Bethany Andreson
Bethany Andreson
I was born and raised in Concord, Massachusetts as the second of four children named in alphabetical order (yes, my parents are dorks). For my college years I decided to move to the South, where I have been studying at Wake Forest University for the past four years. I graduated with a BS in biology (with a minor in chemistry) in May, 2002. There, I studied the co-evolution of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Although my future plans are still a bit foggy, I would like to continue with molecular genetics, and probably do either cancer research or mitochondrial disease research at Columbia. At this point, I am considering going into Industry, but who knows how I'll feel in a few years. Among other things, I enjoy listening to music, watching and discussing movies, reading, and drawing. After spending a semester abroad in London, I am excited about moving to a city again where life will be a bit more upbeat than what I have been used to for the past few years.
Erin Brown
Rebecca Burgess
The place I call home is Cooperstown, NY, a small town upstate. My second home is Ithaca, NY, where I studied Biochemistry at Cornell. I have done research for most of my free summers, doing research on such areas as: circadian rhythms, fatty acids and cancer, herpes virus, and yeast mitochondrial proteins. My current interests have been focused toward cell cycle regulation and signal transduction, and related topics. This past summer I took a break from science and worked as a waitress and just generally hung around. I do enjoy things other than science and food service, however, namely: tae kwon do, listening to/making music, spoiling my pet goldfish, photography, going out and eating food/drinking, watching movies, and shopping for specialty cheese.
Min-sung Choi
I was born in Seoul, Korea, lived in Manhattan for a little over 8 years, and returned to Seoul when I was ten. In 2000, I received a B.S. in biology at Yonsei University (Seoul), and received my M.S. also in biology at the same school in 2002. I have been a �worm� person, having worked with C. elegans for over two years. My work focused on genetic screening looking for transposon-induced mutants, and also the change of gene expression in worms on exposure to ethanol.
My interests mainly focus on, but are not limited to, genetics and developmental biology, and after taking a course in statistics last semester I have also become interested in biostatistics.
After receiving my Ph.D. I plan to continue as a researcher or teacher, but I�m also interested in positions that provide information for web-based databases.
In my spare time I like to meet friends, go to new places, read all sorts of fiction, and watch movies.
Emily Clough
I grew up in Danville, a small city in the Bay Area of
California where I lived until I left for college. I have had a life-long
interest in biology and research that has led me to get involved in many
different types of research�from population genetics to molecular genetics. I
went to William and Mary for my undergraduate degree in biology where I focused
on botany and ecology. It was at William and Mary that I was first exposed to
field and lab research when I did a senior research project on the pollination
biology and population genetics of the native Pink Lady Slipper orchid. Wanting
to continue research, I got my masters in Horticulture at Michigan State
University where I studied environmental physiology of herbaceous perennials for
greenhouse production. From there, my career took a swift turn in the molecular
direction. I moved to Washington, DC where I was looking for a job in plant
science research when I got a call about setting up and running a microarray
core facility at the University of Maryland (I had applied to an adjoining lab).
Two and a half years and many arrays later, I am ready to start working towards
a PhD. Currently, I am most interested in studying molecular mechanisms of
development in a model system.
Amalene Cooper-Morgan
My name is Amalene Cooper-Morgan and I was born on the island of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the island of Steel pan and Calypso both of which bring melody to the ultimate street party, Carnival.
Education
B.S., Biology, Long Island University, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2001
Membership
Published poet and distinguished member of the International Society of Poets,
National Library of Poetry, 1998
Past Experience:
Internship, UMASS, Worcester, 1999
Internship, Columbia University, 2000
Former president of Phi Sigma pre-medical Society
Hobbies
Gospel singing
Reading: mostly fiction
Michael Crickmore
I consider myself a philadelphian despite the fact that I was born in flint, MI then moved to Los Angeles, then to phily for high school, off to the University of Delaware for college (biochemistry 2000), and now live in New Jersey...all the while taking time to visit my father's place in mobile, AL. But my mom and the eagles are in philadelphia so that's where i call home.
I've been working at Rutgers University since my graduation. There my scientific pursuits have been divided into two basic categories: studies of the growth and patterning of the drosophila wing, and the shelving and maintenance of general lab supplies. Although individually fascinating, I have no concrete plans to continue on in either field.
When I'm not in the lab I enjoy reading, playing basketball and guitar, looking at paintings, and traveling around with my exotic Yugoslavian girlfriend.
Christina Doyle
I grew up in nearby Yonkers, New York, where I was subjected to the typical suburban upbringing. I earned my B.S. in Biology from Manhattan College (which is actually located in the Bronx), where I had my first exposure to the exciting world of molecular biology research. I�ve spent the last two years living in Manhattan and working at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the Bronx. It was here that I discovered my love of neurobiology and the nematode C. elegans. Ultimately, I hope to work on dissecting the genetic and molecular basis of behavior, learning, and memory.
