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University of Minnesota

2007 - 2008 Beckman Scholars

Marisa Hovlid
Title of Research: Utilization of a Stable, Photoactive Farnesyl Diphosphate Analogue in the Study of Renylated Protein Interactions
Email: hovl0037@umn.edu

Christina Yi
Title of Research: Phosphorylation Induced Structural Changes in Smooth Muscle Myosin
Email: yixx0058@umn.edu

David E. Heppner
Title of Research: Synthetic and Computational Investigations into Copper-Containing Metalloenzymes and Model Complexes
Email: heppner@pollux.chem.umn.edu

Naomi Kreamer
Title of Research: Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies of Chromate Reduction by Thioredoxin Reductase
Email: krea0012@umn.edu

Brigitte K. Ziervogel
Title of Research: Determination of the Pre-transfer Editing Mechanism of Escherichia coli Prolyl-tRNA Synthetase
Email: zier0027@umn.edu

Merima Helic
Title of Research: Environmental Effects on Genome Stability in Candida albicans
Email: hel10017@umn.edu

William Brazelton
Title of Research: Cloning and Characterization of an Intraflagellar Transport Gene in Chlamydomonas

Joseph Young
Title of Research: Application of Relayed Ring Closing Metathesis Towards the Total Synthesis of Calllipeltoside A

Adam Froemming
Title of Research: New Carbene REactions with and without Metals

Deborah Sier
Title of Research: The Role of Myeloid and Lymphoid Dendritic Cells in Immunological Tolerance

John Cahoy
Title of Research: Studying Reactions which are Catalyzed by Copper Proteins

Terence Kummer
Title of Research: Application of Electrochemical Reductive Cleavage (ERC) to the Development of Synthetic Libraries of Oligosaccarides

Robert McDonald
Title of Research: Synthesis of a Molecule with Unique Structural and Biological Properties, Cynlindrocyclophane A

Kelly Plummer
Title of Research: Synthesize the C28 to C38 Domain of Okadeic Acid Which Will Then be Incorporated into 2 and Other Analogs