Previous Award Recipients

September 2008 Competition

Anna Allen (LBG)

Investigating Precocious Oocyte Maturation and the Calcium Wave in *C.
elegans*

Mentor: Andy Golden

Anna Burkart (LCDB)

Role of a Cortical-Granule Metalloprotease in the Post-Fertilization
Block to Polyspermy

Mentor: Jurrien Dean

 

Robert Brychta (CEB)

Optimizing Energy Expenditure Detection in Human Metabolic Chambers

Mentor: Kong Chen

 

Michelle Mondoux (LMB)

Analysis of Hexosamine Signaling in *C. elegans*: a Model of Insulin
Resistance

Mentor: Michael Krause

Emmanuel Thomas (LDB)

A Novel Mechanism of Action of Ribavirin in Hepatitis C Antiviral
Therapy

Mentor: Jake Liang

March 2008 Competition

Nina Peel (LBG)

System-wide analysis of tubulin glutamylation in *C. elegans*

Mentor: Kevin O'Connell

> Zachary Schultz (LCP)

Nanoscale Biomembrane Characterization: from model systems to intact
cellular

> membranes
>
> Mentor: Ira Levin

Yang Shen (LCP)

Protein structural patterns obtained from NMR chemical shifts using
neural networks

> Mentor: Ad Bax
>
> Hariom Yadav (DB) Role of TGF-β1 signaling in insulin resistance and
> adipogenesis

Mentor: Sushil Rane

> Frances Yap (GBB) Mechanism of Translational Regulation Inside the
> Ribosome Tunnel

Mentor: Harris Bernstein

September 2007 Competition

Orsolya Barabas (LMB)

Directing Asymmetric DNA Transposons to Alternate Sequences

Mentor: Fred Dyda

> Xin-Hua Liao (LCDB) Functional Analyses of the TOR Kinase Complex
> TORC2 Mentor: Alan Kimmel

Deepak Sharma (LBG) Molecular Mechanism Underlying Roles of Ssa Hsp70
Chaperones in Yeast Prion Propagation

> Mentor: Daniel Masison
>
> Pu Tian (GBB) Two State Conformational Change of Membrane-embedded
> Beta Barrels

Mentor: Harris Bernstein

> Athanasios Vasilopoulos (GDDB) Role of BRCA1 in Mammary Cancer Stem
> Cells and Possible Therapeutic Implications

Mentor: Chuxia Deng

March 2007 Competition

Michaeleen Callahan-Doucleff (LCP)

Characterizing the Target Search Process of a Multi-Protein
Transcription Complex

Mentor: Marius Clore

> Kan-Nian Hu (LCP) Probing Protein Conformations in Unfolded States
> Using Solid-State NMR Techniques Mentor: Robert Tycko
>
> Erica Rosemond (LBC) Elucidation of Novel Protein Partners of
> G-Protein Coupled Receptors

Mentor: Jurgen Wess

> Keren Witkin (LMCB) Yeast Nuclear Architecture and its Role in
> Regulating Nuclear Function

Mentor: Orna Cohen-Fix

September 2006 Competition

Gagandeep Gahlay (LCDB)

Characterization of the Role of ZP2 in Post-Fertilization Block to Sperm
Binding

Mentor: Jurrien Dean

> Jean-Marc Guettier (CEB) In Vivo Control of GPCR Signaling Pathways
>
> Mentor: Jurgen Wess
>
> Thomas Leonard (LMB) Mechanistic Studies of Protein Kinase C

Mentor: James Hurley

> Kathryn Stein (LBG) Mechanism of spe-11-dependent Oocyte Activation in
> C. elegans

Mentor: Andy Golden

March 2006 Competition

Meryem Bektas (GDDB)

Sphingosine-phosphate Lyase in Signaling

Mentor: Richard Proia

> Rongjin Guan (LMB) Molecular Basis of Ligand Recognition by Human
> Toll-like Receptor 2 Mentor: David Davies
>
> Ying Huang (LDB) Negative Regulation of IFN Pathway by HCV Infection

Mentor: Jake Liang

> Jinfa Ying (LCP) Novel NMR Methods Applied to Studying HA
> Peptide-induced Membrane Fusion

Mentor: Ad Bax

September 2005 Competition

> Robert Best (LCP)
>
> Coarse-Grain Models for Simulation of Protein Folding
>
> Mentor; William Eaton
>
> Rodney Brister (LMCB)
>
> Characterization of the T4 Origins of DNA Replication
>
> Mentor: Nancy Nossal
>
> Jordan Chill (LCP)
>
> Novel NMR Methodologies for Study of Membrane Proteins
>
> Mentor: Ad Bax
>
> Lei Li (LCDB)
>
> Discovering New Potential Target Genes of FIGα
>
> Mentor: Jurrien Dean
>
> Eric Liu (IAB)
>
> Beta Cell Regeneration and Immunology in Type 1 Diabetes
>
> Mentor: David Harlan
>
> Jason Mears (LCBB)
>
> The Structural Basis of Mitochondrial Fission
>
> Mentor: Jenny Hinshaw
>
> Cheryl Woolhead (GBB)
>
> Ribosome Nascent Chain Communication During Translation
>
> Mentor: Harris Bernstein

March 2005 Competition

> Keith Giles (LMB)
>
> The Establishment of Heterochromatin in Vertebrate Cells
>
> Mentor: Gary Felsenfeld
>
> Bo Li (LBC)
>
> Analysis of G Protein-Coupled Receptors in Yeast
>
> Mentor: Jurgen Wess
>
> Kusai Merchant (LCP)
>
> Watching a Protein Fold by Single Molecule Fluorescence
>
> Mentor: William Eaton
>
> Anant Paravastu (LCP)
>
> Structural Studies of Alzheimer's β-Amyloid Fibrils
>
> Mentor: Robert Tycko