Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences held its 2010 Convocation ceremonies on June 2. Graduate School leadership, including Dr. David Hajjar, dean; Dr. Randi Silver, associate dean; and Francoise Freyre, assistant dean, presented the following awards for special achievement.
Vincent du Vigneaud Award of Excellence
Poster Presentations:
Alex R. Hansler, "Untargeted Metabolite Profiling to Elucidate the Basis for Folate-Responsive Neural Tube Closure Defects." (Professor Steven Gross)
Manuel Viotti, "The Role of SOX17 in Mouse Endoderm Morphogenesis." (Professor Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis)
Andrew Lerner Wolfe, "Genome-Wide RNAI Screen Identifies MIR-19 Targets in Notch-Induced Acute T-Cell Leukemia (T-All)." (Professor Hans-Guido Wendel)
Oral Presentations:
Ronald S. Bultje, "The Notch Ligand Jagged-1 Regulates Interneuron Fate Determination." (Professor Stewart Anderson)
Cristina Ghenoiu, "Histone H3 Phosphorylated on Threonine 3 Controls M Phase by Binding the CPC to Activate the Kinase Aurora B." (Professor Hironori Funabiki)
Drew Thacker, "Meiotic Crossover Control in Budding Yeast: A Color-Based Analysis." (Professor Scott Keeney)
Vincent du Vigneaud First-Year Award
Rebecca L. Goldstein, "Malignant Phenotype Characterization in B Cell Lymphomas by Proteomic Analysis of Heat Shock Protein (HSP) Complexes." (Professor Ari Melnick)
Vincent du Vigneaud Second-Year Award
Soha Ashrafi, "A Role for WNT7A in Pre-Synaptic Differentiation of a Mouse Spinal Inhibitory Synapse." (Professor Julia Kaltschmidt)
Julian R. Rachele Prize
Asif Maroof, "Prospective Isolation of Cortical Interneuron Precursors from Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells." Journal of Neuroscience 30(13):4667-4675, March 31, 2010 (Professor Stewart Anderson)
Anton Rosenbaum, "Endocytosis of β-Cyclodextrins is Responsible for Cholesterol Reduction in Niemann-Pick Type C Mutant Cells." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 107:5477-5482, March 23, 2010 (Professor Frederick Maxfield)