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September 2003, Vol. 13, No. 5 | Return to Table of Contents
Recent Gifts and Grants
George Frederick Jewett Foundation has provided a grant of $150,000 to support the capital improvements to the MBL WHOI Library and for upgrading the air conditioning in Lillie Auditorium.
Pfizer Inc renewed their funding with a grant of $75,000 to support the Molecular Mycology Current Approaches to Fungal Pathogenesis Course. This amount covers funding for the years 2001, 2002 and 2003.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provided a grant of $40,000 in support of an international workshop relating to the Census of Marine Life.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund has renewed its grant of $400,000 to support the Biology of Parasitism: Modern Approaches Course. This support is for the period 2003 to 2006.
The Grass Foundation awarded a grant to fund neuroscientists participating in the Albert and Ellen Grass Faculty Grant Program. The grant is $450,000 over three years beginning in summer 2003.
The Grass Foundation has renewed a grant for $45,000 to support the Neural Development and Genetics of Zebrafish Course for the years 2003 through 2005.
The Gruss Lipper Foundation provided a grant of $98,390 in support of the “Clam EST/Mini-Genome Project” to be undertaken at the MBL and at the American Technion Society.
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority awarded $200,545 (over two years; subawarding institution: Batelle Ocean Sciences) for “Harbor and Outfall Monitoring III.” Anne Giblin is the principal investigator.
The National Marine Fisheries Service awarded $211,615 for “Library Collection, Facility and Services at Northeast Fisheries Service Center, Woods Hole.” Cathy Norton is the principal investigator.
The Pfizer Foundation renewed a grant of $44,840 in support of the Living in the Microbial World and Life and Living Space Teacher Workshop in 2003.
The Society for Neuroscience, in collaboration with the International Brain Organization, awarded a grant of $40,000 to support the participation of foreign nationals in MBL Neurobiology Courses.
Japan Science and Technology Corp. awarded $212,184 (over two years; $86,800 first year) for “Joint Research Agreement.” Rudolof Odenbourg is the principal investigator.
The Nature Conservancy awarded $95,000 for “Hydrological Science to Support Biodiversity Conservation in Massachusetts.” Christopher Neill is the principal investigator.
USGS awarded $402,700 (over five years; $80,540 first Year) for “USGS/MBL Cooperative Agreement.” Cathy Norton is the principal investigator.
DOE awarded $226,285 for “Development of Metabolic Pathway Database for the Metal Reducing Bacterium, Shewanella oneidensis
MR-1.” Monica Riley is the principal investigator.
National Institutes of Health awarded the following grants:
• $1,569,375 for “Mitochondrial mRNA Editing in Trypanosomes.” Stephen Hajduk is the principal investigator.
• $810,000 (over five years; $162,000 first year) for “Neural Systems and Behavior.” Lenny Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
• $324,396 (over four years; $77,540 first year; subawarding institution: Boston Medical Center) for “Lipid modulation of b-cell calcium channels.” Stefan McDonough is the principal investigator.
• $252,945 for “3-D Image Restoration for Polarized Light Microscopy.” Rudolf Oldenbourg and Michael Shribak are the principal investigators.
• $228,927 for “Testing Molecular Evolutionary Consequences of Endosymbiosis.” Jennifer Wernegreen is the principal invstigator.
• $213,256 for “Frontiers in Reproduction Training Course and Symposium.” Asgerally Fazleabas is the principal investigator.
• $187,996 for the “Embryology Course.” Joel Rothman is the principal investigator.
• $156,494 for “Training in Professional Development for Neuroscience.” Joseph Martinez, Jr. is the principal investigator.
• $129,000 for “Training in Methods in Computational Neuroscience.” Lenny Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
• $119,807 for the “Neuroinformatics Course.” Partha Mitra is the principal investigator.
• $91,201 (subawarding institution: Washington University) for “Neural Mechanisms of Vestibular Function.” Roger Hanlon is the principal investigator.
• $52,780 for the “Neural Development and Genetics of Zebrafish Course.” Lenny Dawidowicz is the principal investigator
• $45,750 for the “Physiology: Cellular and Molecular Biology Course.” Lenny Dawidowicz is the principal investigator.
