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To be held April 16-19, 2007 in Brussels, Belgium.", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "EPMD-ElectrnPhoton&MagnDevices" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2007-04-15", "end_date": "2007-09-30", "award_amount": 25000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18814, "first_name": "Sanjay", "last_name": "Banerjee", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 156, "ror": "", "name": "University of Texas at Austin", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "TX", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 156, "ror": "", "name": "University of Texas at Austin", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "TX", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Abstract Sanjay K. Banerjee INC3: CONFERENCE PROPOSAL\n\n\n\n\nObjective:\nThe objective of this proposal is to request travel funds from NSF to enable faculty from the US to attend the Third International Nanotechnology Conference on Communications and Cooperation (http://www.imec.be/inc3/about.html) from April 16-19, 2007 in Brussels, Belgium. In addition, we plan to invite some of the younger members of the faculty, who will present posters highlighting their work.\nIntellectual Merit:\nThis conference is being sponsored by SRC-SIA, NSF, IMEC, JEITA-JSI, and several European and Asian companies It will feature invited speakers and poster presenters from industry, academia, and government who will describe how to \"foster communication and cooperation on nanotechnology subjects among the organizers, sponsors and the world scientific community to stimulate and support economic growth in the 21st century.\"\nBroader Impact:\nThe conference will help address issues related to ITRS technology roadmap and how nanotechnology can play an important role in continuing the growth of the Electronics beyond the limits envisioned by the ITRS roadmap. It is of fundamental importance that these limits are overcome in the next 10 years, perhaps through the use of nanotechnology. Global senior researchers, industry leaders and policy makers from North America, Europe and Asia will hold discussions on a variety of efforts in nanoscience, along with opportunities for collaboration", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5400", "attributes": { "award_id": "0748453", "title": "Workshop on Frontiers in Electronics to be held on December 15-19, 2007 in Royal Park Hotel, Cozumel, Mexico", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "EPMD-ElectrnPhoton&MagnDevices" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18890, "first_name": "Usha", "last_name": "Varshney", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2007-09-01", "end_date": "2008-12-31", "award_amount": 10000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18891, "first_name": "Michael", "last_name": "Shur", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 148, "ror": "https://ror.org/01rtyzb94", "name": "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 148, "ror": "https://ror.org/01rtyzb94", "name": "Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Objective:\nThe objective of this proposal is to request funds from NSF to enable students and junior faculty to participate in the ?Workshop on Frontiers in Electronics? to be held 0n December 15-19, 2007 in Royal park Hotel, Cozumel, Mexico. This conference is held every three years to review the rapid pace of electronic technology evolution that compels a merger of many technical areas. Examples of some of the areas that will be explored are bioelectronics, MEMS/NEMS, Silicon nanoelectronics and Beyond, High Speed Communications, etc.\n\nIntellectual Merit:\nThe main purpose of this workshop is to gather experts and to encourage cross fertilization of people with different technical backgrounds. The experts will be gathered from academia, industry, and government to review the recent breakthroughs and their underlying physical mechanisms. The workshop will also explore nature of the future challenges in this ?electronic Planet?. The workshop also plans to prepare archival proceedings of peer reviewed article for broad distribution. The proceedings will be published in the Special Issue of the ?International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems?. \n\nBroader Impact:\nWe plan to invite senior scientists and engineers as well as young faculty and students to this conference. The conference will provide a Forum for open discussion, brain storming sessions and cross ?fertilization. Some of the junior faculty will be invited to make presentations at the conference. The outcome of the workshop, in the form of formal proceedings can be used as a teaching tool and for guiding future research areas", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "13238", "attributes": { "award_id": "2144708", "title": "CAREER: Fast-Charging Energy Storage Devices Enabled by Modulating Internal Electric Field of Heterostructure", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "EPMD-ElectrnPhoton&MagnDevices" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 731, "first_name": "Vikram", "last_name": "Dalal", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2022-04-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 500000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 28533, "first_name": "Yue", "last_name": "Zhou", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 591, "ror": "https://ror.org/015jmes13", "name": "South Dakota State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "SD", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).