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Gifts & Grants

The MBL has received a number of new gifts and peer-reviewed federal grants since LabNotes was last published:

W. M. Keck Foundation awarded a grant of $1,500,000 to enable MBL to acquire a parallel DNA sequencing system that will provide transformational support to the research efforts aimed at conducting a global census of marine microbes.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund awarded a grant of $481,950 for support of the Frontiers in Reproduction course from 2007 through 2009.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a grant of $40,000 to support a young scientist, Katherine Lenoir, for one year. She will be working as part of a recruiting effort for the new program for Underrepresented Groups in Environmental Science (URGES).

The Eppley Foundation for Research, Inc. awarded a grant of $25,000 to support Dr. Mary Beth Saffo’s research titled, “Coevolution of microbial and animal partners in a novel marine symbiosis.”

Nikon Instruments Inc. has awarded $25,000 in support of the Nikon Fellowship for the summer of 2006. This fellowship was awarded to Dr. Jonathon Pines who is a Senior Group Leader at the Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, UK.

The International Brain Research Organization through the joint Society for Neuroscience and National Academy of Sciences IAC-USNC/IBRO committee provided a grant of $24,870 to support the participation of foreign nationals in the MBL neurobiology courses.

The National Science Foundation made the following awards:

$58,360 (Year 2): “The Arctic LTER Project: Regional Variation in Ecosystem Processes and Landscape Linkages.” John Hobbie, Bruce Peterson, Gauis Shaver, and Edward Rastetter are lead investigators.
$56,219 (Year 2): “Synthesis and Scaling of Hydrologic and Biogeochemical Data on the North Slope and Coastal Zones of Alaska: A Basis for Studying Climate Change.” Bruce Peterson is the principal investigator.
$222,823 (Year 5): “Biogeochemical Tracers in Arctic Rivers: Linking the Pan-Arctic Watershed to the Arctic Ocean.” Bruce Peterson is the principal investigator.
$59,576 (Year 1 of new award): “Collaborative Research: Most Arctic Plants Obtain Nitrogen by Symbiosis with Fungi: Development of a Radical Concept Cooperative Project.” John Hobbie is the principal investigator.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration made the following awards:

$46,000: “LIDAR and Digital Photography for the Plum Island Estuary.” Charles Hopkinson is the principal investigator.
$51,430 (Year 3): “Application of the Leaf wax-Aerosol Method to Assess Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Carbon Isotopic Tractionation of Atmospheric CO2 by Terrestrial Photosynthesis.” Maureen Conte is the principal investigator.

NASA made the following awards:

$400,000 (Year 3): “From Early Biospheric Metabolisms to the Evolution of Complex Systems.” Mitchell Sogin is the principal investigator.
$124,877 (Year 3): “Linking Multi-scale Remotely Sensed Data, Field Observations and Biogeochemistry Models to Evaluate Changes in the Terrestrial Ecosystems of China.” Jerry Melillo, David Kicklighter, and Benjamin Felzer are the lead investigators.

The National Institutes of Health made the following awards in support of MBL courses:

$20,000 (Year 1 of new award): “Molecular Mycology Summer Course.” Aaron Mitchell is the principal investigator.
$163,185 (Year 7): “Training in Methods of Computational Neuroscience.” Eliezar Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
$130,914 (Year 5): “Neuroinformatics.” Partha Mitra is the principal investigator.
$154,770 (Year 1 of new award): “Training in Professional Development for Neuroscience.” Joseph Martinez, Jr., is the principal investigator.
$150,000 (Year 3): “Interdisciplinary Training in Quantitative Cell Biology (Physiology).” Ronald Vale is the principal investigator.