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Dr. Hoover will investigate the role of water-rock reaction in producing the enigmatic seismic phenomena known as episodic tremor and slip (ETS) that can precede large, damaging earthquakes, particularly along subduction zone faults. This study will focus on rocks from Catalina Island (Southern California) exhumed from depths characteristic of ETS in modern subduction zones (e.g., Cascadia in Washington and Oregon). Integrated macro- and micro-scale structural and geochemical analysis will reveal how rock alteration by fluid flow yields deformation behavior characteristic of ETS. This work will provide important direct observations of rocks from ETS source regions and inform modern subduction zone monitoring and seismic research. During field work on Catalina Island, Dr. Hoover will teach a field course to students from Hispanic-serving institution Cal State Channel Islands and mentor capstone research projects. He will also develop and present educational activities as part of the University of Washington Rockin’ Out K-12 outreach program. Lastly, this research will be carried out on land of the Gabrielino-Tongva Tribe and he will return tangible benefits of the research through outreach events held for the tribe. <br/><br/>Rheological modeling of ETS suggests that it may be hosted within metasomatic talc and chlorite schists, and Dr. Hoover will test this hypothesis using the exhumed rock record. He will identify geologic equivalents of the structures and fluid-rich conditions inferred from geophysical studies of ETS source regions through field mapping of the Catalina Schist (CA). He will connect outcrop-scale deformation partitioning to metasomatic changes with bulk major and trace element and Sr and Li isotope geochemistry. Using spatially-resolved micro-scale chemical and structural analysis with electron microbeam techniques, he will determine deformation mechanisms and connect them to compositional changes across all scales. These observations will be placed in the temporal context of the seismic cycle through bulk Li and intra-crystalline diffusion chronometry. Using this multi-scale approach Dr. Hoover will document how metasomatism controls deformation partitioning and mechanisms at the conditions of ETS in modern subduction zones. These results will inform future geophysical, theoretical and experimental studies of subduction zone seismicity.<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": "2977", "attributes": { "award_id": "1919614", "title": "RCN-UBE Incubator: Creating a Multi-Institution and -Disciplinary STEM Network to Improve Undergraduate Biology Education", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "UBE - Undergraduate Biology Ed" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2019-08-01", "end_date": "2021-07-31", "award_amount": 74327, "principal_investigator": { "id": 9086, "first_name": "Alison", "last_name": "Hyslop", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1004, "ror": "", "name": "Saint John's University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 9082, "first_name": "Lawrence J", "last_name": "Hobbie", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 9083, "first_name": "Michael J", "last_name": "Pullin", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 9084, "first_name": "Jessica", "last_name": "Santangelo", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 9085, "first_name": "Jacqueline", "last_name": "Lee", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1004, "ror": "", "name": "Saint John's University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The Sustainable, Transformative Engagement across a Multi-Institution/Multidisciplinary STEM, (STEM)^2 (\"STEM-squared\"), Network will be a regional group that aims to increase the academic success of biology majors including those who transition from community colleges to four-year institutions. The (STEM)^2 Network will bridge the disciplines of biology, chemistry, and math, as well as the barriers that exist between the participating two- and four-year institutions. The multidisciplinary nature of the Network's approach will extend its impact beyond biology, while the inclusion of public two-year and private four-year schools will ensure that outcomes are applicable across institution types. The network will be unique among the organizations that exist to support STEM education reform because 1) the focus will be on identifying areas for interdisciplinary curricular and educational collaborations; and 2) the multilevel approach will target individual classroom behaviors, curricular collaboration across disciplines, and institutionalization of innovations. As such, it will empower faculty to be change agents for STEM reform, creating new directions in research and education. It is anticipated that student academic success and retention will increase which, in turn, will help meet the need for a larger and more diverse STEM workforce.\n\nThe (STEM)^2 Network will use a series of collaborative studio workshops to achieve the overarching goals of 1) promoting collaboration between regional public community colleges and four-year private institutions; 2) empowering faculty to create change beyond their classrooms; and 3) creating enduring pedagogical collaborations across STEM disciplines encountered by undergraduate biology majors. The theoretical foundations of the network include systems design for organizational change, an emergent outcomes model for diffusion of STEM innovations, and the principles underlying Communities of Transformation. Participants will align the guiding educational documents of the disciplines of biology, chemistry, and math to encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration. They will directly enhance undergraduate biology education by developing institutional systems maps to strategically identify opportunities for sustainable change. The (STEM)^2 Network will contribute to knowledge generation by documenting the development of the network from an industrial/organizational psychology perspective and assessment of interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, institutional structures, and faculty attitudes to catalyze change in undergraduate biology education. Co-funding for this project is being provided by the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE: EHR) program in recognition of the project's alignment with the overarching goals of the IUSE: EHR program.