Class of 2011

Kaya Akyuz (Stark Group)
Bogazici University, Turkey
Understanding the sequence basis of transcriptional regulation

Natália Dörr (Dorner Group)
Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil
How to fish and cut an RNA?

Fiona Grimm (Brennecke Group)
ETH, Zurich
Fishing for ribosomes

Anna Labno (Zuber Group)
Jagiellonian University, Poland
An optimized TET-­regulatable expression system for studying drug target using shRNA

Bryan Luu (Busslinger Group)
Carleton University, Canada
Transcriptional control of Pax5 by Ebf1 in early B cell development

Hannah Stuart (Ringrose Group)
University of Cambridge, UK
The effect of mutations on non-­coding transcription from a Polycomb Response Element

Darko Barisic (Martinez Group)
University of Zagreb, Croatia
RNA processing in mammalian cells

Daniel Mannion (Clausen Group)
University of Oxford, UK
Characterising the SpoIVB Active Site: A Novel Catalytic Diad for protein digestion?

Cecilie Oest-Jacobsen (Marlovits Group)
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Design of artificial substrates for the injectisome

Jamie Carrington (Dammermann Group)
University of Edinburgh, UK
Investigating ciliary development using neuronal RNAi in C. elegans

Kasia Drzewicka (Westermann Group)
Warsaw University, Poland
Molecular analysis of kinetochore function in budding yeast

Omar Julca (Keays Group)
Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Peru
Magnetoreception in Vertebrates

Veronika Nogellova (Martens Group)
University of Cambridge, UK
The role of Atg19 in selective autophagy

Jenny Mei (Knoblich Group)
Yale University, USA
Reversibility of Drosophila larval brain tumors

Chris Powell (Peters Group)
University of Oxford, UK
Studying recombinant cohesin at the single molecule level

Rhianna Knable (Keleman Group)
University of Queensland, Australia
Learning and Memory in Drosophila

Sui Poh Tee (Rumpel Group)
University of Cambridge, UK
To Lick or Not to Lick -­ Analysis of Fine Temporal Structure of Sound Discrimination Task in Mice

Ana Stankovic (Mochizuki Group)
University of Belgrade, Serbia
Nuclear localisation signal of H2B protein

Takato Honda (Dickson Group)
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Pheromone Processing in the defined Drosophila neural circuits

Linda Ma (Straw Group)
Columbia University, USA
Searching for Visual Neurons Involved in Figure-­Ground Discrimination in Drosophila

Dahlia Hassan (Tessmar Group)
Columbia University, USA
Circadian and Lunar Cycles in Platynereis dumerilli and Clunio marinus

Katie Lockwood (Haubensak Group)
University of Cambridge, UK
Neural circuits for emotions in mice

Aaron Appleyard (Busch Group)
University of Oxford, UK
Natural variation of root development under iron deficiency

Kristina Katsemonova (Jonak Group)
University College London, UK
Biotic and abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana plants

Whitney Quong (Penninger Group)
University of British Columbia, Canada
A novel tool to visualize, purify, and genetically manipulate RANK-­expressing cells

Lisa Sabir (Zimmer Group)
University of Cambridge, UK
The effect of food availability on locomotive behaviour in C. elegans