Gifts & Grants

Awarded June 5 to October 8, 2009


The American Society for Cell Biology awarded $15,000 for the American Society for Cell Biology Summer Research Awards.

Porter W. Anderson gave $188,800 to support the Center for Molecular Evolution Endowment.

Anonymous gave $28,000 to support the Women in Ecological Science Fund.

The Arthur Vining Davis Foundation awarded $150,000 to support the Semester in Environmental Science.

The Cabot Family Charitable Trust awarded $50,000 to support the Shinya and Sylvia Inoué Endowment for Cellular Dynamics Imaging.

Frank M. and Julie S. Child gave $98,213 to support the Shinya and Sylvia Inoué Endowment for Cellular Dynamics Imaging.

The Ellison Foundation awarded:
$430,017 for the Colloquium on the Biology of Aging
$226,192 (current year funding) for “Aging in Bdelloid Rotifers.” Matthew Meselson, principal investigator.

The Estate of Margery J. Milne gave $42,857 to support the Lorus J. and Margery J. Milne Scholarship.

Futaba Koike gave $500,000 to support the Shinya and Sylvia Inoué Endowment for Cellular Dynamics Imaging

Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded $30,000 to support the Science Journalism Program.

MacArthur Foundation awarded:

• $1,476,624 (current year funding) for “EOL Biodiversity Informatics.” David Patterson, principal investigator.

NASA awarded:

• $213,772 for “Leaping to land- Physiology and phylogenetics of desert green algae.” Zoe Cardon, principal investigator.
• $87,922 for “Oases for Life and Pre- Biotic Chemistry: Hydrothermal Exploration using Underwater Robotics.” Julie Huber, principal investigator.
• $70,000 (current year funding) for “Changes of Land Cover and Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Northern Eurasia: Impacts on Human Adaptation and Quality of Life at Regional and Global Scales.” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.
• $32,878 for “The NASA Planetary Biology Internship Program.” Lynn Margulis, principal investigator.

The National Institutes of Health awarded:

• $475,825 (current year funding) for “Combinatorial Imaging of the Oral Microbiome.” Gary Borisy, principal investigator.
• $468,980 (current year funding) for “Advanced Optical Methods in Cell Biology.” Rudolf Oldenbourg, principal investigator.
• $452,558 (current year funding) for “BioCurrents Research Center (aka Mechanisms of Cisplatin Resistance in Ovarian Cancer).” Peter Smith,
• $401,250 (current year funding) for “Regenerative Biology Center at the MBL.” Gary Borisy, principal investigator.
• $388,833 for “Mechanisms and Consequences of Deleterious Evolution in Bacteria.” Jennifer Wernegreen, principal investigator.
• $344,308 for “Enhancing Organism Based Disease Knowledge via Name Based Taxonomic Intelligence.” Neil Sarkar, principal investigator.
• $336,005 (current year funding) for “Professional Services in Support of NLM's Outreach Efforts to Encourage the Use of Computers and Information Science in Medicine.” Cathy Norton, principal investigator.
• $309,810 (current year funding) for “Rediscovery of the Nucleolinus.” Mark Alliegro, principal investigator.
• $278,811 for “Synaptic Determinants of Vestibular Afferent Dynamics.” Stephen Highstein, principal investigator.
• $219,472 for the Embryology course. Lee A. Niswander, principal investigator.
• $205,216 for Frontiers in Reproduction Training Course and Symposium. Mario Ascoli, principal investigator.
• $176,486 for Training in Methods of Computational Neuroscience. William Reznikoff, principal investigator.
• $171,417 for Neurobiology Summer Course. E. A. Dawidowicz, principal investigator.
• $150,000 for Interdisciplinary Training in Quantitative Cell Biology (Physiology Course). Ron Vale, principal investigator.
• $144,265 for Neuroinformatics course. Partha P. Mitra, principal investigator.
• $144,141 for “Training in Professional Development for Neuroscience.” Joseph Martinez, principal investigator.
• $129,859 for “Microbial community profiling of sewage contamination in the Great Lakes.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
• $117,000 (current year funding) for Stem Cells and Regeneration Course. Gerald P. Schatten, principal investigator.
• $81,114 for “Biomechanics of the Semicircular Canals.” Stephen Highstein, principal investigator.
• $52,434 for Neural Development and Genetics of Zebrafish course. E. A. Dawidowicz, principal investigator.
• $32,337 for “Micro-Electric Spectroscopy of Hair Cells.” Stephen Highstein, principal investigator.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded:

• $105,438 for “Training Facility/Center for Recurring Training of Fisheries Observers.” David Potter, principal investigator.
• $47,071 for “Salt marsh dieback in Cape Cod: Possible mechanisms.” Ivan Valiela, principal investigator.
• $39,487 for “New Strategies for Mussel Farming in Southern New England.” Scott Lindell, principal investigator.
• $18,828 for “Developing Genetic Fingerprinting Techniques in Lobster Seeding Trials.” Gabriele Gerlach, principal investigator.

