ORP Core Facilities Pilot Program

ORP CORE FACILITIES PILOT PROGRAM

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Award Cycle: Quarterly
Limit on Proposals per PI: An individual may participate as PI on one ORP Core Facilities Pilot Program (CFPP) proposal per cycle. 
Limit on Awards per PI: An individual may not have more than two active ORP CFPP awards at a given time. PIs with recruitment or retention awards for use of ORP Core Facilities are ineligible for CFPP funding to use ORP Cores until other funds are depleted.
Proposal Due Dates: First Wednesday of the business day
     Next Deadline is May 7, 2025
Applications: Accepted through Arizona Cultivate
Earliest Start Date: Three weeks after quarterly due date
Award Period: One year from award date; extensions will not be granted. 

     *NOTE: Funds are only available for one year from date of award. If an award has not been expended within 12 months, the remaining balance will expire and the recipient will need to reapply for a new award.

Description: The ORP CFPP is designed to support three key types of activity within the ORP-managed core facilities. Each CFPP proposal will be evaluated on scientific merit and feasibility, and should focus on one or more of the following activity types:

  1. The development of new methods or techniques that would extend the standard operating procedures and capabilities of ORP-managed core facilities and potentially impact multiple UA researchers. Successful projects will result in new methods or techniques which will be disseminated to the UA research community via the core’s website, and be incorporated into the core’s standard operating procedures and capabilities.
  2. The acquisition of preliminary data needed for extramural proposals. Successful projects will result in at least one new extramural research proposal. PIs must note the specific extramural funding opportunity announcement for which they plan to submit and their anticipated submission date along with their CFPP application.  A full justification of the anticipated studies is required.
  3. The technical training of students conducting research under existing extramural funding. Successful projects will result in student researchers with the technical skills to operate equipment safely, efficiently and independently within the core facility(ies). PIs should note the student(s) to be trained, the core(s) in which they will be trained, the equipment on which they are to be trained, and the funding source under which the student’s research project is funded. Proposals to train students from traditionally marginalized groups will be given funding priority.

PIs should request funding commensurate with the resources necessary to complete the aims of their proposal and the rates for those resources within the relevant core facility(ies). Most awards will be capped at approximately $10,000, although well-justified projects may be awarded funding above this level. NOTE: It is REQUIRED that CFPP proposals and their budgets be developed with the assistance of the relevant core facility manager(s). Funding provided under the CFPP may only be spent within ORP-managed core facilities (see list of eligible facilities below). CFPP funds may not be used to procure specialty materials or chemicals -- these funds are for utilization of instruments and staff time within the eligible facilities.

Please provide proper attribution to the relevant core(s) and the CFPP program if funding results in publications, presentations, successful grant applications, technologies, or other products.

List of eligible facilities:

  1. Analytical and Biological Mass Spectrometry
  2. AZ Genetics Core
  3. Arizona Genomics Institute
  4. AZ Molecular Clinical Core
  5. BIO5 Genetically Engineered Mouse Models (GEMM) Core
  6. Flow Cytometry and Human Immune Monitoring Shared Resource (BD LSR II Cell Analyzer, BD FACSARIA III Cell Sorter, BD FASCCanto II Cell Analyzer, BD LSR Fortessa Cell Analyzer, ThermoFisher Attune Cell Analyzer, Amnis ImageStreamX Mk II Imaging Flow Cytometer)
  7. Functional Genomics Core
  8. Imaging Cores - Electron
  9. Imaging Cores - Optical
  10. Machining and Welding Center
  11. Micro/Nano Fabrication Center
  12. Translational Bioimaging Resource

Proposal preparation, submission, and processing information is available in the ORP Proposal Preparation Guide (PPG) - v10, which is downloadable in the Arizona Cultivate competition. The PPG includes requirements for the project narrative and supplemental documents; it is strongly encouraged that interested applicants read the PPG in full as proposals that do not match the PPG will be returned without review.

