Faculty
 Daphne Bavelier
Age: 42
Position: Associate Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences; Center for Visual Science; Center for Language Studies; Associate Director, Rochester Center for Brain Imaging, Adjunct Faculty in Imaging Science, University of Rochester
Category: Behavioral Sciences
Selected Publications
Green CS, Bavelier D. 2007. Action-video-game experience alters the spatial resolution of vision. Psychological Science Psychological Science 18 (1): 88-94.
Bavelier D, Dye MWG, Hauser PC. 2006. Do deaf individuals see better? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 10 (11): 512-518.
Boutla M, Supalla T, Newport EL, Bavelier D. 2004. Short-term memory span: insights from sign language. Nature Neuroscience 7 (9): 997-1002.
Green CS, Bavelier D. 2003. Action video game modifies visual selective attention. Nature 423 (6939): 534-537.
Recent Updates
Current Position: Professor in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
If you want to learn more about Daphne Bavelier's research, visit her lab website.
 Geoffrey Coates
Age: 41
Position: Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry and Associate Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
Category: Chemistry
Selected Publications
Rowley JM, Lobkovsky EB, Coates GW. 2007. Catalytic double carbonylation of epoxides to succinic anhydrides: Catalyst discovery, reaction scope, and mechanism. Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (16): 4948-4960.
Jeske RC, DiCiccio AM, Coates GW. 2007. Alternating copolymerization of Epoxides and cyclic anhydrides: An improved route to aliphatic polyesters. Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (37): 11330-1.
Church TL, Getzler YDYL, Coates GW. 2006. The mechanism of epoxide carbonylation by [Lewis acid](+)[Co(CO)(4)](-) catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society 128 (31): 10125-10133.
Cohen CT, Chu T, Coates GW. 2005. Cobalt catalysts for the alternating copolymerization of propylene oxide and carbon dioxide: combining high activity and selectivity. Journal of the American Chemical Society 127(31): 10869-10878.
If you want to learn more about Geoffrey Coates' research, visit his lab website.
 Steven Gubser
Age: 36
Position: Professor of Physics, Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University
Category: Physics
Selected Publications
Gubser SS, Pufu SS, Yarom A. 2008. Sonic booms and diffusion wakes generated by a heavy quark in thermal gauge-string duality. Physical Review Letters 100, 012301.
Friess JJ, Gubser SS, Michalogiorgakis G, Pufu SS. 2007. Expanding plasmas and quasinormal modes of anti-de Sitter black holes. Journal of High Energy Physics 04, 080.
Gubser SS. 2007. Comparing the drag force on heavy quarks in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory and QCD. Physical Review D 76 126003.
Gubser SS. 2006. Drag force in AdS/CFT. Physical Review D 74, 126005.
Recent Updates
Current Position: Professor in the Department of Physics, Princeton University
Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009.
Recent Publications
Gubser S. 2010. The Little Book of String Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
If you want to learn more about Steven Gubser's research, visit his website.
 Christine Jacobs-Wagner
Age: 39
Position: Maxine F. Singer Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
Category: Cell & Molecular Biology
Selected Publications
Lam H, Schofield WB, Jacobs-Wagner C. 2006. A landmark protein essential for establishing and perpetuating the polarity of a bacterial cell. Cell 124 (5): 1011-1023.
Matroule JY, Lam H, Burnette DT, Jacobs-Wagner C. 2004. Cytokinesis monitoring during development: Rapid pole-to-pole shuttling of a signaling protein by localized kinase and phosphatase in Caulobacter. Cell 118 (5): 579-590.
Lam H, Matroule JY, Jacobs-Wagner C. 2003. The asymmetric spatial distribution of bacterial signal transduction proteins coordinates cell cycle events. Developmental Cell 5 (1): 149-159.
Ausmees N, Kuhn JR, Jacobs-Wagner C. 2003. The bacterial cytoskeleton: An intermediate filament-like function. Cell 115 (6): 705-713.
Recent Updates
Current Position: Full Professor at Yale University.
Award: Ely Lilly Award of the American Society of Microbiology, 2011.