\n\nThis 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": "14270", "attributes": { "award_id": "2120375", "title": "RCN-UBE Incubator: Transforming Assessment and Feedback in Undergraduate Biology Education", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "UBE - Undergraduate Biology Ed" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 8562, "first_name": "Sophie", "last_name": "George", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-15", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 74960, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30845, "first_name": "Michele", "last_name": "Lemons", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30844, "first_name": "Michele L", "last_name": "Lemons", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2451, "ror": "https://ror.org/039k72y49", "name": "Assumption College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The Nation needs more STEM graduates in order to meet workforce needs and address societal challenges such as climate change and new infectious diseases. It is very common for students to begin study in these fields only to abruptly leave after a few courses, and this attrition disproportionately affects already underrepresented students such as women and students of color. One possible explanation is that undergraduate biology education largely relies on high-stakes quizzes and exams that students find demotivating, creating an intimidating “weed out” culture. This is dismaying but at the same time, these students must master a high degree of content to successfully transition from community colleges to four-year programs and then to post-baccalaureate science programs or careers. This Research Coordination Network will advance undergraduate biology education by creating a network of scholars not only from biology but also from the field of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) to identify and facilitate educator use of more effective, nontraditional approaches to assessment, grading, and feedback that nonetheless respect the constraints presented by a comprehensive biology education. The goal of this project is to improve assessment and feedback in undergraduate biology education such that we expand and diversify students studying in these fields while not sacrificing standards of excellence. <br/><br/>A diverse network representing institutions ranging from community colleges to primarily undergraduate liberal arts colleges to HBCUs to large research-focused universities will pursue the following aims: establish the research network; use quantitative and qualitative designs within these diverse range of institutions to identify sources of problematic assessments and feedback, use of novel approaches, and barriers to implementation of innovations; present at several leading biology and teaching conferences the insights on current barriers and challenges to undergraduate biology assessment and feedback; and use data gathered to formulate a full proposal that will implement and test effectiveness of novel approaches. The purpose of the current incubator is to clarify the current state in undergraduate biology education—the traditional methods still being used, new methods being attempted and their relative successes and failures, and the constraints and barriers particular to the study of biology that should be kept in mind in the development of any new tools. The results will form the basis for a larger study which will develop and test the effectiveness of new tools for assessment and feedback that encourage rather than discourage wide participation in the study of biology, thereby improving student learning and performance and producing a better prepared and more diverse STEM workforce.<br/><br/>This project is being funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure as part of efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/).<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": "4799", "attributes": { "award_id": "1140165", "title": "Collaborative Research: The SEED-PA. A Practical Instrument for Assessing Individual Ethics Initiatives", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "TUES-Type 1 Project" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2012-04-15", "end_date": "2016-03-31", "award_amount": 35791, "principal_investigator": { "id": 16642, "first_name": "Trevor", "last_name": "Harding", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 678, "ror": "", "name": "California Polytechnic State University Foundation", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 678, "ror": "", "name": "California Polytechnic State University Foundation", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Engineering ethics is an important topic in engineering education. There is considerable interest in the engineering education community for an instrument that can be used in ethics education. This collaborative project addresses the need for such an instrument. The project team plans is building upon their current research-based SEED (Survey of Engineering Ethical Development) instrument which is grounded in theory and has been completed by 3,914 respondents at 19 partner institutions across the nation. The project has four goals: 1). Create a practical instrument for assessing individual ethics initiatives (SEED-PA); 2). Use the SEED-PA to conduct four separate studies addressing important research questions and demonstrating the utility, reliability, and validity of the instrument; 3). Develop the SEED-PA User's Guide to assist in research design, administration, data analysis, and results interpretation; 4). Broadly disseminate the online SEED-PA and the SEED-PA User's Guide.