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2007 Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship Recipients
 
The 2007-2008 Helen Hay Whitney Foundation fellowships have been granted to:
Mark L.D. Andermann, Ph.D.
For training at Harvard Medical School with Dr. R. Clay Reid. Optical Mapping and Stimulation of Single Neurons During Auditory Frequency Discrimination.

Luisa Cochella, Ph.D.
For training at Columbia University with Dr. Oliver Hobert. Dissecting the genetic basis of olfactory imprinting in C. elegans.

Kevin D. Corbett, Ph.D.
For training at Harvard Medical School with Dr. Stephen Harrison. Structure and mechanism of MIND, a kinetochore subcomplex that promotes proper chromosome orientation in mitosis.

Adam D. Douglass, Ph.D.
For training at Harvard University with Dr. Florian Engert. Optical studies of retinotectal circuitry in zebrafish.

Shana L. Geffeney, Ph.D.
For training at Stanford University with Dr. Miriam Goodman. Understanding Pain Sensation: Molecular Mechanisms of Polymodal Neuron Function.

Erin D. Goley, Ph.D.
For training at Stanford University with Dr. Lucy Shapiro. Structural, temporal, and functional analysis of the cytokinesis machinery in Caulobacter crescentus.

Jesse M. Gray, Ph.D.
For training at Children's Hospital, Boston with Dr. Michael Greenberg. Detection of cis-regulatory variation in the human brain.

Jacob Hanna, M.D., Ph.D.
For training at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research with Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch. Large-Scale Deciphering of Functional Pluripotency Circuits in Embryonic Stem Cells.

Mehrdad Jazayeri, Ph.D.
For training at University of Washington with Dr. Michael Shadlen. Representation and integration of temporal cues that direct time-sensitive actions.

Genevieve M. Kruger, M.D., Ph.D.
For training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Dr. Tyler Jacks. Elucidating the origins of lung adenocarcinoma.

Young-Sam Lee, Ph.D.
For training at Harvard University with Dr. Erin O'Shea. Metabolomic Study of Inositol Polyphosphate in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Phosphate Starvation Response.

Ofer Mazor, Ph.D.
For training at Harvard University with Dr. Markus Meister. Population coding and natural motion in the retina.

Pablo Meyer, Ph.D.
For training at Columbia University with Dr. Jonathan Dworkin. Cellular Organization of a Biosynthetic Pathway.

Vanessa J. Ruta, Ph.D.
For training at Columbia University with Dr. Richard Axel. Olfactory Representations in the Fly Brain.

Nathan C. Shaner, Ph.D.
For training at Salk Institute with Dr. Joanne Chory. Optical sensing of small molecules in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Ujwal P. Sheth, Ph.D.
For training at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center with Dr. James Priess. Investigating the role of germline granules in C. elegans in germ cell totipotency.

Matthew D. Simon, Ph.D.
For training at the Massachusetts General Hospital with Dr. Robert Kingston. The biochemical consequences of histone lysine methylation.

Ting Wang, Ph.D.
For training at University of California, Santa Cruz with Dr. David Haussler. Investigation of evolution of the non-coding regulatory genomic sequences in humans using systems methods.

Andrew S. Yoo, Ph.D.
For training at Stanford University with Dr. Gerald Crabtree. Mechanism Underlying an Epigenetic Switch in Vertebrate Neural Development.



 
 
 

 
 
 
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