Grants by Field

The following list of grant projects engaged the Genomics Center to further their research efforts.

BioMedical

Stephen Carper
Natural and alternative treatments that regulate stress protein expression — significance in breast cancer cell lines and tumor outcomes, CDMRP, $1,796,629, Jan. 1, 2006–Dec. 31, 2008

Ron Gary
Title: “Senescence Signaling Through p53” PHS 2590 form (INBRE grant renewal, noncompeting)
PI of subaward project: R. Gary, project title as above
Overall INBRE PI: Lee Weber, UNR
Agency: INBRE (Idea Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence)
NIH role: PI
Term: June 2006–May 2007 (year two of INBRE)
Total award amount: $136,000 in direct costs to individual investigator subproject (to PI R. Gary) for year two of INBRE


Molecular Biology and BioInformatics

Q.J. Shen
The mechanism of a rice WRKY gene in suppressing gibberellin responses in aleurone cells, USDA, $317,807, July 1, 2007–June 30, 2010
WRKY transcription factors that regulate plant responses to drought stress: tools to aid plant productivity enhancement, USDA, $349,783, July 1, 2007–June 30, 2010
Is the GA signaling network a universal mechanism controlling plant seed germination? NSF Plant Genome, $1,150,219, July 1, 2006–June 30, 2009

Helen Wing
National Institutes of Health: National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease
“Exploring the roles and regulation of the Shigella protease,” July 1, 2007–June 30, 2009, $275,000


Physiology

Frank van Breukelen
2005–2010 National Science Foundation, DBI-0448396
Career: Protein metabolism in hibernators ($745,000, PI)
2005–2007 National Institutes of Health IDeA: Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence, 2 P20 RR016464 Ischemia in hibernators ($140,000 direct costs/year, one of six invited investigators from Nevada participating in the $17,267,463 grant, PI Lee Weber)
2004–2007 National Science Foundation, DBI-0421519
MRI: Acquisition of microarray instrumentation and a high throughput capillary sequencer for biological research (NSF funds $246,458, total project cost $353,336, PI)

James Raymond
Collaborative research: Function and diversity of ice-binding proteins in Antarctic sea ice diatoms, March 1, 2007–March 1, 2010, $167,000

J. Williams
Granting Agency: NIH
Specific institute: NIAMS (National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)
Grant type: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA)
Application ID: 1F32AR055033-01
Award document number: FAR055033A
Priority score: 151
Title: The effect of oxidative stress on muscle damage and functional senescence

Steve Roberts and Michelle Elekonich
Effect of Age, Behavioral Development and Activity on Honey Bee
Senescence and Tissue Damage, NSF, January 2007–January 2010, $663,862

Allen Gibbs and D. Hoshizaki
2007–2010 National Science Foundation, $518,846, Energetic Homeostasis During Metamorphosis, Co-PI with D.K. Hoshizaki (PI)
2007–2010 National Science Foundation, ~$800,000, Environmental Genomics of a Model Desert Organism, PI with W.E. Etges (co-PI)