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Vanderbilt University

2010 - 2011 Beckman Scholars

Tesniem Shinawi
Title of Research: The Metabolic Effects of Fluorescent Dyes on PC-12 Cells
Email: tesniem.f.shinawi@vanderbilt.edu

Charlies Xie
Title of Research: Protein Interactions in the Initiation of SV40 DNA Replication
Email: charlies.l.xie@vanderbilt.edu

2009 - 2010 Beckman Scholars

Joseph Crivelli
Title of Research: Computational design of a replacement for the antibiotic vancomycin
Email: joseph.j.crivelli@vanderbilt.edu

Liwei Jiang
Title of Research: Engineering an inexpensive perfusion-enabled rotocompressor for long-duration immobilization and microscopy of live specimens
Email: jiangl.mail@gmail.com

Nathanael Levinson
Title of Research: Ligand Conjuaged Quantum Dots for Labeling Cell Surface Receptors
Email: nathanael.s.levinson@vanderbilt.edu

*Jenny Qi
Title of Research: Regulation of NF-kB Activity by the Leftover Protein in the Zebrafish Brain
Email: jenny.y.qi@vanderbilt.edu

* Scholar supported with matching 'Beckman Scholar' funding by Vanderbilt University.

2008 - 2009 Beckman Scholar

Jessica Miles
Title of Research: Analysis of telomerase processivity in yeast strains with altered telomere length homeostasis
Email: jessica.l.miles@vanderbilt.edu