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| 2013 |
In memoriam: Francis (Frank) Ruddle
Yale scientist Francis Hugh (Frank) Ruddle, a pioneer in genetic engineering and the study of developmental genetics, died March 10 in New Haven. He was 83 years old. Read more. |
| 2010 |
| Thomas Pollard has been appointed the new Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. |
| Joseph Wolenski received the Richard H. Brodhead Prize for Teaching Excellence by Lecturer or lector. |
| Ron Breaker becomes Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department Chairman in July, 2010. |
| Valerie Horsley was named a Pew Scholar. |
| Shirleen Roeder was elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology (Academy). |
| Joel Rosenbaum is the Keynote Speaker at the Keystone Symposium on Cilia and Ciliopathies. |
| 2009 |
| Sidney Altman was awarded the Einstein Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Ochoa Medal; IUBMB; Stelios Orphanoudakis Commemorative Lecturer, Technical Institute, Heraklion, Crete, Advisor, Korean Society of Scientist and Engineers. |
| Craig Crews was named Executive Director of the Yale Center for Small Molecular Discovery. |
| Frank Slack won the first annual Yale Cancer Center Research Prize. |
| 2008 - 2009 |
| Ronald Breaker lab discovered a class of riboswitches that sense the second messenger cyclic di–GMP. |
| John Carlson lab discovered that the repertoire odorant receptors of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito respond strongly to human odors explaining how it finds human hosts for the spread of malaria. |
| Stephen Dellaporta laboratory participated in the sequencing and analysis of the genome of Trichoplax, a fascinating primitive animal, and discovered that the tasselseed 1 gene encodes a lipoxygenase involved with jasmonic acid signaling and sex termination in maize. |
| Thierry Emonet lab developed new modular software to simulate complex biological systems. |
| Paul Forscher and Eric Dufresne laboratories developed a method using multiple optical traps to measure forces simultaneously at several sites in live cells. |
| Scott Holley lab discovered how interactions between integrins and fibronectin subdivide developing somites. |
| Christine Jacobs–Wagner laboratory identified a wide spread bacterial transmembrane protein, RodZ, that influences cell shape through interactions with the cytoskeleton. |
| Xing Wang Deng and Timothy Nelson labs compiled an atlas of mRNAs expressed in various types of rice cells. |
| Thomas Pollard lab characterized the mechanisms of action of two inhibitors of Arp2/3 complex. |
| Frank Slack lab and their collaborators discovered genetic variation in a let–7 miRNA complementary site in the KRAS 3’ UTR increases the risk for lung cancer. |
| 2008 |
| Christine Jacobs–Wagner was appointed a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator and was a finalist for a Blavatnik Award. |
| Frank Slack laboratory provided the first in vivo evidence for microRNAs as potential cancer therapeutics. |
| Craig Crews was appointed Editor of Chemistry & Biology. |
| Joel Rosenbaum was awarded an Honorary Degree from the University of Siena in Italy. |
| 2007 |
| Christine Jacobs–Wagner was reappointed as the Maxine F. Singer Endowed Associate Professor by Yale University. |
| Christine Jacobs–Wagner was awarded the Women in Cell Biology Career Recognition Award from the American Society for Cell Biology. |
| Craig Crews was selected as a Kavli Fellow to participate in the Japanese–American Frontiers of Science Symposium (Kanagawa, Japan) sponsored by the U.S. National Academies of Science. |
| Ronald Breaker received the Arun Guthikonda Memorial Award from Columbia University. |
| Frank J. Slack was awarded the 21st Century Science Initiative Award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation. |
| Frank J. Slack was awarded the Senior Scholar in Aging Award from the Ellison Medical Foundation. |
| 2006 |
| Joel Rosenbaum was awarded the E. B. Wilson Medal from the American Society for Cell Biology. |
| Thomas Dean Pollard was awarded the Gairdner International Award in Biomedical Sciences. |
| Craig Crews received the Friedrich Wihelm Bessel Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. |
| 2004 |
| John Carlson received the Senior Scholar Award from the Ellison Medical Foundation. |
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