Solicitation Specific Information:

  • PI Eligibility: Postdoctoral scholars are able to apply as PI on type 1 (new methods or techniques) and 3 (student training) proposals.
  • Budget: Only use of one of the Core Facilities listed above should be included in the proposal budget. Student support, additional supplies, etc., are not eligible expenses for this grant. It is REQUIRED that CFPP proposals and their budgets be developed with the assistance of the relevant core facility manager(s).
  • Review: Review of the Core Facilities Pilot Program grants will be conducted in an expedited manner and may consist of review by one or more members of the ORP-managed core facility’s advisory committee members. Unlike other Research Advancement Grants, limited or no feedback will be provided to applicants of the Core Facilities Pilot Program.

 

Questions? Email resdev@arizona.edu

Last updated: October 21, 2024

AWARDEES

May 2024

  • Anand Tanya, Medicine, Surgery, Metabolomic Markers in Endotheliopathy of Trauma in older versus younger trauma patients
  • Chiang Jing-Tzyh Alan, Medicine, Medical Imaging, Evaluation of quantitative and contrast-free MR pulse sequences for imaging breast cancers and nodal metastases
  • Combrink Leigh, CALES, SNRE, Avian Microbiomes as Biomarkers for Wildlife and Ecosystem Health
  • Funk Janet, Medicine, Medicine, Targeting estrogen receptor signaling to halt ER+ breast cancer progression in bone
  • Hammer Michael, Bio5, Neurology, Sex Differences of Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Epilepsy
  • Horton Nancy, Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology, (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2710-8284)
  • Kazui Toshinobu, COM-T, Surgery, Genetic basis of Atrial fibrillation
  • Koshy Anita, Medicine, Neurology, Engineering a clonal Dre Reporter cell line
  • Lai Tzu yin, College of Science, Psychology, Neural basis of metaphor and embodiment
  • Rhodes Katherine, Medicine, Immunobiology, Neisseria community structure and host epithelial interaction
  • Sutphin George, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Automated preparation of custom single-worm culture environments
  • Warfel Noel, COM, CMM, Synthetic lethal screening to target chronic hypoxia

February 2024

  • Badyaev Alexander, Science, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Population genomic inference on demographic histories, population subdivision and migration
  • Cartmell Christopher, Medicine, Pharmacology, Development of a 1536 High-throughput Screening of a Natural Product Library to Identify Novel Ligands for Orphan GPR63 and 153
  • Cusanovich Darren, Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Generation of a conditional Glo2 knockout mouse
  • Daryaei Iman, Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Detection of HER2 Biomarker by Pretargeted ImmunoPET
  • Dickinson Sally, Medicine, Pharmacology, Gene editing of mouse Pd-l1 to “rescue” a knockout model for skin cancer research
  • Duckworth Renee, CoS, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Identifying the epigenetic pathways linking a stress-induced maternal effect and offspring behavior
  • Goyal Ravi, College of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Changes in Hippocampus Vasculome with Aging
  • Ismail Khaled, Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Developing a new method to analyze microglial phagocytic activity in the context of Alzheimer's disease
  • Ledford Julie, Medicine, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Generation of an Scgb1a1 knockout mouse
  • Meredith Laura, College of Agricultural Environmental and Life Sciences, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Using gene expression to track “soil memory” and adaptation effects of microbial community shifts in the consumption of volatile organic compounds in soil
  • Miller Julie E, Science, Neuroscience, Healthy and pathological signatures of alpha-synuclein in the zebra finch brain
  • Morrison Helena, Nursing, Advanced Nursing Practice and Science Division, Development of photoacoustic and MRI methods to detect foam cell accumulation in the brain after ischemic stroke
  • Sawyer Travis, Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Multiphoton imaging combined with deep learning for classification and grading of pancreatic cancer
  • Sweedo Alice, Medicine, Physiology, Role of host intestinal cell estrogen-dependent expression response to microbial metabolites in menopausal risk for cardiovascular disease
  • Zhou Chi, CALES, SACBS, Role of miR146a-5p in preeclampsia-impaired fetal endothelial function in obese pregnancies

