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Albert  Baldwin, Ph.D.                                                         Postdoctoral Fellow: 1984-1989
Professor
UNC Lineberger Cancer Research Center
http://www.unclineberger.org/research/faculty/searchbyname.asp?ID=5


Göran  Baurén, Ph.D.                                                           Postdoctoral Fellow: 1997-1999
Global Genomics AB


Susan M.Berget, Ph.D.                                                         Postdoctoral Fellow: 1975-1978
Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
http://www.bcm.edu/pharmacology/be-s.htm


Arnold J. Berk, M.D.                                                           Postdoctoral Fellow: 1976-1979
Professor,
University of California, Los Angeles
http://www.mimg.ucla.edu/faculty/Berk/berk.html


Kathleen Berkner, Ph.D.                                                      Postdoctoral Fellow: 1980-1983
Associate Staff
The Lerner Research Institute
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
http://www.lerner.ccf.org/moleccard/berkner/


Minou Bina, Ph.D.                                                               Sabbatical: 1988
Professor
Purdue University
http://www.chem.purdue.edu/bina/


Douglas L. Black, Ph.D.                                                      Visiting Fellow: 9/92-10/92
Professor
Associate Investigator, HHMI
UCLA
http://www.mimg.ucla.edu/faculty/black/index.html


Benjamin Blencowe, Ph.D.                                                  Postdoctoral Fellow: 1992-1998
Professor
University of Toronto
http://www.utoronto.ca/intron/


Myles Brown, M.D.                                                             Postdoctoral Fellow: 1987-1990
Chief, Division of Molecular and Cellular Oncology
Professor of Medicine
Dana Farber Cancer Institute and HMS
http://research.dfci.harvard.edu/brownlab/lab_members/myles_brown.html


Steve Buratowski, Ph.D.                                                      Graduate Student: 1985-1990
Professor
Harvard Medical School
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/buratowski.html

Thesis - Transcription initiation by RNA Polymerase II (March 1990)


Chris Burge, Ph.D.                                                               Postdoctoral Fellow: 1997-1999
Associate Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://mit.edu/biology/www/facultyareas/facresearch/burge.html


Mauro Calabrese, Ph.D.                                                      Graduate Student: 2002-2008
Postdoctoral Fellow
Carolina Center for Genome Sciences Program
Cancer Genetics, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Terry Magnuson, advisor
http://genetics.unc.edu/faculty/magnuson.htm

Thesis - Dicer delection and short RNA expression analysis in mouse embryonic stem cells (February 2008)


Cindy  Carr, Ph.D.                                                                Graduate Student:1986-1992

Thesis - Cloning and characterization of TFEB: A member of the helix-loop-helix/leucine zipper family (June 1992)  


Rich Carthew, Ph.D.                                                            Graduate Student: 1982-1987
Professor
Northwestern University
http://www.biochem.northwestern.edu/ibis/faculty/carthew.htm

Thesis - Characterization of human class II transcription factors (September 1987)


Karen  Cepek, Ph.D.                                                            Postdoctoral Fellow:1995-1997


Connie Cepko, Ph.D.                                                           Graduate Student:  1977-1982
Professor
Harvard Medical School
http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/~cepko/

Thesis - Interaction of the Adenovirus 100K and Hexon proteins: Analysis using monoclonal antibodies and temperature-sensitive mutants (February 1982)


David Chang, Ph.D., M.D.                                                   Postdoctoral Fellow: 1988-1990
Amgen, Inc.
http://www.biospace.com/company_profile.aspx?CompanyId=1277


Daniel Chasman, Ph.D.                                                        Postdoctoral Fellow: 1991-1997
Associate Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
http://hms.harvard.edu/WhitePagesPublic.asp?task=staffandfaculty


Chonghui Cheng, Ph.D.                                                      Postdoctoral Fellow: 2000-2007
Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Department of Medicine
http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/igp/facindex/ChengC.html


Lewis A. Chodosh, M.D., Ph.D.                                         Graduate Student: 1983-1988
Professor
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
http://www.med.upenn.edu/camb/faculty/cgc/chodosh.html

Thesis - MLTF: A human promoter-specific transcription factor (April 1988)


Gilbert Chu, M.D., Ph.D.                                                     Postdoctoral Fellow: 1981-1982
Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry
Stanford University
http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~chu/


Roger Clerc, Ph.D.                                                               Postdoctoral Fellow: 1987-1990
CNS Research Laboratories
Roche Ltd.


