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Vice Provost for Postdoctoral Affairs
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1 Hillhouse Ave. (Warner House), Room 207
203-432-7598
Lynn Cooley, C.N.H. Long Professor of Genetics and Professor of Cell Biology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, serves as Vice Provost for Postdoctoral Affairs.
In this role, she leads the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA), which is responsible for hiring postdoctoral and postgraduate associates and orienting them to policies and resources available to trainees on campus. As Vice Provost, she focuses on increasing Yale’s capacity to recruit, train, and support the professional development of outstanding college graduates and new PhDs.
Since 2014, Lynn has also served as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She directed Yale’s Combined Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) from 2001 to 2014.
Lynn received a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984 for dissertation research on tRNA transcription and processing conducted in the laboratory of Dieter Söll at Yale University. After postdoctoral training at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Baltimore, she joined the faculty of the genetics department at Yale School of Medicine in 1989. Cooley’s current research is focused on understanding the function of intercellular bridges that connect germline cells during their development into eggs or sperm and on the regulated production of unexpectedly long proteins in specific tissues.
Leah Jehan