Recent Publications
Llopis P.M., Jackson A.F., Sliusarenko O., Surovtsev I., Heinritz J., Emonet T., and Jacobs-Wanger C. 2010. Spatial organization of the flow of genetic information in bacteria. Nature, 244, 77-81.
Poggio S., Takacs C.N., Vollmer W., and Jacobs-Wagner C. 2010. A protein critical for cell construction in the Gram-negative bacterium Caulobacter crescentus localizes at the division site through its peptidoglycan-binding LysM domains. Molecular Microbiology, 77, 74-89.
If you want to learn more about Christine Jacobs-Wagner's research, visit her lab website.
 Eric Lai
Age: 36
Position: Assistant Member, Department of Developmental Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Category: Developmental Biology
Selected Publications
Okamura K, Balla S, Martin R, Liu N, Lai EC. 2008. Two distinct mechanisms generate endogenous siRNAs from bidirectional transcription in Drosophila. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 15: 581-590.
Chung WJ, Okamura K, Martin R, Lai EC. 2008. Endogenous RNA interference provides a somatic defense against Drosophila transposons. Current Biology 18: 795-802.
Okamura K, Chung WJ, Ruby JG, Guo H, Bartel DP, Lai EC. 2008. The Drosophila hairpin RNA pathway generates endogenous siRNAs. Nature 453: 803-806.
Okamura K, Phillips MD, Tyler D, Duan H, Chou YT, Lai EC. 2008. The regulatory activity of microRNA* species has substantial influence on microRNA and 3′ UTR evolution. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 15: 354-363.
Recent Updates
Current Position: Associate Member in the Department of Developmental Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Recent Publications
Wu Q., Luo R., Lu R., Lau N., Lai E.C., Li W.-X., and Ding S.-W. 2010. Virus discovery by deep sequencing and assembly of virus-derived small silencing RNAs. Processions of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 1606-1611.
Berezikov E., Liu N., Flynt A.S., Hodges E., Rooks M., Hannon G.J., and Lai E.C. 2010. Evolutionary flux of canonical microRNAs and mirtrons in Drosophila. Nature Genetics, 42, 6-9.
If you want to learn more about Eric Lai's research, visit his lab website.
 Laura Landweber
Age: 40
Position: Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Category: Evolutionary Biology
Selected Publications
Nowacki M, Vijayan V, Zhou Y, Schotanus K, Doak TG, Landweber LF. 2008. RNA-mediated epigenetic programming of a genome-rearrangement pathway. Nature 451: 153-58.
Chang WJ, Bryson PD, Liang H, Shin MK, Landweber LF. 2005. The evolutionary origin of a complex scrambled gene. PNAS 102 (42): 15149-15154.
Lozupone CA, Knight RD, Landweber LF. 2001. The molecular basis of nuclear genetic code change in ciliates. Current Biology 11 (2): 65-74.
Faulhammer D, Cukras AR, Lipton RJ, Landweber LF. 2000. Molecular computation: RNA solutions to chess problems. PNAS 97 (4): 1385-1389.
Recent Updates
Current Position: Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Recent Publication
Nowacki M., Higgins B.P., Maquilan G.M., Swart E.C., Doak T.G., and Landweber L.F. 2009. A functional role for transposases in a large eukaryotic genome. Science, 324, 935-938.
If you want to learn more about Laura Landweber's research, visit her lab website.
 Thomas Muir
Age: 40
Position: Richard E. Salomon Family Professor and Head of the Selma and Lawrence Ruben Laboratory, Director of the Pels Family Center for Chemistry, Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Rockefeller University
Category: Chemistry
Selected Publications
McGinty RK, Kim J, Chatterjee C, Roeder RG, Muir TW. 2008. Chemically ubiquitylated histone H2B stimulates hDot1L-mediated intranucleosomal methylation. Nature 453: 812-816.
Schwartz EC, Saez L, Young MW, Muir TW. 2007. Post-translational enzyme activation in an animal via optimized conditional protein splicing. Nature Chemical Biology 3 (1): 50-54.
Mayville P, Ji GY, Beavis R, Yang HM, Goger M, Novick RP, Muir TW. 1999. Structure-activity analysis of synthetic autoinducing thiolactone peptides from Staphylococcus aureus responsible for virulence. PNAS 96 (4): 1218-1223.