Richard Condit, Ph.D.                                                          Sabbatical: 1987
Professor
University of Florida
http://www.mgm.ufl.edu/faculty/rcondit.htm


John Crispino, Ph.D.                                                            Graduate Student: 1992-1996
Northwestern University
http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/igp/facindex/CrispinoJ.html

Thesis - The role of U1 snRNP in pre-mRNA splicing (February 1996)


John G. Doench, Ph.D                                                         Graduate Student: 2001-2005
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Ed Harlow, advisor
http://hms.harvard.edu/WhitePagesPublic.asp

Thesis - Specificity and mechanism of microRNAs in the regulation of gene expression (June 2005)


Daniel J. Donoghue,Ph.D.                                                   Graduate Student: 1974-1979
Professor
University of California San Diego
http://www-chem.ucsd.edu/research/profile.cfm?cid=C00452

Thesis - Electron microscopic studies of Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus and related retroviruses: Spliced subgenomic mRNAs and genome structure (April 1979)


Derek Dykxhoorn, Ph.D.                                                    Postdoctoral Fellow: 1998-2003
Research Scientist
Center for Blood Research
http://www.cbr.med.harvard.edu/labs/lieberman/members.html

Stefan Erkeland                                                                     Postdoctoral Fellow: 2005-2007
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2005-2007
Assistant Professor
Erasmus MC
Hematology Department
http://www.erasmusmc.nl/?lang=en


William Fairbrother, Ph.D.                                                   Postdoctoral Fellow: 2001-2005
Assistant Professor
Brown University
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/William_Fairbrother


Andrew Fire, Ph.D.                                                             Graduate Student: 1978-1983
Professor                                                                       
Stanford University School of Medicine
http://genome-www.stanford.edu/group/fire/

2006 co-Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Thesis - In vitro transcription studies of Adenovirus (June 1983)


David E. Fisher, M.D., Ph.D.                                               Postdoctoral Fellow: 1990-1993
Professor of Pediatrics
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/fisher.html


S. Jane Flint, Ph.D.                                                               Postdoctoral Fellow: 1973-1975
Professor
Princeton University
http://www.molbio1.princeton.edu/flint/
http://www.molbio.princeton.edu/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=208


Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco, M.D., Ph.D.                              Postdoctoral Fellow: 1987-1990
Professor
Duke University Medical Center
http://mgm.duke.edu/faculty/garcia/index.htm


Cathie Garnis, Ph.D.                                                            Postdoctoral Fellow: 2005-2008
BC Cancer Research Centre
http://www.bccrc.ca/cg/people_cagarnis.html


Hara Ghosh, Ph.D.                                                               Sabbatical: 1984
McMaster University
http://www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/biochem/dir/fac/Department_faculty_ghoshHP.html


Anna Gil, Ph.D., LLD                                                          Postdoctoral Fellow: 1986-1992


Sandra Gilbert, Ph.D.                                                           Graduate Student: 1993-1999
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Chicago

Thesis - Chromatin structure of the inactive X chromosome (September 1999)


Paula Grabowski, Ph.D.                                                       Postdoctoral Fellow: 1983-1987
Professor and HHMI Investigator
University of Pittsburgh
http://www.pitt.edu/~biohome/Dept/Frame/Faculty/grabowski.htm


Martin Griot, Ph.D.                                                               Postdoctoral Fellow: 1988-1989
                                                                                                 (shared with BPEC)


Alla Grishok                                                                        Postdoctoral Fellow: 2001-2007
Assistant Professor
Columbia University

http://cumc.columbia.edu/dept/gsas/biochem/faculty/Grishok.html


Hiroshi Handa, Ph.D./M.D.                                                  Postdoctoral Fellow: 1978-1980
Professor & 21st COE Program Leader
Tokyo Insititute of Technology
http://www.handa.bio.titech.ac.jp


Ulla Hansen, Ph.D.                                                               Postdoctoral Fellow: 1980-1983
Professor
Boston University
http://www.bu.edu/biology/Faculty_Staff/uhansen.html


Steve Hardy, M.S., Ph.D.                                                     Graduate Student (MS): 1981-1983
Chiron


Sean Harper, M.D.                                                               Postdoctoral Fellow: 1991-1996
Vice President, Development
Amgen, Inc.
http://www.biospace.com/company_profile.aspx?CompanyId=1277


Tim J Harrison DSc FRCPath                                              Postdoctoral Fellow: 1976-1978
Reader in Molecular Virology
Royal Free and University College Medical School
London W1N 4JF UK
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/virology-bloomsbury/staff-details/biographies/Tim%20Harrison.htm


