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Matt Rodeheffer
I was born and raised on the shores of Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. After eighteen years living in the majestic North, I escaped to Seattle to pursue undergraduate studies at the University of Washington. I then came back to the eastern time zone, although just a bit farther south, to Atlanta where I did my graduate work in biochemistry at Emory University with Gerald Shadel. After receiving a solid dose of mitochondria at Emory, I decided to come to Rockefeller to continue my scientific work with Jeff Friedman.
I look forward to serving the Rockefeller community as a member of the PDA and I welcome any input and ideas anyone may have to offer. Please feel free to email me with any questions or comments or talk to me about them if you see me around campus. The Rockefeller University is an exceptional research institution and the postdocs and research assistants are one of the driving forces behind the university. The PDA is here to help ensure the postdoctoral experience at Rockefeller is a good one. I hope to see you around campus and look forward to working with you in the future.
Ben Short
Originally I’m from the UK, where I studied biochemistry at Imperial College, London. After a brief spell at Glasgow University in Scotland, I moved to the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, for my PhD, studying vesicle trafficking through the Golgi apparatus with Francis Barr.
After four years in Germany, I realized I wasn’t the slightest bit homesick for either the British weather or food, so I decided to move even further abroad for my postdoc. I’ve been at Rockefeller since last October, when I joined Elaine Fuchs’ lab to work on the regulation of intercellular adhesion in mammalian skin. New York is a wonderful city to live in, especially for a music fan like me. If work didn’t keep getting in the way, I’d definitely be out every night checking out as many gigs as I could. I’m also a big sports fan—even if baseball and football don’t quite match up to cricket and soccer.
The Rockefeller University is a great place to work—thanks in no small part to the efforts of the PDA Representative Committee in expressing the needs of the postdoc community to the university administration. I hope to continue that work now that I’m a representative on the committee. Feel free to stop me if you see me around campus and let me know any concerns you have. As I see it, the PDA is here to make sure all postdocs and their families get the best out of their time at Rockefeller.
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