1997 Beckman Young Investigators
Award Recipients

Award Recipient Index:

2004
Ameer
Appella
Green
Groves
Hill
Keating
Kuhlman
Macbeath
Maggard
Mahal
McQuade
Pandey
Rector
Sanford
Schnitzer
Schulman
Simpson
Stowell
White
Zanni


2003
Allen
Biggins
Lu Chen
Zhan Chen
De Moraes
Feng
Hergenrother
Irvine
Ismagilov
Kiick
Li
Lin
Lynn
Matzger
Odorizzi
Orth
Robinson
Smith
Yarema
Zhuang

2002
Carlson
Chan
Feng
Hafner
Halasyamani
Koehler
Liu
Lu
Minor
Nuckolls
Sanov
Schneider
Sun
Swartz
Weiss
Yang


2001
Braun
Cremer
Caterina
Chang
Connick
DuBois
Fang
Guan
Hersam
Hsieh-Wilson
Miesenboeck
Rye
Visscher
Vosshall
Wilker
Wong


2000
Ames
Aroian
Belcher
Burgess
Burke
Cimprich
Coates
Colvin
Cornish
Harper
Jacobsen
Lin
Lyon
Saven
Sorenson
Tolbert


1999
Abu-Omar
Bardwell
Barrick
Feldheim
Hong
Hunter
Lima
Martinez
Nirenberg
O'Doherty
Sasisekharan
Turro
van der Donk
Wang
Wuttke
Zhang


1998
Barron
Bertozzi
BowmanBrenner
Cohen-Cory
Dan
Deming
Gin
Lonergan
Pogliano
Roberts
Sheets
Smith
Strongin
Tsien
Wandless


1996
Breaker
Doudna
Fan
Frydman
Joshua-Tor
Kron
Liu
Lu
Maboudian
Mueller
Nie
Reid
Schafer
Schmidt-Rohr
Schuman
Wente


1995
Allbritton
Baker
Dantus
Foote
Hedstrom
Hines
Hughson
Laibinis
Mahan
Marquesee
Nonet
Palmer
Pavletich
Sita


1994
Kennedy
Kiessling
Marks
Natan
Nowick
Ornitz
Rubin
Scherer
Koo Shin
Silva
Stevens


1993
Carreira
David
Ellman
Field
Griffin
Hecht
Makri
Penner
Piston
Sailor
Schwartz
Sharpe
Strecker
Yu


1992
Anfinrud
Bell
Bianconi
Horne
Kool
Mirkin
Onuchic
Shaka
Therien
Weis
Williams
Yanofsky


1991 Carrasco
Cross
Frostig
Ghadiri
Hanna
Jasin
Kanatzidis
Koshland
Laude
Monnig
Neal
Rowlen

TOP

Stacey Shane Bent, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University
Title of Research:
Development of In Situ Diagnostics for Materials Processing
Web Site Address:
http://bentgroup.stanford.edu/
Email address: bent@stanford.edu


David S. Bredt, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology
University of California, San Francisco
Title of Research:
Synaptic Signaling by Nitric Oxide
Web Site Address:
http://www.keck.ucsf.edu/~bredt/
Email address: bredt@phy.ucsf.edu


Raymond J. Deshaies, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
California Institute of Technology
Title of Research:
A Genome-Wide Search for Anaphase-Promoting Complex Substrates in Budding Yeast
Web Site Address:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~rjdlab/
Email address: deshaies@cco.caltech.edu


John T. Fourkas, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Boston College
Title of Research:
Two-Photon Microscopy of Single Molecules
Web Site Address:
http://chemserv.bc.edu/faculty/fourkas.html
http://chemserv.bc.edu/Department/faculty/fourkas/fourkas.html
Email address: fourkas@bc.edu


Elizabeth R. Gavis, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University
Title of Research: Screens for 3'UTR-Dependent Translational Regulatory Factors in Yeast and Drosophila

Web Site Address:
http://www.molbio.princeton.edu/research_facultymember.php?id=9
Email address: lgavis@molbio.princeton.edu


Terence Hwa, Ph.D.
Department of Physics
University of California at San Diego
Title of Research:
Statistical Mechanics of Heterogeneous Biopolymers
Web Site Address:
http://matisse.ucsd.edu/~hwa/
Email address: hwa@ucsd.edu


Sonny C. Lee, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Princeton University
Title of Research:
Synthetic Analogs of Nitrogenase Cofactor
Web Site Address:
http://www.princeton.edu/~sclee/
Email address: sclee@chemvax.princeton.edu


SonBinh T. Nguyen, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University
Title of Research:
Transition Metal-Catalyzed Coupling of C1 and C2 Molecules -- A Dual Approach to Heteroatom-Containing Polymers and Valuable Organic Heterocyclic Intermediates
Web Site Address:
http://www.chem.northwestern.edu/faculty/professor?professor_id=998
Email address: stn@chem.northwestern.edu


Michael K. Rosen, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Title of Research: The Structural Basis of Signal Transduction Through Rho-Family GTPases

Web Site Address:
http://www8.utsouthwestern.edu/findfac/professional/0,2356,53929,00.html
http://biochemistry.swmed.edu/faculty/MichaelRosen.html
Email address: mrosen@biochem.swmed.edu


Tito A. Serafini, Ph.D.
Molecular and Cell Biology
Renovis Inc.
Title of Research:
Molecular Mechanisms of Postsynaptic Target Selection
Web Site Address:
http://www.renovis.com/abt_lead_mt_serafini.shtml
Email address: tito@renovis.com


Jason B. Shear, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Texas at Austin
Title of Research:
Mapping Neurotransmitter Secretion in Single Cells
Web Site Address:
http://www.cm.utexas.edu/faculty/Shear.html
Email address: jshear@mail.utexas.edu


Yian Shi, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Colorado State University
Title of Research:
Developing New Methods for Asymmetric Epoxidation of Unfunctionalized Olefins
Web Site Address:
http://franklin.chm.colostate.edu/shi/
Email address: yian@lamar.colostate.edu


Scott A. Strobel, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Yale University
Title of Research:
Nucleotide Analog Interference Mapping: A Novel Method to Define the Chemical Basis of RNA Function
Web Site Address:
http://www.mbb.yale.edu/faculty/strobel/strobel_res.html
Email address: scott.strobel@yale.edu


Alexei A. Stuchebrukhov, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of California at Davis
Title of Research:
Theoretical Study of Electron Transfer in Proteins: Tunneling, Currents, Molecular Wires, and Protein Microelectronics
Web Site Address:
http://www-chem.ucdavis.edu/people/stuchebrukhov.shtml
Email address: stuchebr@chem.ucdavis.edu


Weihong Tan, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Florida
Title of Research:
Single Molecular Optical Microscopy
Web Site Address:
http://www.chem.ufl.edu/Groups/Tan/
Email address: tan@chem.ufl.edu


Rafael Yuste, Ph.D.

Department of Biological Sciences
Columbia University
Title of Research:
Two-Photon Imaging of Neuronal Networks in Cortical Circuits
Web Site Address:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/faculty/yuste/
Email address: rmy5@columbia.edu


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