OVPR Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Research & Creative Grant Recipients

Keji Lai

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Physics
Project Title: Probing Vortices in Ferroelectrics: A Table-top Playground for Topological Sciences

2013

Jeffrey Evan Barrick

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Molecular Biosciences
Project Title: Probing the molecular specificity of natural competence in Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1

2013

Laura Lee Colgin

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Neuroscience
Project Title: Distinct mnemonic functions of fast and slow gamma rhythms in the hippocampus

2013

Johann A. Hofmann

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Neural and Genomic Basis of Social Cognition

2013

Michael John Rose

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Chemistry
Project Title: Atomic Layer Deposition of Catalytic Materials on a Hybrid Molecular/ Materials Substrate: a Solar Fuels Device

2013

Harold Hirsch Zakon

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Neuroscience
Project Title: A putative novel ion channel in Plasmodium, the malaria parasite

2013

Linda DeGraffenried

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Nutritional Sciences
Project Title: Obesity and Reprogramming of Prostate Cancer

2012

Aprile Dawn Benner

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Human Development and Family Sciences
Project Title: Discrimination, Peer Relations, and Adolescents' Development

2012

Guangbin Dong

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project Title: Natural Product-Based Small-Molecule Libraries for Drug Discovery

2012

Mourad Krifa

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Human Ecology
Project Title: Electrically Conductive Polymer Nanocomposite Threads for Wearable Electronics

2012

Richard John Meyer

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Project Title: Low specificity relaxases as agents of genomic change

2012

Pablo Munguia

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Marine Science
Project Title: Preliminary assessment of fiddler crab-bacterial interactions in estuarine ecosystems

2012

David Cannatella

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Next Generation DNA Technology meets the "Lost World": Using NextGen sequencing for Evolutionary Studies of Endangered Frogs

2011

Deana L. Erdner

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Marine Science
Project Title: Effects of Freshwater Inflows on Plankton

2011

Mona C. Mehdy

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
Project Title: Studies of a Cell Wall Protein Mutant in Arabidopsis may Identify a Novel Drought Resistance Mechanism and Developmental Pathway

2011

Benjamin Dwaine Walther

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Marine Science
Project Title: Validating the use of geochemical signals in fish scales to reconstruct migration patterns

2011

Katherine A. Willets

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project Title: Development of functionalized atomic force microscopy probes for scanning surface enhanced Raman microscopy

2011

Zhanfei Liu

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Marine Science
Project Title: Microbial Degradation of the Deepwater Horizon Oil in Coastal Waters

2010

Robert K. Jansen

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on Plant Diversification

2010

Mathew A. Leibold

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Spanning levels of organization from genes to ecosystems: Gene regulatory networks of ecologically-important traits in the waterflea

2010

Paul Marshall Macdonald

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology
Project Title: Regulation of mRNA translation in trans

2010

Sahotra Sarkar

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Invasive Fish Species Models for Texas

2010

Gerald Christopher Shank

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Marine Science
Project Title: Environmental factors controlling dissolution of organic carbon from salt marsh sediments

2010

Christine V. Hawkes

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Integrative Biology
Project Title: Resilience in Soil Microbial Communities Along Environmental Gradients in Tropical Rain Forests

2009

Lisa Griffin

College/School: College of Natural Sciences
Department: Kinesiology and Health Education
Project Title: Stimulation Patterns to Improve Endurance during Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation

2009