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Gifts & Grants

An anonymous donor awarded a gift of $1,500,000 to establish the Women in Ecological Science Quasi-Endowed Fund at the MBL. Ecosystems Senior Scientist, Dr. Zoe G. Cardon, is the initial recipient of this support.

The Bay and Paul Foundations awarded a one-to-one challenge grant of $1,000,000 for endowment of the Faculty Support Fund at the Josephine Bay Paul Center (payable over 5 years).

Burroughs Wellcome Fund awarded $291,000 for the Course “Physiology: Modern Cell Biology Using Microscopic, Biochemical and Computational Approaches” (2008-2010); $6,000 for the Frontiers in Reproduction symposium; and, $325,000 to support the Molecular Mycology course for 2009-2011.

Keith R. Porter Endowment for Cell Biology awarded $60,000 to support the Shinya and Sylvia Inoue Endowment for Cellular Dynamics Imaging.

The Department of Energy awarded:

$847,224 (current year funding) for “Effects of warming on tree species’ recruitment in deciduous forests of the eastern United States.” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.
$245,574 (current year funding) for “Integrated Genome-Based Studies of Shewanella ecoPhysiology.” Gretta Serres, principal investigator.

The Environmental Protection Agency awarded $98,989 for “Pyrosequencing of Metagenomic DNA and PCR Products.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.

The Hubbard Brook Research Foundation awarded $10,000 for “Land use change, carbon offsets, and carbon sequestration: A case study in Essex and Middlesex Counties, MA.” Christopher Neill, principal investigator.

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awarded $35,000 for “The Deep Subsuface Biosphere at North Pond: A Mid-Atlantic Ridge Microbial Observatory.” Julie Huber, principal investigator.

NASA awarded:

$333,060 (current year funding) for “From Early Biospheric Metabolisms to the Evolution of Complex Systems.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
$110,920 (current year funding) for “The NASA Planetary Biology Internship Program.” Lynn Margulis, principal investigator.
$8,568 (current year funding) for “Further Tests on a Modeling Framework to Detect and Analyze Changes in Land-to-Coastal Fluxes.” Bruce Peterson, principal investigator.

The National Institute of Health awarded:

$920,978 (current year funding) for “BioCurrents Research Center.” Peter Smith, principal investigator.
$450,864 (current year funding) for “Development of New Automated Polarized Light Microscope.” Rudolf Oldenbourg, principal investigator.
$356,069 (current year funding) for “Orientation Independent DIC and Polarization Microscopy.” Michael Shribak, principal investigator.
$217,433 (current year funding) for “Logistical and Technical Support for NINDS at the Marine Biological Laboratory (NINDS).” Thomas Reese, principal investigator.
$98,271 (current year funding) for “Molecular Evolution of Eukaryotes: a protistan emphasis.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
$81,951 for “Informatics for ApiDB/BRC.” Hilary Morrison, principal investigator.
$74,767 (YR 3 of 3) for “Cloning and Analysis of Centrosome-Associated RNA.” Mark Alliegro, principal investigator.
$31,560 (current year funding) for “Meiotic genes in sexual and asexual rotifers.” David Mark Welch, principal investigator.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded $48,885 (current year funding) for “The Spread of Lobster Shell Disease: Genetic and Social Barriers.” Gabi Gerlach, principal investigator.

The National Science Foundation awarded:

$475,000 for “Bacteriophages in endosymbiotic bacteria.” Seth Bordenstein, principal investigator.
$323,773 (current year funding) for “IPY: Collaborative Research on Carbon, Water, and Energy Balance of the Arctic Landscape at Flagship Observatories and in a PanArctic Network.” Gaius Shaver, principal investigator.
$300,000 for “Modeling microbial biogeochemistry in permeable reactive barriers.” Joseph Vallino and Kenneth Foreman, principal investigators.
$200,000 for “SGER: The Anaktuvuk River Fire of 2007: A Test Bid for NEON Technology and Protocols in Northern Alaska (2nd SGER Proposal).” Gaius Shaver, principal investigator.
$115,000 (current year funding) for “Molecular mechanisms of light-signaling in a novel lineage of ciliated photoreceptors.” Enrico Nasi, principal investigator.
$16,162 (supplemental funding) for “Mobile Genetic Elements in Sexual and Ancient Asexual Taxa.” Irina Arkhipova, principal investigator.
$15,000 (current year funding) for “LTER: PALMER ANTARCTICA LTER: Climate Change, Ecosystem Migration and Teleconnections in an Ice-Dominated Environment.” Hugh Ducklow, principal investigator.

Society for Developmental Biology, Inc. awarded $20,000 for the Embryology course for the years 2008-2009.

The United States Geological Survey awarded $66,250 (current year funding) for “USGS Non-Competitive Assistance- Eastern Region.” Cathy Norton, principal investigator.