\n\nThis project is advancing discovery about assessing individual ethics initiatives and has the potential to transform undergraduate education in engineering ethics. The instrument developed can be used by engineering programs to address ABET learning outcomes on engineering ethics. The project includes a multifaceted dissemination plan with focused and broad dissemination mechanisms. The collaborating institutions span a range of institutional types with diverse student bodies. The studies are likely to yield results that are widely applicable.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5274", "attributes": { "award_id": "0814552", "title": "Group Travel Support for International Conference on Inverse Problems", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "TTP-Thermal Transport Process" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2008-05-01", "end_date": "2009-04-30", "award_amount": 10200, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18587, "first_name": "Guy", "last_name": "Raguin", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 521, "ror": "https://ror.org/05hs6h993", "name": "Michigan State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18586, "first_name": "Neil T", "last_name": "Wright", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 521, "ror": "https://ror.org/05hs6h993", "name": "Michigan State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "CBET-0814552\nRaguin\n\nPartial support is provided for US participation in the Sixth International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering (6th ICIPE), which will be held in Dourdan, France, on June 15 - 19, 2008. The purpose of this meeting is to enable US researchers to become more engaged in this field, which is being led by researchers from outside the US.\n\nWith respect to the intellectual merit of the conference, inverse problems impact a wide variety of interdisciplinary engineering fields, including (but not limited) to thermal transport. Significant advances have been made primarily outside the US, indicating that US researchers are lagging their international counterparts. It is thus very important for US researchers to be involved with this meeting, particularly junior investigators.\n\nThe broader impacts of the conference include support for a number of junior, female, and under-represented minority researchers to attend this meeting. A key goal of the conference is to enhance international collaboration opportunities. Results from the meeting will be disseminated by publication in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series, an open-access web-based journal.\n\nThis project is funded by the Thermal Transport Processes (TTP) Program of the Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Division.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4751", "attributes": { "award_id": "1332807", "title": "Integrated Hot-Phonon Harvesting Barriers in High-Power Circuit Devices", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "TTP-Thermal Transport Process" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2013-08-01", "end_date": "2018-07-31", "award_amount": 291175, "principal_investigator": { "id": 16475, "first_name": "Massoud", "last_name": "Kaviany", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 169, "ror": "", "name": "Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 169, "ror": "", "name": "Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "CBET 1332807\nPI: Massoud Kaviany (U. Michigan)\n\nThe proposed research aims to use (integrate) a novel hot phonon absorption barrier structure converting phonon energy to harvestable electric potential, in high-power electric circuits and devices. This electric potential barrier (barrier is formed by heterostructures, e.g., Al alloying, and its height matches optical phonon energy) allows only those electrons with high momentum/energy to pass through it, while the remaining electrons with lower energy will have a favorable phonon absorption condition. For the proposed example of GaN high electron mobility transistor, the expected reduction in the maximum operating temperature is as much as 40 degC at 5 W/mm Joule heating rate, and up to 20% of the phonons will be recycled corresponding to the same saving in power consumption (i.e., in-situ direct conversion of emitted phonons back to electric potential energy). The results are expected to also apply to light emitting diodes and other high-power electronics, and contribute to thermal management at atomic scale.\n\nThe use of a heterobarrier, or abrupt change in material composition, in a circuit allows electricity-generated heat to boost electric potential instead of draining efficiency. Using this architecture in high-power circuits lowers the device temperature and improves the device efficiency. Electrons in a circuit gain energy by absorbing phonons, the interatomic vibrations associated with heat. In a circuit, a ?heterobarrier? may be inserted to take advantage of these excited electrons, boosting them up in electrical potential. The heterobarrier is engineered such that the increase in the band gap energy of the new material is equal to the energy given the electron by the phonons. Monte Carlo simulations based on interaction kinetics between electron and phonon show up to 19% of phonon energy converts to electric potential. This heterobarrier reverses the role of phonon from causing electric potential drop to causing potential gain.