicia J. Little, Joydeep K. Banerjee, Bingtao Hao, Eugene M. Oltz, Michael S. Krangel, and David G. Schatz Promoters, enhancers, and transcription target RAG1 binding during V(D)J recombination. J Exp Med. 2010 Dec 20;207(13):2809-16.
- Brozovic S, Nagaishi T, Yoshida M, Betz S, Salas A, Chen D, Kaser A, Glickman J, Kuo T, Little A, Morrison J, Corazza N, Kim JY, Colgan SP, Young SG, Exley M, Blumberg RS. CD1d function is regulated by microsomal triglyceride transfer protein. Nat Med. 2004 May;10(5):535-9. Epub 2004 Apr 25.
Heather McGee
- Year: 9
- Graduate Program: Immunobiology
- Mentor Information: Richard Flavell, Immunobiology
- Education: U.C. Berkeley, B.A., 2002 (Biochemistry); University of Cambridge, M.S., 2003 (Biomedical Science)
David Merrick
- Year: 9
- Graduate Program: C&M Physiology
- Mentor Information: Michael Caplan, C&M Physiology
- Education: Johns Hopkins University, B.S., 2003 (Molecular Biology)
- Publication: Lal M, Song X, Pluznick JL, Di Giovanni V, Merrick DM, Rosenblum ND, Chauvet V, Gottardi CJ, Pei Y, Caplan MJ. “Polycystin-1 C-terminal Tail Associates with â-catenin and Inhibits Canonical Wnt Signaling” Hum Mol Genet. 2008 Oct 15;17(20):3105-17. Epub 2008 Jul 16.
Entering Class - 2003
Serge Kobsa
- Year: 10
- Graduate Program: BME
- Mentor Information: Mark Saltzman, BME
- Education: Drake University, B.S., 2003 (Biochemistry, Neuroscience, Psychology)
Judah Weathers
- Year:
- Mentor Information: E. Leibenluft
- Education: Northeastern University, B.S., 2004 (Neuroscience)