NIH-Small Business Innovation Research-SBIR (Subawarding Institution: Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc.) awarded $72,400 for “Real-Time PolScope Microscope for Live Cell Imaging.” Rudolf Oldenbourg is the principal investigator.
National Science Foundation awarded the following grants:
• $799,998 for “Aquatic Ecosystem Responses to Changes in the Environment of an Arctic Drainage Basin.” John Hobbie, Bruce Peterson, Anne Giblin, Linda Deegan, and Joseph Vallino are the principal investigators.
• $600,000 (over three years; $209,729 first year) for “Nitrogen Movement from Uplands to Streams in Forested and Deforested Tropical Watersheds.” Christopher Neill and Paul Steudler are the principal investigators.
• $485,054 (over two years; $256,733 first year) for “Collaborative Project: Digital Educational Resources in Microbial Ecology, Evolution and Diversity \DERMEED1\).” David Patterson is the principal investigator.
• $389,759 for “Biogeochemical Tracers in Arctic Rivers: Linking the Pan-Arctic Watershed to the Arctic Ocean.” Bruce Peterson and Robert Holmes are the principal investigators.
• $365,472 for “Physiological and Molecular Diversity of Atmoshperic CH4 Oxidizers in Soil.” Paul Steudler is the principal investigator.
• $352,863 for “Turnover and Retention of Nitrogen in an Artic Watershed: Links to Organic Matter Accumulation and Response to Climate.” Gaius Shaver, Anne Giblin, and Edward Rastetter are the principal investigators.
• $240,000 for “Controlled Environment Facilities for Examination of the Effects of Climate Change and Human Land Use on Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems.” Gaius Shaver, John Hobbie, Charles Hopkinson, and Joseph Vallino are the principal investigators.
• $118,846 (subawarding institution: University of Tennessee) for “IRCEB: Nitrate Uptake and Retention in Streams: Mechanisms and Effects of Human Disturbances from Stream Reaches to Landscapes.” Bruce Peterson is the principal investigator.
• $110,237 (over three years; first year $34,733) (subawarding institution: Columbia University) for “From Site to GCM Grid Box: Building Interactive Hierarchies of Data and Models to Assess Carbon Cycle and Climate Feedbacks Due to Agriculture and Forestry Practices in the Conterminous U.S. and China.” Jerry Melillo is the principal investigator.
• $101,872 for “Structure/Function Investigation of Gamma-Carboxyglutamic Acid-Containing Conotoxins.” Alan Rigby is the principal investigator.
• $85,297 for “Coevolutionary Relationships in a New Marine Symbiosis.” Mary Saffo is the principal investigator.
•$56,313 (subawarding institution: WHOI) for “Effects of Varying Freshwater Discharge on Nitrogen Dynamics in the Oligohaline Regions of Estuaries.” Anne Giblin is the principal investigator.
• $50,000 for “Support of a Charter Vessel for the Collection of Live Marine Organisims for Neurobiological Research.” Roger Hanlon is the principal investigator.
• $29,989 (subawarding Institution: Columbia University) for “BE/CBC: Land Water Interactions at the Catchment Scale: Linking Biogeochemistry and Hydrology.” John Hobbie and Edward Rastetter are the principal investigators.
NOAA awarded the following grants:
• $280,195 (over two years; $140,466 first year) for “Delineation of Critical Inshore Spawning Grounds for Commercially Valuable Squid Fisheries on the East and West Coasts of the USA.” Roger Hanlon is the principal investigator.
• $40,000 for “Amplified Detection of Microbial Contamination for Planetary Protection at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.” Norman Wainwright is the principal investigator.
NASA awarded the following grants:
• $395,520 for “Environmental Genomes and the Evolution of Complex Systems in Simple Organisms & Ecological Genomes.” Mitchell Sogin is the principal investigator.
• $256,891 for “Center for Advanced Studies in Space Life Sciences at the Marine Biological Laboratory.” Diana Jennings is the principal investigator.
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