<br/><br/><br/><br/>Fast-charging capability, as one of the key features of energy storage devices, has drawn extensive interest. It holds great promise to expand or accelerate their applications in many areas, especially for fast-charging electric vehicles to replace internal combustion engine vehicles, as well as stabilizing energy storage from renewable energy sources that are inherently intermittent such as wind and wave energy. However, common energy storage devices, such as batteries, have exhibited severe degradation under fast charging conditions. This Career project is to develop a practical method to develop fast-charging energy storage devices by introducing an internal electric field in the electrode to improve the electrode kinetics and the device performance. The project will host Bootcamp to train rural middle and high school teachers in developing science curricula, equipping them to deliver enriching classroom activities and lectures. Moreover, the project will involve underrepresented students performing science and engineering related projects, especially Native Americans, women, and first-generation college students.<br/><br/><br/>The research objective of this Career project aims to develop a novel heterostructure in the electrode to improve the fast-charging capability of energy storage devices by more than 10 times compared with state-of-the-art research studies. Based on the preliminary studies, the central hypothesis is that an internal electric field, generated on the heterointerfaces can accelerate ion transport, enhance electrode kinetics by lowering the energy of activation, and hence improve the performance under fast-charging conditions. It is expected to address this challenge and fundamentally advance the correlation between the electric field of the heterostructure, and the resulting fast-charging performance at the energy storage device level. The major contributions to those multidisciplinary fields lie in several aspects. First, a fundamental understanding will be generated on the effect of the local electric field of the heterostructure on the diffusion coefficient and electrode kinetics. A simulation model will also be created to be integrated with experimental efforts. Second, a knowledge gap will be filled from the material properties of the electrode to the fast-charging functionality of the devices. Third, distinct from conventional nanostructure engineering approaches in state-of-the-art research studies, which have a complex and high-cost fabrication process, introducing a heterostructure in the electrode provides an effective, safe, facile, and transformative approach that remarkably enhances the charge transfer and holds great promise to resolve one of the biggest issues, “long charging time,” of existing energy storage devices. The fundamental study will also open a new door to resolving issues in other energy devices by modulating the electronic structures in the devices.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5399", "attributes": { "award_id": "0748366", "title": "EPSCoR Cyberinfrastructure Assessment Workshop", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "EPSCoR Co-Funding" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2007-09-15", "end_date": "2008-08-31", "award_amount": 57302, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18886, "first_name": "John W.D.", "last_name": "Connolly", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 178, "ror": "", "name": "University of Kentucky Research Foundation", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "KY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 178, "ror": "", "name": "University of Kentucky Research Foundation", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "KY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This proposal for a workshop entitled \"EPSCoR Cyberinfrastructure Assessment Workshop\" was submitted July 19, 2007. To address the problem of the \"Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Gap\" between EPSCoR and non-EPSCoR jurisdictions, KY NSF EPSCoR proposes hosting a workshop that will expand on the groundwork developed at previous meetings and will ultimately result in a collaborative plan/proposal for proactively addressing CI in the EPSCoR jurisdictions. EPSCoR workshop participants will have CI expertise and performed an assessment within their respective jurisdictions to be able to present the current status of CI across the community. The first day of the workshop will consist of presentations by experts in CI from the EPSCoR jurisdictions about the capabilities and needs of the CI in their jurisdictions. Also included will be presentations by experts outside of the EPSCoR community who have set up interstate CI structures, such as networks and grids. The presentations by the outside experts will be focused on practical CI applications. The second day of the workshop will summarize the plans and extract common elements. This will lead to a coordinated plan for EPSCoR jurisdictions to share resources, e.g. a grid of computational resources with the appropriate software and expertise to make it function as a powerful scientific engine, and to provide easy access to other resources such as the NSF Teragrid.\n\nIntellectual Merit\nNSF recognizes that developing CI is inherently necessary for the nation to balance its research portfolio and to enhance the intellectual merit of future research. Cyberinfrastructure represents a changing platform for enabling the future of academic research. As this technology evolves, the EPSCoR jurisdictions run the risk of being left behind technically advanced states with robust network connections and sizable investments in high-end computing. In addition, EPSCoR jurisdictions represent diverse populations and a broad range of CI needs and conditions. The plan will position EPSCoR jurisdictions to develop the capabilities needed for future science and educational competitiveness. The results of this workshop can be carried on to the EPSCoR Annual Meeting in Hawaii where additional planning by EPSCoR jurisdiction project directors can formalize planning efforts and will ultimately result in a collaborative plan/proposal for proactively addressing CI in the EPSCoR jurisdictions.