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Recent Grants

- Awards Received Since June 2006 -

Investigator(s)

Title

Sponsor

Dollars

Months

Awarded

Belovsky, Gary

 

LTREB: Ecosystem Structure and Function in Palouse Grasslands

 

National

Science

Foundation

 

$6,000
14
March 2007

Belovsky, Gary

 

Luquillo LTER Program 4: Understanding Change in the Ecosystems of Northeastern Puerto Rico

 

University

of Puerto

Rico

 

$14,000
12
March 2007

Belovsky, Gary

 

Contract to conduct laboratory and in situ experiments on brine shrimp

 

State

of Utah

 

$80,040
18
Aug 2006

Belovsky, Gary

 

Dissertation Research: Community Level Response to Global Change: The Effect of Temperature on the Relative Importance of Top-down and Bottom-up Effect

 

National

Science

Foundation

 

$7,341
11
July 2006

Belovsky, Gary

 

LTREB: Ecosystem Structure and Function in Palouse Grasslands

 

National

Science

Foundation

 

$60,000
14
July 2006

Besansky, Nora

 

Ecological Genomics of Anopheles gambiae

 

National

Institutes

of Health

 

$440,631
12
Feb 2007

Whaley, Michelle;

Boyd, Sunny

 

REU Site in Integrative Cellular and Molecular Biology

 

National

Science

Foundation

 

$88,675
60
Jan 2008

Boyd, Sunny

 

Comutational Models for Neuroendocrine Control of Social Behavior

 

National

Science

Foundation

 

$169,998
48
Aug 2007

Collins, Frank;

Madey, Gregory

 

Malaria Monitoring and Control Consortium

 

Private

Foundation

 

$20,061,875
60
July 2007

Collins, Frank

 

VectorBase: A Bioinformatics Resource Center for Invertebrate Vectors of Human Pathogens

 

National

Institutes

of Health

 

$598,418
12
Sept 2006

D'Souza-Schorey, Crislyn

 

Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Invasion

 

National

Institutes

of Health

 

$210,000
12
Sept 2007

D'Souza-Schorey, Crislyn

 

Regulation of Cell Invasion

 

Private

Funding

 

$30,000
24
Jan 2007

D'Souza-Schorey, Crislyn

 

Mechanisms of Neuronal Degeneration in Huntington's Disease

 

Private

Foundation

 

$267,500
24
Aug 2006

Duman, John

 

Collaborative Research: Deep Supercooling to -100C and Lower in Alaska Populations of the Beetle Cucujus Clavipes

 

National

Science

Foundation

 

$214,927
12
Aug 2006

Feder, Jeffrey

 

Genomics of Diapause and Chemoreception in the Apple Maggot Fly

 

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign $30,000
36
Oct 2007

Feder, Jeffrey;

Besansky, Nora;

Lodge, David;

Lamberti, Gary;

Fuentes, Agustin

 

IGERT: Global Linkage of Biology, Environment, and Society (GLOBES)

 

National

Science

Foundation

 

$644,503
59
July 2007

Feder, Jeffrey;

Lodge, David;

Lamberti, Gary;

Besansky, Nora;

Fuentes, Agustin

 

Collaborative Research: Diapause Energetics in the Apple Maggot Rhagoletis Pormonella

 

National

Science

Foundation

 

$58,000
36
March 2007

Feder, Jeffrey

 

The Biogeography of Sympatric Speciation in Rhagoletis

 

National

Science

Foundation

 

$152,768
36
Jan 2007

Feder, Jeffrey

 

Collaborative Research: Host Race Formation among Southern Hawthorn-Infesting Rhagoletis pomonella

National

Science

Foundation

 

$122,574
36
Sept 2006

Feder, Jeffrey

 

IGERT: Global Linkage of Biology, Environment, and Society (GLOBES)

 

National

Science

Foundation

 

$597,264
59
July 2006

Ferdig, Michael

 

High-resolution Hybridization-based Genotyping in Plasmodium Falciparum

 

National

Institutes

of Health

 

$222,500

11

Sept 2007

Ferdig, Michael

 

Transcriptional Network Analysis in Malaria Parasites

 

National

Institutes

of Health

 

$40,972
12
Aug 2007

Ferdig, Michael

 

Copy Number Variation in Malaria Parasites

 

Southwest Research Institute

 

$113,418
11
July 2007

Ferdig, Michael

 

Genetic Control of Cross-Resistance in Plasmodium Falciparum

National

Institutes

of Health

 

$316,811
12
Feb 2007

Ferdig, Michael

 

Genetic Study of Cryptosporidium parvum

 

Tufts

University

School of

Veterinary

Medicine

 

$43,942
24
Aug 2006

Fraser, Malcolm

 

A Novel Transgenic Silkworm System for Recombinant Glycoprotein Production

 

University of Wyoming

 

$149,872
10
Jan 2008

Fraser, Malcolm

 

Engineering Transgenic Silkworms to Produce Synthetic Spider Silk Fibers

 

University of Wyoming

 

$80,000
12
Jan 2008

Fraser, Malcolm

 

Developing Transgenic Silkworms as Bioreactors for Novel Silk Fibers

 

Corporate

Funding

 

$150,000
12
Feb 2007

Hellmann, Jessica;

McLachlan, Jason

 

Collaborative Research: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Assisted Migration

 

National

Science

Foundation

 

$14,950
17
Aug 2007

Hellmann, Jessica

 

Predicting the Impact of Climate Change on Animal Distributions: The Importance of Local Adaptation and Species' Traits

 

Department

of Energy

 