Muir TW, Sondhi D, Cole PA. 1998. Expressed protein ligation: A general method for protein engineering. PNAS 95 (12):6705-6710.
Recent Updates
Current Position: Van Zandt Williams Jr. Class of 1965 Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
Recent Publication
Scheuermann J.C., Alonso A.G.D., Oktaba K., Ly-Hartig N., McGinty R.K., Fraterman S., Wilm M., Muir T.W., and Muller J. 2010. Histone H2A deubiquitinase activity of the Polycomb repressive complex PR-DUB. Nature, 465: 243-NIL_138.
If you want to learn more about Thomas Muir's research, visit his lab website.
 Ken Shepard
Age: 42
Position: Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
Category: Engineering
Selected Publications
Rajapandian S, Shepard KL, Hazucha P, Karnik T. 2006. High-voltage power delivery through charge recycling. IEEE Journal of Solid-Sate Circuits 41 (6): 1400-1410.
Chan SC, Shepard KL, Restle PJ. 2006. Distributed differential oscillators for global clock networks. IEEE Journal of Solid-Sate Circuits 41 (9):2083-2094.
Patounakis G, Shepard KL, Levicky R. 2006. Active CMOS array sensor for time-resolved fluorescence detection. IEEE Journal of Solid-Sate Circuits 41 (11): 2521-2530.
Recent Updates
Current Position: Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
Recent Publications
Dean C., Young A.F., Meric I., Lee C., Wang L., Sorgenfrei S., Watanabe K., Taniguchi T., Kim P., Shepard K.L., and Hone. J. 2010. Boron nitride substrate for high-quality graphene electronics. Nature Nanotechnology, DOI: 10.1038/NNANO.2010.172.
Chen C.J., Husko C.A., Meric I., Shepard K.K., Wong C.W., Green W.M.J., Vlasov Y.A., and Assefa S. 2010. Deterministic tuning of slow-light in photonic crystal waveguides through the C and L bands by atomic layer deposition. Applied Physics Letters, 96, 081107.
If you want to learn more about Ken Shepard's research, visit his lab website.
 Saeed Tavazoie
Age: 39
Position: Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Member of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
Category: Genetics & Genomics
Selected Publications
Tagkopoulos I, Liu Y, Tavazoie S. 2008. Predictive behavior within microbial genetic networks. Science 320:1313-1317.
Elemento O, Slonim N, Tavazoie S. 2007. A universal framework for regulatory element discovery across all genomes and data types. Molecular Cell 28: 337-350.
Beer MA, Tavazoie S. 2004. Predicting gene expression from sequence. Cell 117 (2): 185-198.
Kurdistani SK, Tavazoie S, Grunstein M. 2004. Mapping global histone acetylation patterns to gene expression. Cell 117 (6): 721-733.
Recent Updates
Current Position: Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Recent Publication
Goodarzi H., Hottes A.K., and Tavazoie S. 2009. Global discovery of adaptive mutations. Nature Methods, 6, 581-583.
If you want to learn more about Saeed Tavazoie's research, visit his lab website.
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Postdoctoral
 Alexei Aravin, PhD
Age: 31
Position: Senior Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
PI: Gregory Hannon
Category: Developmental Biology
Selected Publications
Tam O, Aravin A, Stein P, Girard A, Murchison E, Cheloufi S, Hodges E, Anger M, Sachidanandam R, Schultz R, Hannon G. 2008. Pseudogene-derived small interfering RNAs regulate gene expression in mouse oocytes. Nature 453: 534-538.
Aravin AA, Sachidanandam R, Girard A, Fejes-Toth K, Hannon GJ. 2007. Developmentally regulated piRNA clusters implicate MILI in transposon control. Science 316 (5825): 744-747.
Brennecke J, Aravin A, Stark A, Dus M, Kellis M, Sachidanandam R, Hannon G. 2007. Discrete small RNA-generating loci as master regulators of transposon activity in Drosophila. Cell 128 (6): 1089-1103.
Aravin A, Gaidatzis D, Pfeffer S, Lagos-Quintana M, Landgraf P, Iovino N, Morris P, Brownstein MJ, Kuramochi-Miyagawa S, Nakano T, Chien MC, Russo JJ, Ju JY, Sheridan R, Sander C, Zavolan M, Tuschl T. 2006. A novel class of small RNAs bind to MILI protein in mouse testes. Nature 442 (7099): 203-207.
