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2003 Fifth Annual Beckman Scholars Symposium
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

Located at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the
National Academies of Sciences and Engineering
100 Academy, Irvine, CA 92612
July 24 - 26, 2003

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Friday, July 25, 2003 - Beckman Center-Atrium

Palladium-Catalysed Asymmetric Phosphination
Omar Amir
Dartmouth College

Eye-blink conditioning deficits indicate neural timing and cerebellar abnormalities in schizophrenia
Sarah Brown
Indiana University

Advancing Analysis and Instrumentation for Probing Mechanical Lung Function
Richard Burkhart

Boston University

The Mechanism of Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation Revisited
Peter Conrad
Indiana University

Synthesis of a NAALADase Inhibitor: Towards the Development of a Quantitative PSMA Assay
Brent D. Griffith
University of Notre Dame

The effects of invading young sagebrush (Artemisia rothrockii) on the water status of an herbaceous meadow in the Eastern Sierra Nevada
Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi
University of California, Berkeley

Identification of Possible Link Between the Human NAD Kinase Gene and Neurodegenerative Disease
Heidi Hullinger
Duke University

A novel method for characterizing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) in the environment
Mary Elizabeth Lee
California State University, Los Angeles

Role of Dendritic Protein Synthesis in Hippocampal LTP
Melinda T. Owens
California Institute of Technology

The Role of Stress Proteins in Skeletal Muscle Damage and Repair
Prianka Patel
Smith College

Improving the Efficiency of Conjugated Polymer Based Devices: Controlling the Conformation of a Conjugated Polyelectrolyte in Solution
Sean Roberts
University of California, Los Angeles

Prodrug Activating Systems for Nucleic Acid Triggered Prodrug Activation Model
Karen Ruff
Washington University, St. Louis

The Characterization of Intracellular Environments Using Axonal Electrophoresis
Mor "Myrrh" Sagy
University of Texas, Austin

The Effect of Nerve Growth Factor on the Differentiation of Muscle Derived Stem Cells
Nima Salari
University of Pittsburgh

Fluorescence and Calorimetry Studies of Drug Interactions with Lipid Bilayers
Rosalie Tran
Occidental College

N-linked glycosylation required for optimal function of Kaposi's sarcoma
herpes virus encoded IL6

Srinivas Viswanathan
Yale University

Interaction of Porphyrins with Micelles
Raymond Wu
San Francisco State University