October 2022 Grants and Awards

Stress Hormone Regulation of HSV1 and HSV2 in Autonomic and Sensory Neurons

Principal Investigator:
Andrea Bertke, Associate Professor
Population Health Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine

Sponsor:
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health

Losing Specificity: the Role of the Locus Coeruleus in Age-Related Distractibility

Principal Investigator:
Tae-Ho Lee, Assistant Professor
Psychology, College of Science

Sponsor:
National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health

Role of Fatty Acid Metabolism in Optic Nerve Hypoplasia

Principal Investigator:
Konark Mukherjee, Assistant Professor
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC

Sponsor:
National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

Advancing Comprehensive Wastewater Surveillance of Endemic and Emerging Pathogens Across Multiple Microbial Domains through Strain-resolved Metagenomics

Principal Investigator:
Amy Pruden, W. Thomas Rice Professor and University Distinguished Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering

Sponsor:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Cultivating a National Collaborative for Research on Food, Energy, and Water Education

Principal Investigator:
Hannah Scherer, Associate Professor  
Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education, College of Agriculture and Life Science

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation

Democratized Cyberinfrastructure for Open Discovery to Enable Research

Principal Investigator:
Quinn Thomas, Associate Professor
Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, College of Natural Resources and Environment

Sponsor:
National Science Foundation