\n\nBroader Impacts\nThe broader impacts of the workshop include developing an EPSCoR-wide collaborative effort to actively address and shape the jurisdictions' response to the changing nature of academic research. This plan will necessarily include educational and training components, as there is a critical shortage of trained people in the EPSCoR jurisdictions to operate and maintain modern CI. The assessment will include CI needs for tribal and community colleges.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5113", "attributes": { "award_id": "1006919", "title": "Oklahoma Optical Initiative", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "EPSCoR Research Infrastructure" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2010-09-01", "end_date": "2013-08-31", "award_amount": 1176470, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18221, "first_name": "Henry", "last_name": "Neeman", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 157, "ror": "", "name": "University of Oklahoma Norman Campus", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "OK", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18219, "first_name": "Dana", "last_name": "Brunson", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 18220, "first_name": "James", "last_name": "Deaton", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 157, "ror": "", "name": "University of Oklahoma Norman Campus", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "OK", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Oklahoma Optical Initiative \n\nProposal Number:\tEPS - 1006919 \nInstitution:\tUniversity of Oklahoma Norman Campus\nProject Director:\tHenry J. Neeman\n\nThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). \n\nThis OK Inter-campus and Intra-campus Cyber Connectivity (RII C2) project would be led by the University of Oklahoma Norman Campus to benefit the entire state.\n\nIntellectual Merit\nThrough the Oklahoma Optical Initiative (OOI), the OK RII C2 project plans to facilitate the ability to provision a substantial number of dedicated high performance connections, both within Oklahoma and to national and international networks (e.g., Internet2, NLR). OOI would transform Oklahoma's existing research ring from routed to optical, leveraging existing infrastructure while advancing optical switching components to a new level, facilitating substantial improvement in reliability, robustness, availability and potentially bandwidth, as well as enabling the ability to provision dedicated lambdas. This initiative will leverage extant and emerging investments by OneNet and University of Oklahoma (OU). \n\nIndividual Oklahoma institutions will achieve substantial connectivity transformations, so they can take advantage of OOI. In particular: \n(a) OU's supercomputer will have its world-facing network connectivity upgraded to 10 Gbps (10X increase);\n(b) OSU (Oklahoma State University) will be upgraded to 10 Gbps intra-campus (10x increase), from its current 1 Gbps intra-campus (but 10 Gbps ring-facing); \n(c) University of Tulsa will be upgraded to 1 Gbps (5X increase), for research use only, at no upcharge; \n(d) Langston University (LU) bandwidth for High Energy Physics (HEP) projects will be increased to 10 Gbps (100X increase), at no upcharge; \n(e) Noble bandwidth will be increased to 250 Mbps (5X increase) via a fiber Indefeasible Right to Use agreement, at no upcharge; \n(f) Rural and nonmetro connectivity will be improved, via redeploying extant optical components from the research ring to OneNet's remote hubsites. \n(g) The Oklahoma Telepresence Initiative will make High Definition telepresence available to all higher education campuses in Oklahoma.\n\nOklahoma currently has an RII Track 1 on bioenergy and an RII Track 2 on ecoinformatics. The Track 1, a collaboration among Oklahoma State University, the University of Oklahoma and the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation (Noble), isn't a large consumer of network connectivity, but Noble currently is at only 45 Mbps, expected to be inadequate for emerging needs; the Track1 also includes the Oklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative (OCII), which provides CI resources to 540 users at 24 institutions (including 11 of Oklahoma's 13 public universities), mostly without usage charges. The Track 2, a collaboration among OU, OSU, the University of Kansas and Kansas State University, uses substantial data, with constant collection and transformation of NASA data made available from a web portal. \n\nOther Data-Intensive Projects include: \n(a) Oklahoma has been a longstanding leader in meteorology research, especially in real time forecasting of severe storms, including: the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms; the Linked Environment for Atmospheric Discovery collaboration (NSF Large Information Technology Research); development of the Advanced Regional Prediction System as an NSF Science and Technology Center and now a key developer of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model; a just-awarded NSF Petascale Applications grant for Ensemble Kalman Filtering on the NSF's Blue Waters multi-petaflops system. \n(b) For the past 6 years, Oklahoma's DOE EPSCoR has supported a High Energy Physics collaboration among OU, OSU and LU, Oklahoma's only Historically Black University. In addition, OU and LU, with two other institutions, form the NSF-funded ATLAS Southwest Tier2 Center. At OU, HEP projects are expected to consume roughly 5 Gbps starting in 2010; at LU, campus networking capability is inadequate for LU's growing computing and data responsibilities. \n(c) The OU and OSU HPC centers support dozens of research teams. \n(d) The state's Science & Technology (S&T) plan includes bioenergy, plant science, weather and weather sensors, plus other areas that are supported under OCII but not called out in this RII C2 proposal.