2003 Beckman Young Investigators
Award Recipients

Award Recipient Index:

2005
Bartels
Becerra
Chang
DeLisa
Drezek
Dubnau
Gallivan
Gasch
Gray
He
Jin
Krebs
LeDuc
Licht
Loo
Micalizio
Munz
O'Connor
Rabinowitz
Reineke
Sheen
Smolke
Soh
Wang

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


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
Bowman
Brenner
Cohen-Cory
Dan
Deming
Gin
Lonergan
Pogliano
Roberts
Sheets
Smith
Strongin
Tsien
Wandless


1997
Bent
Bredt
Deshaies
Fourkas
Gavis
Hwa
Lee
Nguyen
Rosen
Serafini
Shear
Shi
Strobel
Stuchebrukhov
Tan
Yuste


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

Heather Allen, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Ohio State University

Title of Research: Pulmonary Surfactants, Proteins and Membranes: Understanding Interfacial Structure Using Single Pulse Femtosecond-Picosecond Nonlinear Spectroscopy and Microscopy
Web Site address:
http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/~allen/
Email address: allen@chemistry.ohio-state.edu


Sue Biggins, Ph.D.
Division of Basic Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Title of Research:
A Fluorescent Assay to Monitor Yeast Kinetochore Function In Vitro
Email address:
sbiggins@fhcrc.org


Lu Chen, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley

Title of Research: Identification of a Core Programme of Postsynaptic Differenctiation at Glutamatergic Synapse
Web Site:
http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/NEU/chenl.html
Email address: luchen@uclink.berkeley.edu


Zhan Chen, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan

Title of Research: Molecular Level Studies on Blood Compatibility of Biomedical Polymer Materials
Web Site address:
http://www.umich.edu/~chenlab/
Email address: zhanc@umich.edu


Consuelo De Moraes, Ph.D.

Department of Entomology
Pennsylvania State University

Title of Research: Exploring the Biochemical and Genetic Bases of Induced Plant Signaling
Web Site address:
http://www.ento.psu.edu/Personnel/Faculty/demoraes.htm
Email address: czd10@psu.edu


Pingyun Feng, Ph.D.

Department of Chemistry
University of California, Riverside

Title of Research: Towards a New Generation of Crystalline Microporous Semiconductors: Thermally Stable and Photoluminescent Chalcogenide Zeolite Analogues
Web Site address:
http://chem.ucr.edu/faculty/feng/feng.html
Email address: Pingyun.feng@ucr.edu


Paul Hergenrother, Ph.D.

Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Title of Research: New Targets for Antibacterial Therapy
Web Site address:
http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/chem/hergenrother.html
Email address: hergenro@uiuc.edu


Darrell Irvine, Ph.D.
Biological Engineering Division/Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title of Research: Organized Co-Cultures for Direct Observation of Dynamics in Regulatory T-Cell Function
Web Site address:
http://web.mit.edu/biomaterials
Email address: djirvine@mit.edu


Rustem Ismagilov, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Chicago

Title of Research: Using Microfluidics to Control Chemical Systems in Time
Web Site address:
http://ismagilovlab.uchicago.edu/
http://chemistry.uchicago.edu/fac/ismagilov.shtml
Email address: r-ismagilov@uchicago.edu

Kristi Kiick, Ph.D.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Delaware

Title of Research: Novel Protein Materials for Directing Biological Responses
Web Site address:
http://www.udel.edu/mse/research/kiick-research.htm
Email address: kiick@udel.edu


Alexander Li, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Washington State University
Title of Research:
Thermophilic Foldamers: Molecular Recognition, Nano-Actuation, and Self-Amplification
Web Site address:
http://www.cmr.wsu.edu/centermembers/alexander_li.html
Email address: dequan@wsu.edu


David Lin, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Cornell University
Title of Research:
Connectivity in the Mouse Olfactory System
Web Site address:
http://www.genomics.cornell.edu/faculty/facultybio.cfm?netid=dml45
Email address: DML45@cornell.edu


David Lynn, Ph.D.

Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title of Research:
Nanostructured Thin Films for Programmed Gene Delivery
Web Site address:
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/che/faculty/lynn_david.html
Email address: dlynn@engr.wisc.edu


Adam Matzger, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan
Title of Research:
Controlling Crystal Polymorphism
Web Site address:
http://www.umich.edu/~michchem/faculty/matzger/
Email address: matzger@umich.edu


Gregory Odorizzi, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
University of Colorado, Boulder
Title of Research:
Structural and Biochemical Dissection of MVB Vesicle Formation
Email address: odorizzi@colorado.edu


Kim Orth, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Biology
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
Title of Research:
Elucidation of the Enzymatic Mechanisms Utilized by Pathogenic Virulence Factors
Web Site address:
http://hamon.swmed.edu/index.html
http://www8.utsouthwestern.edu/findfac/research/0,2357,52806,00.html
Email address: kim.orth@utsouthwestern.edu


Douglas Robinson, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Title of Research:
Cytokinesis: A Model Mechanical Cell Shape Change
Web Site address:
http://biolchem.bs.jhmi.edu/bcmb/Faculty_person.asp?PersonID=686
Email address: dnr@jhmi.edu


Douglas Smith, Ph.D.
Department of Physics
University of California, San Diego
Title of Research:
Molecular Mechanisms of Viral and Eukaryotic DNA Packaging
Web Site address:
http://physics.ucsd.edu/~des/
Email address: dougsmith@physics.ucsd.edu


Kevin Yarema, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Title of Research:
Applying a Systems Biology Approach to the Study of Sialic Acid Metabolism
Web Site address:
http://www.bme.jhu.edu/~kjyarema
Email address: kjyarema@bme.jhu.edu


Xiaowei Zhuang, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
Title of Research:
A Single Molecule Approach to Elucidate the Cellular Pathways and Molecular Mechanisms of Viral Infection
Web Site address:
http://zhuang.harvard.edu/
Email address: zhuang@chemistry.harvard.edu

 

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