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Wellesley College

2009 - 2010 Beckman Scholars

Adriane Otopalik
Title of Research: Tracing Neurogenesis in Procambarus clarkii: Using Micron-Sized Iron Oxide Particles (MPIOs) to Trace Hematopoietic Stem Cells with Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Email: aotopali@wellesley.edu

Yang (Allison) Xie
Title of Research: Characterizing the antimicrobial peptide Buforin II
Email: yxie@wellesley.edu

2008 - 2009 Beckman Scholar

Smadar Levy
Title of Research: Charcterization of Patellin1, a plant cell plate protein
Email: slevy@wellesley.edu

Colleen R. Kirkhart
Title of Research: The influence of Lithium and serotonin on the neurogenic niche and the migratory stream
Email: ckirkhar@wellesley.edu

Sogole Moin
Title of Research: Enzymes of Nitrogen Uptake in Relation to Cyanophycin Synthesis in Non-Nitrogen Fixing cyanobacteria

Elizabeth Le
Title of Research: Identification of Proteins that Interact with AtABP2b and Patellin by Affinity Binding Approaches

Yolanda Huang
Title of Research: Neurogenesis of the Basal Forebrain in Mice

Nozomi Nakayama
Title of Research: Radiation Chemistry Studies of Trifluoromethfiodide

Katherine Shea
Title of Research: Acid Stress and Acid Tolerance Response in Cyanobacteria

Nalyn Siripong
Title of Research: Design and Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles as Nucleoside Analogs

Laura Floecke-Nashner
Title of Research: Sex Differences in Neurogenesis in the Mouse Forebrain

Jean Huang
Title of Research: The Effects of Environmentals Stresses on Cyanobacterial Bochemistry and Physiology

Noelle Paffett-Lugassy
Title of Research: The Localization of a Chondroitin Sulfotransferase in the Mouse Central Nervous System

Laurie Burlingame
Title of Research: Sex Differences in the Development of BF cholingeric neurons