Mia Horowitz, Ph.D.                                                            Postdoctoral Fellow: 1980-1982
Professor
University of Tel Aviv
http://www.tau.ac.il/lifesci/departments/cell_r/members/horowitz/horowitz.html


Hristo Houbaviy, Ph.D.                                                        Postdoctoral Fellow: 1999-2005
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Osteopathic Medicine
http://profiles.umdnj.edu/forms/View_Profile.cfm?OProfID=houbavhr


Parmjit Jat, Ph.D.                                                                  Postdoctoral Fellow: 1983-1987
Professor
University College London
London, UK


Grace Jones, Ph.D.                                                               Sabbatical: 1997
Professor
University of Kentucky
http://biology.uky.edu/gjones/


Randal Kaufman, Ph.D.                                                       Postdoctoral Fellow: 1979-1982
Professor, HHMI Investigator
University of Michigan Medical School
http://www.biochem.med.umich.edu/?q=rkaufman
http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/kaufmanrj_bio.html


Gabriel Kaufman, Ph.D.                                                       Sabbatical: 1990
Professor
University of Tel Aviv,
http://www.tau.ac.il/lifesci/departments/biochem/members/kaufman/kaufman.html


Jaesang Kim, Ph.D.                                                              Graduate Student: 1990-1996
Professor
Ewha Womans University
Seoul, 120-750, Korea
http://www.ewha.ac.kr/eng/quick/find_view.jsp

Thesis - Isolation and functional characterization of cofactors of RNA Polymerase II transcription (June 1996)


Jae Bum Kim, Ph.D.                                                            Postdoctoral Fellow: 1996-2000
Associate Professor
Seoul National University NS70
Seoul, Korea. 151-742


Robert E. Kingston, Ph.D.                                                   Postdoctoral Fellow: 1982-1984
Professor
Massachusetts General Hospital and HMS
http://xanadu.mgh.harvard.edu/kingstonweb/default.html


Jorgen Kjems, PhD                                                              Postdoctoral Fellow: 1990-1992
Professor
University of Aarhus
Denmark
http://www.rna.dk/jk/


Tsuoshi Kobayashi, Ph.D.                                                   Visiting Scientist: 1986-1988
Senior Scientist
Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
Japan


Magda Konarska, Ph.D.                                                       Postdoctoral Fellow: 1984-1990
Professor and Head of Laboratory
The Rockefeller University
http://www.rockefeller.edu/labheads/konarska/konarska-lab.php


Thomas M. Kristie, Ph.D.                                                    Postdoctoral Fellow: 1987-1993
Senior Investigator
National Institutes of Health
http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/labs/aboutlabs/lvd/molecularGeneticsSection/kristie.htm


Angus I. Lamond, Ph.D.                                                      Postdoctoral Fellow: 1985-1987
Professor
University of Dundee
Dundee, Scotland UK
http://www.lamondlab.com/


Frank  Laski                                                                         Graduate Student: 1978-1983
Associate Professor
UCLA
http://www.mcdb.ucla.edu/indivfaculty.php?FacultyKey=1277

Thesis - Construction and function of nonsense suppressors in mammalian cells (September 1983)


Jonathan LeBowitz, Ph.D.                                                   Postdoctoral Fellow: 1985-1989
Chief Scientific Officer, Executive Vice President
Symbiontics, Inc., St. Louis


Ken LeClair, Ph.D.                                                              Postdoctoral Fellow: 1988-1991
Director, Protein Expression and Purification Research
Shire Human Genetic Therapies, Inc.
http://www.shire.com


Keng Boon Lee, Ph.D.                                                         Postdoctoral Fellow:  1999-2003


Frank Lee, Ph.D.                                                                  Postdoctoral Fellow: 1977-1979
Founder and Chairman
Adnexus Therapeutics
http://www.adnexustx.com/about_board_directors.html#flee


Ihor Lemischka, Ph.D.                                                         Graduate Student: 1977-1982
Professor
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
http://www.mountsinai.org/Find%20A%20Faculty/profile.do?id=0000072500003514002971

Thesis - The structure and evolution of rat alpha-tubulin genes: the old and new (1982)


Lee Lim, Ph.D.                                                                    Graduate Student: 1994-2001
Senior Research Biologist
Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle

Thesis - Short and alternative: Computational and experimental analysis of slicing signals (June 2001)


Andrew M. MacMillan, Ph.D.                                             Postdoctoral Fellow: 1993-1996
Professor
University of Alberta
Canada
http://www.biochem.ualberta.ca/Biochem/Faculty/MacMillan/MacPage/index.html


