2007 Beckman Young Investigators
Award Recipients

Christopher w. BIelawski, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Texas at Austin
Title of Research: Dynamic Polymers as Recyclable Catalysts
Web Site address: http://research.cm.utexas.edu/cbielawski/
Email address: bielawski@cm.utexas.edu

Sean F. Brady, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules
The Rockefeller University
Title of Research: Nature's combinatorial chemistry: A DNA based approach for harnessing nature's molecular diversity
Web Site address: http://www.rockefeller.edu/research/abstract.php?id=321/
Email address: sbrady@rockefeller.edu

Joshua J. Coon, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Chemistry
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title of Research: Gas-phase coordination chemistry for rapid, robust whole progein sequence analysis
Web Site address: http://www.chem.wisc.edu/people/profiles/Coon.php
Email address: jcoon@chem.wisc.edu

Sean Crosson, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The University of Chicago
Title of Research: An Integrative Analysis of Two-Component Signal Transduction from the Structural to Systems Level
Web Site address:
http://crescentus.bsd.uchicago.edu
Email address: scrosson@uchicago.edu

Alexander Deiters, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
North Carolina State University
Title of Research: Photochemical Genomics: Controlling Genes with Light
Web Site address: http://www4/ncsu.edu/~adeiter/index.html
Email address: alex_deiters@ncsu.edu

Zemer Gitai, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University
Title of Research: Quantitative Analysis of Cell Biological Dynamics in Bacteria
Web Site address: http://www.molbio1.princeton.edu/labs/gitai
Email address: zgitai@princeton.edu

Jay a. gupta, Ph.D.
Department of Physics
Ohio State University
Title of Research: Studies of chemical reactivity at the single-molecule level
Web Site address: http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~jgupta/Gupta_group_web_page_v1.htm
Email address: jgupta@mps.ohio-state.edu

Eric S. Huseby, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Title of Research: The role of CD8 T-cell avidity and specificity in experimental models of multiple sclerosis
Web Site address: http://www.umassmed.edu/pathology/faculty/huseby.cfm
Email address: Eric.Huseby@umassmed.edu

Siavash K. Kurdistani, m.D.
Department of Biological Chemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
Title of Research: Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms that Establish and Maintain Global Histone Modifications
Web Site address: http://www.kurdistanilab.com
Email address: skurdistani@mednet.ucla.edu


Min Ouyang, Ph.D.
Department of Physics
University of Maryland at College Park
Title of Research: Multidimensional Ultrafast Optical-Ultrasonics Interferometric Microscopy: A New Light on Biological Imaging
Web Site address: http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~mouyang/
Email address: mouyang@umd.edu

Garegin Papoian, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of Research: Electrostatic and structural mechanisms of chromatin folding regulation by histone tail posttranslational modifications
Web Site address: http://papoian.chem.unc.edu
Email address: gpapoian@unc.edu

Adrian Salic, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
Title of Research: A multidisciplinary approach to understanding the vertebrate Hedgehog signaling pathway
Web Site address: http://cellbio.med.harvard.edu/faculty/salic/
Email address: asalic@hms.harvard.edu

Shu-ou Shan, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Title of Research: Molecular Mechanism of Protein Transport to Biological Membranes
Web Site address: http://www.cce.caltech.edu:16080/faculty/shan/index.html
Email address: sshan@caltech.edu

Brent R. Stockwell, Ph.D.
Department of Biological Sciences and Chemistry
Columbia University
Title of Research: Discovering novel types of programmed cell death
Web Site address: http://www.stockwelllab.org
Email address: bs2198@columbia.edu

Amy J. Wagers, Ph.D.
Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Joslin Diabetes Center
Title of Research: New tools for dissecting muscle stem cell function
Web Site address: http://www.joslinresearch.org/PINET/InvestigatorDetail.asp?InvestigatorID=85
Email address: amy.wagers@joslin.harvard.edu

Rachel L. Wilson, Ph.D.
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Title of Research: Understanding the performance limits of a biological chemosensor
Web Site address: http://wilson.med.harvard.edu
Email address: rachel_wilson@hms.harvard.edu