Biology Faculty received over $3 million in grants!

Biology faculty have received well over $3 million in new federal grants and ARRA support during 2009!  These grants include

Janet Mann,

• “CDI-Type I: Understanding complex, dynamic, multi-relational networks,” from the National Science Foundation.
• “LTREB – Bottlenose Dolphin Reproduction,” from the National Science Foundation.
• “Methods & Algorithms for Gleaning Meaning,” from the Office of Naval Research.
• “SGER: Blow Sampling,” from the National Science Foundation.

Peter Armbruster

• and Dean Ali Whitmer, “Urban Sustainability and Push-Pull Drivers of Residential Change: Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and the Chesapeake Bay,” from the National Science Foundation.
• and Chris Elsik, “Massively parallel sequencing of a diapause transcriptome,” from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

Chris Elsik

• “Analyzing the Opossum Transcriptome,” from the National Institutes of Health.

Maria Donoghue

• “Control of Cerebral Cortical Proliferation,” from the National Science Foundation.

Steven Singer

• “MicroRNAs in Pathogenesis of Giardiasis,” from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

Ronda Rolfes

• “Genetic Control of Filamentation in Candida albicans,” from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

Matt Hamilton

• and Jim Baraniuk, Dept. of Medicine, “CNDP1 Polymorphisms and Carnosine Therapy in Gulf War Illness,” from the Department of Defense.
• and Jim Baraniuk, Dept. of Medicine, "Exertional Fatique in Gulf War Illness", from the Department of Defense.