Q2 Fiscal Year 2024-2025 Awards
( Updated quarterly )
| PI | Fellowship Recipient | Department | Project Title | Prime Sponsor | Sponsor | NIH Mechanism | Award Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Symons, Celia | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Trait-based recovery trajectories of prey communities following top predator removal | NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION | New | |||
| Plikus, Maksim | Developmental & Cell Biology | Collaborative Research: EDGE CMT: Shared genetic and cellular mechanisms of vertebrate limb and fin regeneration | NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION | New | |||
| Thompson, Leslie | Neurobiology & Behavior | CZI Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award Mentorship Program | SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | New | |||
| Sorte, Cascade | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need | U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES | New | |||
| Morrissette, Naomi | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | GAANN Graduate Fellowships for Training in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES | New | |||
| Treseder, Kathleen | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | The Buried Solution for Agricultural Resilience: How Can Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Improve Outcomes for Small Family Farms? | SILLS FAMILY FOUNDATION | BOSTON FOUNDATION, INC. | New |
Q2 Fiscal Year 2024-2025 Proposals
( Updated quarterly )
| PI | Department | Project Title | Prime Sponsor | Sponsor | NIH Mechanism | Proposal Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thompson, Leslie | Neurobiology & Behavior | CZI Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award Mentorship Program | SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE, LLC | New | |
| Whiteson, Katrine | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Bacteriophages, antibiotics, and small-molecule adjuvants against antibiotic resistant Stenotrophomonas maltophilia | NATIONAL CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | New | ||
| Daley, Monica | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Title TBD: Wireless measurement of muscle dynamics in nonsteady conditions | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY | New | |
| Nicholas, Dequina | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | SIDEP Travel Award 2024-2025 | JOHNSON & JOHNSON INNOVATION LLC | New | ||
| Gaut, Brandon | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | RESEARCH-PGR: Connecting Drought Response toGenetic Diversity across North American species ofthe model genus Vitis | NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION | New | ||
| Sato, Brian | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Student Perceptions of Faculty Practice, Affect and EBTs on Success | BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION | UC SAN DIEGO | New | |
| Blurton-Jones, Mathew | Neurobiology & Behavior | Examining the role of microglial-derived tau in Frontotemporal Dementia | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS | New | |
| Lane, Thomas | Neurobiology & Behavior | The effect of coronavirus infection of the central nervous system on Alzheimer's disease pathology | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| German, Donovan | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Increasing White Abalone Captive Production for Restoration | MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE | UC DAVIS | New | |
| Lodoen, Melissa | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | T. gondii effects on amyloid in human alzheimer's disease | INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOCIETY OF AMERICA | New | ||
| Wood, Marcelo | Neurobiology & Behavior | Role of CREST in cognitive aging | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Goulding, Celia | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Discovery and characterization of proteins required for Mycobacterium tuberculosis heme degradation. | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Atwood, Scott | Developmental & Cell Biology | Keratinocyte extrusion mediates tumor suppression | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Inlay, Matthew | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Ex vivo graft conditioning of human and mouse donor cells to address graft-versus-host disease and graft-versus-leukemia in xenogeneic and haploidentical transplantation | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Swarup, Vivek | Neurobiology & Behavior | Cross-species multiscale models of microglia's role in heterogeneous AD progression | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | New | |
| Swarup, Vivek | Neurobiology & Behavior | Deciphering Spatially resolved Oligodendrocyte Heterogeneityin Alzheimer's Disease | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Cho, Ken | Developmental & Cell Biology | Decoding ectodermal differentiation through single cell genomics | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Tinoco, Roberto | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | HMGB2 Chromatin Regulation of the Differentiation and Programming of Exhausted T Cells | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Kong, Mei | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Metabolic therapy for pseudomyxoma peritonei | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Suetterlin, Christine | Developmental & Cell Biology | Analysis of inclusion membrane microdomains in Chlamydia | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Halbrook, Christopher | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Uncovering the oncogenic Kras-regulated microproteome in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma | AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, INC. | New | ||
