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NAME and BACKGROUND |
PROJECT INFORMATION |
| Arash Komeili
Term: 2001-2004 Ph.D. degree: Biochemistry, UC San Francisco |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Molecular Dissection of Magnetite Synthesis
in Magnetotactic Bacteria
Caltech Mentor: Dianne Newman Position on leaving: Assistant Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley |
| Paul Rothemund
Term: 2001-2004 Ph.D. degree: Computer Science, USC |
Beckman Fellowship Project: DNA Self-Assembly for Computation and Complex
Pattern Formation at the Nanoscale
Caltech Mentor: Eric Winfree Position on leaving: Senior Research Fellow, Caltech |
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Michael Diehl Term: 2002-2005 Ph.D. degree: Chemistry, UCLA |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Engineering Functional Protein Assemblies:
Exploring Cooperative Biomotor Dynamics with Single Molecule Sensitivity
Caltech Mentor: David Tirrell Position on leaving: Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Chemistry, Rice University |
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Achilleas Frangakis Term: 2002-2004 Ph.D. degree: Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Development of Pattern Recognition Techniques
for Cryo-Electron Tomograms
Caltech Mentor: Pietro Perona Position on leaving: Group Leader in Structural and Computational Biology, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg |
| Cora MacBeth
Term: 2002-2005 Ph.D. degree: Chemistry, University of Kansas |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Designing Iron Complexes Capable of Dinitrogen
Reduction
Caltech Mentor: Jonas Peters Position on leaving: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Emory University |
| Jordan Gerton
Term: 2003-2005 Ph.D. degree: Physics, Rice University |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Live and in Technicolor: Dynamic Optical
Imaging of Biological Structure and Function at the Nanometer Scale
Caltech Mentor: Stephen Quake Position on leaving: Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Utah |
| Jennifer Lee
Term: 2003-2006 Ph.D. degree: Chemistry, Caltech |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Probing Amyloidogenic Peptide Structure
and Dynamics Using Fluorescence Energy-Transfer Kinetics
Caltech Mentor: Harry Gray Position on leaving: Investigator (Tenure-Track), Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH |
| Chris Gandhi
Term: 2006-2009 Ph.D. degree: Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Understanding the Gating Mechanisms of
Ion Channels at the Atomic Level
Caltech Mentor: Doug Rees Position on leaving: Senior Research Fellow, Caltech |
| Rich Olson
Term: 2003-2006 Ph.D. degree: Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Structural Studies of Pheromone Receptor/Class
I MHC Interactions
Caltech Mentor: Pamela Bjorkman Position on leaving: Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University |
| Long Cai
Term: 2006-2009 Ph.D. degree: Molecular Cellular and Chemical Biology, Caltech |
Beckman Fellowship Project: An interdisciplinary research plan for
a system wide study of low expression gene in living cells using combined
single molecule microscopy and microfluidics technologies
Caltech Mentor: Michael Elowitz Position on leaving: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Caltech |
| Eric Toberer
Term: 2007-2010 Ph.D. degree: Materials, UC Santa Barbara |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Metal-organic hybrids: A new class of conpounds
for thermoelectricity
Caltech Mentor: Sossina Haile/Jeff Snyder Position on leaving: Assistant Professor of Physics, Colorado School of Mines |
| Ingmar Riedel-Kruse
Term: 2007-2010 Ph.D. degree: Molecular Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute, Dresden |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Criticality, short-term memory, and optimization
of computation in an olfactory system
Caltech Mentor: Gilles Laurent Position on leaving: Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University |
| Brad Olsen
Term: 2008-2010 Ph.D. degree: Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Thermodynamics of gelation and dynamic
properties of biosynthetic protein hydrogels
Caltech Mentor: Zhen-Gang Wang/David Tirrell/Julia Kornfield Position on leaving: Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT |
| Todd Anthony
Term: 2008-2011 Ph.D. degree: Biology, Rockefeller University |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Whole-Brain Imaging of Neural Activity
in Freely Behaving Mice
Caltech Mentor: David Anderson Position on leaving: |
| Jesse Bloom
Term: 2008-2011 Ph.D. degree: Chemistry, Caltech |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Biological Underpinnings of Virus Evolvability
Caltech Mentor: David Baltimore Position on leaving: Principal Investigator, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
| Rosemary Conrad
Term: 2008-2011 Ph.D. degree: Chemistry, Stanford University |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Design and Synthesis of Elastic Polymers
for Use in Vascular Grafts
Caltech Mentor: Bob Grubbs Position on leaving: Materia, Inc. |
| Jeremiah Johnson
Term: 2009-2012 Ph.D. degree: Chemistry, Columbia University |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Library Synthesis of Photo-Releasing Nanocarriers
for Drug Delivery
Caltech Mentor: Bob Grubbs/David Tirrell Position on leaving: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, MIT |
| Ali Mortazavi
Term: 2009-2012 Ph.D. degree: Biology, Caltech |
Beckman Fellowship Project: The Genomic Basis of Behavorial Evolution
in Nematodes
Caltech Mentor: Paul Sternberg Position on leaving: Assistant Professor of Developmental & Cell Biology, UC Irvine |
| Casimir Wierzynski
Term: 2009-2012 Ph.D. degree: Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Real-Time Tracking and Modulation of Memory
Consolidation
Caltech Mentor: Thanos Siapas/David Anderson/Pietro Perona Position on leaving: |
| Daniel Kim
Term: 2010-2013 Ph.D. degree: Molecular Biology, City of Hope |
Beckman Fellowship Project: The Molecular Circuitry of Cellular Reprogramming
Caltech Mentor: Barbara Wold Position on leaving: |
| Chris Richards
Term: 2010-2013 Ph.D. degree: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Single Molecule Characterization of Nicotinic Membrane Receptor Structure and Function
Caltech Mentor: Henry Lester Position on leaving: |
| Bryce Sadtler
Term: 2010-2013 Ph.D. degree: Chemistry, UC Berkeley |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Self-assembly of Semiconductor Microwires for Solar Energy Conversion
Caltech Mentor: Nate Lewis Position on leaving: |
| Jacob Waldbauer
Term: 2010-2013 Ph.D. degree: Chemical Oceanography, MIT & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Molecular Basis of Isotope Effects in Microbia Sulfate Reduction
Caltech Mentor: Alex Sessions Position on leaving: |
| Lacramioara Bintu
Term: 2011-2014 Ph.D. degree: Physics, UC Berkeley |
Beckman Fellowship Project: Connecting Promoter Architecture and Gene Expression: A Systematic and Quantitative Genome-Wide Approach
Caltech Mentor: Michael Elowitz Position on leaving: |