Department of Biology

Research Grants and Awards

Katherine O'Brien '07
has received a summer research fellowship from the Eastern Alliance in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics for her proposed research on evolution in stickleback fish.

Tim Lyerla
"Lung Fibrosis in an Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Mouse Model"
National Institutes of Health Academic Research Enhancement Award of $223,500 (2008-2010)
Jason Slot & David Hibbett
"Phylogeny and functional evolution of high affinity nitrate transporters in fungi"
(DSH PI for administrative purposes, J. Slot, Co-PI)
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (2006-2008) DEB-0608017
Manfred Binder & David Hibbett
"Toward a global phylogeny of Boletales"
National Science Foundation grant of $325,000 (2005-2008)
Todd Livdahl & Deb Robertson
"Ecology of large and small scale mosquito invasions"
National Institutes of Health grant for $216,900 (2005-2008)
Susan Foster & John Baker
"Ancestral plasticity and mating system evolution in the stickleback radiation"
National Science Foundation grant of $574,548 (2005-2009)
Andrew Wilson & David Hibbett
"Phylogeny, taxonomy, and ecology of Calostoma (Boletales, Basidiomycetes)"
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for $12,000 (2005-2007)

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