| Sun, Sha | Developmental & Cell Biology | Functional Analysis of XIST lncRNA in Ovarian Cancer- Insights into Cancer Stem Cell Maintenance and Therapeutic Implications | AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, INC. | New | ||
| Thompson, Leslie | Neurobiology & Behavior | TDP-43 aggregation and m6A methylation in Huntington's Disease | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Kong, Mei | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Using pioglitazone to treat colorectal cancer | AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, INC. | New | ||
| Kong, Mei | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Exploring the Role of Tumor-Derived Ketones in Cancer-Associated Cachexia | AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, INC. | New | ||
| Edinger, Aimee Lara | Developmental & Cell Biology | Improving oligonucleotide therapeutic delivery in cancer patients | AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, INC. | New | ||
| Plikus, Maksim | Developmental & Cell Biology | Leading Edge Propagation Mechanism of Human Keloid Scars | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | UC RIVERSIDE | New | |
| Atwood, Scott | Developmental & Cell Biology | Phosphoregulation of GLI1 processing and activity | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | Renewal | ||
| Thompson, Leslie | Neurobiology & Behavior | Common and distinct TDP-43 neuropathologies and mechanisms in Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Huntington's Disease (HD) | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Fowler, Christie | Neurobiology & Behavior | The impact of novel coolants on the addiction liability of nicotine products | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT | New | ||
| Thompson, Leslie | Neurobiology & Behavior | Post translational modifications as a therapeutic target for Huntington's Disease | A.P. GIANNINI FOUNDATION | New | ||
| Chrastil, Liz | Neurobiology & Behavior | Spatial navigation, sex hormones, and the aging brain | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | UC SANTA BARBARA | New | |
| Sumikawa, Katumi | Neurobiology & Behavior | Developmental nicotine exposure and epigenetic priming in reward-related neural circuits | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT | New | ||
| Swarup, Vivek | Neurobiology & Behavior | Exploring the Role of Elevated Microglial BIN1 Expression in Alzheimer's Disease Pathophysiology | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | New | |
| Mortazavi, Ali | Developmental & Cell Biology | Comparative analyses of RNA modifications during aging and disease | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Thompson, Leslie | Neurobiology & Behavior | Identify disease targets and perturbagens that modulate XDP-disease phenotypes with a pooled CRIPSRi screen combined with robotic microscopy and spatial transcriptomics using human postmortem brain tissues and human in vitro XDP cell models | THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION | New | ||
| Wood, Marcelo | Neurobiology & Behavior | Circuit and molecular mechanisms of reinstatement of cocaine seeking behavior | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Nie, Qing | Developmental & Cell Biology | Development of software for robust cell-cell communication analysis, representation, and visualization for single-cell and spatial omics data | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | New | |
| Hughes, Christopher | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Endothelial progenitor cells and neurovascular injury in the aging brain | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | New | |
| Swarup, Vivek | Neurobiology & Behavior | Advancing a lead vector for therapeutic gene-editing in Alzheimer's disease | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | UC SAN DIEGO | New | |
| Tinoco, Roberto | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Metabolic Regulation by SAPS3 of Virus-specific T cell Immunity | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Schilling, Thomas | Developmental & Cell Biology | Role and Regulation of Cellular Polarity in Craniofacial Skeletogenesis | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | Renewal | ||
| Wood, Marcelo | Neurobiology & Behavior | Investigating the interface of epigenetics and metabolism underlying memory formation in the adult and aging brain | A.P. GIANNINI FOUNDATION | New | ||
| Tinoco, Roberto | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Reversing myeloid cell PSGL-1 immune inhibitory pathways in melanoma | MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE | New | ||
| Blurton-Jones, Mathew | Neurobiology & Behavior | Deciphering mechanisms of protective microglial responses in AD | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION, INC. | New | ||
| Faiola, Celia | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Connecting ecologically driven changes in plant emissions to atmospheric chemistry and aerosol properties | DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY/MISCELLANEOUS OFFICES AND PROGRAMS | New | ||
| Cocco, Melanie | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Equipment: MRI: Acquisition of Helium Recovery Equipment: NMRs in UC Irvine Natural Sciences 1 | NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION | New | ||
