Stewart Barnes
Laboratory Administrator
Stewart.Barnes@rockefeller.edu
Postdoctoral Fellows and Associates
Nazario Bosco
Postdoc
Nazario.Bosco@rockefeller.edu
Ph.D. University of Rome/Sapienza
Thesis: Common fragile sites: structure, replication and their role in chromosome instability
Advisor: Franca Pelliccia
Postdoctoral Fellowships:
American-Italian Cancer Foundation 2011-2012
Research Interests:
The role of TRF1 is mediating telomere replication.
Ylli Doksani
Postdoc
Ylli.Doksani@rockefeller.edu
Ph.D. The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, UK. 2008
Thesis: Mechanisms Responding to DNA Double Strand Breaks During S-Phase
Advisor: Prof. Marco Foiani
Postdoctoral Fellowships:
Merck Fellowship 2010-2011
Life Sciences Research Foundation 2011-2014
Research Interests:
The role of t-loops in telomere biology.
David Frescas
Postdoc
David.Frescas@rockefeller.edu
Ph.D. New York University, New York, 2008
Thesis: The JmjC-domain Containing Histone Demethylases KDM2A and KDM2B are Transcriptional Repressors of RNA Molecules Encoded by DNA Repeats
Advisor: Dr. Michele Pagano
Postdoctoral Fellowships:
American Cancer Society Fellowship 2010-2012
Research interests:
The molecular role of TIN2 in dyskeratosis congenita
Yi Gong
Research Associate
Yi.Gong@rockefeller.edu
PhD UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 2006
Thesis: Mechanistic dissection of Insig-1, a master regulator of cholesterol homeostasis.
Advisors: Dr. Michael Brown and Dr. Joseph Goldstein
Postdoctoral Fellowships:
Anderson Cancer Center Postdoctoral Fellowship 2007-2009
Research interests:
DNA damage response.
Tatsuya Kibe
Postdoc
Tatsuya.Kibe@mail.rockefeller.edu
PhD: Shizuoka University, 2007
Thesis: The novel role of fission yeast RPA in telomere maintenance.
Advisor: Dr. Masaru M UenoS, Shizuoka University, 2004
Research Interests:
DNA damage and the relationship between telomere structure and cell cycle.
Postdoctoral Fellewships/Awards:
Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 2006
Toyobo Biotechnology Foundation Fellowship 2008
Katja Kratz
Postdoc
Katja.Kratz@rockefeller.edu
PhD: ETH Zurich, 2010
Thesis: Biochemical characterization of KIAA1018/FAN1, a novel endonuclease involved in interstrand cross-link repair
Advisor: Dr. Josef Jiricny
Postdoctoral Fellowships:
EMBO Long-Term Fellowship 2012-2013
Research Interests:
Mechanistic insights into repression of ATR signaling at telomeres by shelterin.
Francisca Alessandra Lottersberger
Postdoc
Francisca.Lottersberger@rockefeller.edu
PhD: University of Milano-Bicocca, 2008
Thesis: Functions of Saccharomyces cerevisiae 14-3-3 proteins in cell cycle regulation and DNA metabolism
Advisor: Dr. Maria PIa Longhese
Postdoctoral Fellowships:
Women & Science Fellowship 2008-2009
Research Interests:
Identification of new factors involved in DNA damage response and telomere maintenance.
Courtney Lovejoy
Helena Rubinstein Postdoctoral Fellow
Courtney.Lovejoy@rockefeller.edu
Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN, 2009
Thesis: Replication Dependent Mechanisms of Genome Maintenance
Advisor: Dr. David Cortez
Postdoctoral Fellowships:
Anderson Cancer Center Postdoctoral Fellowship 2010-2011
Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Foundation 2011-2014
Research Interests:
Telomeric inhibition of DNA damage response signaling.
Isabelle Schmutz
Postdoc
Isabelle.Schmutz@rockefeller.edu
Ph.D. University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 2010
Thesis: Molecular functions of the mammalian clock component PERIOD2
Advisor: Urs Albrecht
Postdoctoral Fellowships:
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship, 2011-2012
Research Interests:
Regulation of PARP1 activity at telomeres.
Hiro Takai
Research Assistant Professor
Hiroyuki.Takai@rockefeller.edu
PhD: The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Science, 1995
Thesis: Studies on the regulatory mechanisms for the initiation of sperm motility in marine and freshwater teleosts.
Advisor: Dr. Masaaki Morisawa
Research interests:
Regulation of PIKKs by Tel2
Post Doctoral Fellowships/Awards:
Charles H. Revson Fellowship 2002-2003
Graduate Students
Shaheen Kabir
Graduate Fellow
Shaheen.Kabir@rockefeller.edu
BS in Biology, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 2005
Thesis: Characterizing S. cerevisiae strains Sch9as, ∆KKQ8 and ∆CRF1
Research Assistants
Kaori Takai
Research Assistant
Kaori.Takai@rockefeller.edu
M.S., Hunter College of the City University of New York, 2006
Foreign Research Interns
Michal Zimmermann
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Michal.Zimmermann@rockefeller.edu