Thesis - Exploring the specificity and mechanisms of siRNA-mediated gene silencing in mammalian cells (June 2008)
Albert
Almada, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Harvard University
Amy Wagers - Advisor
http://hscrb.harvard.edu/lab/57/home
Graduate Student: 2008-2013
Thesis - Promoter directionality is controlled by U1 snRNP and polyadenylation signals in mouse embryonic stem cells (September 2013)
Göran
Baurén, Ph.D.
Global Genomics AB
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1997-1999
Andrew
Bosson, Ph.D.
Consultant
The Boston Consulting Group
Graduate Student: 2009-2014
Thesis - Modulation of Ago-miRNA regulatory networks by cis-sequence elements and target competition (June 2014)
Thesis - Transcription initiation by RNA Polymerase II (March 1990)
Thesis - Dicer delection and short RNA expression analysis in mouse embryonic stem cells (February 2008)
Cindy
Carr, Ph.D.
Graduate Student:1986-1992
Thesis - Cloning and characterization of TFEB: A member of the helix-loop-helix/leucine zipper family (June 1992)
Thesis - Characterization of human class II transcription factors (September 1987)
Karen
Cepek, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow:1995-1997
Thesis - Interaction of the Adenovirus 100K and Hexon proteins: Analysis using monoclonal antibodies and temperature-sensitive mutants (February 1982)
David Chang, Ph.D., M.D.
Executive Vice President
R&D and Chief Medical Officer
Kite Pharma, Inc
http://www.kitepharma.com
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1988-1990
Chonghui
Cheng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
Lester & Sue Smith Breast Center
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2000-2007
Thesis - MLTF: A human promoter-specific transcription factor (April 1988)
Mohini
Jangi Desai, Ph.D.
Scientist II
GRAIL, Inc.
Graduate Student: 2008-2014
Thesis - Multiple regulatory layers in the establishment of Rbfox2 splicing networks (February 2014)
Thesis - The role of U1 snRNP in pre-mRNA splicing (February 1996)
Thesis - Specificity and mechanism of microRNAs in the regulation of gene expression (June 2005)
Thesis - Electron microscopic studies of Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus and related retroviruses: Spliced subgenomic mRNAs and genome structure (April 1979)
Derek
Dykxhoorn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Human Genetics and Microbiology and Immunology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami Institute for Human Genomics
http://uhealthsystem.com/researchers/profile/95473
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1998-2003
Thesis - Molecular titration by MicroRNAs and target mimic inhibitors (2010)
2006 co-Recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Thesis - In vitro transcription studies of Adenovirus (June 1983)
Anna
Gil, Ph.D., LLD
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1986-1992
Sandra
Gilbert, Ph.D.
Graduate Student: 1993-1999
Thesis - Chromatin structure of the inactive X chromosome (September 1999)
Martin
Griot, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1988-1989
(shared with BPEC)
Steve
Hardy, M.S., Ph.D.
Chiron
Graduate Student (MS): 1981-1983
Tim J
Harrison DSc FRCPath
Reader in Molecular Virology
Royal Free and University College Medical School
London W1N 4JF UK
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1976-1978
Katja
Helenius, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2014-2015
Courtney
JnBaptiste, Ph.D.
Science Advisor
Goodwin
Graduate Student: 2009- 2016 Postdoctoral Fellow:2016
Thesis - Dicer loss induces an oncogenic epigenetic switch in mesenchymal stem cells (February 2016)
Grace
Jones, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Kentucky
Sabbatical: 1997
Timothy Kelly, Ph.D.
Investigator
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2011-2015
Thesis - Isolation and functional characterization of cofactors of RNA Polymerase II transcription (June 1996)
Tsuoshi
Kobayashi, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
Japan
Visiting Scientist: 1986-1988
Angus I.
