Carlos Bustamante, UC Berkeley Recent advances of single molecule manipulation methods in biophysics Professor Bustamante's laboratory is involved in the development of novel methods of single molecule manipulation and detection (such as Optical Tweezers and Single Molecule Fluorescence microscopy) and their application to study the behavior of DNA-binding molecular motors and the mechanical unfolding of globular proteins and RNA's. In addition they use the Scanning Force Microscope (SFM) to investigate the structure of chromatin and the global structure of protein-nucleic acid complexes relevant to the molecular mechanisms of control of transcription in prokaryotes.

Bob Malkin, Duke University Engineering barriers to health care technology in the developing world Professor Malkin is the director of Engineering World Health. This unique study abroad program allows undergraduates to study and work in developing world hospitals. He and his associates have helped hospitals in Sudan, Nigeria, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone and many other places. Professor Malkin is also interested in medical instrumentation in general, and defibrillators in particular. He developed the Bayesian approach to defibrillator efficacy testing, which is safer and more accurate than previously used approaches. His research has been supported by Eli Lilly, the Whitaker Foundation, the NSF, and the NIH.

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