Oak Grove Parade Marshall named

The Grand Marshal for the Oak Grove Recreation and Civic Club Black Heritage Parade Feb. 15 at 1 PM is Dr. Raphyel Rosby. He is the son of Carl and Allene Evans Rosby. Dr. Rosby attended Kilbourne High School kindergarten through sixth grade before relocating with his parents to Baton Rouge where he graduated from Baton Rouge High School in 1994.
He received a Bachelors of Science Degree from Louisiana State University in 2005 and a PhD in Biological Sciences from LSU in 2010.
After earning his PhD, Dr. Rosby went to Brown University to start his postdoctoral working on ribosome biogenesis and ribosomal RNA. After three and a half years at Brown University Dr. Rosby was recruited back to LSU where he presently serves as a Research Assistant Professor of Biology in the area of Molecular biology of yeast ribosomes. He has since started up an exciting new project to determine how nucleolar stress responses are modulated. Dr. Rosby is a recipient of the Bridge to the Doctorate fellowship (BDP), and has studied yeast genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories.
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