Fall 2018 Seed Grant Award Winners

The Office of the Vice President for Research would like to congratulate the following PI teams on winning the Fall 2018 Seed Grant Competition:

H. Resit Akcakaya, Ecology and Evolution and  Liliana Davalos, Ecology and Evolution:  The Very Extended Phenotype: connecting genetics and evolution to ecological function

Surita Bhatia, Chemistry and  Elizabeth Boon, Chemistry:  Scalable Nanostructured Coatings for Prevention of Microbial Biofilm Formation

Holly Colognato, Pharmacology and  Maricedes Acosta Martinez, Physiology and Biophysics:  Exploration of late pregnancy extracellular vesicles as regulators of oligodendrocyte biology

Anshul Gandhi, Computer Science and  Erez Zadok, Computer Science:  Exploiting Analytical Models to Realize the Full Performance and Parallelization Potential of Modern Storage Architectures for Big Data Applications

Martin Kaczocha, Anesthesiology and  Michelino Puopolo, Anesthesiology:  Leukotriene B4: A Novel Target for Postoperative Pain Control

David Komatsu Orthopaedics, Yi-Xian Qin, Biomedical Engineering, and  Sardar MZ Uddin, Orthopaedics:  Enhancement of Bone Regeneration through Apoptosis Modulation

Greg Zelinsky, Psychology,  Dimitrios Samaras, Computer Science,  Kenneth Shroyer, Pathology, and  Joel Saltz, Bioinformatics:  Predicting the attention trajectories of digital pathologists: Towards understanding the variability in cancer diagnosis