co-sponsored by the School of Science and Sigma Xi

Allison Beckwith and Kyle Pounder, "Stochasitc innovation as a mechansim for the evolution of scale-free chemical networks."

Mentor: Prof. Adam Lucas and Prof. Ken Dill
Saint Mary's College
of California and University of California San Francisco

Mikhael Poblete, "Isolation and identification of broad spectrum antibiotics found in the giant red sea urchin."

Mentor: Prof. Valerie Burke and Prof. Gerard Capriulo
Saint Mary's College
of California

Lori A. Scognamillo, "Evidence for a conformational change in TOP and the machinery behind it."

Mentor: Prof. Jeffrey A. Sigman
Saint Mary's College
of California

Jaime Sconberg, "Investigation of the kinetic mechanism of neuropeptide cleavage by thimet oligopeptidase."

Mentor: Prof. Jeffrey A. Sigman
Saint Mary's College
of California

Winifred Scott, "The synthesis of stilbene analogs as tyrosinase inhibitors."

Mentor: Prof. Valerie Burke
Saint Mary's College
of California

Chris Snead, "The effects of varying salt concentration on membrane fatty acid composition and identification based on fatty acid methyl ester profiles in halophilic bacteria."

Mentor: Prof. Ken Brown
Saint Mary's College
of California

Victoria Solarewicz, "Taiman and the salivary glands: a developing system for understanding organ formation."

Mentor: Prof. Vidya Chandrasekaran
Saint Mary's College
of California

Sophie Tate, "The electrophysiological investigation of null arguments: an ERP study."

Mentor: Prof. Vidya Chandrasekaran
Saint Mary's College
of California

Stephanie Wang, "The distribution of digits of prime numbers in binary representation."

Mentor: Prof. Jim Sauerberg
Saint Mary's College
of California