A lot happened this summer.....here are just a few of our faculty's achievements
GRANTS
Hrant Hratchian
CAREER: Development of Efficient Spin Projection Models for Applications to Transition Metal Catalysis
National Science Foundation
Kirk Jensen
Using the Collaborative Cross to Discover New Requirements for Vaccine-Induced Immunity to T. gondii
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - National Institute of Health
Arnold Kim
RTG: Data- Intensive Research and Computing at the University of California, Merced
National Science Foundation
Peggy O’Day
Integrated science and management of nutrient, salt, and mercury export from San Joaquin River wetland tributaries to the Delta
California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Christine Isborn
Support of a 2019 Summer School and Workshop focused on Theory and Applications of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory
Department of Energy Office of Science/Office of Basic Energy Sciences
Rebecca Ryals
Alameda County Rangeland Compost Addition Trial: Evaluating a one-time high application rate on slopes ranging from 15-35%
Alameda County Resource Conservation District
Frederick Wolf
Ethanol Rewiring of Neural Connections for Simple Behavioral Plasticity in Drosophila.
Research Society on Alcoholism
Chris Amemiya
SitC Workshop
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Katrina Hoyer
Valley Fever Research Summit
National Science Foundation
Emily Moran
Collaborative Research: The Risks of Safety: Xylem Anatomy and Tradeoffs Between Reproduction, Growth, and Drought Survival in Conifers
National Science Foundation
Clarissa Nobile
Genetic Regulation of Antifungal Drug Resistance in Candida Albicans
Dental and Craniofacial Research – National Institute of NIDCR
Noemi Petra
Development of Analytical Secant quasi-Newton Formulas in Infinite-Dimentional Spaces
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
RECOGNITIONS
Andy LiWang appointed to NIH Macromolecular Structure and Function B Study Section for Scientific Review.
Clarissa Nobile named Kamangar Family Chair in Biological Sciences.
PUBLICATIONS
Jennifer O. Manilay, co-author. The role of the von-Hippel Lindau gene in osteocytes on B lymphocyte maturation and activation. The Journal of Immunology.
Roummel Marcia, co-author and Suzanne Sindi, senior author. Detecting inherited and novel structural variants in low-coverage parent-child sequencing data. Methods.
Ajay Gopinathan, co-author and Linda Hirst, senior author. Membrane mediated motor kinetics in microtubule gliding assays. Scientific Reports.
Kevin A. Mitchell, co-author and Linda S. Hirst, senior author. Topological chaos in active nematics. Nature Physics.
Suzanne Sindi, co-author and Jennifer O. Manilay, senior author. Predicting natural killer cell behavior with mathematical models. Journal of Immunology.
Gabriela Loots, co-author and Jennifer Manilay, senior author. Sclerostin depletion may induce inflammation in the bone marrow. Journal of Immunology.
Rudy M. Ortiz, senior author. Almond snacking for 8 weeks increases alpha-diversity of the gastrointestinal microbiome and decreases bacteroides fragilis abundance compared to an Isocaloric snack in college freshmen. Current Developments in Nutrition.
Gabriela G. Loots, senior author. RNA-seq comparisons of in vitro and in vivo cancer model platforms: Monolayer, spheroids, immunodeficient, and syngeneic mouse model. Proceedings: AACR Annual Meeting.
Gabriela G. Loots, senior author. Comparison of exosomes shed by breast cancer cell lines with varying metastatic potential. Proceedings: AACR Annual Meeting.
Gabriela G. Loots, senior author. Characterization of the tumor microenvironment using single cell transcriptomics of triple negative breast cancer allografts treated with doxorubicin. Proceedings: AACR Annual Meeting.
Peggy A. O’Day, co-author. Gibbsite (100) and kaolinite (100) sorption of cadmium(II): A Density Functional Theory and XANES study of structures and energies, Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
Elizabeth R. Dumont, senior author. Morphological diversification under high integration in a hyper diverse mammal clade. Journal of Mammalian Evolution.
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Stephen C. Hart, co-authors. Global ecology predictors of the soil priming effect. Nature Communications.
Stephen C. Hart, co-author. Genetic variation in tree leaf chemistry predicts the abundance and activity of autotrophic soil microorganisms. Ecosphere.
Kinjal Dasbiswas, first author. Registry kinetics of myosin motor stacks driven by mechanical force-induced actin turnover. Biophysical Journal.
Michael N. Dawson, senior author. Slow publishing in the age of ‘fast-food’. Frontiers of Biogeography.
Petra Kranzfelder, first author and Marcos E. Garcia-Ojeda, co-author. The classroom discourse observation protocol (CDOP): a quantitative method for characterizing teacher discourse moves in undergraduate STEM learning environments. PLOS ONE.
Ramendra Nath Saha, co-author. Epigenetic effects of polybrominated diphenyl ethers on human health. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
David Ardell, co-author. Prediction of regulatory targets of alternative isofprms of the epidermal growth factor receptor in a glioblastoma cell line. BMC Bioinformatics.
Chris T. Amemiya, co-author. Structural characterization of the buccal mass of Ariolimax californicus (Gasttropoda: Stylommatophora). PLOS: ONE.
Rudy M. Ortiz, senior author. Systolic blood pressure is maintained despite varying degrees of acute caloric restriction and sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibition in obese, insulin resistant rats. Hypertension.
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