Recent Department Grants
2009
2009-2010 National Research Service Awards for Individual Senior Fellows (F33): “Investigation of iron acquisition genes in Sodalis glossinidius using new tools” (Runyen-Janecky)
2009 Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust Award “Lipid Modulation of A-Type Potassium Channels.” (Boland)
2009 Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust Award “Development of a ‘Model Sponge System’ to Study the Evolution of Early Animal Body Plans and Sensory Systems.” (A. Hill)
2008
2008-2011 National Institutes of Health: “Finding polyglutamine disease and rescue mechanisms using proteomic analysis” (Warrick)
2008-2013 National Science Foundation, “Assembling the Tree of Life: The Porifera Tree of Life Project.” (A. Hill and M. Hill)
2008-2011 National Science Foundation UBM-Group: “Studying Cell Response to Input Signals as the Basis for Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates in Biological and Mathematical Sciences” (Runyen-Janecky and Lipan)
2007
2007-2009 Commonwealth Health Research Board Research Award: “Investigating the role of two component regulatory systems in Shigella virulence” Grant was funded but declined. (Runyen-Janecky)
2007-2010 National Institutes of Health Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15): “Role of Shigella two component regulation systems in intracellular adaptation” (Runyen-Janecky)
2007-2010 National Institutes of Health: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; 1K22: “Nutritional and endocrine control of mosquito egg development” (Telang)
2007-2010 National Science Foundation, "RUI: Stability and structure of temperate and tropical marine sponge symbiont communities in response to climate change" (J. Dattelbaum, A. Hill, M. Hill)
2007-2010 National Science Foundation Environmental Genomics Grant: “Ecological genomics of drought adaptation in Mimulus.” (Wu)
2007-2008 Thomas F. Jeffress and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust, “Lipid Modulation of A-Type Potassium Channels” (Boland)
2007-2008 Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust Award “Development of a ‘Model Sponge System’ to Study the Evolution of Early Animal Body Plans and Sensory Systems.” (A. Hill)
2007-2009 Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust Award "Nematode community structure and trophic interactions in agricultural soils amended with cover crops" (Treonis)
2007-2009 Thomas F. Jeffress and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust Award: “Characterization of Intracellular Adaptation Genes in the Tsetse Fly Secondary Endosymbiont Sodalis glossinidius” (Runyen-Janecky)
2006
2006 Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust Award: “CREB-binding protein modulation in a Drosophila model of MJD and the role of chaperones” (Warrick)
2005
2005Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust Award: “CREB-binding protein modulation in a Drosophila model of MJD and the role of chaperones” (Warrick)
2004
2004-2007 National Institutes of Health Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15): “Virulence role and regulation of the Shigella suf genes” (Runyen-Janecky)
2004 Thomas F. and Kate Miller Jeffress Memorial Trust Award: “CREB-binding protein modulation in a Drosophila model of MJD and the role of chaperones” (Warrick)
2003
2003 Nebraska EPSCoR "Small Grant Program for Nebraska Women in Science" (Treonis)
2003-2005 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: “Genetic and ecophysiological consequences of hybridization between Ipomopsis aggregata and I. tenuituba.” (Wu)