Recent Updates
Current Position: Assistant Professor in the Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology
Awards: Named an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging. Recipient of the NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00).
Recent Publications
Vagin V., Wohlschlegel J., Qu J., Huang X., Chuma S., Girard A., Sachidanandam R., Hannon G., and Aravin A. 2009. Proteomic analysis of murine Piwi proteins reveals a role for arginine methylation in specifying in specifying interaction with Tudor family members. Genes & Development, 23, 1749-1762.
Rozhkov N.V., Aravin A.A., Zelentsova E.S., Schostak N.G., Sachidanandam R., McCombie W.R., Hannon G.L., and Evgen'ev M.B. 2010. Small RNA-based silencing strategies for transposons in the process of invading Drosophila species. RNA, 16, 1634-1645.
If you want to learn more about Alexei Aravin's research, visit his lab website.
 Matthew Evans
Age: 35
Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, Rockefeller University
PI: Charles M. Rice
Category: Microbiology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases
Selected Publications
Evans MJ, von Hahn T, Tscherne DM, Syder AJ, Panis M, Wolk B, Hatziioannou T, McKeating JA, Bieniasz PD, Rice CM. 2007. Claudin-1 is a hepatitis C virus co-receptor required for a late step in entry. Nature 446 (7137): 801-805.
Tscherne DM, Jones CT, Evans MJ, Lindenbach BD, McKeating JA, Rice CM. 2006. Time- and temperature-dependent activation of hepatitis C virus for low-pH-triggered entry. Journal of Virology 80 (4): 1734-1741.
Lindenbach BD, Evans MJ, Syder AJ, Wolk B, Tellinghuisen TL, Liu CC, Maruyama T, Hynes RO, Burton DR, McKeating JA, Rice CM. 2005. Complete replication of hepatitis C virus in cell culture. Science 309 (5734): 623-626.
Evans MJ, Rice CM, Goff SP. 2004. Phosphorylation of hepatitis C virus nonstructural protein 5A modulates its protein interactions and viral RNA replication. PNAS 101 (35): 13038-13043.
Recent Updates
Current Position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Recent Publications
Dentzer T.G., Lorenz I.C., Evans M.J., and Rice. C.M. 2009. Determinants of hepatitis C virus nonstructural protein 2 protease domain required for production of infectious virus. Journal of Virology, 83, 12702-12713.
Ploss A., Evans M.J., Gaysinskaya V.A., Panis M., You H., de Jong Y.P., and Rice C.M. 2009. Human occluding is a hepatitis C virus entry factor required for infection of mouse cells. Nature, 457, 882-886.
If you want to learn more about Matthew Evan's research, visit his lab website.
 Valerie Horsley
Age: 31
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Rockefeller University
PI: Elaine Fuchs
Category: Developmental Biology
Selected Publications
Horsley V, Aliprantis AO, Polak L, Glimcher LH, Fuchs E. 2008. NFATc1 balances quiescence and proliferation of skin stem cells. Cell 132 (2): 299-310.
Horsley V, O'Carroll D, Tooze R, Ohinata Y, Saitou M, Obukhanych T, Nussenzweig M, Tarakhovsky A, Fuchs E. 2006. Blimp1 defines a progenitor population that governs cellular input to the sebaceous gland. Cell 126 (3): 597-609.
If you want to learn more about Valerie Horsley's research, visit the Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development website.
Recent Updates
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology at Yale University.
Award: Pew Scholar Award, 2010.
If you want to learn more about Valerie Horsley's research, visit her lab website.
 Andrew Houck
Age: 28
Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Applied Physics, Yale University
PI: Robert Schoelkopf
Category: Physics
Selected Publications
Houck AA, Schuster DI, Gambetta JM, Schreier JA, Johnson BR, Chow JM, Frunzio L, Majer J, Devoret MH, Girvin SM, Schoelkopf RJ. 2007. Generating single microwave photons in a circuit. Nature 449: 328-331.
