2004 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

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
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

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Guillermo Ameer, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University
Title of Research: Controlling Scaffold Micro-Architecture Via a Three-Dimensional Polymer Template
Web Site address:
www.ameerlab.northwestern.edu
Email address: g-ameer@northwestern.edu

Michael T. Green, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Pennsylvania State University
Title of Research: Why Does Nature Use Thiolate-Ligation in its Hydroxylating Heme-Enzymes Investigations of the Electronic Structure and Protonation State of Thiolate-Ligated Ferryls?
Web Site address:
http://www.chem.psu.edu/profs/green02.html
Email address: mtg10@psu.edu

Jay T. Groves, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
Title of Research: Dissecting Molecular Mechanisms of Signal Transduction At Cell-Cell Synapses
Web Site address: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/jtggrp/
Email address: jtgroves@lbl.gov

Kent L. Hill, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
University of California, Los Angeles
Title of Research: Genetic Studies of the Mechanism and Biology of Trypanosome Cell Motility
Web Site address:
http://www.mimg.ucla.edu/faculty/Hill/
Email address: kenthill@mednet.ucla.edu

Christine D. Keating, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
The Pennsylvania State University
Title of Research: Functional Synthetic Cells Based on Aqueous Phase Separation In Lipid Vesicles
Web Site address:
http://research.chem.psu.edu/cdkgroup/
Email address: keating@chem.psu.edu

Brian Kuhlman, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of Research: Computer-Based Design of Protein-Protein Interactions in the Ubiquitination Pathway
Web Site address:
http://www.unc.edu/kuhlmanpg/
Email address: bkuhlman@email.unc.edu

Gavin MacBeath, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
Title of Research: A Pharmacological Investigation of the ErbB Signaling Network Using Antibody Microarrays
Web Site address:
http://www.cgr.harvard.edu/macbeath/
Email address: macbeath@chemistry.harvard.edu

Paul A. Maggard, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
North Carolina State University
Title of Research: Layered Ferroelectric Semiconductors for Use in Photocatalytic Technologies
Web Site address:
http://www.ncsu.edu/chemistry/pam/pam.html
Email address: Paul_Maggard@ncsu.edu

Lara K. Mahal, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Texas at Austin
Title of Research: Developing New Tools for Glycobiology
Web Site address:
http://www.cm.utexas.edu/faculty/Mahal.html
Email address: lmahal@cm.utexas.edu

D. Tyler McQuade, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Cornell University
Title of Research: A New Approach to Catalysts and Recognition Elements Through Sequence and Self-Assembly
Web Site address:
http://www.chem.cornell.edu/dtm25/
Email address: DTM25@Cornell.edu

Akilesh Pandey, Ph.D.
Department of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Title of Research: A Combined Proteomic and Bioinformatic Approach to Study EGF Receptor Signal Transduction Pathway
Web Site address:
http://pandeylab.bs.jhmi.edu/
Email address: pandey@jhmi.edu

David M. Rector, Ph.D.
Department of VCAPP
Washington State University
Title of Research: Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Cortical High-Frequency (200-600Hz) Oscillations and their Role in Rat Somatosensory Process
Web Site address:
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/research_vcapp/rector.asp
Email address: drector@vetmed.wsu.edu

Melanie Sarah Sanford, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan
Title of Research: A New Approach to the Selective Oxidative Functionalization of C-H Bonds
Email address: mssanfor@umich.edu

Mark J. Schnitzer, Ph.D.
Department of Biological Sciences and Applied Physics
Stanford University
Title of Research: Cellular Imaging in Freely Moving Animals Using Fiber-Optic Multiphoton Fluorescence Endoscopy
Web Site address:
http://biox.stanford.edu/clark/schnitzer.html
Email address: mschnitz@stanford.edu

Brenda A. Schulman, Ph.D.
Department of Structural Biology and Genetics
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Title of Research: Design of a Ubiquitin-Like Protein Transfer Cascade
Web Site address:
http://www.stjude.org/schulman
Email address: Brenda.schulman@stjude.org

Garth Simpson, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University
Title of Research: Nonlinear Optical Platforms for Biosensing
Web Site address:
http://www.chem.purdue.edu/faculty/FacultyPrnt.asp?itemID=61
Email address: gsimpson@purdue.edu

Michael H. B. Stowell, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
University of Colorado at Boulder
Title of Research: Architecture and Dynamics at the Chemical Synapse
Web Site address:
http://spot.colorado.edu/~stowellm/
Email address: stowellm@colorado.edu

Kevin P. White, Ph.D.
Department of Genetics
Yale University
Title of Research: Comparative Genomic Analysis of a Conserved Developmental Network
Web Site address:
http://genome.med.yale.edu/lab/white.htm
Email address: kevin.white@yale.edu

Martin T. Zanni, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title of Research: Measuring Biomolecular Structure With Novel Infrared Probes: DNA, Azido Tags, and 2D IR Spectroscopy
Web Site address:
http://www.chem.wisc.edu/main/people/faculty/zanni.html
Email address: zanni@chem.wisc.edu

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