2008 sanofi-aventis international
BioGENEIus Challenge

June 16-18, 2008
San Diego, CA

 

Congratulations to the
2008 sanofi-aventis International BioGENEius Challenge finalists!

 

 

 


1st Place, $7,500.00:

Mingjuan Zhang, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC, USA
(Characterization of a Synthetic Microbial Pathway for the Production of Bioplastics)

 

 

2nd Place, $5,000.00:

Timothy Chang, Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY, USA
(Kinetics of Bioremediation and Electricity Production in a Novel Microbial Fuel Cell)

 

 

 

3rd Place, $2,500.00:

Oliver Tester, Murdoch College, Murdoch, Western Australia
(Discovery of Peptide Markers to Differentiate and Test Purity of Subterranean Clover Seed Using Proteomic Analysis and Mass Spectrometry)

 

 
 

 

4th Place , $1,000.00:

Bindhu Holavanahalli, Shenton College, Shenton Park, Western Australia
(A novel study into the Effect of Post-Harvest Treatments with Sulphur dioxide and Resveratrol on Gene Expression Patterns of Table Grape Berries)

 

 

Other finalists were:

•Josh Alman, University of Toronto Schools, Toronto, Ontario

•Raghu Appasani, Waltham Senior High School, Waltham, MA

•Maria Brown, Helena High School, Helena, MT

•Siddharth Damania, Breck School, Minneapolis, MN

•Sravya Keremane, John W. North High School, Riverside, CA

•Sushma Kola, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Aurora, IL

•Maria Merziotis, University of Toronto Schools, Ottawa, Ontario

•Frazier Mork, Shorewood High School, Shoreline, WA

•Jonathan Schneider, Thornhill, Ontario

•Noel Arthur Turner, Satellite High School, Satellite Beach, FL

•Xuanji Wang, Arcadia High School, Arcadia, CA

•Norman Yau, University of Toronto Schools, Richmond Hill, Ontario