| Green, Kim | Neurobiology & Behavior | Investigating the molecular mechanisms of the microglial Abi3S212F variant | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION, INC. | New | ||
| Symons, Celia | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | LTREB: Stability of a mountain lake meta-ecosystem under extreme spatial and temporal climate variability | NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION | UC SAN DIEGO | New | |
| Halbrook, Christopher | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Disrupting Myeloid Mitochondrial Metabolism in Pancreatic Cancer | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | Supplement | ||
| Lara Gonzalez, Pablo | Developmental & Cell Biology | Developmental regulation of the cell cycle machinery | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | Supplement | ||
| Fowler, Christie | Neurobiology & Behavior | Behavioral mechanisms and circuity underlying the effect of psilocybin as a treatment for nicotine addiction | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | New | |
| Lur, Gyorgy | Neurobiology & Behavior | Underlying mechanisms of stress-induced alterations of inhibitory control in the posterior parietal cortex | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Lane, Thomas | Neurobiology & Behavior | Cystatin F expression on microglia is critical for constraining demyelination following viral infection of the central nervous system | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Halbrook, Christopher | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Targeting Chemoresistance in Pancreatic Cancer | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Swarup, Vivek | Neurobiology & Behavior | Advancing a lead vector for therapeutic gene-editing in Alzheimer's disease | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | UC SAN DIEGO | New | |
| Grill, Joshua | Neurobiology & Behavior | The Alzheimer's Disease Tau Platform Clinical Trial (ATP) | NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING | UC SAN FRANCISCO | Renewal | |
| Yassa, Michael | Neurobiology & Behavior | AugMind: An Ultrabrief Digital Cognitive Screening for Memory Loss in Primary Care Settings | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | AUGNITION LABS LLC | New | |
| Schechtman, Eitan | Neurobiology & Behavior | Investigating the role of multi-sensory cueing in strengthening spatial memory representations during sleep, using an immersive virtual environment. | SLEEP RESEARCH SOCIETY FOUNDATION | New | ||
| Schilling, Thomas | Developmental & Cell Biology | The Role of Dlx5/6 in Early Cranial Neural Crest Migration and Fate Specification | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Tinoco, Roberto | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Revitalizing the Melanoma Immune Microenvironment by Inhibiting the PSGL-1 Pathway | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Mcnulty, Reginald | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Elucidating the structure and mechanism of NLRP3 Pyrin domain with oxidized DNA | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Whiteson, Katrine | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Identifying Therapeutic and Diagnostic Targets of Alzheimer's Disease through a Comparative Analysis of Mouse Models and Human Data | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Lane, Thomas | Neurobiology & Behavior | Evaluating the role of inflammatory myeloid cells on impacting amyloid-beta pathology during viral encephalitis. | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Wood, Marcelo | Neurobiology & Behavior | Investigating the interface between epigenetics and metabolismunderlying memory formation in the adult and aging brain | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Sun, Sha | Developmental & Cell Biology | Characterizing Xist expression in male white-footed deermouse (Peromyscus leucopus) | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Swarup, Vivek | Neurobiology & Behavior | Integrative Transcriptomic Profiling: Characterizing Cell-Type Specific Signatures in AD and AD subtyping | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Stark, Craig | Neurobiology & Behavior | Developing novel cognitive measure for diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Thompson-Peer, Katherine | Developmental & Cell Biology | The regulation of dendrite regeneration by the tissue environment: a focus on integrins and slit | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Fowler, Christie | Neurobiology & Behavior | Intersection of lynx cholinergic modulation and social behavior in alcohol drinking | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Schilling, Thomas | Developmental & Cell Biology | Investigating Gene Regulatory Differences Between Skeletal and Non-skeletal Tendon Attachment Development | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | New | ||
| Connor, Kwasi | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Molecular Anticipatory Responses in Facultative Anaerobic Mussels | NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION | New | ||
| Martiny, Adam | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Collaborative Research: Large-scale nutritional ecology of diverse phytoplankton | NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION | New | ||
| Razorenova, Olga | Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Mitochondrial Src activates OxPhos in triple-negative breast cancer | ELSA U. PARDEE FOUNDATION | New | ||
| Chrastil, Liz | Neurobiology & Behavior | Precision mapping of the maternal brain and perinatal depression | NIH/MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS | UC SANTA BARBARA | New |