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4805", "attributes": { "award_id": "1238362", "title": "2012 Rock Deformation Gordon Research Conference: Feedback Processes in Rock Deformation", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Tectonics" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2012-06-01", "end_date": "2013-05-31", "award_amount": 22505, "principal_investigator": { "id": 16662, "first_name": "Peter", "last_name": "Kelemen", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 226, "ror": "https://ror.org/05rad4t93", "name": "Gordon Research Conferences", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "RI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 16661, "first_name": "Nancy R", "last_name": "Gray", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 226, "ror": "https://ror.org/05rad4t93", "name": "Gordon Research Conferences", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "RI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This project provides funding for travel and registration support to U.S. based early-career professionals and students to attend the Gordon Research Conference \" Feedback Processes in Rock Deformation\", which will be held in Andover, NH from August 19-24, 2012. The Rock Deformation conference series highlights the latest research and future trends in brittle and ductile rock mechanics, with experimental, field and theoretical contributions. The broad goals are to assess the understanding of the nature and controls on rock strength, fracture, friction, ductile deformation, and both fluid and melt flow during natural tectonic loading. This particular conference focuses on feedback mechanisms, which are very important in controlling the rates and mechanisms of rock deformation. Positive feedbacks lead to accelerating rates, and commonly to spatial focusing whereas negative feedbacks commonly cause decelerating, spatially distributed deformation and reaction. Major topics addressed at this conference include: (1) mechanisms of failure in geological materials at high confining pressure; (2) fluid-assisted slip, earthquakes and fracture; (3) reaction-driven cracking; (4) localized fluid transport (feedbacks involving chemical reaction; mechanical feedbacks); and (5) dynamic triggering of earthquakes.\n\nThis conference addresses many cutting-edge frontier research topics in tectonics, geophysics, and related fields. The conference theme has special relevance for extraction of unconventional hydrocarbon resources, implementation of enhanced geothermal systems, geological carbon capture and storage, and understanding seismic hazards. The conference would promote the participation of students, early career scientists, and researchers from underrepresented groups in the earth sciences.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4918", "attributes": { "award_id": "1049966", "title": "Age of the Socorro Magma Body: Surface Uplift History from River Terrace Correlation and Cosmochronology", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Tectonics" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2011-10-01", "end_date": "2014-09-30", "award_amount": 102767, "principal_investigator": { "id": 17727, "first_name": "Gary", "last_name": "Axen", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 17725, "first_name": "James B", "last_name": "Harrison", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 17726, "first_name": "Fred M", "last_name": "Phillips", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 923, "ror": "https://ror.org/005p9kw61", "name": "New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NM", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The Socorro magma body is one of the largest known midcrustal magma bodies on Earth: it is a sill-like feature, about 3,400 square kilometers in area, about 150 meters thick, and lies at about 19 km depth under the central Rio Grande rift in the Socorro, New Mexico area The Socorro magma body causes surface uplift with a maximum rate of about 2.5-3 mm/yr centered over the northern part of the body. Models of surface uplift due to an elastic crustal response to magmatic inflation at 19 km depth agree well with InSAR interferograms. The age of the magma body and its related surface uplift are controversial. In order to resolve this controversy, the New Mexico Tech research team will carry out a pilot study of terrace remnants to determine the age of onset of surface uplift. They will map the terrace remnants with the aid of Digital Elevation Models and correlate them using soil characteristics (clay and carbonate content), geomorphic characteristics (surface textures, degree of desert varnish, location within flights of terraces), sedimentological characteristics of terrace deposits (clast types, sedimentary structures, grain size), and 36Cl ages. Well-preserved and unaltered surfaces will be dated using 36Cl cosmogenic isotope profile dating. Lateral changes in terrace elevations and vertical terrace spacing will, in turn, allow identification of those terraces affected or unaffected by Socorro magma body inflation. Terrace ages will bracket onset of Socorro magma body -related uplift and constrain long-term rates of uplift and magma-body inflation.\n\nThe Socorro magma body is one of the largest known midcrustal magma bodies on Earth. Leveling and InSAR studies indicate that the magma body is causing surface uplift at rates of about 2.5 mm/yr (in the central zone of fastest uplift). The Socorro Seismic Anomaly has the highest rate of upper crustal seismicity in New Mexico and lies above the magma body. Microseismicity presumably is triggered by deformation and ascending hydrous fluids above the Socorro magma body. This project seeks to constrain the age of the Socorro magma body, which is relevant to understanding crustal rheology, evolution of the brittle-ductile transition, crustal growth in rifts, magma genesis during rifting, stress evolution during rifting, and volcanic hazard.