November 2023

  • Arnold Anne (Betsy), Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences, School of Plant Sciences, Metabolomics to detect signatures of life at Llullaillaco, a Mars analog environment
  • Bhattacharya Martha, Science, Neuroscience, Detecting Mitochondrial Transfer Between Neurons and Glia In Vivo
  • Blackwood Erik, College of Medicine - Phoenix, Internal Medicine, Novel Roles for IRE1 in Regulating Cardiac Fibrosis
  • Cartmell Christopher, Medicine, Pharmacology, Development of a Microfluidic, High-Throughput Screening Platform for Drug Discovery
  • Johnson Michael, Medicine, Immunobiology, Cell Free ChIP-SEQ
  • Kielar Aneta, Science, SLHS, Interaction between the BDNF genotype and treatment response to noninvasive brain stimulation in the language variant of Alzheimer's disease.
  • Legan Andrew, College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences, Entomology, Whole genome and transcriptome sequencing of tarantula hawk wasps
  • Melandri Giovanni, CALES, School of Plant Sciences, Identification of gene targets for improving rice antioxidant capacity under drought through DNA sequencing of accessions with contrasting phenotypes
  • Moore Wendy, The College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences, Department of Entomology, Visualizing Bacteria in the Ant-nest Beetle Paussus favieri
  • Pond Kelvin, College of Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Isolation of Bioengineered Human Organoids for Signaling Dynamics
  • Singh Simar, Medicine, Department of Medicine, Macrophage Assessment for Immunoregulatory Therapeutics
  • Smith Catharine, College of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Understanding the Complex Transcriptional Roles of Lysine Deacetylases Through Next Generation Sequencing Methods
  • Sun Jindi, College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, The Fabrication of Hydrogel Mold with Sub-Micro Precision
  • Woodson Jesse, CALES, School of Plant Sciences, Quantification of the level of reactive oxygen species needed to induce chloroplast retrograde signaling
  • Yao Guang, Science, Mol/Cell Biology, High-Throughput Screening to Uncover Triggers of a Novel Quiescence-to-Senescence Dimmer Transition for Future Therapeutic Intervention in Cellular Aging
  • Zhou Chi, CALES, SACBS, Role of circulating immune cells in heat stress-induced fetal growth restriction

August 2023

  • Anand, Tanya, Medicine, Surgery, Glycocalyx Shedding in Injured Older Adults versus Younger Adults
  • Bartlett, Mitchell, College of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Novel, non-invasive imaging of glymphatic and lymphatic flow in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
  • Blackwood, Erik, College of Medicine - Phoenix, Internal Medicine, Roles for SGK1 in Cardiometabolic Health Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Associated Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
  • Charest, Pascale, Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Identifying the protein expression and signaling profiles associated with the distinct KRAS mutant states in lung cancer cells
  • Galligan, James, Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Generation of an inducible Glod5 knockout mouse
  • Gutruf, Philipp, Engineering, BME, Conformal pinhole free coatings for advanced water barrier properties in biomedical devices
  • Li, Hongmin, R Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Characterization of inhibitors against the nsP2 protease (nsP2pro) of Chikungunya virus (CHIKV)
  • Schwartz, Jacob, College of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Single-cell Transcriptome Analysis of Pre-Frontal Cortex during Abstinence and Relapse to Fentanyl Addiction
  • Witte, Marlys, College of Medicine, Department of Surgery, In-vivo bioluminescent imaging of metastatic melanoma progression in mice with lymphatic dysfunction

May 2023

  • Alicja Babst-Kostecka, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Environmental Science, Linking soil and leaf metabolite profiles with plant metal tolerance and accumulation – exploring plant-microbial adaptations to heavy metal contamination at legacy mine sites in Arizona
  • Brett Colson, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Binding kinetics of cardiac and skeletal muscle proteins   

