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2014 Butcher Seed Grant Winners Announced

Seed grant applicants presented posters at the 2013 Butcher Symposium in November.

Butcher Seed Grant Winners

Seven recipients of the 2014 Butcher Seed Grant Awards were recently notified of their winning proposals in interdisciplinary bioscience. These grants bring critical funding to many of baby直播app鈥檚 top academic researchers wanting to expand their scientific discoveries and build new collaborations that span disciplines and academic institutions. This year鈥檚 winning proposals are collaborative efforts between researchers across the University of baby直播app system and National Jewish Health. Winners will receive between $70,000 and $75,000 to further their research projects.

The Butcher Symposium began in 2002 as a grassroots effort to bring together scientists from across the CU system to create collaborations and share data. Butcher Seed Grants were awarded in 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2012 to fund potentially transformative new scientific pilot projects that required researchers with different expertise to work together to address critical challenges in the biosciences.

The Butcher Program was founded through the generosity of long-time CU supporters Charlie and Jane Butcher, who saw the potential for 鈥渂ig picture鈥 scientific thinking and creative cross-discipline research to transform lives. The seed grants were awarded this year thanks to continued support from the Butcher family, and CU-Boulder and Anschutz Medical Center leaders.

In addition to supporting the symposium and the seed grants, the support from the Butchers also established the Charlie Butcher Award in Biotechnology to recognize scientists from around the world who are using interdisciplinary science to make a significant impact on human welfare and health. The 2013 award went to biologist Jack Szostak of Harvard University whose discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres won him the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. For additional information on the , please visit our site.

This year鈥檚 winning proposals offer an exciting look into the biomedical research going on in baby直播app, covering everything from studying seizures in the brain using small fiber optical devices, to finding ways of using the vast collection of microbiome data for diagnosing disease. The awardees are:

鈥淥ptimized deep-brain imaging of activity in over a hundred neurons for imaging seizures鈥

  • Emily Gibson (PI) -听Department of Bioengineering, University of baby直播app, Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus
  • Juliet Gopinath (Co-PI) - Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, University of baby直播app, Boulder
  • Victor Bright (Co-PI) - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of baby直播app, Boulder

鈥淒eveloping a Platform for in vivo Imaging of Chronic Bacterial Infection鈥

  • Corrella Detweiler (PI) -听Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of baby直播app, Boulder
  • Amy Palmer (Co-PI) - BioFrontiers Institute and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of baby直播app, Boulder

鈥淪ingle-molecule physical probing of glycan recognition by viral capsid proteins鈥

  • Robert L. Garcea (PI) -听BioFrontiers Institute and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of baby直播app, Boulder
  • Thomas Perkins (Co-PI) - JILA, NIST, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of baby直播app, Boulder

鈥淐onformational dynamics of dystrophin probed using single-molecule FRET鈥

  • Krishna Mallela (PI) -听Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of baby直播app, Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus
  • David Nesbitt (Co-PI) - JILA, NIST Quantum Physics Division, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of baby直播app, Boulder

鈥淓xtracting diagnostic signals from human microbiome data鈥

  • Aaron Clauset (PI) -听BioFrontiers Institute and Department of Computer Science, University of baby直播app, Boulder
  • Ken Krauter (Co-PI) - Institute for Behavioral Genetics and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of baby直播app, Boulder
  • Matt McQueen (Co-PI) - Institute for Behavioral Genetics and Department of Integrative Physiology, University of baby直播app, Boulder

鈥淭he Nano Rainbow: Multicolor Biolabels for Simultaneous Molecular Scale Tracking and Tailored Assays of Biological Agents鈥

  • Kevin Tvrdy (PI) -听Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of baby直播app, baby直播app Springs
  • Anatoliy Pinchuk (Co-PI) - BioFrontiers Center and Department of Physics and Energy Science, University of baby直播app, baby直播app Springs

鈥淭argeted Delivery of Antioxidant Peptides to the Pulmonary Arteries for the Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension鈥

  • Leah R. Villegas (PI) -听Department of Pediatrics/Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research, University of baby直播app, Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus
  • MyPhuong T. Le (Co-PI) - Department of Renal Medicine, University of baby直播app, Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus

As a new extension of the Butcher seed grant program, grants for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows were sponsored by the student-led BioFrontiers Science Alliance. These monetary awards were made possible through generous donations from Roy Parker, Leslie Leinwand and Mike Yarus, and the BioFrontiers Institute. To be eligible, these research projects needed to be led by a CU-Boulder graduate student or postdoctoral fellow with a collaborator from a different department. These researchers were also required to present a poster about their work at the 2013 Butcher Symposium. A total of seven applications for the grants were submitted.

Two seed grants were funded at $2,000 and a third was funded at $1,500. The awardees are:

鈥淎nalyzing polyomavirus factories with double-helix super resolution microscopy鈥

  • Katie Heiser (Lead) -听Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of baby直播app, Boulder
  • Anthony Barsic (Collaborator) - Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, University of baby直播app, Boulder
  • Kevin Dean (Collaborator) - BioFrontiers Advanced Imaging Resource, University of baby直播app, Boulder

鈥淐haracterizing structural variants in a mouse model of alcohol dependence鈥

  • Eitan Halper-Stromberg (Lead) -听Department of Computational Biosciences, University of baby直播app, Denver
  • Aaron Odell (Collaborator) - Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of baby直播app, Boulder

鈥淣on-invasive monitoring of MMP activity of cardiac fibroblasts cultured under diseased and fibrotic microenvironment鈥

  • Jennifer Leight (Lead) -听Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of baby直播app, Boulder
  • William Wan (Collaborator) - Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of baby直播app, Boulder