OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Steve Phelps

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Neurobiology of Climate Change

2024

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

2023

Linda DeGraffenried

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Nutritional Sciences
Project Title: Flotillin-1 and Breast Cancer

2022

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

2022

Molly Cummings

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Coping Styles and the Brain

2021

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

2020

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

2019

Michael Drew

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Neuroscience
Project Title: Hippocampal Mechanisms of Fear Extinction and Relapse

2018

Harold Zakon

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Neuroscience
Project Title: Evolution of a Temperature-sensitive Ion Channel in Antarctic “Icefish”

2018

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

2018

David Vanden Bout

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Chemistry
Project Title: Molecules to Materials: Emergent Properties from Molecular Aggregation

2017

Hans Hofmann

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Repeatability of Social Evolution

2017

Hiroshi Nishiyama

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Neurobiology
Project Title: Cerebellar Contribution to Neocortical Development in Autism

2017

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

2016

Su Yeong Kim

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Human Ecology
Project Title: Language Brokering and Health in Mexican American Adolecents

2016

Steve Phelps

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Epigenomics at a cross-roads: Enhancer function in defined circuits

2016

D M Snodderly

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Neuroscience
Project Title: Visual ecology of sympatric primates with different types of color vision

2016

Sibum Sung

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Molecular Biosciences
Project Title: Transcriptome analysis of the warmth-triggered response in Arabidopsis

2016

Brett Baker

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Marine Science
Project Title: Resolving microbial biogeochemical interactions on algal cell surfaces

2015

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

2015

Timothy J. Loving

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Human Ecology
Project Title: Disentangling Positive from Negative Stress Via Examination of Hormone Responses

2015

Sean Thomas Arthur Roberts

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Chemistry
Project Title: Using Surface Ligands to Electrically Wire Semiconducting Nanocrystals

2015

Jaimie Davis

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Nutritional Sciences
Project Title: Type 1 Diabetes Pilot Study: Understanding Barriers to Blood Glucose Control

2014

Amber Hardison

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Marine Science
Project Title: Nitrogen Cycling in Arctic Coastal Sediments

2014

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

2014