2005-2006 Awards
Alaska EPSCoR 2005/06 2 Year Graduate Fellowships - Population Geneteics | ||||
Awardee |
Campus |
Sponsor |
Amount |
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Brown, Kathryn | UAF | Sergei Drovetski | $44,000 | |
Hopkins, Sarah | UAF | Lee Taylor | $44,000 | |
Humphries, Elizabeth | UAF | Lee Taylor | $44,000 | |
Imeh-Nathaniel, Adebobola | UAF | Diana Wolf | $33,000 | |
Stone, James | UAF | Matthew Olson | $44,000 |
Alaska EPSCoR 2005/06 1 Year Graduate Fellowships -- Population Geneteics | ||||
Awardee |
Project |
Campus |
Sponsor |
Amount |
Carroll, Amy Breen | Population Genetic Patterns of Candidate Genes for Seasonal Dormancy in Balsam Poplar. | UAF | Matthew Olson | $22,000 |
Garvin, Michael | Molecular Genetics of Chum Salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) Populations. | UAS | Anthony Garrett | $22,000 |
Lanier, Hayley | Partner choice in the legume-rhizobia mutualism at high latitudes. | UAF | Link Olson | $22,000 |
Timling, Ina | Identification of Cold Adapted Fungi in Arctic Tundra Ecosystems. | UAF | Lee Taylor | $22,000 |
Alaska EPSCoR 2005/06 Graduate Fellowships -- Integrative Physiology | ||||
Awardee |
Project |
Campus |
Sponsor |
Amount |
Brennan, April | Regulating intake of energy on two levels: selection of food and abundance of glucose transporters across season in the red-backed vole, Cleithrionomys rutilus. | UAA | A. Bult-Ito / J. Burns / B.Barnes / I.van Tets / D. Spalinger | $22,000 |
Crater, Annie | Seasonal Changes in the Rumen Microbial Ecology of an Arctic Grazer . | UAF | P. Barboza / E. Rexstad / Robert Foster | $22,000 |
Dempsey, Thomas | Mitigation of nutritional stress in arctic seabirds: effects of melatonin and corcosteroid-binding on adrenal function. | UAF | Alex Kitaysky | $22,000 |
Lodge, Keri Lestyk | Inter-and intra-specific variation in muscle development in Hooded (Cystophora cristata) and Harp (Phoca groenlandica) seal pups during the postweaning fast. | UAA | Jennifer Burns | $22,000 |
Sformo, Todd | Anti-freeze Proteins and Related Adaptations in Overwintering Insects from Alaska . | UAF | B. Barnes / J. Duman | $22,000 |
Shultz, Michael | Do plasma binding proteins buffer Black-legged Kittiwakes against environmental stress during reproduction?. | UAF | Alex Kitaysky | $22,000 |
Stevenson, Kalb | Winter Breeding and the Reproductive Challenges Faced by Non-Hibernating Alaskan Redbacked Voles (Clethrionomys rutilus). | UAA | J. Burns / D. Pfeiffer / I. Van Tets / B. Barnes / Abel Bult-Ito | $22,000 |
Tavernier, Ronald | Immunocytochemistry of the Superchiasmatic Nucleus of Rhythmic and Non-rhythmic Northern Red-Backed Voles (Clethrionomys rutilus). | UAF | Abel Bult-Ito | $22,000 |
Williams, Cory | The effect of dietary lipid concentration on fatty acid signatures of tufted puffins. | UAF | Loren Buck | $22,000 |
Yeganeh, Ataian | Histone Modifications in Multiple DNA Repair Pathways. | UAF | Jocelyn Krebs | $22,000 |
Zhao, Huiwen | NMDA receptors and neuroprotection in hibernating Arctic ground squirrels. | UAF | Kelly Drew | $22,000 |
Alaska EPSCoR 2005/06 Graduate Fellowships -- Cold Regions | ||||
Awardee |
Project |
Campus |
Sponsor | Amount |
Bai, FeiFei | Simulation Study of Bearing Capacity of Floating Ice and Its Application in Analysis of Ice-Structure Interaction. | UAA | Helen Liu | $22,000 |
Bray, Matthew | Rheological Behavior of Ice-rich Syngenetic and Intermediate Layer Permafrost . | UAA | Yuri Shur | $22,000 |
Kim, Koui | 2-D Analytical modeling for pipe - permafrost interaction . | UAF | Scott Huang | $22,000 |
