Jenna McCart, Editor
September 2011 - Volume 7, Issue 1
Awards Received June 1 through August 31, 2011
College of Sciences
Office of the Dean
Dr. Eric Frost
American Red Cross: "Technology and Humanitarian Assistance for Disaster Response," $40,000 ▪ California Seismic Safety Commission: "Education and Outreach Web Site Development for the California Seismic Safety Commission," $15,000
Dr. Matthew Rahn
San Diego River Conservancy: "San Diego River Center: A Partnership for a Sustainable Watershed," $76,000
Dr. Faramarz Valafar
University of California at San Diego: "Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis for the Purpose of Improving Diagnostic Tests," $30,254
Dr. Faramarz Valafar and Dr. Richard Levine
NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources: "Biomedical Statistical Informatics Track," $139,047
Astronomy
Dr. William Welsh
NASA Headquarters: "Detailed Modeling of Extrasolar Planet Transit Observations as a Kepler Participating Scientist," $46,163
Dr. William Welsh and Dr. Jerome Orosz
NSF Directorate for Mathematics and Physical Sciences: "Stellar Astrophysics via Exoplanet and Transits," $379,108
Biology
Dr. Sanford Bernstein
National Institute of General Medical Sciences: "Genetics of Molecular Biology of Myosin," $466,316; "Genetics and Molecular Biology of Myosin-Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health Related Research-Adriana Trujillo," $51,469
Dr. Andrew Bohonak
AECOM Technology Corporation: "Supplemental Studies of GTF/BUI/BWI," $35,800
Dr. Ted Cranford
DOD Fleet and Industrial Supply Center: "Constructing Hearing Threshhold Diagrams for Marine Mammals: Computational Methods," $23,750
Dr. Kelly Doran
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: "Blood-brain Barrier Failure in Bacterial Meningitis," $327,031
Dr. Douglas Deutschman
Nature Conservancy (The): "Otay Tarplant Conceptual Model Development," $16,119 ▪ Nature Reserve of Orange County (The): "Improving Statistical Sampling and Developing Oak Woodland Monitoring Techniques for the Nature Reserve of Orange County Reserve System in Central Orange County -- 2011," $45,000
Dr. Ralph Feuer
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: "Coxsackievirus Latency, Immune Activation and Pathogenesis in the Central Nervous Systems," $288,442
Dr. Kim Finley
National Institute on Aging: "Age-Dependent Regulation of Clearance and Signaling Pathways," $293,233 Dr.
Christopher Glembotski
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine: "SDSU/CIRM Stem Cell Internship Program," $579,510 ▪ National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: "Role of the Unfolded Protein Response in Cardiac Protection," $396,847; "Roles for ER Stress Inducible Cardiomykines in the Heart," $359,502 ▪ National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering: "Development of a New System for the Delivery of Protective Molecules to the Heart," $71,850
Dr. Roberta Gottlieb
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: "Rescue and Role of Complex I in Myocardial Ischemic Injury," $336,375 ▪ National Institute on Aging: "Subcellular Regulation of Autophagic Flux in Cardiomyocytes and the Heart," $18,570
Dr. Rebecca Lewison
DOC National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: "Gull-billed Tern (Gelichodon Nilotica Vanrossemi) Habitat Use of the Tijuana River Estuary: Developing a Foraging Range and Diet with Telemetry and Stable Isotope Analysis - Kate Goodenough," $20,000 ▪ The San Diego Foundation: "Planning for Connectivity under Climate Change: Using Bobcat Movement to Assess Wildlife Landscape Linkages for San Diego County's Open Spaces," $68,000
Dr. Phyllis-Jean Linton
National Institute on Aging: "Dendritic Cells in the Aged," $22,571
Dr. Estralita Martin
CSU Sacramento University Enterprises, Inc: "CSU Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LS-AMP) Phase IV," $6,000
Dr. Robert Mentzer and Dr. Roberta Gottlieb
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: "Autophagy, Adenosine and Pyruvate Protection During Heart Surgery," $376,558
Dr. Walter Oechel
U.S. Department of Energy: "Seasonal and Inter-annual Controls on CO2 Flux in Arctic Alaska," $121,275
Dr. Robert Pozos
University of California at San Diego: "Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award," $9,124
Dr. Forest Rohwer
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research: "Integrated Microbial Biodiversity Fellowship," $25,000
