Comparing Sicence

Comparing Sicence

  • Submitted By: grainnegg
  • Date Submitted: 05/03/2011 1:56 AM
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Matt Stremlau, the author of the prize-winning essay and a North American regional winner, received his B.S. in chemistry from Haverford College. After graduation, he spent 1 year as a Henry Luce Fellow at the National Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology in Beijing, China, before beginning graduate studies at Harvard University. Here Dr. Stremlau investigated retroviral restriction in nonhuman primates in Dr. Joe Sodroski's laboratory. He currently works in the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator's Office at the State Department as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow. Dr. Stremlau plans to start a postdoctoral fellowship in 2008 and is interested in emerging biotechnologies relevant to the developing world.North America: Bo Huang for his essay “Molecular Accounting of a Cell.” Dr. Huang was born in Chongqing, China. He graduated with honors in 2001 with a B.S. degree in chemistry from Peking University. As a graduate fellow at Stanford University, under the direction of Dr. Richard N. Zare, he worked on the development of microfluidic devices for the analysis of individual cells using single-molecule detection. Now, as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, he is working with Dr. Xiaowei Zhuang on a fluorescence microscopy technique that can achieve molecular-scale resolution in biological samples.

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In this pageIn a new windowEurope: Mikaela Rapp, for her essay “The Ins and Outs of Membrane Proteins.” Dr. Rapp grew up in Stockholm, Sweden. As a Ph.D. student in the group of Dr. Gunnar von Heijne at Stockholm University, she performed a global topology analysis of the E. coli inner membrane proteome. Dr. Rapp defended her thesis in December 2006 and is currently learning membrane protein crystallography in the laboratory of Dr. Mika Jormakka at the Centenary Institute in Sydney, Australia. She plans to continue her scientific career as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Pär Nordlund at Karolinska...

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