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Hope College

2010 - 2011 Beckman Scholars

Anne Georges
Title of Research: Identification of Trafficking Motifs that Control Constitutive and Regulated Trafficking of System xc-)
Email: anne.georges@hope.edu

Robert Sjoholm
Title of Research: Modifying gene expression to expose Plasmodium falciparum to immune system attack
Email: robert.sjoholm@hope.edu

2009 - 2010 Beckman Scholars

John Donkersloot
Title of Research: Covalent histone modifications in a primitive euykaryote, Giardia lamblia
Email: john.donkersloot@hope.edu

2008 - 2009 Beckman Scholar

Shirley Bradley
Title of Research: VACM-1 is Regulated by its Posttranslational Modification Status
Email: Shirley.Bradley@hope.edu

Jacquelyn Lewis
Title of Research: The Study of the Structural Dynamics and Binding of Biopolymers via the Use of Fluorescence-Detected Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)
Email: jacquelyn.lewis@hope.edu

Joseph Stodola
Title of Research: The Examination of the Basopressin-Activated Calcium-Mobilizing (VACM-1) Receptor
Email: joseph.stodola@hope.edu

Joshua Warner
Title of Research: The Use of PESA and PIXE to Determine the Inorganic to Organic Stochiometry of Metalloproteins
Email: joshua.warner@hope.edu

John L. Davisson
Title of Research: Ag Initio Computation of Molecular Potential Energy Surfaces
Email: john.davisson@hope.edu

Corissa Lamphear
Title of Research: Structure/Function Studies of System xc-: Identification of Critical Residues Involved in Cl- Binding
Email: Corissa.Lamphear@hope.edu

Darren Van Beek
Title of Research: Development of a Combined Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Fluorescence-Detected Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) Method for Structual Biology
Email: Darren.Vanbeek@hope.edu

Jill Pinter
Title of Research: The Detection of Glucose Using Electropolymerized Tetraaminophthalocyanine and Ferrocene Films
Email: jill.pinter@hope.edu

Andrew John Huisman
Title of Research: Fate and Transport of Metals and Nutrients in the Lake Macatawa Watershed
Email: Andrew.Huisman@hope.edu

Jody Murray
Title of Research: Infection of Aquatic Snails by Trichobilharzia stagnicolae

Karen E. Hahn
Title of Research: Dispersed Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Formyl Fluoride

Aranh Pen
Title of Research: Synthesis of Taxol Analogs

Jordan Schmidt
Title of Research: Computational Chemistry: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Junu Shrestha
Title of Research: Phosphates in the Lake Macatawa Watershed

Katie M. Horsman
Title of Research: Dispersed Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Formyl Fluoride