Ilya Bezprozvanny, Ph.D.,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at
Dallas, for “Association of InsP3R1 with HAP1 and
Huntington Proteins in the Brain: Implications for HD”
(G)
Sarah Broadley, Ph.D.,
(Mentor: F. Ulrich Hartl), Max-Planck-Institut fur
Biochemie, Germany, for “Identification of Factors
Influencing the Cellular Effects of Polyglutamine-Expanded
Huntingtin” (PDF)
Jamie Cearley, Ph.D.,
(Mentor: Peter Detloff, Ph.D.) University of Alabama for
“Wildtype Htt: Its Role in HD and Function in the Adult
Mouse” (PDF)
Michael A. Johnson, Ph.D.,
(Mentor: R. Mark Wightman) University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill for “The Direct Measure of Dopamine Release
in HD transgenic Mice in the Sub-Second Timescale” (PDF)
Joonil Jung, Ph.D., (Mentor: Nancy Bonini),
University of Pennsylvania / Howard Hughes Medical
Institute for “Molecular Genetic Study of Triplet Repeat
Instability in Drosophila” (PDF)
Jeffrey Keller, Ph.D., University of Kentucky,
“Mechanisms Responsible For and Involvement of, Elevated
Levals of p53 in HD-Associated Neurodegeneration” (G)
Vikas Palhan, Ph.D., Rockefeller University
(Mentor: R.G. Roeder, Ph.D.) for “Role Ataxin-7 in
Mediating Transcriptional Regulation and Curing SCA7 by
RNAi” (PDF)
Yvon Trottier, Ph.D.,
Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et
Cellulaire (IGBMC), “Molecular Basis of PolyQ-Induced
Toxicity in Retina Model” (G)
