The new academic year has seen a shifting of roles within Yale’s largest graduate program as Anthony J. Koleske, Ph.D., professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and of neurobiology, succeeds Lynn Cooley, Ph.D., as leader of the Combined Program in Biological & Biomedical Sciences (BBS). Cooley has been appointed dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
“This is a very exciting time to be in graduate school,” said Cooley, who is the C.N.H. Long Professor of Genetics. “In the sciences, the new technologies available for doing research are just astonishing, and similar developments are taking place in other disciplines as well.”
Koleske has served as director of graduate admissions for the BBS Program’s Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry track and its successor, the Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology track. He is a member of the executive committees of the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program and the Cellular and Molecular Biology Training Program and is a member of the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience.
Koleske earned his Ph.D. in 1993 at MIT, where he was a graduate student in the lab of Richard Young, Ph.D., and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with David Baltimore, also at MIT. His research is focused on the mechanisms underlying cell adhesion and how these processes break down in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.