Lamond, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Dundee
Dundee, Scotland UK
http://www.lamondlab.com/
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1985-1987
Thesis - Construction and function of nonsense suppressors in mammalian cells (September 1983)
Jonathan LeBowitz, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer, Executive Vice President
Symbiontics, Inc., St. Louis
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1985-1989
Kenneth
LeClair, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Cell and Gene Therapies Unit
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
http://www.novartis.com/
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1988-1991
Keng Boon
Lee, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1999-2003
Thesis - The structure and evolution of rat alpha-tubulin genes: the old and new (1982)
Lee
Lim, Ph.D.
Senior Research Biologist
Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle
Graduate Student: 1994-2001
Thesis - Short and alternative: Computational and experimental analysis of slicing signals (June 2001)
Thesis - Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 Tat protein: A eukaryotic processivity factor (April 1991)
Jan
Mester, Ph.D.
INSERM, Paris
Sabbatical: 1980
Thesis - TATA binding protein and associated factors in mammalian transcrption: Characterization of the B-TFIID activity (December 1993)
Akira
Mitsui, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
Japan
Visiting Scientist: 1996-1998
Marsha
Morton, Ph.D.
Patent Lawyer
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1990-1992
Masahiro
Murata, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
Japan
Visiting Scientist: 1988-1990
Michael Murray M.D.
Director of Clinical Genomics
Geisinger Medical Center
http://www.geisinger.org
Postdoctoral Fellow:
Thesis - Recognition of the pyrimidine-tract of the pre-mRNA by U2AF and a novel splicing factor PUF60 (June 1998)
Thesis - Translational regulation by short RNAs in mammalian cells (February 2006)
Thesis - Functional specificity and design of transcription factors: The Oct-1 homeodomain (August 1995)
Rock
Pulak, Ph.D. Director of Life Sciences
Union Biometrica, Inc.
http://www.unionbio.com/
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1995-1998
Arvind
Ravi, Ph.D.
Student, Harvard-MIT HST Program
Harvard Medical School
Graduate Student: 2007-2011
Thesis - The functional microRNA landscape of mammalian development (May 2011)
Thesis - Biochemical studies of transcription by RNA Polymerase II (April 1985)
Thesis - Beyond HSV: Investigating the role of Host Cell Factor 1 (C1) in mammalian cells (February 2001)
Thesis - Probing the molecular architecture of the messenger RNA splicing reaction in vitro (June 1989)
Thesis - Chromosomal proteins in activation of transcription (February 1996)
Arnold
Simons, Ph.D.
Sabbatical: 1997
(deceased in 2005)
Vicki Wang, Ph.D.
Clinical Fellow in Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Graduate Student: 1997-2003
Thesis - Old protein, new perspective: The role of Oct-1 during embryonic development and lymphopoiesis (May 2003)
Judah
Weinberger, M.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow: 1985-1987
Xuebing
Wu, Ph. D
Postdoctoral Researcher
Whitehead Institute
Dave Bartel, Advisor
http://bartellab.wi.mit.edu
Graduate Student: 2010-2014
Thesis - The mechanism and function of pervasive noncoding transcription in the mammalian genome (August 2014)
Thesis - Genome wide identification of Ago2 binding sites in mouse embryonic stem cells (March 2010)
Jesse
Zamudio, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
UCLA
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2009-2016
Thesis - Exploring the regulatory roles of microRNAs in mammalian development (May 2010)
OUR INVALUABLE TECHNICAL STAFF OVER THE YEARS:
Janice Haverty (1976)
Claire Moore (1977)
Barbara Aufiero (1979)
Scott Schroeder (1980)
Paul Changelian (1981)
Lyn Spencer (1981)
Lynne Corboy (1982)
Mary Esteve (1985)
Mary Riggs (1985)
Elizabeth Hansen (1986)
Ursula Ryder (1986)
Margaret Auger (1987)
Sharon Jaminson (1987)
Robert Mulrenin (1988)
Lana Parent (1990)
Robbyn Issner (1992)
Yubin Qiu (1993)
Margaret Beddall (1995)
Erica Reifenberg (1997)
Janette Knowlton (2001)
Helen Cargill (1999)