James Manley, Ph.D.                                                           Visiting Postdoc Fellow: 1981
Professor                                                                               (Gefter lab)
Department of Biological Sciences                                   
Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/faculty/manley/


Robert Marciniak, Ph.D./M.D.                                             Graduate Student: 1984-1991
Assistant Professor
University of Texas Health Science Center
http://www.uthscsa.edu/csb/faculty/camarciniak.asp
http://profiles.uthscsa.edu/?pid=profile&hscid=000034499&searchBut=Search&dfilt=0T50UNTVD

Thesis - Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 Tat protein: A eukaryotic processivity factor (April 1991)


Michael T. McManus, Ph.D.                                                Postdoctoral Fellow: 2000-2004
Assistant Professor
UCSF
http://www.ucsf.edu/bms/faculty/mcmanus.html


Jan Mester, Ph.D.                                                                 Sabbatical: 1980
INSERM, Paris


Rachel Meyers, Ph.D.                                                          Graduate Student: 1988-1993
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Thesis - TATA binding protein and associated factors in mammalian transcrption: Characterization of the B-TFIID activity (December 1993)


Akira Mitsui, Ph.D.                                                              Visiting Scientist: 1996-1998
Senior Scientist
Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
Japan


Claire Moore, Ph.D.                                                             Postdoctoral Fellow: 1983-1987
Professor
Tufts University
http://www.tufts.edu/sackler/facultyIntros/mooreC.html


Melissa J. Moore, Ph.D.                                                       Postdoctoral Fellow: 1989-1994
Associate Professor and HHMI Investigator
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester           
http://www.umassmed.edu/bmp/moore.cfm


Marsha  Morton, Ph.D.                                                         Postdoctoral Fellow: 1990-1992
Patent Lawyer


Richard Mulligan, Ph.D.                                                      Postdoctoral Fellow: 1980-1981
Professor                                                                                (Baltimore&Sharp)
HMS, Children’s Hospital
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/mulligan.html


Masahiro Murata, Ph.D.                                                       Visiting Scientist: 1988-1990
Senior Scientist
Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
Japan


Michael Murray M.D.                                                          Postdoctoral Fellow: 
Instructor
Brigham and Women's Division of Genetics
http://genetics.bwh.harvard.edu/genetics/members/Michael_Murray.html


Carl D. Novina, PhD/MD                                                    Postdoctoral Fellow: 2000-2004
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School
http://research.dfci.harvard.edu/rnai/contact.html


Richard A. Padgett, Ph.D.                                                   Postdoctoral Fellow: 1981-1985
Associate Staff
Lerner Research Institute
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
http://www.lerner.ccf.org/molecbio/padgett/


Patrick S. Page-McCaw, Ph.D.                                            Graduate Student: 1989-1998
Assistant Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/bio/faculty/profiles/page-mccaw-p.html

Thesis - Recognition of the pyrimidine-tract of the pre-mRNA by U2AF and a novel splicing factor PUF60 (June 1998)


Barbara Panning                                                                  Postdoctoral Fellow: 1997-1999
Associate Professor
University of California, San Francisco
http://tetrad.ucsf.edu/faculty.php?ID=142


Jeffrey Parvin, M.D.                                                            Postdoctoral Fellow: 1989-1995
Louis Levy Professor for Cancer
The Ohio State University Medical Center
http://bmi.osu.edu/people_detail.php?id=765


Christian P. Petersen, Ph.D.                                                 Graduate Student: 2001-2005
Postdoctoral Fellow
Whitehead Institute, MIT
Peter Reddien, advisor
http://inside.wi.mit.edu/reddien/pub/PWR_website/Rddn_home.html

Thesis - Translational regulation by short RNAs in mammalian cells (February 2006)


Joel Pomerantz, Ph.D.                                                          Graduate Student: 1991-1995
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
http://biolchem.bs.jhmi.edu/members/pomerantz.htm

Thesis - Functional specificity and design of transcription factors: The Oct-1 homeodomain (August 1995)


David Potter, M.D., Ph.D.                                                    Postdoctoral Fellow: 1989-1992
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota Cancer Center
http://www.cancer.umn.edu/research/profiles/potter.html


Rock Pulak, Ph.D.                                                                Postdoctoral Fellow: 1995-1998
Director of Life Sciences
Union Biometrica, Inc.
http://www.unionbiometrica.com/about/index.html


Charles C. Query, Ph.D.                                                      Postdoctoral Fellow: 1991-1996
Associate Professor
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
http://www.aecom.yu.edu/cellbiology/lab/Query/
http://www.aecom.yu.edu/home/faculty/profile.asp?id=6996


