(photo by Neil Brake)
Charlie Xie, right, a student at Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet High School in Nashville, won a grand prize in the Middle Tennessee Science and Engineering Fair, for his research project using the worm C. elegans to study the actions of amphetamine. He completed the research under the guidance of Aurelio Galli, Ph.D., left, Chand Desai, Ph.D., rear, and Lucia Carvelli, Ph.D.