Awards for Fall 2005

Dr. Ashesh Nandy, working under the direction of Professor Subhash Basak, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

Project Title: Numerical Characterization of DNA Sequences and Investigations into Structural Aspects of Gene Additions and Mutations.

Dr. Abdallah Sayyed-Ahmad, working under the direction of Professor Yiannis Kaznesis, Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Project Title: Innovative Integration of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Mehods to Meet Objectives of Characterizing and Engineering Biomolecular Complexes.

Dr. Tai-Sung Lee, working under the direction of Professor Darrin York, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Project Title: Software and Database Design for Computational Multi-scale Modeling of Mechanisms of DNA Damage.