February 2023

  • Elise Erickson, Nursing, Biobehavioral Health Sciences, Toward precision care during childbirth: genetic vulnerability to postpartum hemorrhage
  • Giovanni Melandri, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Plant Sciences, Disentangling heat and drought stress tolerance in sorghum and cotton through metabolomics
  • Robert Erickson, College of Medicine-Tucson, Surgery, Experimental investigation of focused ultra-sound (FUS) treatment on alpha-synuclein immobilization in preclinical animal model
  • Shirin Doroudgar, College of Medicine-Phoenix, Internal Medicine, Generation of a Conditional Knockout Mouse Model for ER-Associated Protein Degradation

November 2022

  • David Baltrus, Agriculture and Life Sciences, School of Plant Sciences, Exploring Sulphur Use in an Endohyphal Bacteria using RB-TNSeq
  • Geoffrey Gurtner, College of Medicine-Tucson,f Surgery, Identifying chromatin states and nuclear transcriptome deviations in physiologic and pathologic aged skin underlying wound healing
  • Koenraad Van Doorslaer, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Spatial Transcriptomics of HPV16 infected 3D tissues
  • Michael Riehle, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Entomology, Assessing neurohormone expression in the brain and ovary of the human malaria mosquito, Anopheles stephensi
  • Priyanka Kushwaha, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Environmental Science, Characterizing metabolites that influence rubber and resin production in guayule
  • Wendy McCurdy, College of Medicine-Tucson, Medical Imaging, Changes in Goutallier Score and Cross-sectional area of the rotator cuff following surgical repair

August 2022

  • Adam Buntzman, BIO5 Institute, Novel Spatial Immunome and Spliceome Method: Valley Fever Granuloma
  • Adam Printz, Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Fabrication and Characterization of Printable Photovoltaic Devices and Materials for Developing Stable and High-Efficiency Devices
  • Attila Keresztes, College of Medicine-Tucson, Surgery, Investigation of glymphatic/lymphatic flow in Alzheimers mouse models using novel, non-invasive imaging modalities
  • Brooke Massani, Science, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Water Jet Cutter Training for Machinists
  • Craig Weinkauf, College of Medicine-Tucson, Surgery, Evaluation of a stent-robust Arterial Spin Labelling pulse sequence
  • Frans Tax, Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Analysis of filament formation in plant nutrient acquisition
  • George Sutphin, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Identification of multi-stress resistant Caenorhabditis elegans mutants
  • Hongmin Li, Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Characterization of inhibitors against NSP16/10 methyltransferase of SARS-CoV-2
  • Jared Churko, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Full-length isoform single-cell RNA-sequencing (Fliss-Seq)
  • Jay Goldberg, Science, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Establishing a pangenome reference for the widespread crop pest, Manduca sexta
  • Jing-Tzyh Chiang, College of Medicine-Tucson, Medical Imaging, Evaluation of quantitative and contrast-free MR pulse sequences for imaging breast cancers and nodal metastases
  • Joao De Souza, College of Medicine-Tucson, Anesthesiology, Cell-attached gold nanoparticles to rescue photosensitivity in retinas
  • Pascale Charest, Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Quantitative Proteomics to Identify the cAMP Receptor’s Interactome
  • Paulo Pires, College of Medicine-Tucson, Physiology, Assessment of cerebral vascular structure and blood-brain-barrier stability in a mouse model of cerebral amyloid angiopathy after gene therapy
  • Ying-hui Chou, Science, Psychology, Feasibility Study for the Mild Cognitive Impairment with Accelerated Theta Burst Stimulation

April 2022

  • Jared Churko, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, GATA4 Protein-Protein Binding Interactions Implicated in Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease
  • Jean Wilson, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Live cell imaging of mitochondrial fission
  • Lalitha Madhavan, College of Medicine-Tucson, Neurology, Establishing immuno EM protocols to assess cultured human patient-derived cells
  • Laurent Martin, College of Medicine-Tucson, Anesthesiology, Developing an innovative approach: 3D-modeling of microglial cells to analyze neuroinflammation
  • Malak Tfaily, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Unraveling the responses of soil bacterial and fungal communities to changes in resource availability in a desert ecosystem
  • Martha Bhattacharya, Science, Neuroscience, Optimizing Live Imaging of Acidic Organelles in Acute Mouse Brain Slices
  • Michael Johnson, College of Medicine-Tucson, Immunobiology, An -omics approach to determine different mechanisms bacteria use to sense their environment through metal
  • Philipp Gutruf, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Conformal pinhole free coatings for advanced water barrier properties in biomedical devices
  • Travis Sawyer, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Combined multiphoton imaging and labeled fluorescence for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor localization
  • Zhiyu Dai, College of Medicine-Phoenix, Internal Medicine, Role of Endothelial SOX17 Deficiency in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Hypertension

