Tag: grant

Dr. Kocot awarded $840K NSF PurSUiT grant to study evolutionary history of the diverse peracarid crustaceans

March 25, 2024

Natatolana meridionalis (Isopoda). Photo by Emily McLaughlin.

Dr. Kocot’s proposal entitled “Collaborative Research: PurSUiT: A Backbone for the Peracarida” ($840,771) has been funded by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Environmental Biology and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). This collaborative project with lead PI Dr. Sarah Gerken (University of Alaska, Anchorage) and PI Dr. Regina Wetzer (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) was funded to support research on Poorly Sampled and Unknown Taxa (PurSUiT). “The PurSUiT category is meant to encourage biodiversity discovery […]

Dr. Brandon Kim awarded $447K NIH R15 grant to study impairment of the cerebral vasculature during bacterial meningitis

September 22, 2023

Effect of GBS infection on the efflux transporter P-glycoprotein (P-gp) in the brains of mice. Uninfected animals show expected P-gp expression co-localized with the blood vessel marker lectin (top). GBS infection results in a loss of P-gp in the cerebral vasculature where little to no P-gp is detected infected mouse brain (bottom).

Dr. Brandon Kim has been awarded a $447K NIH R15 grant to study impairment of the cerebral vasculature during bacterial meningitis. Bacterial meningitis is a serious life-threatening infection of the central nervous system that occurs when bacteria are able to cross the highly specialized cerebral vasculature and enter the brain. The cells that comprise the cerebral vasculature are collectively known as the blood-brain barrier and possess unique properties that ensure proper brain homeostasis while also restricting toxins and pathogens. Group […]

Drs. Benstead, Huryn, and Shogren awarded $990K NSF grant to study thermal compensation in stream ecosystems in response to drought

September 21, 2023

Drs. Benstead, Huryn, and Shogren’s research proposal entitled “Collaborative Research: NSFDEB-NERC: Warming’s silver lining? Thermal compensation at multiple levels of organization may promote stream ecosystem stability in response to drought” ($990,203) has been funded by the Nation Science Foundation. This collaborative NSFDEB-NERC project (with Wyatt Cross at Montana State) will combine laboratory measurements (University of Iceland), stream mesocosm manipulations of temperature and drought (University of Birmingham, U.K.), and whole-reach drought manipulations (Hengill geothermal catchment, Iceland) to test the overarching hypothesis […]

Drs. Staudhammer, Atkinson, Shogren, Starr, and Heinrich awarded $3M NSF grant for Woods to Water (W2W) training for the next generation of ecologists and natural resource managers

August 24, 2023

Image of a stream with trees in the background

Drs. Christie Staudhammer, Carla Atkinson, Arial Shogren, Greg Starr, and Kaleb Heinrich have been awarded an NSF-RaMP grant. This is a $3 million grant to train postbaccalaureates in field ecology, targeting participants who have been traditionally under-represented in ecology and natural resources. The team will be recruiting 3 cohorts of 10 students for year-long training that will occur at our local NEON sites and the Jones Center at Ichauway in southwest Georgia, with integrated classroom exercises and workshops. Units will […]

UA team including Dr. Lukasz Ciesla awarded NSF MRI grant for cryoprobe-equipped NMR spectrometer

August 27, 2019

This award is jointly funded by the Chemical Research Instrumentation (CRIF) program, the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), and the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program. Dr. Lukasz Ciesla from the Department of Biological Sciences and a team of researchers led by Dr. Paul Rupar from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry were awarded funds to acquire a 500 MHz NMR spectrometer equipped with a cryoprobe. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers measure the interaction of radio waves with a […]

Drs. Lozier and Fierst awarded NSF Rules of Life grant

August 26, 2019

Biological Sciences faculty Drs. Jeff Lozier and Janna Fierst were recently awarded a National Science Foundation Rules of Life grant entitled “Bumble bee cold tolerance across elevations – From epigenotype to phenotype across space, time, and levels of biological organization” (https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1921585&HistoricalAwards=false). The project is a collaboration with faculty at University of Wyoming and Ohio State University, with a total budget of ~$2.5 million. This project will focus on bumble bees in mountains of the western US to examine how organisms […]

Dr. Ciesla awarded NSF grant to study a novel magnetic separation method to isolate compounds for drug discovery

August 20, 2019

Natural products are rich in biologically active (bioactive) compounds and serve as great sources for drug discovery. One of the major challenges in screening drug leads from natural products is the lack of effective tools to identify and separate the bioactive compounds. This project with PI Dr. Yuping Baio (CBE) will develop and characterize a new magnetic separation approach based on cell membrane-encapsulated iron oxide superparticles (a cluster of nanoparticles) for the separation and identification of bioactive compounds from natural […]