Dr. Mark Sussman
American Heart Association: "Telomeric Length Preservation to Antagonize Myocardial Aging - Cottage," $21,500 ▪ American Heart Association Western States Affiliate: "Beta-Adrenergic Signaling Inhibits Myocardial Repair by Cardiac Stem Cell Depletion and Exhaustion-Mohsin Khan," $39,000; "Pin 1 Isomerase: A Novel Regulator of Cardioactive Signal Transduction- Haruhiro Toko," $39,000 ▪ National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: "Inducible Notch Improves Progenitor Cell Repair of a Damaged Heart," $224,250; "AHA Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences," $15,000; "Stem Cell Signaling in the Pathologically Challenged Myocardium," $373,750 ▪ National Institutes of Health: "Nucleolar Disruption in Response to Cardiomyopathic Stress and Injury-Avitable," $186,875
Dr. Marilyn Thoman
National Institute on Aging: "Novel Gene Therapy for Restoration of Aged Thymopoiesis," $379,591
Dr. Roland Wolkowicz
California HIV/AIDS Research Program: "The Role of CHII-COP9 Interactions in HIV-1 Infection," $100,000
Mr. Thomas Zink
DOD Army Corps of Engineers: "Native Seed Collection and Propagation, Site Selection, etc., at San Clemente Island, California," $263,172
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Dr. Carl Carrano
NSF Division of Chemistry: "International Collaboration in Chemistry: Mechanisms of Iron Uptake and Storage in Marine Macroalgae - An Integrated Bioinorganic Approach," $100,000
Dr. Tom Huxford
National Science Foundation: "Chemistry and Evolutionary Conservation of a Naturally Occurring Metalloantibody," $400,000
Dr. Shelli McAlpine
National Cancer Institute: "Conformation Design and Development of Antitumor Agents- Diversity Supplement Leslie Alexander," $51,724 ▪ Herman Frasch Foundation: "Development of New Antibiotics with a Novel Target," $50,000
Dr. William Stumph
California Metabolic Research Foundation: "Arne N. Wick Predoctoral Research Fellowship- Arthur Hauentein," $32,000; "Enzyme Regulation, Lipid, and Carbohydrate Metabolism- Mario Navarro," $50,500
Computer Science
Dr. Robert Edwards
NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences: "REU Supplement: Collaborative Research: PHANTOME: PHage ANotation TOols and MEthods," $15,500
Dr. Marie Roch
DOD Office of Naval Research: "Acoustic Metadata Management and Transparent Access to Networked Oceanographic Data Sets," $90,371 ▪ Scripps Institution of Oceanography: "Southern California Marine Mammal Studies Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring," $50,000
Geological Sciences
Dr. Shuo Ma
DOI United States Geological Survey: "Exploring the Likelihood of Earthquake Ruptures on the San Andreas Fault Breaking through the San Gorgonio Pass Area by Using Dynamic Rupture Simulations and the Community Fault Model," $79,815 ▪ University of Southern California: "Extraction of Station-to-Station Green's Functions Using Seismic Coda in Southern California," $20,000; "Exploring the Probability of Fault-to-Fault Jumps During Earthquake Ruptures by Using Three- Dimensional Dynamic Simulations," $20,000; "Rupture Dynamics, Validation of the Numerical Simulation Method," $8,000
Dr. Kim Olsen
University of Southern California: "Rupture and Ground Motions near an Extensional Stepover on the San Jacinto Fault with Validation from Precariously Balanced Rocks: Collaborative Research with UC Riverside and San Diego State University" SCEC#11153," $6,763; "Correlation of Peak Dynamic and Static Coulomb Failure Stress with Seismicity Rate Change after the M7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake SCEC#11140," $25,000
Dr. Kim Olsen and Dr. Steven Day
University of Southern California: "Geoinformatics: A Petascale Cyberfacility for Physics-based Seismic Hazard Analysis (PetaSHA-3)," $98,000
Dr. Aaron Pietruszka
NSF Directorate of Geosciences: "Collaborative Research: Magnetic Evolution of Kilauea Volcano: Past, Present and Future," $169,771
Dr. Thomas Rockwell and Dr. Gary Girty
National Science Foundation: "Collaborative Research: Structural Architecture and Evolutionary Plate-Boundary Processes Along the San Jacinto Fault Zone," $124,021
Mathematics & Statistics
Dr. Joanne Lobato
University of Georgia: "Diagnosing Teachers' Multiplicative Reasoning," $60,214
Dr. Antonio Palacios
National Science Foundation: "DynSyst Special Topics: Spin Torque Nano-Oscillators for Microwave Signal Generation," $250,731 ▪ Quasarfs: "Compact, Broadband, Geolocation Systems," $32,000