Majer J, Chow JM, Gambetta JM, Koch J, Johnson BR, Schreier JA, Frunzio L, Schuster DI, Houck AA, Wallraff A, Blais A, Devoret MH, Girvin SM, Schoelkopf RJ. 2007. Coupling superconducting qubits via a cavity bus. Nature 449 (7161): 443-447.
Koch J, Yu TM, Gambetta J, Houck AA, Schuster DI, Majer J, Blais A, Devoret MH, Girvin SM, Schoelkopf RJ. 2007. Charge-insensitive qubit design derived from the Cooper pair box. Physical Review A 76 042319.
Schuster DI, Houck AA, Schreier JA, Wallraff A, Gambetta JM, Blais A, Frunzio L, Majer J, Johnson B, Devoret MH, Girvin SM, Schoelkopf RJ. 2007. Resolving photon number states in a superconducting circuit. Nature 445 (7127): 515-518.
Recent Updates
Current Position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
Award: Recipient of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s Young Faculty Award.
If you want to learn more about Andrew Houck's research, visit his lab website.
 Andreas Keller
Age: 35
Position: Research Associate, Rockefeller University
PI: Leslie Vosshall
Category: Neuroscience
Selected Publications
Keller A, Zhuang HY, Chi QY, Vosshall LB, Matsunami H. 2007. Genetic variation in a human odorant receptor alters odour perception. Nature 449 (7161): 468-72.
Keller A, Vosshall LB. 2007. Influence of odorant receptor repertoire on odor perception in humans and fruit flies. PNAS 104 (13): 5614-5619.
Keller A, Vosshall LB. 2004. A psychophysical test of the vibration theory of olfaction. Nature Neuroscience 7 (4): 337-338.
Recent Updates
Current Position: Research Associate in the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, The Rockefeller University
Award: Young Investigator Award by NARSAD: The Brain and Behavior Research Fund in 2009.
If you want to learn more about Andreas Keller's research, visit his lab website.
 Andrey Pisarev
Age: 30
Position: Research Scientist, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
PI: Tatyana V. Pestova
Category: Cell & Molecular Biology
Selected Publications
Pisarev AV, Hellen CUT, Pestova TV. 2007. Recycling of eukaryotic posttermination ribosomal complexes. Cell 131: 286-299.
Alkalaeva EZ, Pisarev AV, Frolova LY, Kisselev LL, Pestova TV. 2006. In vitro reconstitution of eukaryotic translation reveals cooperativity between release factors eRF1 and eRF3. Cell 125 (6): 1125-1136.
Pisareva VP, Pisarev AV, Hellen CUT, Rodnina MV, Pestova TV. 2006. Kinetic analysis of interaction of eukaryotic release factor 3 with guanine nucleotides. Journal of Biological Chemistry 281 (52): 40224-40235.
Pisarev AV, Kolupaeva VG, Pisareva VP, Merrick WC, Hellen CUT, Pestova TV. 2006. Specific functional interactions of nucleotides at key (-)3 and (+)4 positions flanking the initiation codon with components of the mammalian 48S translation initiation complex. Genes & Development 20 (5): 624-636.
 Shobha Vasudevan
Age: 34
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
PI: Joan A. Steitz
Category: Cell & Molecular Biology
Selected Publications
Vasudevan S, Tong YC, Steitz JA. 2008. Cell-cycle control of microRNA-mediated translation regulation. Cell Cycle 7 (11): 1545-1549.
Vasudevan S, Tong YC, Steitz JA. 2007. Switching from repression to activation: MicroRNAs can up-regulate translation. Science 318 (5858): 1931-1934.
Vasudevan S, Steitz JA. 2007. AU-rich-element-mediated upregulation of translation by FXR1 and argonaute 2. Cell 128 (6): 1105-1118.
Vasudevan S, Seli E, Steitz JA. 2006. Metazoan oocyte and early embryo development program: a progression through translation regulatory cascades. Genes & Development 20 (2): 138-146.
Recent Updates
Current Position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Recent Publication
Vasudevan, S. 2009. MicroRNPs: Versatile regulators of gene expression in vertebrate cells. Biochemical Society Transactions, 37, 931-935.
If you want to learn more about Shobha Vasudevan's research, visit her lab website.
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