Life Sciences Research Foundation

LSRF AWARDS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

The Life Sciences Research Foundation is pleased to announce recipients of three-year postdoctoral fellowships who will begin their training as early as June 2008. The awards are the twenty-sixth to be made by the Foundation, which was organized in 1981 as an alternative instrument for guiding monies from industry, foundations, agencies, and other donors to the non-targeted support of outstanding young scientists. The awardees were chosen by the Foundation's Peer Review Committee from about 800 applicants. Each recipient will work at a non-profit institution of his or her choice, and each will be identified as the individual recipient of support from one of the Foundation's Sponsors.

The recipients, their institutional affiliations, and the sponsoring donors, were announced by the Foundation's President, Donald D. Brown, as follows:

Sponsored by the Life Sciences Research Foundation: Nicholas Bonawitz
(Ph.D., Emory University) for studies at Purdue University entitled: "BAHD acyltranferases as a means to manipulate lignin biosythesis and optimize cellulosic bioethanol production."

Sponsored by the Lilly Research Laboratories: Christopher Brown
(Ph.D., Stanford University) for studies at the University of Chicago entitled: "Genomic analysis of gene expression diversity in the human liver: Connecting non-coding changes to pharmacogenetic and hepatic disease phenotypes."

Sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Michelle Carmell
(Ph.D., SUNY at Stonybrook) for studies at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research entitled "Investigating the role of the Notch signaling pathway in mouse spermatogonial stem cells."

Sponsored by Amgen, Inc.: Michael Cohen
(Ph.D., University of California – San Francisco) for studies at Weill Cornell Medical College entitled: "Mechanisms of axonal mRNA localization during neurodevelopment."

Sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Kendra Frederick
(Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) for studies at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research entitled "Structural characterization of monomeric and oligomeric forms of the yeast prion protein Sup35."

Sponsored by Merck Research Laboratories: Dirk Hockemeyer
(Ph.D., Rockefeller University) for studies at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research entitled "In vitro reprogramming of somatic human cells into pluripotent ES-like cells using defined genetic elements."

Sponsored by Gilead Sciences: Xiaoyi Hu
(Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) for studies at The Scripps Research Institute entitled "Probing DNA methylation regulations with small molecules."

Sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Sabine Petry
(Ph.D., University of Cambridge) for studies at the University of California – San Francisco entitled "Functional and structural analysis of microtubule nucleation within the mitotic spindle."

Sponsored by the Department of Energy: David Savage
(Ph.D., University of California - San Francisco) for studies at the Harvard Medical School entitled "Design principles of photosynthetic biofuel production."

Sponsored by the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research: Mohammad Seyedsayamdost
(Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for studies at the Harvard Medical School entitled "Role of secondary metabolites in Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence."

Sponsored by the Life Sciences Research Foundation: Juan Song
(Ph.D., University of California – Berkeley) for studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine entitled "Molecular mechanisms of GABA-mediated regulation of adult neurogenesis."

Sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Blake Wiedenheft
(Ph.D., Montana State University) for studies at the University of California – Berkeley entitled "Characterization of an RNAi-based adaptive immune response in prokaryotes."

Sponsored by the Baltimore Family Fund: Qi Zhang
(Ph.D., University of Michigan) for studies at the University of California – Los Angeles entitled "Structural, dynamical and functional study of the pseudoknot core domain of human telomerase RNA."


	PRESS RELEASE - JULY 2008
	LSRF AWARDS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS The Life Sciences Research Foundation is pleased to announce recipients of three-year postdoctoral fellowships who will begin their training as early as June 2008. The awards are the twenty-sixth to be made by the Foundation, which was organized in 1981 as an alternative instrument for guiding monies from industry, foundations, agencies, and other donors to the non-targeted support of outstanding young scientists. The awardees were chosen by the Foundation's Peer Review Committee from about 800 applicants. Each recipient will work at a non-profit institution of his or her choice, and each will be identified as the individual recipient of support from one of the Foundation's Sponsors. The recipients, their institutional affiliations, and the sponsoring donors, were announced by the Foundation's President, Donald D. Brown, as follows: Sponsored by the Life Sciences Research Foundation: Nicholas Bonawitz (Ph.D., Emory University) for studies at Purdue University entitled: "BAHD acyltranferases as a means to manipulate lignin biosythesis and optimize cellulosic bioethanol production." Sponsored by the Lilly Research Laboratories: Christopher Brown (Ph.D., Stanford University) for studies at the University of Chicago entitled: "Genomic analysis of gene expression diversity in the human liver: Connecting non-coding changes to pharmacogenetic and hepatic disease phenotypes." Sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Michelle Carmell (Ph.D., SUNY at Stonybrook) for studies at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research entitled "Investigating the role of the Notch signaling pathway in mouse spermatogonial stem cells." Sponsored by Amgen, Inc.: Michael Cohen (Ph.D., University of California – San Francisco) for studies at Weill Cornell Medical College entitled: "Mechanisms of axonal mRNA localization during neurodevelopment." Sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Kendra Frederick (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) for studies at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research entitled "Structural characterization of monomeric and oligomeric forms of the yeast prion protein Sup35." Sponsored by Merck Research Laboratories: Dirk Hockemeyer (Ph.D., Rockefeller University) for studies at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research entitled "In vitro reprogramming of somatic human cells into pluripotent ES-like cells using defined genetic elements." Sponsored by Gilead Sciences: Xiaoyi Hu (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) for studies at The Scripps Research Institute entitled "Probing DNA methylation regulations with small molecules." Sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Sabine Petry (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) for studies at the University of California – San Francisco entitled "Functional and structural analysis of microtubule nucleation within the mitotic spindle." Sponsored by the Department of Energy: David Savage (Ph.D., University of California - San Francisco) for studies at the Harvard Medical School entitled "Design principles of photosynthetic biofuel production." Sponsored by the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research: Mohammad Seyedsayamdost (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for studies at the Harvard Medical School entitled "Role of secondary metabolites in Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence." Sponsored by the Life Sciences Research Foundation: Juan Song (Ph.D., University of California – Berkeley) for studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine entitled "Molecular mechanisms of GABA-mediated regulation of adult neurogenesis." Sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Blake Wiedenheft (Ph.D., Montana State University) for studies at the University of California – Berkeley entitled "Characterization of an RNAi-based adaptive immune response in prokaryotes." Sponsored by the Baltimore Family Fund: Qi Zhang (Ph.D., University of Michigan) for studies at the University of California – Los Angeles entitled "Structural, dynamical and functional study of the pseudoknot core domain of human telomerase RNA."