Research & Creative Grant Recipients
Steve Phelps
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: Neurobiology of Climate Change
David Stein
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Molecular Biosciences Project Title: Elucidation of a Mechanism for Spatially-Restricted Activation of a Receptor Tyrosine Kinase during Embryonic Development
Linda DeGraffenried
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Nutritional Sciences Project Title: Flotillin-1 and Breast Cancer
Y. Jessie Zhang
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Molecular Biosciences Project Title: CRISPR screening to target REST transcription factor as a novel treatment for Glioblastoma
Molly Cummings
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: Coping Styles and the Brain
Su Yeong Kim
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Human Ecology Project Title: COVID-19 Stress Profiles, Stress Responses, and Health in Mexican American Emerging Adults
Zhanfei Liu
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Marine Science Project Title: Multi-dimensional Structural Elucidation of Oceanic Dissolved Organic Matter Using High Resolution Mass Spectrometry
Michael Drew
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Neuroscience Project Title: Hippocampal Mechanisms of Fear Extinction and Relapse
Harold Zakon
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Neuroscience Project Title: Evolution of a Temperature-sensitive Ion Channel in Antarctic “Icefish”
Michael J. Ryan
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: The Creative Role of Dopamine in the Evolution of Sexual Beauty
David Vanden Bout
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Chemistry Project Title: Molecules to Materials: Emergent Properties from Molecular Aggregation
Hans Hofmann
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: Repeatability of Social Evolution
Hiroshi Nishiyama
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Neurobiology Project Title: Cerebellar Contribution to Neocortical Development in Autism
Makkuni Jayaram
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Project Title: Targeted Therapy for DNA repair-defective Breast/Ovarian Cancers: an AAV-based Delivery System for Inducing Site-specific Chromosome Damage
Su Yeong Kim
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Human Ecology Project Title: Language Brokering and Health in Mexican American Adolecents
Steve Phelps
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: Epigenomics at a cross-roads: Enhancer function in defined circuits
D M Snodderly
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Neuroscience Project Title: Visual ecology of sympatric primates with different types of color vision
Sibum Sung
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Molecular Biosciences Project Title: Transcriptome analysis of the warmth-triggered response in Arabidopsis
Brett Baker
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Marine Science Project Title: Resolving microbial biogeochemical interactions on algal cell surfaces
Bradley J. Holliday
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project Title: Donor-Acceptor Block Copolymers to Model Charge Separation and Buried Interfaces in Organic Photovoltaic Active Layers
Timothy J. Loving
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Human Ecology Project Title: Disentangling Positive from Negative Stress Via Examination of Hormone Responses
Sean Thomas Arthur Roberts
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Chemistry Project Title: Using Surface Ligands to Electrically Wire Semiconducting Nanocrystals
Jaimie Davis
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Nutritional Sciences Project Title: Type 1 Diabetes Pilot Study: Understanding Barriers to Blood Glucose Control
Amber Hardison
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Marine Science Project Title: Nitrogen Cycling in Arctic Coastal Sediments
Christine V. Hawkes
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: Exploring the benefits of symbiotic fungal endophytes for plant drought tolerance