\n\nBroader Impacts\nThe Oklahoma Networking Mentorship Program will provide networking professionals from OU and OneNet to institutions across the state (20 institutions have expressed interest), to deliver presentations on the practicalities of the networking profession and job shadowing opportunities, both physical and virtual. In addition, each of the science projects described has its own extensive education program, Oklahoma Cyber-infrastructure Initiative (OCII) has its longstanding and successful SiPE education program, and Oklahoma EPSCoR has comprehensive educational and outreach programs, links to economic development and to initiatives designed to enhance public awareness of the importance of science.\n\nK-12 students and teachers are being exposed to cutting-edge science and CI through summer technology academies, mobile science vehicles, and teacher training workshops. Undergraduate student research experiences in industry and academia are supported and talented students are being recruited into bioenergy based graduate programs. Workshops are being geared towards the education, training and integration of CI in the outreach and research components of Oklahoma's RII projects. Conferences to encourage multidisciplinary, multi-campus collaborations and to enhance faculty competitiveness in future grant submissions are being supported. An entrepreneurial workshop, a business plan competition for students along with commercialization vouchers to assess the commercial potential of researcher's inventions would foster the spirit of entrepreneurship of both students and faculty. \n\nAlong with publications, website and wiki, outcomes of this RII C2 project are proposed to be disseminated via the Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium, which in 8 years has had over 2000 attendees from 84 academic institutions in 23 states and Puerto Rico (32 in Oklahoma and 19 in 12 other EPSCoR jurisdictions), including PhD-, masters- and bachelors-granting universities, community colleges, career techs, a high school and public school systems, as well as 79 private companies, 29 government agencies (21 in Oklahoma) and 13 non-governmental organizations.\n\nRII education outreach initiatives embrace the inclusion of underrepresented groups and women, and strengthen competitiveness and diversity through collaboration with LU (Oklahoma's HBCU) and tribal college, facilitating transition from high school to college, providing culture-attuned counseling support, and promoting enhancement programs to retain students pursuing STEM disciplines. Other initiatives promote effective communication of scientific advances to enhance public awareness of the value of science to the state legislature and the general public. Collectively, the RII investments would position Oklahoma to enhance competitiveness for mainstream NSF funding.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4644", "attributes": { "award_id": "1430493", "title": "Collaborative Research: Imaging and Controlling Ultrafast Dynamics of Atoms, Molecules, and Nanostructures", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "EPSCoR Research Infrastructure" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2014-08-01", "end_date": "2018-07-31", "award_amount": 3000000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 16045, "first_name": "Kristin", "last_name": "Bowman-James", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 415, "ror": "", "name": "University of Kansas Center for Research Inc", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "KS", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 16043, "first_name": "Itzhak", "last_name": "Ben-Itzhak", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 415, "ror": "", "name": "University of Kansas Center for Research Inc", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "KS", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Non-technical Description\nThe atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) research groups in Nebraska and Kansas will form a collaborative consortium to study and develop ways to control fundamental processes of electron motion in atoms, molecules, and nanostructures that occur at ultrafast (femto (10-15) to atto (10-18) second) time scales. The project will bring together experimental and theoretical physicists, chemists and electrical engineers from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (UNL), the Kansas State University (KSU), and the University of Kansas (KU) as well as the facilities for AMO research at the James R. Macdonald Laboratory (JRML) at KSU, Extreme Light Laboratory at UNL, Physics and Chemistry departments at KU, and the computing resources at the partner institutions to explore novel states of matter. The project team plans to engage in synergistic activities to expand and diversify the STEM workforce by engaging students, teachers, and researchers at broad ranging educational levels. Research and educational collaborations among the consortium partners as well as at national and international levels and the preparation of a diverse, globally engaged STEM workforce training are expected to be sustained beyond the award period. \nTechnical Description \nThe projects will use femto to atto second pulses of light to