| 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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| Chloë
Bulinski:
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| Professor (Cell and Molecular Biology),
Ph.D.,
Wisconsin,
1980 |
| Interests:
Dynamics and functions of microtubules during myogenic differentiation and cell cycle progression; functional differentiation of cytoskeletal elements |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Harmen
Bussemaker:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Utrecht,
1995 |
| Interests:
Data-driven modeling of transcriptional and post-transcriptional networks based on biophysical principles. Computational analysis of genome sequences and DNA microarray data; sequence-based modeling of gene expression regulation; outpatient applications, practice guidelines, prevention, computer-based medical records |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Andrea
Califano:
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| Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Chief, Division of Bioinformatics; Co-Director, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Director of Bioinformatics, Columbia Genome Center,
Ph.D.,
Florence,
1985 |
| Interests:
Investigation of systems biology, using a variety of physics and knowledge-based methods |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Martin
Chalfie:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1976 |
| Interests:
Regulation of cell differentiation in the development of the central nervous system |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Lawrence
A.
Chasin:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1967 |
| Interests:
Pre-mRNA splicing in cultured mammalian cells; gene regulation in cultured mammalian cells |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Virginia
Cornish:
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| Professor,
Ph.D,
California (Berkeley),
1996 |
| Interests:
Protein function at the molecular level, including isolated proteins in solution, large protein complexes, and protein function in biological networks in living cells |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Julio
Fernandez:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley),
1982 |
| Interests:
Single molecule mechanics and engineering |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Stuart
Firestein:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley),
1988 |
| Interests:
Molecular physiology of olfactory transduction |
| 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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| Jean
Gautier:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Toulouse,
1983 |
| Interests:
Cell cycle and cell death during early development; maintenance of genetic integrity; DNA replication and response to DNA damage |
| 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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| 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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| Lloyd
Greene:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
California San Diego,
1970 |
| Interests:
Mechanisms of neuronal differentiation and the role of growth factors therein |
| 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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| Tulle
Hazelrigg:
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| Research Scientist,
Ph.D.,
Indiana,
1982 |
| Interests:
mRNA localization in Drosophila oocytes |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Rene
Hen:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Pasteur Institute (Strasbourg),
1985 |
| Interests:
Contribution of specific serotonin receptors and hippocampal neurogenesis to pathological states such as depression and anxiety |
| 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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| 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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| John
F.
Hunt:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale,
1993 |
| Interests:
Structural biology and the molecular mechanism of transmembrane transport |
| 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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| Songtao
Jia:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Los Angeles),
2002 |
| Interests:
Epigenetic regulation of the genome |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Laura
Johnston:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
University of Washington,
1994 |
| Interests:
Growth control during organ development: linkage between pattern formation and growth. |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Daniel
D.
Kalderon:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Cambridge,
1984 |
| Interests:
Signal transduction in Drosophila development |
| 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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| Darcy
B.
Kelley:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Rockefeller,
1975 |
| Interests:
Neural control of behavior development and adult function of neural substrates for courtship song in Exnopus. |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| James
L.
Manley:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
State University of New York (Stony Brook),
1976 |
| Interests:
Regulations of mRNA synthesis in animal cells. Mechanisms and control of gene expression |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| 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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| Ann
E.
McDermott:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley),
1973 |
| Interests:
Solid-state NMR studies of enzyme mechanism and membrane protein structure; biophysical chemistry; synaptic transmission in the spinal cord dorsal horn |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Elizabeth
Miller:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
La Trobe,
1999 |
| Interests:
Protein folding, assembly and the regulation of intracellular protein transport; biochemistry |
| 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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| Virginia
Papaioannou:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Cambridge,
1972 |
| Interests:
Genetic control of mammalian development in the peri-implantation period; genetic control of mammalian development from peri-implantation stages through organogenesis; determination of the role of T-box genes in development, using embryonic stem-cell technology and targetd mutagenesis |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Dana
Pe'er:
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| Assistant Professor,
Ph.D.,
Hebrew University,
2003 |
| Interests:
The function and organization of molecular networks |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Carol
L.
Prives:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
McGill,
1968 |
| Interests:
Structure and function of the p53 tumor suppressor protein; tumor virus-host cell interactions |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Ron
Prywes:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1984 |
| Interests:
Growth factor regulation of gene expression |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Rodney
Rothstein:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Chicago,
1975 |
| Interests:
Yeast genetics and cell biology; cellular responses to DNA damage; recombination; control of genome stability |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Christian
Schindler:
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| Associate Professor,
M.D., Ph.D.,
New York,
1985, 1986 |
| Interests:
JAK-STAT signaling and immune response; role of the JAK-STAT pathway in cytokine signal transduction |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Michael
P.
Sheetz:
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| William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Cell Biology,
Ph.D,
California Institute of Technology,
1972 |
| Interests:
Cell motility, motor molecules, integrin-cytoskeleton interactions |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Steven
Siegelbaum:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale,
1978 |
| Interests:
Function of voltage-gated ion channels in dendritic integration of synaptic signals during learning and memory; regulation of channel trafficking and function in neuronal dendrites; genetic approaches to the study or information processing through neural circuits |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Brent
R.
Stockwell:
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| Associate Professor,
Ph.D.,
Harvard,
1999 |
| Interests:
Diagramming disease networks with chemical and biological tools; biological and organic chemistry |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Gary
Struhl:
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Cambridge University, U.K.,
1980 |
| Interests:
Molecular nature and mode of action of spatial information responsible for organizing cell and body patterns in Drosophila |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Lorraine
S.
Symington:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Glasgow,
1982 |
| Interests:
Yeast recombination studies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae; genetics and biochemistry of DNA recombination and repair in yeast |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Liang
Tong:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
California (Berkeley),
1989 |
| Interests:
Structural biology of proteins involved in human diseases (obesity, diabetes, cancer); structural biology of proteins involved in pre-mRNA 3' -end processing; structural biology of signal transduction molecules |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Alexander
Tzagoloff:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Columbia,
1972 |
| Interests:
Energy coupling mechanisms |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Richard
Vallee:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Yale,
1974 |
| Interests:
Motor proteins in axonal transport, brain developmental disease, neurogeneses and growth cone function |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Jian
Yang:
|
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| Professor,
Ph.D.,
Washington,
1991 |
| Interests:
Structure, function, regulation and cell biology of voltage-gated calcium channels and TRP channels |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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| Rafael
Yuste:
|
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| Professor,
M.D., Ph.D.,
University of Madrid, Rockefeller University,
1987, 1992 |
| Interests:
Development and function of the cortical microcircuitry |
| Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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