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2011 - 2012 Beckman Scholars

Kavitha Anandalingam
Title of Research: Peptide Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles for Site-Specific Gene Editing in Cystic Fibrosis
Email: kavitha.anandalingam@yale.edu

Chris Cho
Title of Research: The Protein Quality Control Machinery: Cellular Response to Protein Mistranslation in Bacteria
Email: chris.cho@yale.edu

2010 - 2011 Beckman Scholars

Alicia Darnell
Title of Research: The Search for Bioactive Endophytic Compolunds that Modulate Cell Proliferation
Email: alicia.darnell@yale.edu

Durga Thakral
Title of Research: Natural Product Tranlation Inhibition
Email: durga.thakral@yale.edu

2009 - 2010 Beckman Scholars

Jonathan Russell
Title of Research: Identifying and Investigating Mechanisms for the Degradation of Carbon Polymers by Endophytic Fungi
Email: jonathan.russell@yale.edu

Rachel Lee
Title of Research: Role of Myosin 2 in Cytokinetic Contractile Ring Formation in Fisson Yeast
Email: michael.vishnevetsky@yale.edu

2008 - 2009 Beckman Scholars

Blair Benham-Pyle
Title of Research: Endophytic Analysis of Parasitic Plants and Their Hosts as Sources of Novel Defence Compounds
Email: blair.benham-pyle@yale.edu

Michael Vishnevetsky
Title of Research: Biochemical, Electrophysiological, Behavioral screens of mosquito (Genus Anopheles) olfactory receptor agonists and antagonists: Identification and Characterization of potent mosquito neuromodulators from bioactive endophytic extracts
Email: michael.vishnevetsky@yale.edu

Sun Jin Lee
Title of Research: Study of Endophytic Organisms Isolated from Amazonian Plants
Email: sunjin.lee@yale.edu

Stephany Tzeng
Title of Research: Study of Ciliary Neutrophic Factory (CNTF)
Email: stephany.tzeng@yale.edu

Bennett Lane
Title of Research: Small Subunit Processome Composition and Subcomplexes
Email: bennett.lane@yale.edu

Aaron M. Ring
Title of Research: Regulatory Kinases in Blood Pressure Homeostasis
Email: aaron.ring@yale.edu

Daniel E. Rosenfeld
Title of Research: Investigation of the effects of confinement and concentrated ionic solvation upon the dynamics of water in reverse micelles
Email: daniel.rosenfeld@yale.edu

Rebecca M. Voorhees
Title of Research: A Study of Peptide Bond Formation by the Group I Intron
Email: rebecca.voorhees@yale.edu

Chie Yu Lin
Title of Research: Process of Ribosome Biogenesis
Email: Chie-yu@yale.edu

Eleanor Marshall
Title of Research: Determining the Effect of Various RNA Expression Elements on the Expression Level of Plyadenylated Nuclear (PAN) RNA
Email: eleanor.marshall@yale.edu

Anoop Patel
Title of Research: Nf-kappaB Signaling Pathway in Breast Cancer Cells
Email: anoop.patel@yale.edu

Courtney Stritar
Title of Research: Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Axinellamine
Email: courtney.stritar@yale.edu

Peter Anthony
Title of Research: Ribosome's Peptidyl Transferase Activity
Email: peter.anthony@yale.edu

Natasha Keith
Title of Research: The Effect of Solvent Dielectric on the Spectroscopy of di-mu-oxo Manganese Complexes
Email: natasha.keith@yale.edu

Srinivas Viswanathan
Title of Research: The Role of N-Linked Glycosylation in the Function of Human Herpes Virus 8 Interleukin-6 and it Binding to the gp130 Using Axonal Electrophoresis
Email: srinivas.viswanathan@yale.edu

Margaret Ebert
Title of Research: A Natural RNA Switch May Regulate Gene Expression in E.coli
Email: margaret.ebert@yale.edu

Gautum Bahl
Title of Research: Estimation of Non-Rigid Deformation Properties from Image Sequences-Essential in Analyzing the Dynamic Behavior of Physical Objects

Whitney Bowe
Title of Research: A Ubiquitous Class of GDP-GTP Exchange Factors for the Rho-GTP Binding Proteins Regulate the Morphology, Adhesion, or Motility of Virtually Every Eukaryotic Cell

Barry Fine
Title of Research: Constructing Dominant Negative and Constitutive Active Mutants of the Rho-Related Small GTPase Rac Using PCR Mutagenesis and Transfecting Those Constructs into PTEN-/-, PTEN +/- and PTEN +/+ Isogenic Cells

Matthew Torres
Title of Research: Rapid Screening and Combinatorial Catalysis