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Herchel Smith Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

2006 Herchel Smith Awardees

Monica Allen, 2009, (Chemistry/Physics), mapping martensitic transformation temperatures in ternary Ni-Ti-Zr alloys; Joost Vlassak, Harvard University.

Meaghan Beattie, 2008, (Chemistry), investigating new systems of organo-catalytic asymmetric synthesis; Steven Ley, University of Cambridge, England.

Sarah Bourne, 2008, (Biology), molecular signals in the mature mouse brain that prevent neuroregeneration; Dong Feng Chen, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston.

Steven Byrnes, 2007, (Physics), transport properties of electrons and spins through novel semiconductor quantum nanostructures; Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Harvard University.

Can Cenik, 2008 (Applied Mathematics), RNAi screening of C. elegans genome to investigate redundancy of putative paralogs; Julie Ahringer, University of Cambridge, England.

Yuyin Chen, 2008, (Chemistry/Physics), mass fabrication of resonant optical antennas with DNA nanotechnology; William Shih, Harvard University.

Stanley Chiang, 2009, (Chemistry/Physics), quantum computation by a surface acoustic wave-based processor; Christopher Ford, University of Cambridge, England.

Daniel Choi, 2008, (Biochemistry), synthesis of glycodendriprotein antigens recognized by 2G12, a broadly neutralizing HIV-1 antibody; Ben Davis, University of Oxford, England.

Katharine Clapham, 2008, (Biochemistry), regulation of ß-oxidation in Bacillus suibtilis; Diego de Mendoza, Instituto de Biología y Celular de Rosario, Argentina.

Victoria Clark, 2008, (Biochemistry), the role of Mesenchymal stem cells in cancer progression and their potential use as vehicles for therapeutic gene delivery; Osvaldo Podhajcer, University of Buenos Aires.

Lin Cong, 2009, (Physics), entropic Bell-Renyi inequality in XXZ spin chains; Leong-Chuan Kwek, National University of Singapore.

Jonathan Cunningham, 2008, (Biochemistry), diversity-oriented synthesis and biological screening of alkaloid small molecules; Stuart Schreiber, Harvard University.

Bradford Diephuis, 2008, (Engineering), artificial intelligence methods for grid computing; David Parkes, Harvard University.

Eric Fritz, 2008, (Chemistry), methods for the synthesis of izidine alkaloids; Bernhard Breit, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany.

Julie Girard, 2007, (Biochemistry), functional analysis of genes affecting microtubule stability in C. elegans embryos; Anthony Hyman, Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany.

Michael Gladstone, 2009, (Biochemistry), in vivo and in vitro observation of cytokines for use in HIV-1 vaccine; Norman Letvin, Harvard Medical School (HMS).

Sharon Grossman, 2008, (Biochemistry), effect of phosphorylation on the binding affinity of Pho4 for DNA; Erin O'Shea, Harvard University.

Gaurav Gulati, 2008, (Biology), purification and crystallization of the DnaA protein constructs in Staphylococcus aureus; David Jeruzalmi, Harvard University.

Andrew Howe, 2008, (Chemistry), analysis of organic reactions in ionic liquids; Jason Harper, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Divya Jayaraman, 2008, (Biochemistry), biochemical analysis of cell division, DNA repair, and genomic stability; Matthew Michael, Harvard University.

Andrea Jonas, 2008, (Chemistry/Physics), development of functional neural networks in Drosphila; Veronica Rondrigues, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India.

Hasan Korre, 2009, (Physics), development of a novel magnetic force microscope; Jennifer Hoffman, Harvard University.

Richard Kronfol, 2008, (Biochemistry), characterizing the effects of S-nitrosylation on endothelial nitric oxide synthase; Thomas Michel, HMS.

Arthur Lee, 2007-2008, (Biology), identification and characterization of copy number variants on the human X chromosome; Charles Lee, HMS.

Benjamin Lee, 2008, (Biology), observational report and mechanistic studies of traditional Chinese herbal medicines for epilepsy; Steven Schachter, HMS.

Albert Li, 2009, (Biochemistry), mechanisms of TRPV1 channel activity; Rachelle Gaudet, Harvard University.

Amanda Mason, 2009 (Biochemistry), role of PRLs in metastatic colon cancer; Adrienne Cox, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Matthew McFarlane, 2008, (Biochemistry), sonic hedgehog (Shh) receptors and binding proteins; Andrew McMahon, Harvard University.

Natasha Novikov, 2007, (Biochemistry), contribution of changes in gene expression to synapse formation; Joshua Sanes, Harvard University.

Allen Pope, 2008, (Chemistry), stability of bacteriogenic uraninite to chemical and biological oxidative dissolution; Rizlan Bencheikh-Latmani, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Susan Putnins, 2008, (Biology), expression of PNMT under hypoxic stress; Dona Lee Wong, HMS.

Yakir Reshef, 2009, (Chemistry/Physics), evolution, diversity, and catalytic mechanism of metal-dependent beta-lactamase; Alejandro Vila, University of Rosario, Argentina.

Michael Segal, 2009, (Biochemistry), gene expression in the Hog1 pathway; Erin O'Shea, Harvard University.

Shrenik Shah, 2009, (Mathematics), application of pseudorandom generators to derandomization of the complexity class RL; Salil Vadhan, Harvard University.

Jie Tang, 2008, (Computer Science), mechanisms for grid computation scheduling; David Parkes, Harvard University.

Ye Tao, 2009, (Biochemistry), dynamic combinatorial synthesis using ionic and enzymatic templates; Olaf Ramström, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Parvinder Thiara, 2007, (Chemistry), total synthesis utilizing asymmetrically catalyzed N-acyliminium Pictet-Spengler-type cyclizations; Eric Jacobsen, Harvard University.

Grace Tiao, 2008, (History of Science), role of ID3 protein in the maintenance of skeletal muscle stem cells; Andrew Lassar, HMS.

Cindy Ung, 2009, (Biochemistry), knockdown of ZFR-SBP by siRNA and functional consequences on T cell activation; Oreste Acuto, University of Oxford, England.

Mark Wagner, 2008, (Engineering Science), human visual discrimination and contextual integration; Paul Sajda, Columbia University.

Xiao Wang, 2009, (Biology), role of protein quaternary structure in protein function and disease; Hilal Lashuel, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Norman Yao, 2009, (Physics), analysis of tensor characteristics of actin networks in cells due to stresses and strains; David Weitz, Harvard University.

Jimmy Yang, 2009, (Biochemistry), investigation of novel small-molecule drug therapies on laboratory and resistant malaria strains; Jon Clardy, HMS.

Rocksheng Zhong, 2008, (Psychology), microarray studies in IBMPFD; Virginia Kimonis, HMS.