Li, Hui | Determination of Frozen Ground and Permafrost Characteristics using Cross-hole Sonic Scanning. | UAF | Gang Chen | $22,000 |
Xu, Jianfeng | Theoretical and experimental analysis of two-phase thermosyphons for arctic applications. | UAF | Douglas Goering | $22,000 |
Zhu, Deju | Study of Nonlinear Properties of Frozen Alaska Soil and Interaction Effects between Frozen Ground and Structures. | UAA | Z.Yang / L. Raad | $22,000 |
Alaska EPSCoR Spring 2006 Undergraduate Research Fellowship | ||||
Awardee |
Project |
Campus |
Sponsor |
Amount |
Jessica Beecher | Is Alaskan Arabidopsis lyrata an allopolyploid or an autopolyploid? | UAF | Diana Wolf | $1,500 |
Brian Doyle | The effects of eyestalk ablation on circulating ecdysteroids in adult female Dungeness Crab, Cancer magiste | UAF | Sherry Tamone | $1,500 |
Hope Gray | Partner choice in the legume-rhizobia mutualism at high latitudes | UAA | Lee Taylor | $1,500 |
Irina Mueller | Identification of proteins involved in mitochondrial morphology | UAS | Kristin O'Brien | $1,472 |
Rev Orion | The effect of conflict on seed size | UAS | Diana Wolf | $1,240 |
Alaska EPSCoR Summer 2006 Undergraduate Research Fellowships | ||||
Awardee |
Project |
Camous |
Sponsor |
Amount |
Alexander, Kelsey | Modulation of metabolism by H2S | UAF | M. Harris/B.Taylor | $4,500 |
Alexander, Kelsey | Primer development for DNA sequencing populations of Allopolyploid Alaskan Arabidopsis lyrata | UAF | Diana Wolf | $2,500 |
Engler, Summer | Maintenance of copper homeostasis: Effects of Cup1p overexpression Mac1p-dependent gene expression and survival of S. cerevisiae | UAA | Jocelyn Krebs | $5,000 |
Flynn, Peter | Contributions of Lemon Glacier to stream flow in the Lemon Creek watershed, Juneau, Alaska | UAS | Eran Hood | $5,000 |
Hughes-Skandijs, Kirsa | Summer settlement distribution and abundance of juvenile Dungeness crab in Berners Bay | UAS | Ginny Eckert | $5,000 |
Prokudin, Maxim | Earthquake and avalanches in Alaska - Any connection between them? | UAA | Zhaohui Yang | $5,000 |
Smith, Lisa | Identification of proteins involved in mitochondrial translocation of Yeast flavohemoglobin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae | UAF | Kristin O'Brien | $5,000 |
Swensgard, Nicole | Extraction methodologies for fecal DNA from Sitka black-tailed deer | UAF | Kris Hundertmark | $5,000 |
Wilkinson, Michael | Do stable isotope signatures detect age-related dietary differences in a Yup'ik population? | UAF | Diane O'Brien | $4,500 |
Alaska EPSCoR 2006 Young Investigator First Awards | ||||
Awardee |
Project |
Campus |
Amount |
|
Vadim Federov | Impact of Quarternary environmental change on genetic diversity of mammals in Beringia | UAF | $50,000 | |
E. Lance Howe | Household strategies to mitigate risk and smooth consumption in isolated economies: resiliency in the face of income, health and environmental shocks | UAA | $49,832 | |
Debasmita Misra | Water, energy and vegetation dynamics in non-sorted circle ecosystems | UAF | $49,785 | |
Kristin O'Brien | The mitochondrion as a temperature sensor: Molecular mechanisms regulating cold-induced mitochondrial biogenesis in the oxidative muscle of Gasterosteus aculeatus | UAF | $50,000 | |
Sanjay Pyare | BiogeoInformatix: a portal that integrates biological, geospatial and local-knowledge databases in GIS to model and monitor species distributions | UAS | $48,667 | |
Renate Wackerbauer | Transient spatiotemporal chaos in the presence of noise and nonlocal coupling | UAS | $49,851 | |
Diana Wolf | Molecular population genetics of self-incompatibility breakdown in Alaskan Arabidopsis lyrata | UAF | $50,000 |