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4822", "attributes": { "award_id": "1246432", "title": "4th Beneficial Microbes ConferenceSan Antonio, Tx, October 22 - 26, 2012", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Symbiosis Infection & Immunity" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2012-08-01", "end_date": "2013-07-31", "award_amount": 10000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 16745, "first_name": "Joerg", "last_name": "Graf", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1342, "ror": "https://ror.org/04xsjmh40", "name": "American Society for Microbiology", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "DC", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1342, "ror": "https://ror.org/04xsjmh40", "name": "American Society for Microbiology", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "DC", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The tremendous progress of high throughput technologies including DNA sequencing and proteomics is rapidly advancing the understanding of beneficial microbe-host interactions. Most animals and plants depend upon associations with coevolved communities of microorganisms that play critical roles in physiological balance and maintaining homeostasis. Recognition of these phenomena is revolutionizing how biologists view the function of the normal microbiota with respect to their association with hosts. The Beneficial Microbes Conference is unique in cutting across disciplines by bringing together ecologists, microbiologists, molecular biologists and computational biologists that have the common goal to understand the mechanisms and benefits of microbial interactions with a variety of hosts, from plants to humans. The conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas as a convenient central location in the United States. The aim is to provide a forum for increasing cross-disciplinary interactions and thus to develop new insights and approaches to the study of beneficial host-microbe interactions. This field is currently very popular as demonstrated by past scientist attendance to this conference series, including graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. To assure a broad representation, the organizational committee has well balanced demographic representation. One third of the invited speakers are junior (pre-tenure), and 6 of 19 invited speakers are women. Of the 36 contributed oral presentations, 17 (47%) will be selected from submitted abstracts, ensuring ample high-visibility for students and postdocs with innovative ideas. As in the previous meetings, the selection process for these student and postdoc presentations will focus on junior researchers, women and minorities. Students at underrepresented minority institutions will also be targets for support. The proposal budget includes 5 travel awards for minority graduate students, and the awardees will be selected based on the quality of their abstracts. Only poster presenters who are U.S. citizens will receive travel support.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "15647", "attributes": { "award_id": "2525962", "title": "Conference: International Symposium on the Infectious Diseases of Bats:Fourth International Symposium on the Infectious Diseases of Bats (BatID 2025), Chicago, IL", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Symbiosis Infection & Immunity" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 2558, "first_name": "Joanna", "last_name": "Shisler", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2025-04-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 14868, "principal_investigator": { "id": 26531, "first_name": "Cara", "last_name": "Brook", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 289, "ror": "https://ror.org/024mw5h28", "name": "University of Chicago", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award supports the Fourth International Symposium on the Infectious Diseases of Bats (‘BatID 2025’), an international conference which brings together researchers from the disparate fields of virology, immunology, biochemistry, ecology, physiology, and genetics to investigate the role of bats as unique pathogen hosts. Bats are natural reservoir hosts for several high profile emerging human pathogens—including SARS-related coronaviruses, the likely precursors to the COVID-19 pandemic—yet they demonstrate limited pathology upon infection with viruses that cause extreme disease in non-bat (including human) hosts. Studying the mechanisms by which bats avoid disease from infection offers opportunities to translate bat-inspired immunological approaches into human disease therapeutics. This meeting offers opportunities for early career trainees, particularly graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, to share ideas and research findings with experts across this wide-ranging and interdisciplinary field. The meeting also aims to facilitate conversation between bat ecologists and conservationists with those engaged in more molecular approaches to understanding bat infectious disease to reconcile bats’ roles as major pathogen reservoirs. BatID 2025 is organized around three major conference objectives: (1) to disseminate research on the unique role of bats as pathogen hosts, (2) to foster collaborations and expand the field of bat infectious disease research, and (3) to identify a priority future research agenda in the study of bat infectious diseases. The first objective highlights this meeting’s utility as a research-sharing forum that welcomes representatives from disparate disciplines, who may not closely follow research outputs from other fields. The second objective seeks to turn this idea exchange into action by fostering collaborations among attendees, this year with a particular emphasis on recruiting participants and speakers who have not previously attended this meeting. Finally, the third objective seeks to organize the community around future research goals through an open discussion at the end of the two-day program. As an output, the Conference Organizing Committee will produce a peer-reviewed ‘Conference Proceedings’ article (to be led by junior researcher attendees) that shares these goals with the broader scientific community. 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 } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 1, "pages": 1392, "count": 13920 } } }