January 2022

  • James Galligan, Pharmacy, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Generation of an inducible Glo1 knockout mouse
  • Linran Fan, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Procedure development and material characterization of plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition
  • Richard Simpson, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Nutritional Sciences & Wellness, Utilizing Systemic Knockout of the Beta-2 Adrenergic Receptor to Elucidate Mechanisms of Tumor Control
  • Thomas Tomasiak, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Understanding trafficking of chaperone-regulated Solute Carrier Family (SLC) transporters and their variants by fluorescence microscopy
  • Yana Zavros, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Development and Standardization of a Novel Pituitary Adenoma Organoid Model for the Study and Treatment of Cushing's Disease
  • Zhiyu Dai, College of Medicine-Phoenix, Internal Medicine, Fatty Acid-binding Proteins Control Endothelial Glycolysis and Arterial Programming in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

October 2021

  • John Ryniawec, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, HypoxiSwitch: A novel reporter mouse model to understand the effects of hypoxia
  • Keith Maggert, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Creation of Specialized Mouse Chromosome – MB-kSH
  • Philipp Gutruf, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Conformal pinhole free coatings for advanced water barrier properties in biomedical devices
  • Rebecca Mosher, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Plant Sciences, Detection of 24-nt small RNAs with Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization
  • Shiri Doroudgar, College of Medicine-Phoenix, Internal Medicine, Generation of a Double Transgenic Mouse Model for Cell-type—specific Inducible Endogenous Gene Activation and Repression
  • Wendy McCurdy, College of Medicine-Tucson, Medical Imaging, Effect of rotator cuff repair on Goutallier Score and cross sectional area of the rotator cuff musculature post-operatively over a one year period.
  • Ying-hui Chou, Science, Psychology, Development of MRI-compatible TMS Protocols for Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment

July 2021

  • Andreia Chignalia, College of Medicine-Tucson, Anesthesiology, Role of the glycocalyx in mechanosome assembly in lung endothelial cells
  • Chi Zhou, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Mice Uterine-Placental Blood Flow in Normal and Obese pregnancies
  • George Sutphin, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Impact of kynurenine pathway interventions on age-associated transcriptional response to pathogens
  • Joao De Souza, College of Medicine-Tucson, Anesthesiology, Voltage-gated K+ channels coupling mechanisms: a study focused on heteromeric channels
  • Kaveh Laksari, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Neuroimaging and artificial intelligence analysis of dual-tasking for early-stage Alzheimer's disease detection
  • Malak Tfaily, Agrilcuture & Life Sciences, Environmental Science, Metabolomics: A Way Forward for Exploring Environmental Adaptation of Microbial Metabolic Pathways in Arid Ecosystems

