Congratulations to Alper Akay on successfully getting his PhD March 29, 2012 Alper Akay of the Gartner Lab presented his research entitled “”Genetic Interactors of the GLD-1 RNA-binding Protein in Caenorhabditis elegans” on the 29th of March 2012. His External Examiner was Christian Eckmann of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and the Internal Examiner was Liz Bayne of GRE.