trigger different types of reactions in matter and use pump-probe measurements, high harmonic generation, and ultrafast electron diffraction methods to study and image atomic and molecular motions. Detailed experimental and theoretical studies will be carried out to understand the molecular ionization processes caused by the interaction of strong laser fields and molecules. Participating researchers will build an electron spectrometer with angular resolution, improve the accuracy of extracting the molecular structure parameters, and establish an improved ionization theory for polyatomic molecules. Another aspect of the project will focus on experimental and theoretical studies to investigate the interaction of nanostructures to ultrashort pulses of extreme ultraviolet and infrared radiation. Applications such as ultrafast optical free electron beam switches will also be explored. The project will leverage the infrastructure and education, diversity, and outreach programs established by Kansas and Nebraska Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) to engage and inspire students at all levels. During the three years of this Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-2 project, the program expects to provide 19 person-years of postdoctoral training and support 48 graduate students, 18 undergraduates and 18 faculty members from two-and four-year colleges, 18 high school students, and 30 high school teachers in research.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4645", "attributes": { "award_id": "1430519", "title": "Collaborative Research: Imaging and Controlling Ultrafast Dynamics of Atoms, Molecules, and Nanostructures", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "EPSCoR Research Infrastructure" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2014-08-01", "end_date": "2018-07-31", "award_amount": 2999994, "principal_investigator": { "id": 16047, "first_name": "F", "last_name": "Choobineh", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1315, "ror": "", "name": "University of Nebraska", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NE", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 16046, "first_name": "Anthony F", "last_name": "Starace", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1315, "ror": "", "name": "University of Nebraska", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NE", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Non-technical Description\nThe atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) research groups in Nebraska and Kansas will form a collaborative consortium to study and develop ways to control fundamental processes of electron motion in atoms, molecules, and nanostructures that occur at ultrafast (femto (10-15) to atto (10-18) second) time scales. The project will bring together experimental and theoretical physicists, chemists and electrical engineers from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (UNL), the Kansas State University (KSU), and the University of Kansas (KU) as well as the facilities for AMO research at the James R. Macdonald Laboratory (JRML) at KSU, Extreme Light Laboratory at UNL, Physics and Chemistry departments at KU, and the computing resources at the partner institutions to explore novel states of matter. The project team plans to engage in synergistic activities to expand and diversify the STEM workforce by engaging students, teachers, and researchers at broad ranging educational levels. Research and educational collaborations among the consortium partners as well as at national and international levels and the preparation of a diverse, globally engaged STEM workforce training are expected to be sustained beyond the award period. \n\nTechnical Description \nThe projects will use femto to atto second pulses of light to trigger different types of reactions in matter and use pump-probe measurements, high harmonic generation, and ultrafast electron diffraction methods to study and image atomic and molecular motions. Detailed experimental and theoretical studies will be carried out to understand the molecular ionization processes caused by the interaction of strong laser fields and molecules. Participating researchers will build an electron spectrometer with angular resolution, improve the accuracy of extracting the molecular structure parameters, and establish an improved ionization theory for polyatomic molecules. Another aspect of the project will focus on experimental and theoretical studies to investigate the interaction of nanostructures to ultrashort pulses of extreme ultraviolet and infrared radiation. Applications such as ultrafast optical free electron beam switches will also be explored. The project will leverage the infrastructure and education, diversity, and outreach programs established by Kansas and Nebraska Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) to engage and inspire students at all levels. During the three years of this Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-2 project, the program expects to provide 19 person-years of postdoctoral training and support 48 graduate students, 18 undergraduates and 18 faculty members from two-and four-year colleges, 18 high school students, and 30 high school teachers in research.