The National Science Foundation awarded:

• $940,000 for “Palmer, Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research Project.” Hugh Ducklow, principal investigator.
• $486,993 (current year funding) for “Collaborative Research: Shifting seasonality of Arctic river hydrology alters key biotic linkages among aquatic systems.” Linda Deegan, principal investigator.
• $276,655 (current year funding) for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
• $250,252 (current year funding) for “Collaborative Research: Molecular Genetic Studies of Bdellod Rotifers at Harvard.” David Mark Welch, principal investigator.
• $225,000 for “Mobile Genetic Elements in Sexual and Ancient Asexual Taxa.” Irina Arkhipova, principal investigator.
• $211,000 for “Collaborative Research: Interacting controls on ecosystem function: nutrient state and omnivory in salt marsh ecosystems.” Linda Deegan, principal investigator.
• $196,509 for “Plum Island Ecosystems LTER.” Anne Giblin, principal investigator.
• $180,301 (current year funding) for “Collaborative Research: Environmental controls on anammox and denitrification in marine and estuarine sediments.” Joseph Vallino, principal investigator.
• $154,289 (current year funding) for “ETBC: Feedbacks between nutrients enrichment and intertidal substrates: erosion, stabilization, and landscape evolution.” Linda Deegan, principal investigator.
• $138,091 (current year funding) for “Collaborative Research: Function, Activity, and Adaptation of Microbial Communities to Geochemically Diverse Subseafloor Habitats.” Julie Huber, principal investigator.
• $134,915 (current year funding) for “Collaborative Research onboard Oden: ASPIRE (Amundsen Sea Polynya International Research Expedition).” Hugh Ducklow, principal investigator.
• $133,777 (current year funding) for “Light-Transduction in Melanopsin-Expressing Photoreceptors of Amphioxus: Mechanistic Analysis and Evolutionary Implications.” Maria del Pilar Gomez, principal investigator.
• $99,879 for “Effects of lengthening growing season and increasing temperature on soil carbon fluxes and stocks in Arctic tundra.” James Tang, principal investigator.
• $86,572 (current year funding) for “Collaborative Research: Using Biogeochemical and Genetic Tools to Unravel the Environmental Controls of Nitrogen Fixation and Denitrification in Heterotrophic Marine Sediments.” Anne Giblin, principal investigator.
• $83,859 for “Plum Island Ecosystems LTER.” Anne Giblin, principal investigator.
• $65,000 for “The Arctic LTER Project: Regional Variation in Ecosystem Processes and Landscape Link.” John Hobbie, principal investigator.
• $58,328 (current year funding) for “The Changing Seasonality of Tundra Nutrient Cycling: Implications for Ecosystem and Arctic System Functioning.” Edward Rastetter, principal investigator.
• $55,095 for “Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization (CAMEO): Steering Committee Meeting and Program Office Support.” Linda Deegan, principal investigator.
• $50,892 (current year funding) for “MRI-Consortium: Development of a Multimode Microscope for Imaging Structure and Dynamics of Soft Materials.” Rudolf Oldenbourg, principal investigator.
• $50,250 (current year funding) for “MSB: Single Cell Ecology - Developing a New Paradigm for the Microbial Diversity Course of the Marine Biological Laboratory.” Daniel Buckley, principal investigator.
• $35,000 for “Palmer, Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research Project.” Hugh Ducklow, principal investigator.

The Nature Conservancy awarded $30,000 for “Herring Creek Restoration Project.” Chris Neill, principal investigator.

The Sloan Foundation awarded $410,000 for “International Census of Marine Microbes.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.

Melvin and Evelyn Spiegel gave $10,000 to support the Shinya and Sylvia Inoué Endowment for Cellular Dynamics Imaging.

U.S. Army Research Office awarded:

• $130,000 (current year funding) for “Analysis and Mimicry of Cephalopod Chromatophores for Adaptive Color Arrays.” Roger Hanlon, Principal Investigator.
• $100,000 for “Bio-Inspired Visual Information Processing and Dynamically Tunable Multispectral IR Detection: Learning From the Octopus.” Roger Hanlon, Principal Investigator.

U.S. Department of Defense awarded $227,958 (current year funding) for “Proteinaceous Light Diffusers and Dynamic3D Skin Texture in Cephalopods.” Roger Hanlon, Principal Investigator.

U.S. Department of Energy awarded:

• $97,406 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 for “Investigations into the Metabolic Diversity of Microorganisms as Part of Microbial Diversity.” Thomas Schmidt, principal investigator.
• $27,763 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.

U.S. Geological Survey awarded:

• $68,900 for “USGS Non-Competitive Assistance - Eastern Region.” Cathy Norton, principal investigator.
• $16,000 for “Nutrient analyses for USGS project in Fire Island National Seashore.” Ivan Valiela, principal investigator.

Washington and Jefferson College awarded $15,272 to support the Edwin S. Linton Scholarship Fund.

The Winkler Family Foundation awarded $25,000 to support the Education Program.