The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $739,453 for the continued support of the Molecular Biology of Aging course from 2005 through 2007. They also contributed $89,542 for the Biology of Parasitism course, the Molecular Biology of Aging course, and the Global Infectious Diseases Colloquium.

The G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation renewed its grant of $350,000 in support of the Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, for the program to develop marine models for biomedical research in the MRC, and to support veterinary services at the MBL.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded $166,000 to support the MBLWHOI Library uBio Project, specifically the development of NameBank, which promises to be an outstanding resource to scientists, libraries, and other information centers.

Foundation for Research in Cell Biology and Cancer made a commitment of $100,000 in support of the Whitman Building Renovation.

John E. Fetzer Foundation, Inc. awarded $59,824 in support of Lionel Jaffe’s research project titled “Reinvestigation of the Thallus Effect.”

The Cox Foundation, Inc. made a contribution of $50,000 to the MBL Annual Fund.

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded the following grants:

• $216,645 (over 3 years; $69,717 first year; subawarding institution: University of Georgia) for “Heterotrophic Soil Respiration in Warming Experiments: Using Microbial Indicators to Partition Contributions from Labile and Recalcitrant Soil Organic Carbon.” Jerry Melillo is the principal investigator.
• $165,000 (year 3; subawarding institution: Harvard University) for “Soil Warming and Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks to the Climate System.” Jerry Melillo and Paul Steudler are the lead investigators.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded $951,593 (year 2) for “From Early Biospheric Metabolisms to the Evolution of Complex Systems.” Mitch Sogin, Jennifer Wernegreen, Linda Amaral Zettler, Monica Riley, and Norman Wainwright are the lead investigators.

The National Institutes of Health awarded the following grants:

• $6,488,249 (over 5 years: $1,578,606 first year) for the “Biocurrents Research Center.” Peter Smith and Mark Messerli are the lead investigators.
• $411,767 (Equipment Grant) for “AB 373XL, 96 Cap DNA Analyzer.” Mitchell Sogin is the principal investigator.
• $348,750 (year 21) for “Mitochondrial mRNA Editing in Trypanosomes.” Steve Hajduk is the principal investigator.
• $176,079 (over 5 years; $32,359 first year; subawarding institution: University of Texas/Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas) “Bioinformatics Resource Centers for Biodefense and Emerging/
  Re-emerging Infectious Disease.” Hilary Morrison is the principal investigator.
• $156,134 (year 2; subawarding institution: CRI, Inc.) for “Real-Time PolScope Microscope for Live Cell Imaging.” (SBIR Phase II Award.) Rudolf Oldenbourg and Michael Shribak are the lead investigators.
• $153,450 (year 2; subawarding institution: Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center) for “Membrane Proteins in Blood Coagulation.” Bruce Furie is the principal investigator.
• $94,462 (year 2; subawarding institution: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health – Genomics Core.” Mitchell Sogin and Hilary Morrison are the lead investigators.
• $50,984 (year 2; subawarding institution: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health – Pilot Project.” Steve Hajduk is the principal investigator.
• $40,000 “E. coli Annotation Workshop.” Monica Riley is the principal investigator.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded $209,397 (over 2 years; $140,000 first year; subawarding institution: University of New Hampshire) for “Effectiveness of Reactive Barriers for Reducing N-Loading to the Coastal Zone.” Joseph Vallino and Kenneth Foreman are the lead investigators.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the following grants:

• $4,920,000 (over 6 years: $820,000 first year) for “The Arctic LTER Project: Regional Variation in Ecosystem Processes and Landscape Linkages.” John Hobbie, Bruce Peterson, and Gaius Shaver are the lead investigators.
• $900,000 (over 3 years: $300,000 first year) for “Loss and Retention of Nitrogen in an Artic Landscape: Key Pathways and Process Regulation.” Gaius Shaver, Anne Giblin, and Edward Rastetter are the lead investigators.
• $582,169 (over 5 years; $131,216 first year; subawarding institution: Cornell University) for “Nonlinear Feedbacks in Coupled Element Cycles During Eutrophication of Shallow Coastal Ecosystems.” Anne Giblin and Kenneth Foreman are the lead investigators.
• $228,321 (year 2) for “Collaborative Project: Digital Educational Resources in Microbial Ecology, Evolution and Diversity.” David Patterson is the principal investigator.
• $224,586 (year 4; subawarding institution: MIT) for “BIOCOMPLEXITY: Feedbacks Between Ecosystems and the Climate System.” Jerry Melillo and Hanqin Tian are the lead investigators.
• $194,835 (over 3 years; $45,600 first year; subawarding institution: Smith College) for “AToL: Collaborative Research – Reconstructing Eukaryotic Phylogeny through Multigene Analyses of Microbial Eukaryotes.” David Patterson is the principal investigator.
• $127,183 (over 5 years; $9,616 first year; subawarding institution: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) for “Collaborative Research: Microbial Observatory in the Cariaco Basin – Dynamics of Protistan Diversity Across Time, Space, and Chemical Gradients.” David Patterson is the principal investigator.
• $57,695 (year 2; subawarding institution: Georgia Institute of Technology) for “Land-Water Interactions at the Catchment Scale: Linking Biogeochemistry and Hydrology.” John Hobbie and Edward Rastetter are the lead investigators.

The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation awarded $63,600 for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health-Pilot Project.” Robert Greenberg is the principal investigator.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded $61,595 (year 2; subawarding institution: Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center) “Development of Diagnostic and Management Techniques to Select Cod Broodstocks and Hatchery Stocks Free from Nodavirus.” Steven Roberts and Scott Lindell are the lead investigators.