Posted on May 6, 2016 in ASRC News
Faculty and researchers from throughout the City University of New York (CUNY) system have been selected as 2016 CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) Seed Grant and 2016 CUNY ASRC Cooperative Postdoc Research Grant winners.
The CUNY ASRC Seed Grant program is a funding opportunity for CUNY faculty to create research relationships at the ASRC, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary research approaches within the five core initiatives at the center: Nanoscience, Photonics, Structural Biology, Neuroscience and the Environmental Sciences. These grants will fund research between CUNY tenured and tenure-track faculty and permanent faculty at the ASRC, and are up to a maximum of $10,000 for a one-year period.
The winners:
Mahdieh Allahviranloo, City College of New York
Generating Multidimensional Disruption Index for Mobility during Extreme Climate Events
Cesar Arenas-Mena, College of Staten Island
Identification of protein-DNA interactions at developmental cis-regulatory modules in vivo
Jean-Philippe Berteau, College of Staten Island
Contribution of nanostructure mineralization in macrostructure stiffness of cortical bone tissue during growth
Aneta Czajkowska, Brooklyn College
Development of a nanoparticle system based on tripeptide oil in water emulsions to deliver Au nanocrystal-Pt hybrids for anticancer therapy.
Azriel Genack, Queens College
Fabrication of Micro-layer Assembly
Dixie Goss, Hunter College
Structural Studies of the Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus RNA Translational Element and 40S Ribosomal Subunits
Peter Lipke, Brooklyn College
Proteomic Analysis of Amyloids in Fungal Biofilms
Donna McGregor, Lehman College
Self-assembly of short aromatic peptides to design a proton wire
Carmen Melendez-Vasquez, Hunter College
Evaluation of tunable stiffness biogels as a platform for enhanced myelin formation
Carlos Meriles, City College of New York
Scanning thermometry with nanoscale resolution
Sang-Woo Seo, City College of New York
Scanning thermometry with nanoscale resolution
Mariana Torrente, Brooklyn College
Epigenetics In Neurodegenerative Disease: Comprehensively Characterizing Histone Modifications In Parkinson’s Disease
Maribel Vazquez, City College of New York
A nano-Osteo Fluidic System to Examine Signaling between Apoptotic and Bystander Osteocyte Cells
Michele Vittadello, Medgar Evers College
Mitochodrial/photosynthetic/oxidative field effect transistors via nanoscale patterning
John Waldman, Queens College
A New Paradigm for Restoring Large Atlantic Rivers: Assessing the Shared River Concept
Zhengrong Wang, City College of New York
Experimental study of H and O isotope fractionation during the formation of evaporites: implication to the regional climate change during the uplift of Qinghai-Tibetan plateau
The CUNY ASRC Cooperative Postdoc Research Grant was established for CUNY faculty who are not based at the ASRC full-time to support a postdoctoral scientist who will collaborate on a research project with a member of the permanent ASRC faculty or an ASRC core facility director. The winners will have access to state-of-the-art equipment that is not found at their home colleges, and in some cases, is not easily accessible nationally or internationally.
The winners:
Hyungsik Lim, Hunter College
Nonlinear Optics Illuminates the Structural Dynamics of Active Peptides
Zhongqi Cheng, Brooklyn College
Quantifying Biogeochemical and Microbial Properties and Processes in Green Infrastructure Soils
Hiroshi Matsui, Hunter College
Development of Lab-On-A-Chips with Nanoscale Mechanoelectric Platforms for Biological Nanoparticle Sensing and Separation