Gifts & Grants Highlights

Spring - Summer 2010

American Diabetes Association awarded $245,751 for “Beta Cell Anaplerotic Pathways and Insulin Secretion.” Emma Heart, principal investigator.

Anonymous pledged $50,000 to Education Endowment and pledged $50,000 to the Annual Fund.

Mr. and Mrs. David Bakalar pledged $200,000 to the Bakalar Endowed Director’s Discretionary Fund and $2,500 to the Annual Fund.

Dr. Millicent Bell pledged $6,000,000 to support the Eugene Bell Center of Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund awarded $681,392 to support the Biology of Parasitism Fund and $12,000 to support the Frontiers in Reproduction Fund.

The Clowes Fund, Inc. awarded $250,000 to support the Semester in Environmental Science General Endowment.

DARPA awarded $408,125 (current year funding) for “Cephalopod Inspired Adaptive Photonic Systems (CINSPSE).” Roger Hanlon, principal investigator.

The Ellison Medical Foundation awarded $187,996 to support the Ellison’s Colloquia.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded $1,000,000 for “Graduate Science Education Program.” Gary Borisy, principal investigator.

Mr. and Mrs. H.F. Lenfest gave $250,000 to the Director’s Discretionary Fund and $25,000 to the Annual Fund.

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded $2,321,636 to support the Encyclopedia of Life.

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awarded $184,246 (current year funding) for “Microbial Diversity Summer Course.” William Reznikoff, principal investigator.

Massachusetts Water Resources Authority awarded 254,868 for “Harbor and Outfall Monitoring: Bethic Fluxes.” Anne Giblin, principal investigator.

NASA awarded $144,748 for “Oases for Life and Pre- Biotic Chemistry: Hydrothermal Exploration using Underwater Robotics.” Julie Huber, principal investigator.

National Institutes of Health awarded:

• $1,535,812 (current year funding) for “Live cell, high speed and resolution, spectral confocal microscope.” Peter Smith, principal investigator.
• $674,178 (current year funding) for “National Xenopus Resource Center.” Robert Grainger, principal investigator.
• $562,204 for “Advanced Optical Methods in Cell Biology.’ Rudolf Oldenbourg, principal investigator.
• $475,471 for “Combinatorial Imaging of the Oral Microbiome.” Gary Borisy, principal investigator.
• $453,827 for “Synaptic Determinants of Vestibular Afferent Dynamics.” Stephen Highstein, principal investigator.
• $336,172 “Toxic Metals in the Northeast: Biological to Environmental Implications.” Joshua Hamilton, principal investigator.
• $314,655 for “Rediscovery of the Nucleolinus.” Mark Alliegro, principal investigator.
• $269,691 for “Validation and Development of Trypanosomal Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors for Treatment of Sleeping Sickness.” Bruce Campbell, principal investigator.
• $223,795 for the Embryology course. Lee Niswander, principal investigator.
• $217,178 for the Neural Systems and Behavior course. William Reznikoff, principal investigator.
• $210,587 (current year funding) for the Frontiers in Reproduction course. Mario Ascoli,
• $178,795 for the Neurobiology course. William Reznikoff, principal investigator.
• $178,000 for “Logistical and Technical Support for NINDS at the Marine Biological Laboratory (NINDS).” Thomas Reese, principal investigator.
• $150,000 for “Interdisciplinary Training in Quantitative Cell Biology (Physiology Course).” Dyche Mullins, principal investigator.
• $145,698 for the Neuroinformatics course. Partha Mitra,
• $142,932 for “Training in Professional Development for Neuroscience.” Joseph Martinez, principal investigator.
• $110,000 for the Stem Cells and Regeneration Course. Gerald Schatten, principal investigator.
• $101,083 (current year funding) for “Geographical variability in human microbial community signatures and correlation with viral loads during storm events.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.

National Library of Medicine awarded $240,000 for “Professional Services in Support of NLM's Outreach Efforts to Encourage the Use of Computers and Information Science in Medicine.” Catherine Norton, principal investigator.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded $111,082 (current year funding) for “Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization (CAMEO): Program Office Support and Steering Committee.” Linda Deegan, principal investigator.

