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AS THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL MEMPHIS THURSDAY APRIL 2 1992 THURSDAY MORNING 8:30 9:00 8:30 lOKM 1ft30 11 KM 11:30 7:00 7:30 8 KM 12KM 1 Grand award winner no stranger to top prizes Zemer Gitai Alok Kumar George Lee Aparna Murti lab I did 95 per cent of the work Alok Kumar a senior and finalist from 1991 won with his research the Rbizobium Sym Plasmid Required for Cy-tokinln Synthesis?" Alok was looking for a gene that produces cytokinin a plant nor-mone that promotes cell SCIENCE FAIR what been working on" In Februaiy Zemer was selected by the Tennessee Junior Academy of Science to represent the state at the American Association for the By Maty Lon Brown The Commercial Appeal Zemer Gitai was a 13-year-old White Station High School freshman when he talked his way into the senior high division of the 1990 Memphis-Shel-by County Science Fair and became one of 11 finalists Last year at 14 he was one of four winners in the competition Zemer IS has done it again He was named one of four grand award winners of the 1992 MemphteShelby County Science Fair Wednesday The fair held in the Shelby County Building at the fairgrounds is open to the public from 8 am to 3 pm today Other grand award winners are the 1991 winner Aparna Murti 17 St Episcopal School Alok Kumar white Station High School and George Lee 16 Memphis University School For Zemer winning the fair again was just icing on the cake decided to graduate a year early and applied to seven he said far been accepted by Brandels Emory MTr and the University of Chicago so this wont help me get in school I did the project more for the sake of the research and not for recognition trying to get it project Glycoproteins in Ictaluras of this ject would be to get other plants like wheat corn or to- years TiOO 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 1000 10:30 11:00 11:30 13:00 13:30 Advancement of Science annual convention in Chicago is one of the most prestigious science organizations in the Zemer added is for established professors We got a lot of feedback It criticism wasnt could really be yourself and say this is what I did how would you have improved They responded They told me what I did wrong but also what I did Aparna a junior continued a two-year study called of a Highly Metastatic Rat Mammary Tumor Cell She was looking for factors that contribute to the highly invasive potential of rat mammary tumor cells too early to assume that this project can cure cancer altogether" she said thinking about going into science professionally and then I could work with it more and draw some definite theories about cancer cells and how to stop their spreading I would like to attend Duke university and study diagnostic imaging or radiology got to thank Dr Mustafa Dabbous He is a professor in biochemistry at UT He was so generous by providing me with all the cell cultures the instruments and the use of his expect WPTY to grow According to Zemer the channel catfish is the first species of fish outside the two polar regions to have this protein Eventually Zemer hopes the proteins will become industrially practical and applicable to mass production have gotten some good feedback from The Journal of Experimental Zoology put out by Yale Zemer said seemed quite impressed with the protein I found but they wanted me to characterize the protein more New owners By Tom Walter Tha Commercial Appeal Clear Channel Television officially took over WPTY-TV Channel 24 Wednesday and Dan Sullivan the president vowed WPTY would not break the streak Every station it has acquired in the past four years (it now has seven) has increased its ratings first focus has got to be on the day-today programming of the station to make that as competitive as we he said As part of that effort the station will begin airing reruns of Full House at 5 and 6 pjn weekdays beginning Monday The station also will air Roseanne re want to find out what cytokin-ins do We know they promote cell division which is beneficial to plants and may be beneficial to other life According to George Lee his project "Simulation of Diffusion of Controlled Reaction in 1 2 and 3 Dimension using Cellular uses theoretical chemistry looked at diffusion in different dimensional objects ranging from a line to a said George research gone far enough to have any practical applications The only thing right now we can do is use diffusion to predict the rate of infection of bacterial solution by viruses This could help us understand the speed of how fast the reaction approaches an equilibrium in different systems More than 100 special awards from professional and educational organizations and the armed forces will be announced at a ceremony at CBU tonight at 7 ending the 1992 fair sponsored by The Com-merical Appeal manager Marshall Hart pi grammlng director at Cle Mobile Ala station i will come to WPTY as combination operations manager and program director Sullivan said Memphis is Clear 1 largest market Memphis like a lot of our markets has growth Sullivan said has the ingredients I have found to be crucial to stable and growth markets a hub city in a Sun Belt market It has a large hospital presence a pretty diversity of industry here tal prose: good dive a i a college presence in the community Its the largest city in the region so it gives the sta tion a good launching pad for growth of the station ment agencies to adopt an 11-year-old boy 1 Celeste Holm guests as the grandmother of fian-cee Kelly on a Cheers episode that first aired in January (8 WMC-TV Channel 5) foody takes a second job as a gravedigger to pay for expensive engagement ring Scheduled onPrimeTime Live (9 pm WHBQ-TV Channel 13): Chris Wallace reports on the findings of a five-month undercover investigation into unlicensed mental-health care runs beginning this falL Clear Channel Communications bought the station from Chase Communications for $21-mlllion WPTY is a Fox affiliate as are the other six Clear Chan- nel stations Clear Channel also owns 20 radio stations Fox expects to expand from five to seven nights of programming this year In June Fox will of Beverly Hills 90210 Fox ln- on tends to add programming on Tuesday night in October Jack Peck named interim gen- named interim general manager when general manager Kent Lillie left the station earlier this year will remain as the general TUNE IN episode airs on Mysteryi (8 pi wKNO-TV 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