President's
Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards 1999 - 2000
Biological Sciences
Joy Alcedo
Education: B.A. College of St. Rose, Biology/Chemistry;
M.S. Dartmouth Medical School, Biochemistry; Ph.D. University Zurich, Molecular Biology
Dissertation: Aspects of Signal Transduction Pathways in Drisophila:
Isolation of Smoothened, a Component Downstream of Hedgehog Signal, and
Characterization of a Gooseberry Enhancer Element Responsive to the Wingless
Signal
Thesis Advisor: Markus Noll, Institute for Molecular Biology,
University of Zurich
Research Topic: Analyses of Genes and Mechanisms That Control
Lifespan in Caenorhabditis Elegans
Mentor: Cynthia Kenyon, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
University of California, San Francisco
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biochemistry
& Biophysics, UC San Francisco
Katherine Coffing
Education: B.A. Wesleyan University, Anthropology; Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Functional Anatomy and Evolution
Dissertation: The Metaxarpals of Austraopithecus afarensis: Locomoter
and Behavioral Implications of Cross-Sectional Geometry
Thesis Advisor: Alan Walker, Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
University
Research Topic: Structure and Function of the Hand of the Early
Hominid Australopithecus Africanus: an Engineering Analysis
Mentor: Henry McHenry, Professor of Anthropology, University of
California, Davis
Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, UC Los
Angeles
Cristina Cuomo
Education: A.B. Bryn Mawr College, Biology; Ph.D. Harvard
University, Genetics
Dissertation: The Role of the Recombination Activating Genes,
rag1 and rag 2, in V(D)L Recombination
Thesis Advisor: Marjorie A. Oettinger, Professor of Genetics,
Harvard Medical School
Research Topic: Regulation of Sister Chromatid Cohesion in Budding
Yeast
Mentor: Andrew W. Murray, Professor of Physiology, University
of California, San Franciso
Current Position: Research Scientist, Genome Sequencing & Analysis Program, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Julianne Dunphy
Education: B.S. University of Illinois, Biology; Ph.D. Washington
University, Molecular Cell Biology
Dissertation: Characterization of a protein S. Acyltransferase
Thesis Advisor: Maurine E. Linder, Professor of Cell Biology and
Physiology, Washington University
Research Topic: Analysis of Messenger RNA Nuclear Export
Mentor: Christine Guthrie, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
University of California, San Francisco
Todd Minehardt
Education: B.A. Lehigh University, Arts and Science; M.A.
University of Texas, Austin, Geological Sciences; Ph.D. University
of Texas, Austin, Chemistry
Dissertation: Classical and quantum dynamics of vibrational energy
flow in benzene: the CH (v-2) overtone
Thesis Advisor: Peter J. Rossky, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Texas, Austin
Research Topic: Examining the aspartyl protense HIV-Ps high-level
calculations to determine functionality and suggest potential inhibitors
Mentor: Peter Kollman, Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
University of California, San Francisco
Current Position: Lecturer and Research Associate, Department
of Chemistry, Princeton University
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