Grants Awarded in 2000
Ali Belkacem (Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory)
Joseph Remillieux (Institut de Physique
Nucléaire
de Lyon)
"Experimental Studies of Vacuum-Assisted Photoionization"
Stanley Berger (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,
UC Berkeley)
Francis Cassot ( INSERM, Toulouse)
"Numerical and Experimental Simulations of Cerebral
Blood Flow for/and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRA and fMRI)"
Edward Berry(Physical Biosciences Division,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Jean-Luc Popot (Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique,
Paris)
"Crystallization of Cytochrome bc 1/amphipol Complexes"
Carlos Bustamante (Depts. of Physics and Molecular
and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley)
Malcolm Buckle(Institut Pasteur, Paris)
"RNA Polymerase Translocation: A Comparative Study
using Rapid Footprinting, Surface Plasmon Resonance and Single
Molecule Methodologies"
Deborah Hopkins (Engineering Division, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory)
Joëlle Riss (CDGA, Université de
Bordeaux I)
"Micromechanics of Natural Rock Fractures under Shear
Stress"
Carole Meredith (Dept. of Viticulture and
Enology, UC Davis)
Jean-Michel Boursiquot (ENSA, Montpellier)
"DNA Profiling and Parentage Analysis of Grape Varieties
Held in the INRA Collection at Domaine de Vassal"
John Radke (Geographic Information Science
Center, UC Berkeley)
Didier Josselin (Laboratoire THEMA, Université de
Franche-Comté, Besançon)
"A Boundary Generation System for Landscape Characterization"
Richard Scheffler (School of Public Health,
UC Berkeley)
Christine Huttin (Université de
Paris X-Nanterre)
"The Growth of Private Insurance and Managed Care
in France: Insights from the American Experience"
George Smoot (Dept. of Physics, UC Berkeley;
Research Physicist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
James Bartlett (Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées,
Toulouse)
"Precision Cosmology from CMB Data Processing and
Analysis Techniques"
William Sullivan (Dept. of Biology, UC Santa
Cruz)
Alain Debec (Université Pierre et Marie
Curie, Villefranche-sur-Mer)
"Investigating the Paradox of Parthenogenesis"
Norman Terry (Dept. of Plant and Microbial
Biology, UC Berkeley)
Jean-Claude Davidian (ENSA-INRA, Montpellier)
"Mechanisms of Selenium Uptake, Sequestration and
Resistance in Arabidopsis and Yeast Mutants"
David Vogel (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley)
Jabril Bensédrine (Economie et Gestion,
Université de Marne-la-Vallée)
"French and American Perspectives on Genetically-Engineered
Food: Institutional Convergence and Divergence as Sources of
Cooperation and Dispute"
Wen-hsin Yeh (Dept. of History, UC Berkeley)
Christian Henriot (Institut d'Asie Orientale,
Université Lumière Lyon II)
"Shanghai in Images: A Historical Photographic Database
(1840-1949)"
Qiang Zhou (Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology,
UC Berkeley)
Olivier Bensaude (Laboratoire de Genetique
Moleculaire, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
"Functional Analysis of RNA-binding Activity of the
Human Positive Transcription Elongation Factor, P-TEFb"
In addition, in a new initiative, the
France-Berkeley Fund bestowed
on two projects the "FBF Seal of Approval." Designed to encourage the
formation of partnerships with private industry, the Seal commits the Fund to
providing support in 2001-2002 to the following two teams, on condition that
they secure matching funds from industry.
Alexandra Navrotsky (Dept. of Chemical Engineering
and Materials Science, UC Davis)
Roger Marchand (Laboratoire "Verres et
Céramiques," Université de Rennes I)
"Thermochemistry of a New Class of Inorganic Nitrogen-Containing
Materials"
David Raulet (Dept. of Molecular and Cell
Biology, UC Berkeley)
Eric Vivier (Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille
Luminy, Marseille)
"Characterization of a Novel Population of Memory
T Lymphocyte"
