University Research Foundation (URF) Spring, 2007 &
URF Conference Support Awards Spring, 2007
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July 17, 2007, Volume 54, No. 1
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In the most recent cycle—spring 2007—of Penn’s internally-funded University Research Foundation,
and URF Conference Support (noted with *), the Office of the Vice Provost for Research has
announced awards to the following members of the University of Pennsylvania faculty for the projects listed below.
The deadline for the fall Research Foundation proposals is October 31, 2007.
Sherrill L. Adams, Biochemistry, School of Dental Medicine; Interaction of Multiple Signaling Pathways Stimulating Collagen X Transcription During Endochondral Bone Formation
Sunday O. Akintoye, Oral Medicine, School of Dental Medicine; Orofacial Bone Marrow Stromal Cells Enhance Jaw-SpecificPathogenesis of Bisphosphonate-Induced Osteonecrosis
David Artis, Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine; Tracking Anti-nematode Immune Responses In Vivo
David S. Barnes, History and Sociology of Science, School of Arts and Sciences; Philadelphia’s Lazaretto, Forgotten Monument to a Hidden History
Marisa S. Bartolomei, Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Medicine; Role of Methyl Cytosine Binding Proteins in Imprinted Gene Expression in the Mouse
William Beltran, Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine; Morphologic and Proteomic Analysis of Light-induced Retinal Degeneration in the T4r Rhodospin Mutant Dog
Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia, Biochemistry, School of Dental Medicine; Role of a Newly Identified Protein, MELANOREGULIN, in Lysosome-related Organelle (Lro) Biogenesis
Joseph Boullata, Biobehavioral and Health Sciences, School of Nursing; Single-Patient Trials to Evaluate Antipsychotics in the Elderly
Dustin Brisson, Biology, School of Arts and Sciences; Effects of Pathogen Competition on the Entomological Risk of Lyme Disease
Meryl S. Cohen, Pediatrics, School of Medicine; The impact of obesity in patients with congenital heart disease: A pilot study of prevalence, etiology and cardiovascular sequelae
Barry S. Cooperman, Chemistry, School of Arts and Sciences; Elucidation and Control of Serpin Polymerization/deploymerization
Emily I. Dolan*, Music, School of Arts and Sciences; Herder, Music, and Enlightenment
Michael Gamer, English, School of Arts and Sciences; Staged Conflicts: A History of English Theater, 1660-1843
Howard Goldfine, Microbiology, School of Medicine; Complete Genome Sequencing of Two Strains of Clostridium Tetani
Benjamin Peter Horton, Earth and Environmental Science, School of Arts and Sciences; Examining the Evidence for a Recent Acceleration in the Rate of Sea-level Rise Using Combined Instrumental and Proxy Data, Morbihan Golfe, Brittany France
Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, School of Arts and Sciences; Towards Completing Penn’s Digital Data: The Penn Papyri Project and Textual Variants to the Greek Jewish Scriptures
Anthony Kroch, Linguistics, School of Arts and Sciences; Computational Support for Historical Corpus Construction
Anita Loomba*, English, School of Arts and Sciences; Gender/Culture/South Asia
Ritty Lukose, Foundations and Practices of Education, Graduate School of Education; Between Diaspora and Nation: South Asian Migration, Education, and Youth in the US
Nicola Mason, Pathobiology/Clincal Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine; Immune Gene Therapy of Alphavbeta3 Expressing Tumors Using a Redirected T Cell Approach
K. John McLaughlin, Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine; In Vitro and In Vivo Potential of Uniparental Stem Cells to Form Hepatic Tissue
Steven Messe, Neurology, School of Medicine; A Phase II Dose Ranging Pilot Trial of Darbepoetin Alfa for Ischemic Surgical Complications (The DISC Pilot Trial)
Philip Nelson, Physics and Astronomy, School of Arts and Sciences; Information Theory in Genetic Regulation
Anne Norton, Political Science, School of Arts and Sciences; On the Muslim Question
Yolanda Padilla, English, School of Arts and Sciences; The Plays of Josefina Niggli: Recovered Landmarks of Latino Literature
Gianluca Piazza, Electrical & Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science; Piezoelectric Resonant NanoElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS)
Randall N. Pittman, Pharmacology, School of Medicine; The Josephin Family of Deubiquitylating Enzymes and the Cellular Response to Stress
Jean-Michel Rabate*, English, School of Arts and Sciences; Modernism: The Time of the Unconscious, Time and the Unconscious
Andrew M. Rappe, Chemistry, School of Arts and Sciences; Reduction of NO Using Switchable Ferroelectric Catalysts
Timothy Rommen, Music, School of Arts and Sciences; “Back to the Island:” Sounding and Resounding Rake-n-Scrape Music in The Bahamas and Abroad
Neal A. Rubinstein, Cell and Development Biology, School of Medicine; Consequences of Reduce Myostatin in Hyperthyroid Mouse Extraocular Muscles
Brian M. Salzberg, Neuroscience, School of Medicine; Monitoring Neurosecretion Using Dynamic High Bandwidth Atomic Force Microscopy
Gillian Sankoff*, Linguistics, School of Arts and Sciences; New Ways of Analyzing Variation
Paul S. Schmidt, Biology, School of Arts and Sciences; Gene Flow and Selection in the Genus Littorina
Phil Scott*, Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine; Penn Vet Student Research Day
Richard Spielman, Genetics, School of Medicine; Genetic Linkage Analysis with Very High Density Genetic Maps
Duane E. Thomas, Applied Psychology/Human Development, Graduate School of Education; Can We Talk? Promoting Academic Engagement of Black High School Students through Racial Socialization
Craig Umscheid*, Medicine, School of Medicine; Improving the Quality, Safety, and Value of Patient Care at Academic Health Systems through Evidence-based Practice: A Multidisciplinary Forum
Maria M. Viveiros, Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine; Regulation of Meiotic Spindle Organization in Mammalian Oocytes
Eric S. Weinberg, Biology, School of Arts and Sciences; Interaction between Nodal and FGF Signaling Pathways in Formation of the Zebrafish Dorsal Organizer
Daniel K. Yee, Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine; Central Actions of Angiotensin Ii: Genomic Mechanisms in the Development of Salt Appetite |