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5359", "attributes": { "award_id": "0642025", "title": "Conference: Twenty-Fourth Fungal Genetics Conference to be held in Pacific Grove, California from March 20 -25, 2007.", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "EUKARYOTIC GENETICS" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2007-03-15", "end_date": "2008-02-29", "award_amount": 4000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18802, "first_name": "Marc", "last_name": "Orbach", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 438, "ror": "https://ror.org/03m2x1q45", "name": "University of Arizona", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "AZ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 438, "ror": "https://ror.org/03m2x1q45", "name": "University of Arizona", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "AZ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The Twenty Fourth Fungal Genetics Conference will be held at the Asilomar Conference Center from March 20-25, 2007. Approximately 750-800 scientists and students from around the world will attend. The conference focuses on the molecular biology, genetics, genomics, biochemistry and cell biology of filamentous fungi.\n\nThis biennial conference promotes interaction between researchers interested in plant pathogens, medical pathogens, saprophytic fungi, and symbiotic fungi. All participants stay on the conference grounds, a fact that facilitates informal discussions among them and in the past has led to the development of new collaborations and research directions. The formal meeting will consist of four plenary sessions, four sets of concurrent sessions devoted to specialized areas, and three poster sessions. Topics to be covered in the plenary sessions include the following: 1) Genome structures and dynamics, 2) Host-pathogen and symbiotic interactions, 3) Development and metabolism, and 4) Sex, time, and evolution. Topics for the concurrent sessions will cover the following areas: 1)Whole genome comparative analysis, 2) Fungal-plant interactions, 3) Zygomycete and Chytrid genomics, biotechnology and evolutionary biology, 4)Teaching fungal biology and genetics, 5) Evolutionary genetics and genomics, 6) Associations between fungi and humans, 7)Regulation of primary and secondary metabolism, 8) Epigenetics and genome dynamics, 9) Population genetics, 10) Biological applications of genomic sequence data, 11) Biofilms, quorum sensing, and thigmotropism, 12) Dimorphic transitions, 13) Symbiotic and parasitic (viruses, nematodes, other fungi and insects) interactions, 14) Mating and sexual development, 15) RNA functions, 16) Circadian rhythms and photobiology, 17) Industrial mycology in the post-genomics era, 18) Proteome and postgenomic approaches to protein secretion, 19) Small molecules and signaling, 20) Apoptosis and vegetative incompatibility, 21) Evolution of gene clusters, 22) Cellular morphogenesis and development, 23) Signal transduction and cell surface receptors, 24) Cool tools for fungal biology: gene disruption and imaging, and 25) Advances in oomycete research and Basidiomycete biology.\n\nBeginning in the 1940s with the work of Beadle and Tatum, who first demonstrated the relationship between genetics and biochemistry, fungi have served as model eukaryotes, aiding in understanding of basic biological processes. This meeting places a strong emphasis on the participation of young scientists and students, particularly those from underrepresented groups. It provides many with their first opportunity to attend a major international conference and present their research findings, an important part of their training and professional development. Funds will be distributed on the basis of need and will be used to defray the travel and participation expenses of students, postdoctoral researchers, and some young scientists who would otherwise be unable to attend the meeting.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "3603", "attributes": { "award_id": "1656736", "title": "Evolution of Dimorphic Morphogenesis in Rhabditid Nematodes", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Evolution of Develp Mechanism" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2017-02-01", "end_date": "2021-01-31", "award_amount": 945000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 11701, "first_name": "David", "last_name": "Fitch", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 167, "ror": "https://ror.org/0190ak572", "name": "New York University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 167, "ror": "https://ror.org/0190ak572", "name": "New York University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Gender dimorphism is the difference between genders in features such as coloration, shapes and sizes of body parts (morphology), or even behavior. The primary objective of this research project is to understand how morphological diversity in dimorphic structures has evolved. This objective addresses two fundamentally important but largely unanswered questions in developmental and evolutionary biology: (1) How do changes in gene regulatory networks (GRNs) result in morphological diversity? and (2) How might GRNs bias such evolutionary change? A major hypothesis is that some genes, called \"hot-spot\" genes, are involved repeatedly in morphological evolution, perhaps due to their central positions in GRNs. The research project will test this \"hot-spot\" hypothesis using a model structure, the nematode tail tip, which has repeatedly evolved dimorphism. This research will not only add to the understanding of fundamental evolutionary mechanisms, but will aid in the understanding of morphogenesis, a fundamental process in development, cancer metastasis and wound healing. New knowledge is also expected regarding genes that govern gender differences and control the timing of developmental events. Broader impacts include the training of new graduate and undergraduate students in developmental genetics, genomics and evolution. Because such students will be recruited from diverse pools, the participation of women and underrepresented minorities is likely to be enriched in this scientific discipline. In the course of this research, new resources (gene constructs, strains and databases) and novel methods (tissue-specific analysis of gene expression) will be generated and shared, likely to be useful to others researching morphogenesis and cell biology. Finally, a unique living, curated collection of diverse nematode species will be maintained as a valuable resource for comparative biology, genomics and education.