International Scholarships

2009 Malmberg Scholarship for Study in Sweden Guidelines The Malmberg Scholarship will be awarded to financially assist up to one year of proposed academic study in Sweden.

Project Description
Molecular mechanisms behind evolution of the modern yeast traits. You will run longitudinal experiments in several growth vessels (fermentors). Evolving samples will be analyzed by a variety of techniques: classical microbiology and genetic techniques, pulse-field electrophoresis, micro-array techniques and proteome analysis to follow gene-expression, and HPLC and gas analyzer analysis to follow the appearance of fermentation products. This project will attempt to answer the question if we can run the tape of the evolutionary history again and at the end obtain the same molecular structures and organisms.