2008 Beckman Young Investigators
Award Recipients

Michael J. Axtell, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Pennsylvania State University
Title of Research: Functional genomic analysis of ancient microRNAs
Web Site address: http://www.bio.psu.edu/people/faculty/Axtell/AxtellLab/Home.html
Email address: mja18@psu.edu

Martin D. Burke, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Univerisity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title of Research: Iterative Cross-Coupling: A Simple Strategy for Generalizing and Automating the Synthesis of complex Small Molecules
Web Site address: http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/chem/faculty/Martin_Burke.html
Email address: burke@scs.uiuc.edu

Michelle C. Chang, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
Title of Research: Synthetic biology approaches to sustainable energy production
Web Site address: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/mccgrp
Email address: mcchang@berkeley.edu

Pieter C. Dorrestein, Ph.D.
Departments of Pharmacology, chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego
Title of Research: Harvesting microbial genomes for their therapeutic potential
Web Site address:
http://chem-faculty.ucsd.edu/dorrestein/
Email address: pdorrestein@ucsd.edu

Alla Grishok, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons
Title of Research: Zinc finger protein Zfp-1 connects RNA interface with golbal transcriptional regulation in C. elegans
Web Site address: http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/gsas/biochem/faculty/Grishok.html
Email address: ag2691@columbia.edu

Ke Hu, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Indiana University
Title of Research: How to conceive a parasite -- the roleof centrossome in the cytoskeletal biogenesis of Toxoplasma gondii
Web Site address: http://www.bio.indiana.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/Hu.html
Email address: kehu@indiana.edu

STeven Little, Ph.D.
Department of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Immunology and McGowan Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Title of Research: Synthetic Dendritic Cells
Web Site address: http://www.engr.pitt.edu/bioengineering/main/people/faculty/little_steven.html
Email address: srlittle@pitt.edu

Vassiliy Lubchenko, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Houston
Title of Research: Electronic Structure of Amorphous Matter
Web Site address: http://www.chem.uh.edu/Faculty/Lubchenko/
Email address: vas@uh.edu

Clodagh C. O'Shea, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Title of Research: 'Combining' chemistry and 'recombining' viral genomes to develop next generation viral vectors and replicating lytic cancer therapies
Web Site address: http://www.salk.edu/faculty/faculty_details.php?id=69
Email address: oshea@salk.edu

STephen Rogers, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
University of North Carlina, Chapel Hill
Title of Research: A systems-level analysis of cellular contractility
Web Site address: http://www.unc.edu/~steverog
Email address: srogers@bio.unc.edu

Todd M. Squires, Ph.D.
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Title of Research: Pushing the limits: mass transport in biomolecular and chemical sensors
Web Site address: http://www.chemengr.ucsb.edu/people/faculty_d.php?id=5
Email address: squires@engineering.ucsb.edu

E. Charles H. Sykes, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Tufts University
Title of Research: A Single-Molecule Approach for Understanding and Controlling Ferroelectrics
Web Site address: http://ase.tufts.edu/chemistry/sykes/
Email address: charles.sykes@tufts.edu

Faik Akif Tezcan, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego
Title of Research: An Inorganic Language for Biological Self-Assembly: Controlling Protein-Protein Interactions through Metal Coordination Chemistry
Web Site address: http://tezcan.ucsd.edu
Email address: tezcan@ucsd.edu

Andreas Savas Tolias, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Title of Research: Development of in vivo multiphoton microscopy in primates for studying computations in cortical microcolumns
Web Site address: http://neuro.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu/?sct=gfaculty&prf=27#research
Email address: astolias@bcm.tmc.edu

ZEfeng Wang, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of Research: A new systematic approach to study tissue specific splicing regualtion
Web Site address: http://www.med.unc.edu/pharm/faculty/wang.htm
Email address: zefeng@med.unc.edu

Tehshik P. Yoon, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title of Research: Stereoselective Functionalization of Hydrocarbons Using Oxaziridines
Web Site address: http://www.chem.wisc.edu/~yoon
Email address: tyoon@chem.wisc.edu