\n\nThe tail tips of both males and females of many rhabditid nematode species (as well as the rhabditid ancestor) have a pointed morphology, but male-specific tail tip morphogenesis (TTM) producing a rounded shape has been repeatedly gained and lost during evolution. Two different approaches will be used to test the \"hot-spot\" gene hypothesis for the evolution of TTM dimorphism: a candidate-gene approach and an unbiased genomics-level approach. First, DMD-3, the \"master-regulator\" of TTM in Caenorhabditis elegans, will be tested as a candidate \"hot-spot\" gene. smFISH will be used to determine if DMD-3 is expressed in males from phylogenetic lineages that independently evolved TTM. Bayesian methods will be used to test for any phylogenetic correlation between changes in DMD-3 expression and TTM dimorphism. If such correlation exists, the functional requirement for DMD-3 will be tested by CRISPR/Cas9 knockout or RNAi. The second approach will use phylogenetic analysis of tail-tip-specific transcriptome profiles to identify any other genes that changed expression in concert with TTM evolution. RNA-seq profiles will be obtained for tail tips that have been laser-dissected from males and females at several stages from L3 through L4. For each species, these profiles will identify tail tip genes that are dynamically expressed between L3 and L4 stages, differentially expressed between the different genders, and correlate with the gain or loss of TTM in the phylogeny.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4031", "attributes": { "award_id": "1556931", "title": "Collaborative Research: The genetic basis, biosynthetic pathways and evolution of chemical defense in carabid beetles", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2016-07-01", "end_date": "2018-02-28", "award_amount": 284175, "principal_investigator": { "id": 13512, "first_name": "Tanya", "last_name": "Renner", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 448, "ror": "", "name": "San Diego State University Foundation", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The main goal of this project is to understand, at the molecular level, one of the most remarkable chemical defense systems found in nature - the explosive, extremely hot spray of the bombardier beetles. Insects make up much of the animal life that has evolved on Earth. Understanding why there are so many different kinds of insects and why they are so successful is fundamental to understanding how the wide diversity of life evolved. Insects are well known for producing many different chemical compounds that are required for their communication. Some chemicals help them to locate mates and food resources, others help them to organize activities within the nest or hive, and many others are used to warn off and defend against predators. This project focuses on this last aspect and is specifically testing the idea that the genes responsible for production of the hot chemical spray of the bombardier beetles are closely related to the genes responsible for producing similar chemicals in the insect's outer shell or exoskeleton. A main strength of the project is that it tackles this question by using multiple complementary approaches and by comparing eight different beetle species that are related to varying degrees. Half of these species have evolved a chemical defense system, the other half have not evolved this ability. Many college students and young scientists will receive scientific training in conjunction with the project. People of all ages are highly captivated by these beetles, particularly school age children. With the bombardier beetle as a model, the project will help develop elementary school level hands-on activities and lesson plans on topics in chemical ecology and biological chemical defense evolution that will reinforce the Next Generation Science.\n\nGround beetles and their relatives form the largest clade of organisms that use a single homologous gland system to produce no less than 19 distinct classes of chemical compounds for defense. This project will develop a detailed functional and evolutionary understanding of defensive chemistry evolution by focusing on species from the four lineages of quinone producing carabid beetles, including species commonly known as the bombardier beetles, which chemically blast their defensive quinones at extremely hot temperatures (up to 100 °C). Using a multidisciplinary approach, this project will identify genes involved in quinone production, elucidate chemical biosynthetic pathways, and describe the genetic architecture of quinone evolution. From gland-specific transcripts, candidate genes related to the production of defensive secretions will be identified and gene function will be validated experimentally by blocking gene transcription and looking at phenotypic changes in the compounds produced. The researchers will test the hypothesis that the genes up-regulated in secretory cells during quinone synthesis are closely related to those involved in quinone production in arthropod cuticle. Thus the project will empirically address the well-known, but untested, scenario of how the bombardier beetle evolved its explosive defense abilities. Ultimately, this project will explore how genetics and chemistry can interact over time and will reveal insights into the fundamental process of evolution.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 1392, "pages": 1405, "count": 14046 } } }