When not in the lab, I�m most likely to be found in the dojang practicing Tae Kwon Do. The rest of my time is taken up with reading, concerts (indie/rock/punk/etc.), rollerblading, climbing, and generally being a wiseass.
John Kratz
Tim Marmo
Born and raised in the northern suburbs of New York City, I first moved to New York City in 1996 to attend New York University. During my time there, I majored in Biology and Earth/Environmental Sciences, became addicted to specialty coffee, and became a die-hard New Yorker. I graduated from NYU in 2000 with a bachelors in Biology and have spent the last 2 years at Cornell University Medical Center in Manhattan working in the laboratory of Drs. Andrew Dannenberg and Kotha Subbaramaiah. The focus of my work revolves around the involvement of Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in human cancer and carcinogenesis, and the signaling pathways that lead to its disregulation.
A black belt in Tae kwon do, I spend most of my free time training for competition, practicing yoga, bicycling, reading, cooking and taking interest in the world around me. I also spend weekends working with Habitat for Humanity, and spend 2-3 nights a month on call as a Rape Crisis and Domestic Violence Counselor, assisting survivors whom are brought to the emergency departments at St Luke's and Roosevelt hospitals.
Clara Park
hometown: philadelphia, PA
bio interests: the brain, neurodegenerative disorders, learning and memory, basically all things neuro...
general interests: photography, film, running, cooking.
when i am not in the lab i am: sleeping, at a movie, at a restaurant...
in the future i see myself at a mid-sized university teaching and doing research on any of the aforementioned.
Shaun Peterson
I was born and raised in Long Island and graduated from Boston College with a B.S. in Biology in 2001. After college I stayed in Boston and worked as a laboratory technician at the Boston University School of Medicine in the Dermatology Department. I was working on the molecular basis of the regulation of melanogenesis. This work solidified my love for experimental science. My current scientific interests broadly lie in cancer research and cell-cycle regulation ? however this is very open to change. My non-science interests are dominated by music (listening and going to shows- mostly punk), bars, biking, reading, and generally enjoying life.
Danielle Pierre
Ragan Robertson
My real name is Ragan Robertson. Actually, my only name is Ragan Robertson. Unless you count the other personalities that live in my head, but that is another story. I consider myself from Seattle, though I was born in Indianapolis. I attended the noninfamous University of Washington, and mostly lived (if you count a hammock hung in your lab for you to sleep in) at the South Campus there at the Seattle branch of the school. I studied breast cancer in the pathology department during my undergraduate career, and would like to study proteins involved in a biological system while in graduate school. As for my hobbies� Man! Am I boring or what! I mean come on! Seattle? Isn't that like a rainforest or somewhere where it rains nonstop? And I have heard that he is weird, being named after the girl from the Exorcist (just kidding mom). Ick.
Laura Rogers
Catherine Smith
Yoichi Takebayashi
Andy Tran
I was born in NY and have lived in Germany and Singapore. I graduated from Columbia in 2001 and have worked in various labs studying things ranging from p53, to Akt/PKB, to membrane proteins. Currently I'm interested in studying cell signaling and apoptosis.
Junmei Wang
Hi, everyone! I came from Peking University Health Science Center and my thesis topic was Development and Molecular Evolution of Monoclonal Antibody against Human Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase. I am interested in a lot of different research areas. I like sports, listening to music, reading, and outing.
I was born in Hubei, a province in middle China, in 1978. When I was sixteen years old, I moved with my parents to Guizhou, which is in the southwest of China. Two years later, I began my undergraduate study in Zhejiang University, an institution in the east of China. My undergraduate project was about the expression of acetylcholinesterase in apoptotic SK-N-SH cells.
In 2000, I got my B.S. in biology and then came to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. I am now a second-year
M.Phil. student here. My research project is around the signal pathway in astrocytes under ischemia. In the future, I hope to focus my research interest on cancer biology and neurobiology.
Food is my favorite, which can explain why my plan of dieting has never been successful. I also enjoy music and travel very much. Besides, I have great interest in learning different culture.
Xiaohong Zhang
I was born and raised in a beautiful town in middle China. But I got my B.S. in Biology at Beijing Normal University, Beijing. Then I achieved my M.S. in Biology at Chinese Academy of Sciences in June, 2002. My research focused on cloning genes related to rice disease defense response, and analyzing their expression profiles under other kinds of treatments.
Although my future plans are not in focus, I would like to continue with research in Biology and probably choose Genomics or protein structure prediction at Columbia. I prefer to dry research.
Among my hobbies, I enjoy listening to music, watching and discussing movies, playing table tennis, shopping and traveling. Cooking Chinese food is also a big challenge for me and it brings me great pleasure.