Mark  Samuels, Ph.D.                                                          Graduate Student: 1979-1985

Thesis - Biochemical studies of transcription by RNA Polymerase II (April 1985)s


Rebecca Scarr, Ph.D.                                                           Graduate Student: 1995-2001
(intellectual property law)
http://www.finnegan.com/rebeccascarr/

Thesis - Beyond HSV: Investigating the role of Host Cell Factor 1 (C1) in mammalian cells (February 2001)


Lowell Schnipper, M.D.                                                      Sabbatical: 1986
Beth Israel Deacones Medical Center
http://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/membership/member-profile/member/240/0/


John M. Sedivy, Ph.D.                                                        Postdoctoral Fellow: 1985-1988
Professor
Brown University
http://biomed.brown.edu/Faculty/S/SedivyJ.html


Sharon Seiler, Ph.D.                                                            Graduate Student: 1983-1989
Vice President, Biotechnology Analyst
Punk, Ziegel & Company, NY
http://www.pzk.com/healthgroupEquityResearch.asp

Thesis - Probing the molecular architecture of the messenger RNA splicing reaction in vitro (June 1989)


David Shapiro, Ph.D.                                                          Sabbatical: 1985
Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana
http://www.life.uiuc.edu/biochem/f_shapiro.html


Ben Shykind, Ph.D.                                                            Graduate Student: 1988-1996
Postdoctoral Fellow
Columbia University
http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/neurobeh/axel/personal/Ben_Shykind.html

Thesis - Chromosomal proteins in activation of transcription (February 1996)


Harinder  Singh, Ph.D.                                                        Postdoctoral Fellow: 1984-1989
Professor and HHMI Investigator
University of Chicago
http://biomed.bsd.uchicago.edu/common/faculty/singh.html


Arnold Simons, Ph.D.                                                         Sabbatical: 1997 (deceased in 2005)


Hagit (Skolnik) David, Ph.D.                                               Postdoctoral Fellow: 1984-1986
Scientific Review Administrator 
NIAID Scientific Review Program


Matthew Smith, M.D., Ph.D.                                               Postdoctoral Fellow: 1995-1997
MGH Cancer Center
(Practicing Physician)
http://www.massgeneral.org/cancer/locator/search_clinician.asp?id=241


Hong Tang, Ph.D.                                                               Postdoctoral Fellow: 1997-2000
Associate Professor
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
http://www.ibp.ac.cn/e/indexe.aspx


Dean Tantin, Ph.D.                                                              Postdoctoral Fellow: 1998-2006
Assistant Professor
University of Utah, Salt Lake
http://www.path.utah.edu/labs/tantin/


Marc Timmers, Ph.D.                                                           Postdoctoral Fellow: 1990-1991
Professor                                                                                   
University Medical Center-Utrecht
http://ruummc.med.uu.nl/research/txpn.html


Thomas Tuschl, Ph.D.                                                          Postdoctoral Fellow: 1995-1999
Associate Professor
The Rockefeller University
http://www.mpibpc.gwdg.de/abteilungen/100/105/index.html
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileyfoundation/winners_past.html


Anders Virtanen, Ph.D.                                                        Postdoctoral Fellow: 1985-1987
Professor                                                                                   
Uppsala University
http://www.icm.uu.se/about.html


Vicki Wang, Ph.D.                                                               Graduate Student:  1997-2003
MD student at HMS

Thesis - Old protein, new perspective: The role of Oct-1 during embryonic development and lymphopoiesis (May 2003)


Judah Weinberger, M.D.                                                      Postdoctoral Fellow: 1985-1987


Qiang Zhou, Ph.D.                                                               Postdoctoral Fellow: 1993-1995
Associate Professor
University of California, Berkeley
http://www.mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/BMB/zhouq.html


OUR INVALUABLE TECHNICAL STAFF OVER THE YEARS:

Janice  Haverty (1976)

Claire  Moore (1977)

Barbara  Aufiero (1979)

Scott  Schroeder (1980)

Paul  Changelian (1981)

Lyn  Spencer (1981)

Lynne  Corboy (1982)

Mary  Esteve (1985)

Mary  Riggs (1985)

Elizabeth  Hansen (1986)

Ursula  Ryder (1986)

Margaret  Auger (1987)

Sharon  Jaminson (1987)

Robert  Mulrenin (1988)

Lana  Parent (1990)

Robbyn  Issner (1992)

Yubin Qiu (1993)

Margaret  Beddall (1995)

Erica  Reifenberg (1997)

Janette  Knowlton (2001)

Helen Cargill (1999)  







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