Congratulations! We are proud to announce that WFU Biology members have had the following proposals funded:
Dr. James Pease‘s proposal entitled “Collaborative Research: BEE: Bridging the ecology and evolution of East African Acacias across time and space: genomics, ecosystem, and diversification” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Miles Silman‘s proposal entitled “Advanced Sensing and Analysis to Support Protected Area Protection, Management, and Establishment” has been funded by the New Venture Fund.
Dr. Clifford Zeyl‘s proposal entitled “Evolutionary consequences of experimental transfer into yeast populations of an animal transposon” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Miles Silman‘s proposal entitled “CINCIA ACIERTA: Alliance for Science and Ecosystem Recovery” has been funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Emily Martin’s (graduate student in Dr. Gloria Muday‘s lab) proposal entitled “The role of ethylene signaling in root hair development in tomato” has been funded by the United States Department of Agriculture.
Dr. Miles Silman‘s proposal entitled “Collaborative Research: BEE: Impacts of abiotic environment, pathogen resistance and Pre-Columbian human management on Neotropical canopy palm abundances” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Gloria Muday and Dr. James Pease‘s proposal “RESEARCH-PGR: Genomic analysis of heat stress during tomato pollination” has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and by (subaward/subcontract from) Brown University.
Dr. Luis Fernandez‘s (research associate professor of biology) proposal entitled “PRO-Agua Project 2 – Enhancing the Use of Freshwater Ecosystem Services in Regional Land Use Planning in the Madre de Dios Basin” has been funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and by (subaward/subcontract from) Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.
Dr. Heather Brown-Harding‘s proposal entitled “Phenotype screens of Chlamydia Inclusions” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Regina Joice Cordy‘s proposal entitled “Investigating the role of redox environment on the function of erythroid cells” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) Augusta University.
Dr. Sarah Esstman‘s proposal entitled “Mapping Rotavirus Reassortment Restriction Determinants” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. T. Michael Anderson‘s proposal entitled “US-UK Collab: Transport and trophic effects of transient hosts on infectious disease” has been funded by the United States Department of Agriculture and by (subaward/subcontract from) the University of Georgia.
Dr. Miles Silman‘s proposal entitled “Virtual Science Fair in Madre de Dios, Peru” has been funded by the United States Department of State.
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