$166,261
12
Nov 2006

Hellmann, Jessica;

Feder, Jeffrey;

Lodge, David

 

Genomic Research on Terrestrial Insects and Aquatic Microorganisms as Indicators of Global Change

 

Department

of Energy

 

$155,000
12
June 2006

Hellmann, Jessica

 

Application for Career Enhancement Fellowship

 

Private

Foundation

 

$31,500
12
June 2006

Hinchcliffe, Edward

 

Mechanisms of Centrosome Reproduction in Animal Cells

 

National

Institutes

of Health

 

$250,547
12
Sept 2007

Hinchcliffe, Edward

 

Mechanisms of Centrosome Reproduction in Animal Cells

 

National

Institutes

of Health

 

$258,030
12
Sept 2006

Hollocher, Hope

 

Dissertation Improvement Grant: Examination of Expression Profile Differences in CAndidate Loci Underlying Female Hybrid Sterility in Drosophila

 

National

Science

Foundation

 

$11,577

 

12
June 2007

Hollocher, Hope;

Fuentes, Agustin

 

The Impact of Population Structure on Pathogen Transmission in Balinese Macaques

 

National

Science

Foundation

 

$110,000
23
Aug 2007

Hyde, David

 

Development of Genetic Tools to Study Retinal Regeneration in Zebrafish

 

National

Institutes

of Health

 

$150,000
12
Jan 2007

Hyde, David;

Thummel, Ryan

 

Molecular Analysis of Zebrafish Retinal Regeneration

 

Fight

for Sight

$20,000
12
July 2006

Johnson, Alan

 

Ovarian Follicle Selection Mediated by Release from Inhibitory MAP Kinase Signaling

 

National

Science

Foundation

 

$154,500
36
Feb 2007

Lamberti, Gary;

Chaloner, Dominic

 

Impacts of Introduced Pacific Salmon on Ecological Communities of Great Lakes Tributaries

 

Great Lakes Fishery Trust

 

$150,637

24

Nov 2007

Lamberti, Gary

 

Ecology and Food Web Structure in Ponds on the West Copper River Delta, Alaska

 

Loyola University, Chicago

 

$10,000
7
Oct 2007

Lodge, David;

Chang, Hseuh-Chia;

Feder, Jeffrey

 

Developing and Applying a Real-time Generic Probe for Detecting Aquatic Invasive Species in Ships' Ballast

 

Great Lakes Protection Fund

 

$805,000
36
Oct 2007

Lodge, David

 

Aquatic Invasive Species Research: Economic Impact of Ballast Water-Mediate Invasive Species

 

University

of Illinois,

Urbana-

Champaign

 

$149,863
9
Oct 2006

Lodge, David;

Lamberti, Gary

 

Ecological Forecasting

 

National

Science

Foundation

 

$632,188
48
Aug 2006

Lodge, David;

Feder, Jeffrey;

Chang, Hsueh-Chia

 

Risk Assessment and Management of Great Lakes Invasive Species

 

Great Lakes

Protection

Fund

 

$1,090,000
39
July 2006

McDowell, MaryAnn

 

Interleukin-12 Regulation in Leishmania Infected Human Dendritic Cells

 

National

Institutes

of Health

 

$248,898
36
March 2007

McKee, Edward

 

Heart Mitochondrial Toxicity of Antiviral Nucleosides

 

I.U. School

of Medicine

 

$233,948
58
Aug 2006

McKee, Edward

 

Discretionary Funding: Heart Mitochondrial Toxicity of Antiviral Nucleosides Research

 

I.U. School

of Medicine

 

$63,277
12
July 2006

Olson, Kenneth

 

Physiology of Trout Natriuretic Peptides

 

I.U. School

of Medicine

 

$103,467
49
Aug 2006

O'Tousa, Joseph

 

Genetic Analysis of Retinal Degeneration

 

National

Institutes

of Health

 

$327,713
48
March 2007

O'Tousa, Joseph

 

University of Notre Dame Environmental Genomics Research Center (IN)

 

Department

of Energy

 

$1,529,000
15
Sept 2006

Schorey, Jeffrey

 

M. Avium Gpls in Macrophage Activation and Virulence

 

National

Institutes

of Health

 

$304,604
24
March 2007

Schorey, Jeffrey

 

Macrophage Signaling Upon M. Avium Infection

 

National

Institutes

of Health

 

$284,454
24
March 2007

Schulz, Robert

 

Genetic Control of Cardioblast Gene Expression and Heart Tube Morphogenesis

 

National

Institutes

of Health

 

$350,498
7
Sept 2007

Severson, David

 

Genetic Strategies for Control of Dengue Virus Transmission

 

University

of California-

Irvine

 

$45,248
24
Oct 2006

Streit, Thomas

 

Eliminating Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti

 

Private

Foundation

 

$4,428,606
48
Nov 2006

Streit, Thomas

 

Asante Foundation Grant in Support of the Haiti Project

 

Private

Foundation

 

$50,000
12
Oct 2006

Tank, Jennifer

 

The Effect of Two-Stage Ditch Construction on Stream Ecosystem Function

 

Private

Foundation

 

$186,766
39
Aug 2006

Vaughan, Kevin;

Goodson, Holly

 

Microtubule Dependent Transport of NPC-Containing Membranes

 

Ara Parseghian

Memorial

Research

Foundation

 

$75,000
24
July 2006

Vihtelic, Thomas

 

Identification of Lens Development Genes

 

National

Institutes

of Health

 

$252,348
12
March 2007
   
 

 

 

 

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