 Robert Anderson
Age: 39
Position: Associate Professor, Department of Biology, City College of New York, CUNY
Hometown: Wichita, Kansas
Research Summary: Developing computer techniques for modeling the geographic distributions of species using occurrence records and data from satellites and weather stations.
Selected Publications
Anderson RP, Gonzalez, Jr I. Species-specific tuning increases robustness to sampling bias in models of species distributions: an implementation with Maxent. Ecological Modelling 2011; 222: 2796-2811.
Anderson RP, Raza A. The effect of the extent of the study region on GIS models of species geographic distributions and estimates of niche evolution: preliminary tests with montane rodents (genus Nephelomys) in Venezuela. Journal of Biogeography 2010; 37: 1378-1393.
Phillips SJ, Anderson RP, Schapire RE. Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions. Ecological Modelling 2006; 190: 231-259.
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 Johannes Gehrke
Age: 41
Position: Professor, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
Hometown: Mannheim, Germany
Research Summary: Managing and mining large datasets and investigating associated problems about data privacy.
Selected Publications
Yao Y, Gehrke J. Query Processing in Sensor Networks. Proceedings of the First Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, Asilomar, CA, USA, January 5–8, 2003.
White WM, Demers AJ, Koch C, Gehrke J, Rajagopalan R. Scaling games to epic proportion. Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Beijing, China, June 12–14, 2007, pages 31–42.
Machanavajjhala A, Gehrke J, Kifer D, Venkitasubramaniam M. L-diversity: privacy beyond k-anonymity. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data. Volume 1, Number 1, March 2007.
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 Charalampos (Babis) Kalodimos
Age: 39
Position: Professor, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University
Hometown: Volos, Greece
Research Summary: Understanding the atomic mechanisms that underlie protein–protein and protein–DNA interactions involved in bacterial infection and cancer.
Selected Publications
Sarkar P, Saleh T, Tzeng SR, Birge RB, Kalodimos CG. Structural basis for regulation of the Crk signaling protein by a proline switch. Nat Chem Biol. 2011; 7(1): 51–57.
Tzeng SR, Kalodimos CG. Dynamic activation of an allosteric regulatory protein. Nature 2009; 462(7271): 368-372.
Gelis I, Bonvin AM, Keramisanou D, Koukaki M, Gouridis G, Karamanou S, Economou A, Kalodimos CG. Structural basis for signal-sequence recognition by the translocase motor SecA as determined by NMR. Cell 2007; 131(4): 756-769.
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 Jun Korenaga
Age: 41
Position: Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University
Hometown: Oita, Japan
Research Summary: Building a unifying theoretical framework of Earth's evolution that properly takes into account both geophysical and geochemical data.
Selected Publications
Korenaga J. Scaling of plate-tectonic convection with pseudoplastic rheology. Geophys. Res. 2010; 115, B11405, doi:1 0.1029/2010JB007670.
Korenaga J. Urey ratio and the structure and evolution of Earth's mantle. Rev. Geophys. 2008; 46, RG2007, doi: 10.1029/2007RG000241.
Lyubetskaya T, Korenaga J. Chemical composition of Earth's primitive mantle and its variance, 1, Method and results. J. Geophys. Res. 2007; 112, B03211, doi: 10.1029/2005JB004223.
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 Szabolcs Márka
Age: 42
Position: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Columbia University
Hometown: Nyiregyhaza, Hungary
Research Summary: Using multi-messenger astronomy to understand black holes and to combat malaria transmission in developing nations.
Selected Publications
Abbott et al. Search for gravitational wave bursts from soft gamma repeaters. Physical Review Letters 101. 2008; 211102.
Abbott et al. Implications for the origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO observations. ApJ 2008; 681:1419.
Kocsis et al. Detection rate estimates of gravity-waves emitted during parabolic encounters of stellar black holes in globular clusters. Astrophys. J. 2006; 648: 411-429.
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 Olga Troyanskaya
Age: 33
Position: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science/Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
Hometown: Moscow, Russia
Research Summary: Developing integrative computational and experimental methods to analyze and model biological pathways that, when malfunctioning, cause genetic disorders.
Selected Publications
Guan Y, Dunham MJ, Caudy A, Troyanskaya OG. Systematic planning of genome-scale experiments in poorly studied species. PLoS Comput Biol. 2010; 5; 6(3).
Chikina MD, Huttenhower C, Murphy CT, Troyanskaya OG. Global Prediction of Tissue-Specific gene expression and context-dependent Gene Networks in C. elegans. PLoS Comput Biol. 2009; 5(6).
Huttenhower C, Haley EM, Hibbs MA, Dumeaux V, Barrett DR, Coller HA, Troyanskaya OG. Exploring the human genome with functional maps. Genome Res. 2009; 19(6).
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 Gerard Wysocki
Age: 37
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
Hometown: Jelenia Gora, Poland
Research Summary: Developing laser systems for use in environmental modeling and biomedical research.
Selected Publications
So S, Jeng E, Wysocki G. VCSEL based Faraday rotation spectroscopy with a modulated and static magnetic field for trace molecular oxygen detection. Appl Phys B. 2011; 102: 279–291.
Wysocki G, Weidmann D. Molecular dispersion spectroscopy for chemical sensing using chirped mid-infrared quantum cascade laser. Opt. Expr. 2010; 18: 26123–26140.
Lewicki R, Doty JH, Curl RF, Tittel FK, Wysocki G. Ultrasensitive detection of nitric oxide at 5.33 µm by using external cavity quantum cascade laser-based Faraday rotation spectroscopy. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2009; 106: 12587–12592.
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 Roberto Bonasio
Age: 34
Position: Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, New York University
Hometown: Sesto Calende, Italy
Research Summary: Understanding how cells can acquire and maintain distinct identities and functions despite having the same genome.
