Stimulus-funded research projects in Norman

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Published: November 6, 2009

NORMAN — The University of Oklahoma received about $10 million in stimulus funds from three federal agencies in the first quarter of this fiscal year for research based on the Norman campus.

The following is a list of those projects, listed by scientist, name of project and grant amount, as provided by OU Research Communications:

National Science Foundation

-Leland Bement, Prospecting for Nanodiamonds in Equivalent Deposits of Different Age for Younger Dryas Verification, $185,137.

-Amy Callaghan, Biochemistry and Genetics of Anaerobic Alkane Metabolism: Interrogation of Anaerobic Sulfate-Reducing Isolates and Enrichments Using Genome-Enabled and Proteomic Approaches, $725,195.

-Frederike Jentoft, MRI: Acquisition of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, $440,751.

-Matthew Kane, Enhanced Vertical Transport III-nitride Devices through Chemical Lift-off Techniques, $300,000.

-Brian Langerhans, Collaborative Research: Human-induced Phenotypic Variation in an Endemic Livebearing Fish, $273,219.

-Cecil Lewis, CAREER: Research, Education and Capacity Building—Genomic Structure of Native Peruvian Populations, $644,946.

-Jia Li, Essential Roles of Receptor-like Kinases in Brassinosteroil and Cell-death Control Signaling Pathways, $150,000.

-Don MacGorman, Microphysical and Kinematic Storm Properties affecting Electrifications and Lightning Production, $521,579.

-Chuanbin Mao, Biomineralization and Self-assembly of Genetically Modifieable Nanofibers to Build Bone Tissue Engineering Scaffolds, $385,542.

-Chuanbin Mao, Gene Delivery Vectors Inspired from Target-Recognizing Phage Structure, $300,000.

-Chuanbin Mao/Bijhem, Bio-templated Nanomaterials for Environmental Remediation Applications, $50,000.

-Kenneth Nicholas, Catalytic Nitrogenation of Hydrocarbons, $360,000.

-Dimitrious Papavassiliou, Effects of Hydrophobicity-induced Wall Slip on Turbulence Drag and on Turbulence Structure, $229,997.

-George Richter-Addo, MRI: Acquisition of Robotics Instrumentation for Crystallization of Biomacromolecules, $359,381.

-Patricia Schwagmeyer, Behavioral Dynamics of Biparental Negotiation, $90,000.

-Neil Shafer-Ray, Measurement of the Electric Dipole Moment using G=0 PbF Molecules, $400,000.

-Alberto Striolo, Understanding the Interactions between Carbon Nanotubes and Cellular Membrances, $380,000.

-Lee Williams, OU Graduate Research Fellowship Program, $182,248.

-Ming Xue, Collaborative Research: Enabling Petascale Ensemble-based Data Assimilation for the Numerical Analysis and Prediction of High-Impact Weather, $901,940.

-Ming Xue, Collaborative Research: CDI-Type II: Integrated Weather and Wildfire Simulation and Optimization for Wildfire Management, $483,634.

-Meijun Zhu, One Year in National Weather Center: Mathematical Theory in Radar Image, $99,995.

National Institutes of Health

-Tyrell Conway, E. coli Growth Parameters in the Intestine, $187,292.

-Tyrell Conway, Growth and Colonization of the intestine by E. coli, $461,818.

-Rong Gan, Ear Biomechanics for Restoration of Hearing EQ, $99,300.

-Hong Liu, Automated FISH Imaging and Analysis for Screening Cervical Cancer, $413,808.

-Phillip Klebba, Administrative Supplement to Ligand-gated Transport through FepA, $121,159.

-Chuanbin Mao, Bone-seeking and Cell-targeting non-viral Vectors for BMP-2 Gene Delivery, $75,000.

-Chuanbin Mao, Phage-inspired Nanoparticles with Genetically tunable Target-specificity, $401,096.

-Peter McFetridge, Optimization of Tissue Processing Conditions to Improve Cell Function, $251,537.

-Robert Rennaker, NIDCD ARRA EQ: Ensemble Coding in Olfactory Cortex, $214,486.