National Science Foundation awarded:

• $940,000 for “Palmer, Antarctica Long Term Ecological Research Project.” Hugh Ducklow, principal investigator.
• $548,090 for “MRI: Acquisition of an Illumina GAIIx for Genomics and Microbial Ecology.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
• $410,913 for “Collaborative Research: Shifting seasonality of Arctic river hydrology alters key biotic linkages among aquatic systems.” Linda Deegan, principal investigator.
• $403,735 for “The Data Conservancy (A Digital Research and Curation Virtual Organization).” David Patterson, principal investigator.
• $319,993 for “Canopy Structure and CO2 Exchange of Arctic Vegetation: Key Constraints on Change and Predictability of the Arctic System.” Gaius Shaver, principal investigator.
• $309,875 for “Collaborative Research: Effects to tropical watershed deforestation on mangrove ecosystem function and services.” Ivan Valiela, principal investigator.
• $290,557 for “Expanding visualization and analysis tools for comparative microbial ecology.” Susan Huse, principal investigator.
• $285,972 for “Fire in the Arctic Landscape: Impacts, Interactions and Links to Global and Regional Environmental Change.” Gaius Shaver, principal investigator.
• $285,691 for “The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health.” Mitchell Sogin, principal investigator.
• $252,401 for “Theory: Biological Systems Organize to Maximize Entropy Production Subject to Information and Biophysiochemical Constraints.” Joseph Vallino, Julie Huber, principal investigators.
• $249,748 for “Collaborative Research: Molecular Genetic Studies of Bdellod Rotifers at Harvard.” David Mark Welch, principal investigator.
• $232,000 for “Mobile Genetic Elements in Sexual and Ancient Asexual Taxa.” Irina Arkhipova, principal investigator.
• $217,827 for “Collaborative Research: IPY: Arctic Great Rivers Observatory.” Bruce Peterson, principal investigator.
• $213,806 for “Collaborative Research: Environmental controls on anammox and denitrification in marine and estuarine sediments.” Joseph Vallino, principal investigator.
• $210,000 for “Collaborative Research: Interacting controls on ecosystem function: nutrient state and omnivory in salt marsh ecosystems (TIDE).” Linda Deegan, principal investigator.
• $194,426 for “ETBC: Feedbacks between nutrients enrichment and intertidal substrates: erosion, stabilization, and landscape evolution.” Linda Deegan, principal investigator.
• $176,362 for “Collaborative Research: Function, Activity, and Adaptation of Microbial Communities to Geochemically Diverse Subseafloor Habitats/” Julie Huber, principal investigator.
• $149,211 for “EAGER: Differentiating Heterotrophic and Root Respiration Through Concurrent Measurement of CO2 and O2 Fluxes in Soils.” Jianwu Tang, principal investigator.
• $133,777 for “Light-Transduction in Melanopsin-Expressing Photoreceptors of Amphioxus: Mechanistic Analysis and Evolutionary Implications.” Maria del Pilar Gomez, principal investigator.
• $130,355 for “Plum Island Ecosystems LTER.” Anne Giblin, principal investigator.
• $123,000 for “The Arctic LTER Project: Regional Variation in Ecosystem Processes and Landscape Linkages.” John Hobbie, principal investigator.
• $117,178 for “REU Site: Biological Discovery in Woods Hole.” Allen Mensinger, principal investigator.
• $113,514 (current year funding) for “MSM Collaborative Research: Agricultural expansion in the Brazilian Amazon and Its Influence on the Water, Energy and Climate Status.” Christopher Neill, principal investigator.
• $103,107 for “Collaborative Research: Using Biogeochemical and Genetic Tools to Unravel the Environmental Controls of Nitrogen Fixation and Denitrification in Heterotrophic Marine Sediments.” Linda Deegan, principal investigator.
• $100,000 for “Modeling Microbial Biogeochemistry in Permeable Reactive Barriers.” Joseph Vallino, principal investigator.

Mr. Saul Pannel and Ms. Sally Currier pledged $250,000 to the Annual Fund.

Ms. Alice Shure gave $100,000 to support the Summer Fellows in Neuroscience.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation pledged $450,000 to support the International Census of Marine Microbes.

United States Army Research Laboratory awarded $130,000 for “Analysis and Mimicry of Cephalopod Chromatophores for Adaptive Color Arrays.” Roger Hanlon, principal investigator.

United States Department of Defense awarded $237,242 for “Proteinaceous Light Diffusers and Dynamic3D Skin Texture in Cephalopods.” Roger Hanlon, principal investigator.

United States Department of Energy awarded:

• $458,005 for “Effects of warming on tree species’ recruitment in deciduous forests of the eastern United States.” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.
• $150,000 (current year funding) for “Biological Systems Interactions: Foundational Scientific Focus Area for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.” Margrethe Serres, principal investigator.
• $140,000 for “Impacts of Climate Change on Biofuels Production.” Jerry Melillo, principal investigator.
• $126,309 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.