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Harvey Mudd College

2009 - 2010 Beckman Scholars

Stephanie A. Brockman
Title of Research: Mitochondrial Genome Characterization of the Scleraxonia Groups of Gorgonians
Email: sbrockman@hmc.edu

Kanny K. Wan
Title of Research: Biomimetic Synthesis of Davanone and Other Terpenoid Compounds
Email: Kwan@hmc.edu

2008 - 2009 Beckman Scholar

Terence Wong
Title of Research: Characterization of CTCF Binding Sites in the Proximal Exonic Region of hTERT(Human Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase)
Email: Twong@hmc.edu

Diana Ahn Tran
Title of Research: Characterization of conserved Regulatory Elements in the Telomerase Promoter in Primates
Email: Dtran@hmc.edu

Lindsay S. Wray
Title of Research: Approximating the Extracellular Matrix of the Cornea by Electrospinning Collagen Scaffolds
Email: Lindsay_Wray@hmc.edu

Matthew T. Hoss
Title of Research: The Effect of Sequence Context and Steric Hindrance on the Rate of Uracil Excision from DNA by Uracil DNA Clycosylase
Email: Matthew_Tucker@hmc.edu

Amanda J. Hickman
Title of Research: Experimental Studies of Metal-Metal Coupling in Metalloporphyrin Dimers

Whitney Duim
Title of Research: Determination of Biologically Relevant Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Phases in Mixtures of Water and n-Alkyl-Glucosides or n-Alkyl-Thioglucosides

Linley Erin Hall
Title of Research: Chemical Synthesis of Natural and Unnatural Peptides to Study the Cation-pi Interactions in Proteins

Loren Perelman
Title of Research: Spectroscopic Analysis of Azo Dye-Dendrimer Complexes

Andy Schile
Title of Research: Documenting Internal Morphological Changes During the Early Development of Xenopus Laevis Using Optical Coherence Microscopy