April 2021

  • Aneta Kielar, Science, Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences, Enhancing Treatment of Language in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS).
  • Art Riegel, College of Medicine-Tucson, Pharmacology, The role of brain microglia in drug addiction
  • Frank Gonzalez, Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Government & Public Policy, Neural Bases of Contemporary Race and Class Hierarchy
  • Frans Tax, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Role of Protein Filaments in Environmental Control of Root Growth
  • Helena Morrison, Nursing, Biobehavioral Health Sciences Division, The effect of VEGF-B to decrease post-stroke brain injury: an MRI study
  • Hongmin Li, Pharmacy, Pharmacology & Toxicology, To identify nanobodies and small molecules as therapeutics against flaviviruses and SARS-CoV-2
  • Jared Churko, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, In vivo Pkp2 protein interactomes causing arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy
  • Lisa Viesselmann, ALVSCE, Arizona Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Validation of flow cytometry for immunophenotyping of canine lymphocytes
  • Mert Colpan, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Deciphering the role of CAP2 in dilated cardiomyopathy
  • Michael Johnson, College of Medicine-Tucson, Immunobiology, A metabolomics approach to elucidate different mechanisms bacteria use to sense their environment through metal
  • Michael Plank, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Development of a targeted mass spectrometry method for the calculation of protein phosphorylation stoichiometry
  • Patrick Ronaldson, College of Medicine-Tucson, Pharmacology, Development of a High Throughput Screening Assay to Identify Alzheimer's Disease Therapeutics
  • Paul Langlais, College of Medicine, Medicine (Endocrinology), Elucidating the Effect of Insulin on Cytoskeletal Elements at the Plasma Membrane Using Structured Illumination Super Resolution Microscopy
  • Qing Hao, Engineering, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Exploring Effective Topside Cooling of Power Electronics
  • Rajesh Khanna, College of Medicine-Tucson, Pharmacology, A NaV1.7 mouse lacking the CRMP2-binding domain: examining specificity of NaV1.7-CRMP2 coupling and testing if pain resolution requires endogenous opioid signaling
  • Ritu Pandey, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Multiplex MS analysis for proteome quantification of colorectal tumors with codon specific mutations in KRAS gene
  • Samantha Harris, College of Medicine-Tucson, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, A novel CRISPR SpyC2 mouse model for use of the cut and paste method in fast skeletal muscles
  • Samuel Campos, College of Medicine-Tucson, Immunobiology, Basic studies on HPV entry and subcellular trafficking using inhibitory peptides
  • Travis Sawyer, Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Multiphoton imaging of gastrinoma and correlation with molecular and genetic markers
  • Zheshen Zhang, Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Development of low-loss, crack-free, active silicon nitride platforms

January 2021

  • Anne Wertheimer, BIO5, Towards a Hydrogel Therapeutic for Diabetic Foot Wounds - a pilot
  • Julie Miller, Science, Neuroscience, Immunohistochemical Protein Detection in the Finch Brain: Relevance to Vocal Communication
  • Martha Bhattacharya, Science, Neuroscience, Plasma Membrane Proteomics for a Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) Research Course
  • Ravi Goyal, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Intrauterine Growth Restriction and Sexually Dimorphic Programming of Obesity.
  • Renee Duckworth, Science, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, STRESS-INDUCED MATERNAL EFFECTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY

October 2020

  • Daniela Zarnescu, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Determining activity dependent changes at neuromuscular synapses in ALS
  • Laura Meredith, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Natural Resources & the Environment, Soil microbial VOC cycling elucidated by gene expression across drought-rewet dynamics
  • Martha Bhattacharya, Science, Neuroscience, Flow Cytometry for a Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) Research Course

July 2020

  • Adam Printz, Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Using High Resolution Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) to Correlate Perovskite Grain Size to Device Performance and Stability Enhancement
  • Daniel Powell, College of Medicine-Tucson, Valley Fever Center for Excellence, Altering splice variants of Dectin-1 to improve fungal recognition and resistance
  • Jeff Pyun, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Development of Ultra-High Verdet Polymer Nanocomposites for Next Generation Optical Devices
  • Jessica Barnes, Science, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Impact Modification of Indigenous Lunar Materials
  • Joao de Souza, Science, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Restoring Photosensitivity in Retinas Using Gold-Nanoparticles-assisted optocapacitance
  • Kaveh Laksari, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Pilot data to determine photoacoustic imaging markers in traumatic brain injury
  • Paulo Pires, College of Medicine-Tucson, Physiology, Pilot studies of cerebral hemodynamics and lymphatic clearance in mouse models of AD
  • Philipp Gutruf, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Restoring Photosensitivity in Retinas Using Gold-Nanoparticles-assisted optocapacitance
  • R. Keating Godfrey, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, A method for high resolution imaging method of intact brains using conventional confocal microscopy
  • Sean Limesand, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Single Cell Transcriptome Profiling of Fetal Pancreatic Islets

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