Gifts & Grants

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded $1,215,100 for “The Rare Biosphere and the Human Habitat.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.

The American Society for Cell Biology renewed a grant of $14,060 for the ASCB scholarship awards for 2008, and awarded $5,000 for the Science Journalism Program.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $208,762 for the Biology of Aging course for 2008 and $365,768 for the 2008 Colloquium on the Biology of Aging.

The Estate of Laura Hunter Colwin bequeathed $4.85 Million to the MBL.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded $270,000 to support the design, planning, and cost estimates of the Loeb Laboratory renovation, and $30,000 for the Science Journalism Program.

L’oreal USA awarded $20,000 (current year funding) for “Microbial Ecology of Subseafloor Communities at Deep Sea Hydrothermal Sea.” Julie Huber, principal investigator.

Merck & Company Inc. awarded $25,000 for the Molecular Mycology course for 2008.

Neurofibromatosis Incorporated awarded $7,000 for “Effects of Pak1 inhibitors on growth of schwannomas in murine model of Neurofibromatosis.” Shanta Messerli, principal investigator.

NASA Awarded

• $114,385 (current year funding) for “The NASA Planetary Biology Internship Program.” Lynn Margulis, principal investigator.
• $101,680 (current year funding) for “From Early Biospheric Metabolisms to the Evolution of Complex Systems.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.

The National Science Foundation awarded

• $231,535 (current year funding) for “Collaborative Research: IPY: Arctic Great Rivers Observatory.” Bruce Peterson, principal investigator.
• $207,358 (current year funding) for “Collaborative Research: Molecular Genetics of Bdelloid Rotifers.” David Mark Welch, principal investigator.
• $200,000 (current year funding) for “Microbial Inventory Research Across Diverse Aquatic LTERs.” Linda Amaral Zettler, principal investigator.
• $134,469 (current year funding) for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health - Genomics Facility Core.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
• $126,044 (current year funding) for “Collaborative Research: Understanding the Scaling of N Cycle Controls Throughout a River Network.” Bruce Peterson, principal investigator.
• $100,000 (current year funding) for “Modeling Microbial Biogeochemistry in Permeable Reactive Barriers.” Dr. Joseph Vallino, principal investigator.
• $92,837 (current year funding) for “Plum Island Ecosystems LTER.” Anne Giblin, principal investigator.
• $72,230 (current year funding) for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health-Pilot Project.” Gary Borisy, principal investigator.
• $47,478 (current year funding) for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health - Parasite Project.” Linda Amaral Zettler, principal investigator.
• $25,167 (current year funding) for “Global Effects of Human and Terrestrial Interactions.” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.
• $25,000 (current year funding) for “Support of a vessel for the collection of live marine organisms for neurobiological research and educations.” Scott Lindell, principal investigator.
• $10,925 (current year funding) for “Collaborative Research: MIP: How Responsive are Bacterial Endosymbionts to Physiological and Ecological Variation in their Host Ants.” Jennifer Wernegreen, principal investigator.

The National Institutes of Health awarded

• $216,130 (current year funding) for “Embryology.” Lee Niswander, principal investigator.
• $207,221 (current year funding) for “BioCurrents Research Center.” Peter Smith, principal investigator.
• $206,166 (current year funding) for “Course on Fundamental Issues in Vision Research.” David Papermaster, principal investigator.
• $205,216 (current year funding) for “Frontiers in Reproduction Training Course and Symposium.” Mario Ascoli, principal investigator.
• $169,736 (current year funding) for “Training in Methods of Computational Neuroscience.” Lenny Dawidowicz, principal investigator.
• $150,000 (current year funding) for “Interdisciplinary Training in Quantitative Cell Biology (Physiology Course).” Ronald Vale, principal investigator.
• $107,853 (current year funding) for “Informatics for ApiDB/BRC.” Hilary Morrison, principal investigator.
• $91,991 (current year funding) for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health - Genomics Core.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
• $78,900 (current year funding) for “Lives of the infectious and the infected: benign and pathogenic symbiosis.” Mary Beth Saffo, principal investigator.
• $47,340 (current year funding) for “Development of New Automated Polarized Light Microscope.” Rudolf Oldenbourg, principal investigator.
• $40,062 for “Sequencing for Vincent Young.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
• $32,479 (current year funding) for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health - Parasite Project.” Linda Amaral Zettler, principal investigator.
• $22,816 (current year funding) for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health-Pilot Project.” Gary Borisy, principal investigator.
• $20,000 (current year funding) for “Molecular Mycology Summer Course.” Aaron Mitchell, principal investigator.

The United States Department of Agriculture awarded $66,483 (current year funding) for “Evaluation of Putatively QPX-resistant Strains of Northern Hard Clams Using Field and Genetic Studies.” Scott Lindell, principal investigator.


The U.S. Department of Energy awarded

• $124,121 (current year funding) for “Effects of soil warming on the carbon and nitrogen cycles and their interactions in temperate forests: implications for land-atmosphere feedbacks.” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.
• $45,000 (current year funding) for “Investigations into the Metabolic Diversity of Microorganisms as Part of Microbial Diversity.” Thomas Schmidt, principal investigator.