Life Sciences Research Foundation Alumni - 2005

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2005 Fellows

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Wenfeng An
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
High Throughput Biology Center
733 North Broadway Street/BRB 320
Baltimore, MD 21205
Tel: 410-955-2474
Fax: 410-502-1872
Email: wan1@jhmi.edu
Affymetrix

Project Title: "Identification of tumor suppressor genes in a breast cancer mouse model through L1-mediated mutagenesis"

 
Julie M. Claycomb
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Biotech II, Suite 217
373 Plantation Street
Worchester, MA 01605
Tel: 508-856-1056
Fax: 508-856-2950
Email: julie.claycomb@umassmed.edu
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Project Title: "The roles of the Argonaute family protein F20 in RNAi, heterochromatin formation, and chromosome segregation"

 
Aaron D. Gitler
Asst. Professor, Dept of Cell & Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
1109 Biomedical Research Building II/III
421 Curie Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: 215-573-8251
Email: gitler@mail.med.upenn.edu
Lilly Research Labs

Project Title: "Identification of alpha-synuclein toxicity modifiers in a model of Parkinson's disease"

 
Matthew R. Hemm
Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, NICHD
National Institute of Health
Bldg 18T, Room 101
18 Library Dr MSC 5430
Bethesda, MD 20892-5430
Tel: 301-402-0967
Fax: 301-402-0078
Email: hemmmat@mail.nih.gov
Amgen

Project Title: "Characterization of small proteins in Escherichia Coli"

 
Katja A. Lamia
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
10010 North Torrey Pines Road
San Diego, CA 92186-5800
Tel: 858-453-4100 x1301
Fax: 858-535-1979
Email: klamia@salk.edu
Merck Research Labs

Project Title: "Do circadian clocks in peripheral tissues regulate energy homeostasis?"

 
Seung-Jae Lee
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
UCSF, Mission Bay Campus
Genentech Hall, Room S314
600 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94143-2200
Tel: 415-476-9864
Fax: 415-514-4145
Email: sjlee@itsa.ucsf.edu
Ellison Medical Foundation

Project Title: "Systemic endocrine regulation of aging and dauer formation in Caenorhabditis elegans"

 
Jun-Li Luo
University of California, San Diego
Department of Pharmacology
Leichtag Room 232, MC0723
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0723
Tel: 858-534-6694
Fax: 858-534-8158
Email: juluo@ucsd.edu
Biogen IDEC

Project Title: "Selective inhibition of IKKa activity suppresses breast cancer development"

 
Kenneth E. Murray
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Building D1, Room 517
200 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617-432-4828
Fax: 617-738-7664
Email: Ken_murray@hms.harvard.edu
Schering-Plough

Project Title: "Translational regulation of gene expression from non polyadenylated viral RNAs: Implications for viral RNA replication and mRNA decapping and degradation"

 
Ali Nahvi
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Room 704 PCTB
725 North Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21205
Tel: 410-614-4928
Fax: 410-955-9124
Email: anahvi1@jhmi.edu
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Project Title: "Biochemical insights into miRNA-mediated gene regulation"

 
Daniel J. Needleman
Department of Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School
200 Longwood Avenue
WA536
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617-432-3728
Fax: 617-432-5012
Email: needle@deas.harvard.edu
Novartis

Project Title: "Self-organization and forces as determinates of spindle architecture and dynamics"

 
Todd Nystul
Department of Embryology
HHMI/Carnegie Institution of Washington
3520 San Martin Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218
Tel: 410-246-3003
Fax: 410-243-6311
Email: nystul@ciwemb.edu
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Project Title: "Characterization of the somatic stem cell in the Drosophila ovary and investigation of the role of these cells in ovarian cancer"

Jason M. Rihel
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
1019 Biological Laboratories
16 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617-495-8983
Fax: 617-495-1819
Email: rihel@fas.harvard.edu
Bristol Myers Squibb

Project Title: "Genetic and neuronal regulation of sleep homeostasis In Zebrafish: Developing a model system for the genetic dissection of sleep"


Carrie M. Rosenberger
Institute for Systems Biology
Aderem Lab
1441 North 34th Street
Seattle, WA 98103
Tel: 206-732-1267
Fax: 206-732-1299
Email: crosenberger@systemsbiology.org
Broad Medical Research

Project Title: "Role of siderophore-binding proteins in innate immunity"


Chun-Li Zhang
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, GEL/E
10010 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037
Tel: 858-453-4100 ext 1109
Fax: 858-535-1979
Email: czhang@salk.edu
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Project Title: "Genetically dissecting the role of adult neurogenesis on animal behavior"