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Gifts and Grants
Burroughs Wellcome Fund has renewed its grant in the amount of $400,000 to support the course Biology of Parasitism: Modern Approaches. This support is for the period 2003 to 2006.
The Dart Foundation has contributed $64,200 to support Dart Fellowships in Learning and Memory for summer 2003. Three researchers will receive awards in this first year.
Department of Energy awarded $30,000 for “Investigations into the Metabolic Diversity of Microorganisms as Part of Microbial Diversity.” Caroline Harwood is the principal investigator.
The Grass Foundation awarded a grant to fund neuroscientists participating in the Albert and Ellen Grass Faculty Grant Program. The grant is in the amount of $450,000 over three years beginning in summer 2003.
The Grass Foundation has renewed a grant for $45,000 to support the Neural Development and Genetics of Zebrafish Course for the years 2003 through 2005.
The Gruss Lipper Foundation provided a grant in the amount of $98,390 in support of the “Clam EST/Mini-Genome Project” to be undertaken at the MBL and at the American Technion Society.
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority awarded $200,545 (over two years; subawarding institution: Batelle Ocean Sciences) for “Harbor and Outfall Monitoring III.” Anne Giblin is the principal investigator.
The National Marine Fisheries Service awarded $211,615 for “Library Collection, Facility and Services at Northeast Fisheries Service Center, Woods Hole.” Cathy Norton is the principal investigator.
The Pfizer Foundation renewed a grant in the amount of $44,840 in support of the Living in the Microbial World and Life and Living Space Teacher Workshops in 2003.
The Society for Neuroscience, in collaboration with the International Brain Organization, awarded a grant in the amount of $40,000 to support the participation of foreign nationals in MBL neurobiology courses.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded the following grants:
• $110,237 (over three years; first year $34,733) (Subawarding Institution: Columbia University) for “From Site to GCM Grid Box: Building Interactive Hierarchies of Data and Models to Assess Carbon Cycle and Climate Feedbacks Due to Agriculture and Forestry Practices in the Conterminous U.S. and China.” Jerry Melillo is the principal investigator.
• $56,313 (Subawarding Institution: WHOI) for “Effects of varying freshwater discharge on nitrogen dynamics in the oligohaline regions of estuaries.” Anne Giblin is the principal investigator.
• $52,591 (over two years) for “Resolving Population Structure with Molecular Genetics to Enhance Management of the Highly Exploited Squid Fishery [2nd Year].” Roger Hanlon is the principal investigator.
• $30,000 (Sub-awarding Institution WHOI) for “A Scanning Electron Microscopy Study of Epidemic Shell Disease of the American Lobster, Homarus americanus.” Roxanna Smolowitz and Andrea Hsu are the principal investigators.
• $52,780 for “Neural Development and Genetics of Zebrafish.” Lenny Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
NASA awarded the following grants:
• $197,916 (over three years); $62,781 (first year) for “Workshop on Molecular Evolution.” Michael Cummings is the principal investigator.
• $110,122 (over four years) for “Biogeochemical Consequences of Agricultural Intensification in the Amazon Basin.” Jerry Melillo is the principal investigator.
• $92,469 (over three years) for “The NASA Planetary Biology Internship Program.” Lynn Margulis is the principal investigator.
• $50,000 (over 2 years, Sub-awarding Institution: University of Alaska, Fairbanks) for “The Role of Land-Cover Change in High Latitude Ecosystems: Implications for Carbon Budgets in Northern North America.” Jerry Melillo and David Kicklighter are the principal investigators.
• $47,694 (over three years) for “Workshop on Molecular Evolution.” Michael Cummings is the principal investigator.
• $40,000 for “Amplified Detection of Microbial Contamination for Planetary Protection at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.” Norman Wainwright is the principal investigator.
• $31,000 for “The Role of Land-Cover Change in High Latitude Ecosystems: Implications for Carbon Budgets in Northern North America.” Jerry Melillo and David Kicklighter are the principal investigators.
The National Institutes of Health awarded the following grants:
• $1,569,375 for “Mitochondrial mRNA Editing in Trypanosomes.” Stephen Hajduk is the principal investigator.
