Proposals and Awards

$5,000 – Wildlife Directed Discovery of Plant Compounds which Combat Drug Resistance. Submitted January 2019 by Jennifer Forbey and Carolyn Dadabay. Pending.

$7,500 – Pygmy Rabbit Genome. Submitted October 2018 by Marjorie Matcoq. Awarded November 2018.

$3,300 – Facilitating an adaptive environment for independent undergraduate research into mechanisms of tolerance to plant toxins. Submitted February 2019 by Jennifer Forbey and Carolyn Dadabay. Awarded May 2019.

$2,750 – Facilitating an adaptive environment for independent undergraduate research into mechanisms of tolerance to plant toxins. Submitted March 2019 by Jennifer Forbey and Carolyn Dadabay. Awarded May 2019.

$32,164 – 2019-2020 Wyoming INBRE Graduate Assistantship. Submitted May 2019 by Bledar Bisha. Awarded May 2019.

$228,036 – The Impact of Sarcomere Protein Acetylation in Heart Failure (Nevada center for biomedical excellence in molecular and cellular signal transduction in the cardiovascular system). Submitted January 2019 by Brad Ferguson. Awarded January 2020.

$646,787 – 1394: MRI: Acquisition of a High-Field NMR Spectrometer to Advance Chemical Education and Research in Nevada. Submitted January 2019 by Lora Richards. Not awarded.

$753,173 – Repeated Adaptive Radiation in the Coevolutionary History of Birds and Feather Lice. Submitted February 2019 by Julie Allen. Awarded February 2019.

$4.3 million – Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: Digitizing collections to trace parasite-host associations and predict the spread of vector-borne disease. Submitted October 2018 by Julie Allen. Awarded September 2019.

$138,817 – Ptarmigan Ecogenomics. Submitted June 2019 by Jennifer Forbey and Stephanie Hudon. Awarded February 2020.

$258,142 – Understanding the Contribution of Different Microbial Sources to Surface Water for Informed Management of Water Borne Pathogens in Wyoming. Submitted October 2018 by Bledar Bisha. Awarded July 2019.

$11,225 – Molecular genetic survey of sagebrush aphid for endosymbiontic bacteria Arsenophonus and Hamiltonella. Submitted April 2019 by Anna Himler. Awarded June 2019.

$120,000 – MicroRNA expression in meats and its role in modulating human health and disease. Submitted April 2019 by Brad Ferguson and Mozart Fonseca. Awarded September 2019.

$25,430 – Research Selection Overlap Between Greater Sage-Grouse and Co-Occuring Species (Wyoming Sage-Grouse Conservation Fund). Submitted May 2019 by Jeff Beck, John Derek Scasta, and Jennifer Forbey. Awarded July 2019.

$360,000 – From self-reproduction to evolution in the RNA world. Submitted May 2019 by Eric Hayden. Awarded December 2019.

$281,613 – Role of LINC-mediated Mechanosignaling in MSC Aging. Submitted July 2019 by Eric Hayden. Awarded March 2020.

$47,219 – Determining rates of spread for native forb and shrub species during ecosystem restoration. Submitted September 2019 by Trevor Caughlin. Awarded January 2020.

$24,850 – Applying Modern Coexistence Theory to Evaluate Human Papillomavirus Coexistence and the efficacy of vaccination regime. Submitted September 2019 by Rongsong Liu. Awarded January 2020.

$150,000 – Time travel with the sagebrush microbiome: connecting microbial composition with chemistry and adaptive capacity over three magnitudes of time. Submitted February 2020 by Carolyn Dadabay. Awarded April 2020.

$19,000 – Scaling up forecasts of population response to environmental change with UAV mapping and spatially-explicit models. Submitted January 2020 by Trevor Caughlin. Awarded May 2020.

$10,000 – Detection and Prevention of Listerial Biofilms on Fresh Produce. Submitted October 2019 by Bledar Bisha. Awarded January 2020.

$9,690 – Evaluation of the Clinical, Subclinical, and Clean Milk Microbiome from Ewes Supplemented with Zinc Pre- and Post-Parturition. Submitted December 2019 by Bledar Bisha. Awarded January 2020.

$4,000 – Microbial Identification and Speciation from Sheep Milk. Submitted September 2019 by Bledar Bisha. Awarded September 2019.

$2,000 – Evaluation of “BLOC” for Microbial Decontamination of Surfaces. Submitted September 2019 by Bledar Bisha. Awarded September 2019.

$57,116 – Investigating the Main Mastitis Causing Pathogens Plaguing Western Sheep Flocks. Submitted October 2019 by Bledar Bisha. Awarded January 2020.

$13,000 – Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance in Retail Meats in Albania and Kosovo. Submitted October 2019 by Bledar Bisha. Awarded June 2020.