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
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
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
Johann A. Hofmann
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: Neural and Genomic Basis of Social Cognition
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
Harold Hirsch Zakon
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Neuroscience Project Title: A putative novel ion channel in Plasmodium, the malaria parasite
Linda DeGraffenried
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Nutritional Sciences Project Title: Obesity and Reprogramming of Prostate Cancer
Aprile Dawn Benner
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Human Development and Family Sciences Project Title: Discrimination, Peer Relations, and Adolescents' Development
Guangbin Dong
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Project Title: Natural Product-Based Small-Molecule Libraries for Drug Discovery
Mourad Krifa
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Human Ecology Project Title: Electrically Conductive Polymer Nanocomposite Threads for Wearable Electronics
Richard John Meyer
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Project Title: Low specificity relaxases as agents of genomic change
Pablo Munguia
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Marine Science Project Title: Preliminary assessment of fiddler crab-bacterial interactions in estuarine ecosystems
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
Deana L. Erdner
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Marine Science Project Title: Effects of Freshwater Inflows on Plankton
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
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
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
Zhanfei Liu
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Marine Science Project Title: Microbial Degradation of the Deepwater Horizon Oil in Coastal Waters
Robert K. Jansen
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on Plant Diversification
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
Paul Marshall Macdonald
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology Project Title: Regulation of mRNA translation in trans
Sahotra Sarkar
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Integrative Biology Project Title: Invasive Fish Species Models for Texas
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
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
Lisa Griffin
College/School: College of Natural Sciences Department: Kinesiology and Health Education Project Title: Stimulation Patterns to Improve Endurance during Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation