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Gifts & Grants

Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded $725,225 to support the precollege science education program that has been developed by Dr. Seth Bordenstein and entitled “Wolbachia Project: Discovering the Microbes Within!”

American Association for the Advancement of Science awarded $40,000 to Dr. Julie Huber on behalf of the L’Oreal USA Fellowships for Women in Science program. Julie Huber is an Assistant Scientist in the Bay Paul Center.

The American Society for Cell Biology provided a grant of $21,300 to support minority students attending the MBL’s summer courses in 2007.

The National Institutes of Health awarded:

$85,880 (current year funding) for the Centers for Oceans & Human Health/Genomics Core. Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
$30,544 (current year funding) for the Centers for Oceans & Human Health/Parasite Project. Linda Amaral Zettler, principal investigator.
$47,976 (current year funding) for the Centers for Oceans & Human Health/Pilot Projects. Gary Borisy, principal investigator.
$157,642 (current year funding) for the Neurobiology Summer Course. Lenny Dawidowicz, principal investigator.
$617,014 (new 3-year award) for the Frontiers in Reproduction course. Mario Ascoli, principal investigator.
$157,302 (current year funding) for the Neural Systems and Behavior course. Lenny Dawidowicz, principal investigator.
$1,104,875 (new 5-year award) for the Embryology course. Lee Niswander, principal investigator.
$1,190,600 (new 5-year award) for the Logistical & Technical Support of the NINDS program at the MBL. Thomas Reese, principal investigator.
$1,420,200 (new 4-year award) for the project "Function and Pharmacology of Schistosome Multidrug Resistance Proteins." Robert Greenberg, principal investigator.

The National Science Foundation awarded:

$820,000 (current year funding) in support of the Plum Island Ecosystem LTER project. Chuck Hopkinson, principal investigator.
$202,498 (current year funding) in support of a project titled “Collaborative Research: Molecular Genetic Studies. Bdelloid Rotifers.” David Mark Welch, principal investigator.
$9,845 (current year funding) in support of a Research Experience for Undergraduates supplement to the project "Collaborative Research: MIP: How Responsive are Bacterial Endosymbionts?" Jennifer Wernegreen, principal investigator.
$52,899 (current year funding) in support of a project titled “Synthesis & Scaling of Hydrologic & Biogeochemical Data” Bruce Peterson, principal investigator.
$97,842 (current year funding) in support of incorporating genomics into the MBL Microbial Diversity Course. Thomas Schmidt, principal investigator.
$230,530 (new 3-year award) in support of the project “IPY: Bacterioplankton Genomic Adaptations to Antarctic Winter.” Hugh Ducklow, principal investigator.

NASA awarded:

$165,922 (current year funding)in support of the project "Land-atmosphere exchanges of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide associated with agricultural expansion in the Brazilian Amazon." Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.

The Environmental Protection Agency awarded a new one-year grant of $50,000 in support of the project "Calibration of Multiple Element Limitation model for C,N,P.” Edward Rastetter, principal investigator.

The Office of Naval Research awarded $168,660 in support of the project “Reflective Light Modulation by Cephalopods in Shallow Nearshore.” Roger Hanlon, principal investigator.

The National Library of Medicine awarded $316,619 (current year funding) to encourage the use of computers and information science in medicine. Cathy Norton, principal investigator.