Note: new projects may be added until the start of the application period.
| Environmental Science, Policy & Management, Claire Kremen, Professor: Restoring pollination function in degraded agricultural landscapes (Open); Landscape ecology of natural pest control (Open); Source-sink dynamics of bumble bees, an important crop pollinator in California (Open); Bushmeat Hunting and Consumption in Northeastern Madagascar (Open) |
| Environmental Science, Policy & Management, Céline Pallud, Professor: Biogeochemistry and Reactive Transport of Selenium in the Soils of the Kesterson Reservoir, California (Open) |
| Environmental Science, Policy & Management, Vincent Resh, Professor: Conservation value of artificial stormwater ponds (Open); Deformed Frog Study (Open) |
| History, Cathryn Carson, Professor: History of Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (Open); Nuclear Berkeley, Nuclear World (Open) |
| Integrative Biology, George A. Brooks, Professor: Exercise Metabolism, Project 1: Exercise Substrate Utilization: The "Crossover Concept" (Open); Exercise Metabolism, Project 2: Stable Isotopes in the Study of Metabolism (Open); Exercise Metabolism, Project 3: Regulation of Muscle Cell Membrane Lactate Transporter Protein Expression (Open) |
| Integrative Biology, Mimi Koehl, Professor: Biomechanics of how organisms interact with their physical environments: Evolution of flight, how larvae land in the right habitat, how lobsters catch odors from the water, how worms burrow through mud, and more... (Open) |
| Integrative Biology, Han Lim, Professor: Noise in genetic circuits and cell signaling networks. (Open); Construction of synthetic genetic switches (Open) |
| Integrative Biology, Kevin Padian, Professor: How did flying reptiles walk? A paleo-footprint investigation (Open); Evolution of sexual dimorphism in the skulls of African antelope (Full- no new appr needed); Scientific illustration of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals (Open); Bone histology of fossil and living vertebrates (Open) |
| Integrative Biology, Sheila Patek, Professor: Evolutionary variation of the mantis shrimp's raptorial appendage (Open) |
| Integrative Biology, Mary E. Power, Professor: Food webs in rivers and watersheds (Open) |
| Integrative Biology, Ellen Simms, Professor: A test of partner control in a mutualist association using the legume and rhizobial bacteria association. (Open); Costs to lupines of early infection by cooperative bacteria (Open); Mutualism breakdown between bacteria and their legume hosts (Open); Ecological Genetics of seed color in Lupinus nanus and Lupinus bicolor (Open) |
| Integrative Biology, David Wake, Professor: An Informatics System for Amphibian Conservation Biology - AmphibiaWeb (Open); Exploring Reptile and Amphibian Biodiversity Informatics Through An International On-line Community- HerpNET (Full- no new appr needed) |
| Mathematics, Rainer Sachs, Professor: Mathematical modeling of chromosome aberrations (Full- no new appr needed); Modeling cancer induction due to ionizing radiation (Open); (A) Studying human prehistory using DNA sequence data; or (B) Locating crossovers in family pedigrees using dense SNPs; (Open); DNA topology (Full- no new appr needed) |
| Molecular & Cell Biology, Yang Dan, Professor: Neural correlates of visual perception (Open) |
| Molecular & Cell Biology, Robert Glaeser, Professor: SYSTEMS-BIOLOGY ANALYSIS OF MULTI-PROTEIN COMPLEXES: ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (Full- no new appr needed) |
| Molecular & Cell Biology, Lin He, Professor: The role of microRNAs in cancer models (Open) |
| Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Cathryn Carson: History of Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (Open); Nuclear Berkeley, Nuclear World (Open) |
| Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Carol Spencer, Staff Curator: Exploring Biodiversity in Natural History Collections: The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (Open) |
| Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills, William Jagust, Professor: Brain Imaging in Aging and Cognitive Impairment (Open) |
| Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills, Michael Silver, Professor: Neural Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning in the Human Brain (Open); Behavioral Characterization of Binocular Rivalry (Open) |
| Optometry, Suzanne Fleiszig, Professor: Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection of the Cornea (Full- no new appr needed); Understanding the Mechanism by which Twitching Motility in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Contributes to Disease Pathogenesis (Full- no new appr needed) |
| Optometry, Xiaohua Gong, Professor: Identification and Characterization of the genes that play essential role(s) in eye development and diseases. (Open) |
| Optometry, Karsten Gronert, Professor: Role of protective lipid mediators in privileged inflammatory/reparative response of the eye. (Full- no new appr needed) |
| Optometry, Dennis Levi, Professor: Mechanisms of normal and amblyopic spatial vision (Open) |
| Optometry, Michael Silver, Professor: Neural Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning in the Human Brain (Open); Behavioral Characterization of Binocular Rivalry (Open) |
| Plant & Microbial Biology, Lewis Feldman, Professor: Determining tissue/cell-specific redox status in plants using a redox-sensitive green fluorescent protein (GFP) (Open) |
| Plant & Microbial Biology, Sarah Hake, Professor: Developmental Processes In Plants (Open) |
| Plant & Microbial Biology, Sheila McCormick, Professor: Project 1: Genetic and Molecular Analysis of Mutations that Affect Pollen Development in Arabidopsis (Open); Project 2: Pollen-specific receptor-like kinases and their roles during pollen tube growth (Open); Project 3: Plant Gamete Gene Expression (Open); Reproductive barriers in Miscanthus sinensis and other biofuel plants (Open) |
| Plant & Microbial Biology, Zinmay Renee Sung, Professor: Molecular Genetics of Floral Repression (Open) |
| Psychology, Richard Ivry, Professor: Sensorimotor coordination in healthy and neurologically impaired humans (Open) |
| Public Health, Gertrude C. Buehring, Professor: Investigation of a possible viral etiology of breast cancer (Open) |
| Public Health, Andrea Garber, Professor: Assessment of a clinical intervention to reduce obesity in children and adolescents. (Full- no new appr needed); Study of Adolescents Hospitalized with Anorexia Nervosa (Full- no new appr needed) |
| Public Health, William Jagust, Professor: Brain Imaging in Aging and Cognitive Impairment (Open) |
| Public Health, Fenyong Liu, Professor: Studies of Nucleic Acid-based Agents for Inhibition of Viral Replication (Open) |
| Public Health, Amani Nuru-Jeter, Professor: Developing Measures of Racism for African American Women of Childbearing Age: A Tool for Pregnancy Outcome Studies (Full- no new appr needed) |
| Public Health, George Sensabaugh, Professor: Project 1: Molecular Epidemiology and Evolution in Staphylococcus aureus (Open); Project 2: Delineation of the Staphylococcus Core Genome (Open) |
