| Richard
Axel:
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| University Professor,
M.D.,
Johns Hopkins,
1970 |
| Interests:
Defining the ogic of olfactory perception; how individual sensory neurons express a specific receptor andhow the brain distinguishes which receptors have been activated |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Kathryn
L.
Calame:
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| Professor Emeritus, Special Lecturer, Ph.D.,
Ph.D.,
George Washington,
1975 |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Joachim
Frank:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D. |
| Interests:
Cryo-electron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction for the study of the mechanism of protein biosynthesis |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Stephen
P.
Goff:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Stanford,
1978 |
| Interests:
Structure and function of retrovirus genomes and expression; retroviral replication; molecular biology of retrovirus replication; tyrosine kinases and signal transduction pathways |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Max
E.
Gottesman:
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| Professor, Ph.D., M.D.,
Ph.D. M.D. Degree,
Yale,
1960 |
| Interests:
Gene regulation and protein folding in E. coli phages and temperate coli phages; differentiation and oncogenesis in thyroid cells |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Eric
Greene:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Texas A&M,
1998 |
| Interests:
Molecular mechanisms of DNA recombination and repair; single molecule fluorescence microscopy and other biochemical approaches |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Iva
S.
Greenwald:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1982 |
| Interests:
Lin-12/Notch signaling and cell fate specification; cell-cell interactions, signal transduction, and cell fate choice; genetic and molecular studies of C. elegans development |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Alla
Grishok:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Massachucetts,
2001 |
| Interests:
Contribution of Short RNAs to regulation of gene expression through chromatin; epigenetic phenomena in C. elegans |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Wayne
A.
Hendrickson:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins,
1968 |
| Interests:
Macromolecular structure with an aim toward in-depth understanding of biological activity |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| David
I.
Hirsh:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Rockefeller,
1968 |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Oliver
Hobert:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Max-Planck Institute,
1995 |
| Interests:
Genetic analysis of the development of neural circuits in C. elegans |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Barry
Honig:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins, Weizman Institute of Sciences (Israel),
1964, 1968 |
| Interests:
Using computational and theoretical methods to study the structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids and membranes |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Thomas
M.
Jessell:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Cambridge,
1977 |
| Interests:
Molecular mechanisms of neuronal differentiation, axon guidance, and cell recognition in the developing vertebrate nervous system |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Eric
Kandel:
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| University Professor,
M.D.,
New York,
1956 |
| Interests:
Molecular biology of long term memory storage; initiation and maintenance of synaptic growth; examination of features shared in simple forms of learning and memory in the Aplysia nervous system and in the mammalian hippocampus |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Arthur
Karlin:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Rockefeller,
1962 |
| Interests:
The function of receptors in terms of molecular structures |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Alvin
I.
Krasna:
|
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| Professor Emeritus, Special Lecturer,
Ph.D.,
Columbia University,
1955 |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Seymour
Lieberman:
|
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| Special Lecturer,
Ph.D. |
|
| Barbara
W.
Low:
|
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| Professor Emeritus and Special Lecturer,
Ph.D.,
Oxford,
1948 |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Thomas
Maniatis:
|
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| ,
Ph.D.,
Vanderbilt University,
1971 |
| Interests:
Expression and function of neural adhesion proteins, ALS disease mechanisms |
|
| Richard
S.
Mann:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
MIT,
1986 |
| Interests:
Control of pattern formation by homeotic genes and their downstream targets in Drosophila melanogaster |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Arthur
G.
Palmer, III:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D., North Carolina,
1989 |
| Interests:
Biomolecular dynamics, structure, and function; NMR spectroscopy; nuclear magnetic resonance studies of the structure, function and dynamics of proteins, protein-ligand and protein-receptor complexes |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Maurice
M.
Rapport:
|
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| Special Lecturer,
Ph.D. |
|
| Burkhard
Rost:
|
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| AssociateProfessor,
Ph.D.,,
Ruprecht-Karl University,,
1994 |
| Interests:
Computational analysis relating gene sequence to 3D protein structure; bioinformatics. Goals: sequence analysis, prediction of protein structure and function. |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Lawrence
S.
Shapiro:
|
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1996 |
| Interests:
Structural biology of neural adhesion proteins; defining atomic-level determinats of connectivity in neural circuits |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Parithychery
R.
Srinivasan:
|
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| Professor Emeritus, Special Lecturer,
Ph.D.,
Madras,
1953 |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
|
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| Dimitris
Thanos:
|
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| Adjunct Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Crete,
1988 |
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