2004 Beckman Young Investigators
Award Recipients

Guillermo Ameer, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University
Title of Research: Controlling Scaffold Micro-Architecture Via a Three-Dimensional Polymer Template
Web Site address: www.ameerlab.northwestern.edu
Email address: g-ameer@northwestern.edu

Michael T. Green, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Pennsylvania State University
Title of Research: Why Does Nature Use Thiolate-Ligation in its Hydroxylating Heme-Enzymes Investigations of the Electronic Structure and Protonation State of Thiolate-Ligated Ferryls?
Web Site address: http://www.chem.psu.edu/profs/green02.html
Email address: mtg10@psu.edu

Jay T. Groves, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
Title of Research: Dissecting Molecular Mechanisms of Signal Transduction At Cell-Cell Synapses
Web Site address: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/jtggrp/
Email address: jtgroves@lbl.gov

Kent L. Hill, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
University of California, Los Angeles
Title of Research: Genetic Studies of the Mechanism and Biology of Trypanosome Cell Motility
Web Site address: http://www.mimg.ucla.edu/faculty/Hill/
Email address: kenthill@mednet.ucla.edu

Christine D. Keating, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
The Pennsylvania State University
Title of Research: Functional Synthetic Cells Based on Aqueous Phase Separation In Lipid Vesicles
Web Site address: http://research.chem.psu.edu/cdkgroup/
Email address: keating@chem.psu.edu

Brian Kuhlman, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of Research: Computer-Based Design of Protein-Protein Interactions in the Ubiquitination Pathway
Web Site address: http://www.unc.edu/kuhlmanpg/
Email address: bkuhlman@email.unc.edu

Gavin MacBeath, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
Title of Research: A Pharmacological Investigation of the ErbB Signaling Network Using Antibody Microarrays
Web Site address: http://www.cgr.harvard.edu/macbeath/
Email address: macbeath@chemistry.harvard.edu

Paul A. Maggard, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
North Carolina State University
Title of Research: Layered Ferroelectric Semiconductors for Use in Photocatalytic Technologies
Web Site address: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~pamaggar/index.html
Email address: Paul_Maggard@ncsu.edu

Lara K. Mahal, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Texas at Austin
Title of Research: Developing New Tools for Glycobiology
Web Site address: http://www.cm.utexas.edu/faculty/Mahal.html
Email address: lmahal@cm.utexas.edu

D. Tyler McQuade, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Cornell University
Title of Research: A New Approach to Catalysts and Recognition Elements Through Sequence and Self-Assembly
Web Site address: http://www.chem.cornell.edu/dtm25/
Email address: DTM25@Cornell.edu

AkHilesh Pandey, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Title of Research: A Combined Proteomic and Bioinformatic Approach to Study EGF Receptor Signal Transduction Pathway
Web Site address: http://pandeylab.bs.jhmi.edu/
Email address: pandey@jhmi.edu

David M. Rector, Ph.D.
Department of VCAPP
Washington State University
Title of Research: Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Cortical High-Frequency (200-600Hz) Oscillations and their Role in Rat Somatosensory Process
Web Site address: http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/research_vcapp/rector.asp
Email address: drector@vetmed.wsu.edu

Melanie Sarah Sanford, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan
Title of Research: A New Approach to the Selective Oxidative Functionalization of C-H Bonds
Email address: mssanfor@umich.edu

Mark J. Schnitzer, Ph.D.
Department of Biological Sciences and Applied Physics
Stanford University
Title of Research: Cellular Imaging in Freely Moving Animals Using Fiber-Optic Multiphoton Fluorescence Endoscopy
Web Site address: http://biox.stanford.edu/clark/schnitzer.html
Email address: mschnitz@stanford.edu

Brenda A. Schulman, Ph.D.
Department of Structural Biology and Genetics
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Title of Research: Design of a Ubiquitin-Like Protein Transfer Cascade
Web Site address: http://www.stjude.org/schulman
Email address: Brenda.schulman@stjude.org

Garth Simpson, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University
Title of Research: Nonlinear Optical Platforms for Biosensing
Web Site address: http://www.chem.purdue.edu/faculty/FacultyPrnt.asp?itemID=61
Email address: gsimpson@purdue.edu

Michael H. B. Stowell, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
University of Colorado at Boulder
Title of Research: Architecture and Dynamics at the Chemical Synapse
Web Site address: http://spot.colorado.edu/~stowellm/
Email address: stowellm@colorado.edu

Kevin P. White, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Genomics & Systems Biology
Department of Human Genetics
University of Chicago
Title of Research: Comparative Genomic Analysis of a Conserved Developmental Network
Web Site address: http://www.genes.uchicago.edu/white.html
Email address: kpwhite@uchicago.edu

Martin T. Zanni, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title of Research: Measuring Biomolecular Structure With Novel Infrared Probes: DNA, Azido Tags, and 2D IR Spectroscopy
Web Site address: http://www.chem.wisc.edu/main/people/faculty/zanni.html
Email address: zanni@chem.wisc.edu