Selected Publications
Sims RJ 3rd, Rojas LA, Beck D, Bonasio R, Schüller R, Drury WJ 3rd, Eick D, Reinberg D. The C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II is modified by site-specific methylation. Science 2011; 332: 99-103.
Bonasio R, Tu S, Reinberg D. Molecular signals of epigenetic states. Science 2010; 330: 612–616.
Bonasio R, Zhang G, Ye C, Mutti NS, Fang X, Qin N, Donahue G, Yang P, Li Q, Li C, Zhang P, Huang Z, Berger SL, Reinberg D, Wang J, Liebig J. Genomic comparison of the ants Camponotus floridanus and Harpegnathos saltator. Science 2010; 329: 1068–1071.
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 Mary Kay Lobo
Age: 36
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Fishberg Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Research Summary: Manipulation of neuronal activity to understand cellular contributions to neuropsychiatric disorders like addiction and depression.
Selected Publications
Lobo MK, Covington III HE, Chaudhury D, Friedman A.K., Sun H, Damez-Werno D, Dietz DM, Zaman S, Koo JW, Kennedy PJ, Mouzon E, Mogri M, Neve RL, Deisseroth K, Han M-H, Nestler EJ. Cell-type specific loss of BDNF signaling mimics optogenetic control of cocaine reward. Science 2010; 330: 385–390.
Covington III HE, Lobo MK, Vialou V, Maze I, Hyman J, LaPlant Q, Mouzon E, Ghose S, Tamminga C, Neve R, Deisseroth K, Nestler EJ. Antidepressant effect of optogenetic stimulation of the medial prefrontal cortex. J Neurosci. 2010; 30: 16082–90.
Lobo MK. Molecular profiling of striatonigral and striatopallidal medium spiny neurons past, present, and future. Int Rev Neurobiol. 2009; 89: 1-35.
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 Shaun Olsen
Age: 33
Position: Research Scholar, Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Hometown: Belleville, New Jersey
Research Summary: Study of the enzymes that, when malfunctioning, can lead to cancer and a variety of neurodegenerative diseases.
Selected Publications
Olsen SK, Capili AD, Lu X, Tan DS, Lima CD. Active site remodeling accompanies thioester bond formation in SUMO E1. Nature 2010; 463(7283): 906–912.
Olsen SK, Ota N, Kishishita S, Kukimoto-Niino M, Murayama K, Uchiyama H, Toyama M, Terada T, Shirouzu M, Kanagawa O, Yokoyama S. Crystal structure of the Interleukin 15–Interleukin 15 receptor alpha complex: insights into trans and cis presentation. J. Biol. Chem. 2007; 282(51): 37191–37204.
Olsen SK, Bromleigh C, Ibrahimi OA, Eliseenkova AV, Zhang F, Linhardt RJ, Joyner AL, Mohammadi, M. Structural basis by which alternative splicing modulates the biological activity of FGF8 in the brain. Genes Dev. 2006; 20(2): 185–198.
 Franck Oury
Age: 34
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Genetics & Development, Columbia University
Hometown: Strasbourg, France
Research Summary: Identifying novel hormonal pathways between the skeleton, energy metabolism and reproduction.
Selected Publications
Oury F, Sumara G, Sumara O, Ferron M, Chang H, Smith CE, Hermo L, Suarez S, Roth BL, Ducy P, Karsenty G. Endocrine regulation of male fertility by skeleton. Cell 2011; 144 (5): 796-809.
Oury F, Yadav VK, WangY, Guo E, Schutz G, Means A, Karsenty G. CREB mediates the brain-derived serotonin regulation of bone mass accrual. Genes and Development 2010; 11 (3): 231-238.
Yadav VK, Oury F, Suda N, Liu Z-W, Gao X-B, Confavreux C, Klemenhagen KC, Tanaka KF, Gingrich JA, Guo XE, Tecott LH, Mann JJ, Hen R, Horvath TL, Karsenty G. A serotonin-dependent mechanism explains the leptin regulation of bone mass, appetite, and energy expenditure. Cell 2009; 138 (5): 976-989.
 Valentino Tosatti
Age: 30
Position: J.F. Ritt Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
Hometown: Trieste, Italy
Research Summary: Using differential equations to study problems of geometric nature that have their origin in Physics (string theory, general relativity).
Selected Publications
Tosatti V. Adiabatic limits of Ricci-flat Kähler metrics. J. Differential Geom. 84. 2010; 2: 427-453.
Tosatti V, Weinkove B. The complex Monge-Ampère equation on compact Hermitian manifolds. J. Amer. Math. Soc. 23. 2010; 4: 1187-1195.
Tosatti V. Limits of Calabi-Yau metrics when the Kähler class degenerates. J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 11. 2009; 4: 755-776.
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 Ruth Van de Water
Age: 33
Position: Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow, Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hometown: Alexandria, Virginia
Research Summary: Numerical computations needed to search for new particles and laws of physics at high-energy collider experiments.
Selected Publications
Aubin C, Laiho J, Van de Water RS. The neutral kaon mixing parameter B(K) from unquenched mixed-action lattice QCD. 70 pp. Phys. Rev. 2010; 81: 014507.
Laiho J, Lunghi E, Van de Water RS. Lattice QCD inputs to the CKM unitarity triangle analysis. Phys. Rev. 2010; 81: 034503.
Bailey JA, Bernard C, DeTar CE, Di Pierro M, El- Khadra AX, Evans RT, Freeland ED, Gamiz E, Gottlieb S, Heller UM et al. The B→pi l nu semileptonic form factor from three-flavor lattice QCD: A model-independent determination of |V(ub)|. . Phys. Rev.2009; 79: 054507.
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