• $742,479 (over five years; first year $139,926) for “Neurobiology Summer Course.” Lenny Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
• $235,229 (over three years) for “Characterization of the Giardia lamblia Transcriptome.” Andrew McArthur is the principal investigator.
• $213,256 for “Frontiers in Reproduction Training Course and Symposium.” Asgerally Fazleabas is the principal investigator.
• $189,943 (over two years) for “Logistical and Technical Support for NINDS at the Marine Biological Laboratory.” Thomas Reese is the principal investigator.
• $1,743,750 (over five years); $348,750 (first year) for “Trypanosome Lysis by Human Haptoglobin Related Protein.” Stephen Hajduk is the principal investigator.
• $1,478,996 (over five years; $275,000 first year) for “Professional Services in Support of NLM’s Outreach Efforts to Encourage the Use of Computers and Information Science in Medicine.” Cathy Norton is the principal investigator.
• $941,565 for the “Biocurrents Research Center.” Peter Smith is the principal investigator.
• $310,000 (over 2 years) for “PCBs Target p53 Family Expression in Embryos.” Carol Reinisch is the principal investigator.
• $310,000 (over three years; $155,000 first year) for “Role of Islet Structure and Function in Insulin Release.” Peter Smith is the principal investigator.
• $187,996 for the “Embryology Course.” Joel Rothman is the principal investigator.
• $156,494 for “Training in Professional Development for Neuroscience.” Joseph Martinez, Jr. is the principal investigator.
• $155,000 (over two years; $77,500 first year) for “Origin of Virulence Factors in African Trypanosomes.” Andrew McArthur is the principal investigator.
• NIH-Small Business Innovation Research-SBIR (Subawarding Institution: Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc.) awarded $72,400 for “Real-Time PolScope Microscope for Live Cell Imaging.” Rudolf Oldenbourg is the principal investigator.
The National Science Foundation awarded the following grants:
• $799,998 for “Aquatic Ecosystem Responses to Changes in the Environment of an Arctic Drainage Basin.” John Hobbie, Bruce Peterson, Anne Giblin, Linda Deegan, and Joseph Vallino are the principal investigators.
• $700,000 for “LTER: Plum Island Sound Comparative Ecosystem Study (PISCES): Effects of Changing Land Cover, Climate and Sea Level on Estuarine Trophic Dynamics.” Chuck Hopkinson, John Hobbie, Bruce Peterson, Anne Giblin, Linda Deegan, and Joseph Vallino are the principal investigators.
• $365,472 for “Physiological and Molecular Diversity of Atmoshperic CH4 Oxidizers in Soil.” Paul Steudler is the principal investigator.
• $192,105 (over 2 years) for “Molecular Genetic Studies of Bdelloid Rotifers.” Matthew Meselson and David Mark Welch are the principal investigators.
• $167,414 for “Distinguishing the Evolutionary Mechanisms Shaping Endosymbiont Genomes.” Jennifer Wernegreen is the principal investigator.
• $143,334 for “Species, Community and Ecosystsem-Level Consequences of the Interactions Among Multiple Resources.” Edward Rastetter and Gaius Shaver are the principal investigators.
• $119,956 (over four years; Subawarding institution: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; $29,989 first year) for “BE/CBC: Land Water Interactions at the Catchment Scale: Linking Biogeochemistry and Hydrology.” John Hobbie is the principal investigator.
• $101,872 for “Structure/Function Investigation of Gamma-Carboxyglutamic Acid-Containing Conotoxins.” Alan Rigby is the principal investigator.
• $94,141 for the “Workshop on Molecular Evolution.” Michael Cummings is the principal investigator.
• $75,000 for “Molecular Approaches to Microbial Biodiversity aka Microbial Diversity Course.” Caroline Harwood is the principal investigator.
• $52,000 for “The Arctic LTER Project: The Future Characteristics of Arctic Communities, Ecosystems, and Landscapes.” John Hobbie, Bruce Peterson, and Gaius Shaver (REU Program) are the principal investigators.
• $52,000 for “LTER: Plum Island Sound Comparative Ecosystem Study (PISCES): Effects of Changing Land Cover, Climate and Sea Level on Estuarine Trophic Dynamics.” Charles Hopkinson, John Hobbie, Bruce Peterson, Anne Giblin, Linda Deegan, and Joseph Vallino (REU Program) are the principal investigators. |
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