Dr. Samuel Shen
NSF Directorate of Geosciences: "Collaborative Research; Changes in Characteristics of Global Precipitation Since 1900 from Observations, Analyses, and Models: Mechanisms and Uncertainties - RET Lubomudrov," $15,000 ▪ U.S. Department of Energy: "Using Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Observations to Evaluate Global Circulation Model Cloud Statistics for Development of Stochastic Cloud-Radiation Parameterizations," $37,086
Physics
Dr. Fred Goldberg
National Science Foundation: "Developing Large-Enrollment, Guided Inquiry, Conceptual Physics Course," $174,996
Dr. Calvin Johnson
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "Development of Large-Dimension Configuration-Interaction Methods in Support of Nuclear Density Functional Calculations," $20,057
Dr. James Mueller
National Institute of Standards and Technology: "Self-shading Corrections to MOBY Upwelling Radiances: Model and Uncertainty Analyses," $45,352
Dr. Usha Sinha and Dr. Jose Castillo
NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources: "ARRA: Science Master's Program Integrating Regulatory Affairs in BioScience and Biomedical Physics: A Scalable, Replicable Model Addressing Current and Emerging Workforce Needs," $373,883
Psychology
Dr. Nader Amir
National Institute of Mental Health: "Attention Training and Relaxation for GAD: Testing the Efficacy of Home-delivery," $30,160
Dr. Catherine Atkins and Dr. Stanley Maloy
National Institute of General Medical Sciences: "Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC)," $442,509
Dr. Ralph Axel-Mueller
National Institute of Mental Health: "Linking Local Activity and Functional Connectivity in Autism," $33,241
Dr. Thereasa Cronan
National Institute of Mental Health: "Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program (M-RISP)," $15,347
Dr. Linda Gallo
Scripps Research Institute: "ARRA: Scripps Translational Science Institute: NCRR ARRA Community Engagement," $5,000; "Scripps Translational Science Institute," $27,792
Dr. Paul Gilbert
National Institute on Aging: "Mnemonic Processing Deficits in Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease," $214,533
Dr. Nirelia Idrus
ABMRF / The Foundation for Alcohol Research: "Fetal Alcohol Effects and Vitamin D," $50,000
Dr. Elizabeth Klonoff
University of California at San Diego: "Clinical and Translational Research Institute," $56,049
Dr. Alan Litrownik
Inger Davis: "Child Welfare Research," $6,000
Dr. Sandra Marshall
DOD Office of Naval Research: "Cognitive Models of Decision Making in Marinetime Headquarter with Marinetime Operations Center: A New Perspective on Cognitive Workload," $68,904
Dr. Sarah Mattson
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: "Mechanisms of Math Deficits in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders - Nicole Crocker," $29,357 ; "Mechanisms of Attention Deficits in Children with Heavy Prenatal Alcohol Exposure," $374,492 ▪ Indiana University: "A Multisite Neurobehavioral Assessment of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder," $6,800
Dr. Sarah Mattson and Dr. Edward Riley
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: "A Multisite Neurobehavioral Assessment of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders," $682,793
Dr. Joseph Price
National Institute of Mental Health: "Community Implementation of KEEP: Fidelity and Generalization of Parenting Effects," $636,487 ▪ Rady Children's Hospital San Diego: "Advanced Center to Improve Pediatric Mental Health Care (ACIPMHC) P30 MH074678-04," $134,954
Dr. Edward Riley
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: "Alcohol Research in the Science/Practitioner Model," $205,655; "Collaborative Initiative on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders - Administrative Core," $666,843
Dr. James Sallis
University of California at San Diego: "SMART: A Social and Mobile Weight Control Program for Young Adults," $53,104
Dr. Jennifer Thomas
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: "Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Study Group Annual Meeting," $1,129
Dr. Vanessa Weersing
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: "Cross Cultural Comparison of Interactions Between Anxious Mothers and Their Children- Araceli Gonzalez," $41,800 ▪ National Institute of Mental Health: "Brief CBT for Pediatric Anxiety and Depression in Primary Care," $19,528