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University of Texas at Austin

2011 - 2012 Beckman Scholars

Samuel D. Bienvenu
Title of Research: An investigation of population-dependent antibiotic resistance of bacteria using picoliter scale enclosure
Email: shmuel-mas@yahoo.com

Yafei Ouyang
Title of Research: Creating a pre-vascularized tissue scaffold by re-endothelializing decellularized tissue
Email: yafei@mail.utexas.edu

2010 - 2011 Beckman Scholars

Aaron Seo
Title of Research: Targeting the RNA binding protein Musashi1 for therapy in tumors of neural origin
Email: aaronseo@mail.utexas.edu

Daniel Tabor
Title of Research: Calculation of enthalpies of formation via isodesmic and hypohomodesmotic reaction schemes
Email: dannytabor@swbell.net

2009 - 2010 Beckman Scholars

Travis C. Turner
Title of Research: Concise syntheses of isopavine alkaloids and their analogs
Email: turner.travis@mail.utexas.edu

Matthew G. Welborn
Title of Research: Long timescale simulaton of core-shell nanoparticle kinetics
Email: mattgwelborn@gmail.com

2008 - 2009 Beckman Scholars

Lynne Chantranupong
Title of Research: Engineering humanized arginine deaminase for use as a novel cancer therapy
Email: l_chantran@yahoo.com

Devin A. Matthews
Title of Research: An extension of the equation-of-motion coupled cluster method to biradicals
Email: freddoman1999@yahoo.com

Jay Sawyer Croley
Title of Research: Evaluation of carbon supported bimetallic nanoparticles for heterogeneous catalysis of hydrogenation reactions
Email: sawyer.croley@gmail.com

Nicholas L. Simmons
Title of Research: Transition metal catalysis of carbonylative cross-coupling of ortho, ortho-disubstituted arenes
Email: simmons.nick@gmail.com

Olga Dykhno
Title of Research: Toward the Development of Dynamic Polymer Catalysts
Email: odykhno@mail.utexas.edu

Thomas W. Holcombe
Title of Research: Nano-scale Pillar Formation for the Purpose of Power Production
Email: tom.holcombe@engr.utexas.edu

Jonathan D. Rice
Title of Research: Polyolefin Destabilization: New Approaches to Tertiary Recycling
Email: jdrice@mail.utexas.edu

Emily Barton
http://research.cm.utexas.edu/beckman/emily.html
Title of Research: Facile Assembly of Functional Materials using Lithographically Controlled Wetting
Email: emmybart@juno.com

Sarah Rodriguez
http://research.cm.utexas.edu/beckman/sarahr.html
Title of Research: Chemistry of Antibody Binding Affinity and Specificity towards Bacillus anthracis Toxin
Email: SarahRod@mail.utexas.edu

Lauren E. Harkinson
http://www.cm.utexas.edu/beckman/lauren.html
Title of Research: A Genetic and Biochemical Analysis of the Isozyme Form of elF4F in A. thaliana
Email: LaurenHarkinson@hotmail.com

Megan M. Breeden
http://www.cm.utexas.edu/beckman/megan.html
Title of Research: The Inhibition of HIV-1 via Gene Therapy using Aptamers
Email: meggs16@hotmail.com

Erin Leigh Oakman
http://www.cm.utexas.edu/beckman/erin.html
Title of Research: A "low-tech" method for making electronic nanostructures
Email: daisy33@mail.utexas.edu

Mor "Myrrh" Sagy
http://www.cm.utexas.edu/beckman/myrrh.html
Title of Research: The Characterization of Intracellular Environments Using Axonal Electrophoresis
Email: myrrhsagy@yahoo.com

Nicholas Conley
http://www.cm.utexas.edu/beckman/nick.html
Title of Research: Nonlinear Optics: Designing New Materials
Email: Lagarto2@aol.com

Stella Maeng
http://www.cm.utexas.edu/beckman/stella.html
Title of Research: RNA-Directed Design of Nanostructures using Peptides with Nanocrystal Binding Specificity
Email: s_maeng@mail.utexas.edu

William Renthal
http://www.cm.utexas.edu/beckman/will.html
Title of Research: The Design of Next Generation DNA Binding Polyintercalating Systems
Email: wrenthal@mail.utexas.edu

Sarah Faulkner
http://research.cm.utexas.edu/beckman/sarah.html
Title of Research: Molecular evolution of beta-glucuronidase

Hau Ho
http://research.cm.utexas.edu/beckman/hau.html
Title of Research: Formation and characterization of interfaces between dielectric materials and silicon

Cindy Ly
http://research.cm.utexas.edu/beckman/cindy.html
Title of Research: Subcellular characterization of D-amino acids

Sara Martinez
http://research.cm.utexas.edu/beckman/sara.html
Title of Research: The role of homocysteine in metabolism

Shanti Nulu
http://research.cm.utexas.edu/beckman/shanti.html
Title of Research: Enzyme evolution using fluorescence-activated cell sorting