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Wood Whelan Awardees 2011

The fellowships are listed in the following format:

Title and Duration of a Research Project

Recipient (Award in US$)

Host supervisor

Vivo Cardiac Physiology
2 months

Elisa Lucas Fernandez (US$ 3000)
Nicolas Cabrera, 1
28049
Madrid
Spain

E-mail: elucas [at] cbm.uam.es

 

Walter J. Koch
Director, Center for Translational Medicine
Department of Medicine
1025 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA

E-mail: Walter.koch [at] jefferson.edu

 

Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
1 month

Silvia Ramundo (US$ 2750)
Laboratory of Jean-David Rochaix
Department of Molecular Biology
University of Geneva 30
Quai Ernest-Ansermet
1204 Geneva, Switzerland

E-mail: silvia.ramundo [at] unige.ch

 

Sabeeha Merchant
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics & Proteomics
201 Paul Boyer Hall
611 Charles E. Young Drive East
Los Angeles , CA 90095-1570,
USA

E-mail: Sabeeha [at] mbi.ucla.edu

 

Label-Free Interaction Analysis of Cytochrome c and Novel Protein Partners during PCD in Real-time Using Surface Plasmon Resonance
1 month

Katiuska Gonzalez Arzola (US$ 2400)
Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Photosynthesis
Av. Americo Vespucio
Seville, Spain

E-mail: Katiuska.gonzalez [at] ibvf.csic.es

 

Prof. Dr. Rita Bernhardt
Campus, Geb. B2.2
D-66123 Saarbrucken
Germany

E-mail: ritabern [at] mx.uni-saarland.de

 

Functional study of RNA-packaging into exosomes and delivery to cells
6 months

Luisa Statello (US$ 2500)
University of Catania
Italy

 


E-mail: luisastatello [at] gmail.com

 

Hadi Valadi
University of Gothenburg
Dept of Rheumatology & Inflammation research
Box 480, S-413 46 Gothenburg
Sweden

E-mail: Hadi.valadi [at] gu.se

Lipoteichoic acid synthesis and modifications during osmotic stress in Lactobacillus casei
3 months

Maria Mercedes Palomino (US$ 1536)
Departamento de Quimica Biologica
4to piso , Pabellon II
Ciudad Universitaria
Capital Federal (1428)
Buenos Aires, Argentina

E-mail: troperoso [at] hotmail.com

 

Dr. Angelika Grundling
Imperial College London
Department of Microbiology
Flowers Building
London SW7 2AZ

 

E-mail: a.grundling [at] imperial.ac.uk

 

The role of DNA Methyltransferase1 in regulating the Human Papilloma virus life cycle in the differentiating epithelium
3 months

Chitra Pattabiraman (US$ 3000)
National Centre for Biological Sciences
GKVK, Bellary Road
Bangalore – 560065

E-mail: pchitra [at] ncbs.res.in

 

Laimonis A. Laimins
Guy and Ann Youmans Professor and Chair
Department of Micorbiology-Immunology
Chicago, IL 60611, USA

E-mail: l-laimins [at] northwestern.edu

 

Somatic Embryos maturation of Theobroma cacao (L.) and Metabolism of storage compounds
2 months

Noah Mboene Alexandre (US$ 3000)
Laboratory of Plant Physiology
Department of Biological Science
Higher Teachers Training College
PO Box 47 Yaounde-Cameroon

E-mail: noahmbalr [at] yahoo.fr

Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Braun
Institute for Plant Genetics of Hanover University
30419 Hannover
Germany


E-mail: braun [at] genetik.uni-hannover.de

Eczema, traffic related pollution and genetic variations in xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes
3 months

Miaozhi Li (US$ 2900)
Institute for Nutritional Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences
294 Taiyuan Road
Shanghai, China

E-mail: mzli [at] sibs.ac.cn

Prof. Dr. Jean Krutmann
IUF gGmbh
Auf’m Hennekamp 50
D-40225 Dusseldorf
Germany

E-mail: Monika.Brinkmann [at] uni-duesseldorf.de

 

Studies on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of action of anti-tumor antibodies elicited by a novel cancer vaccine that targets the epidermal growth factor receptor
3 months

Yasser Almeida Hernandez (US$ 1500)
Centre of Molecular Immunology
216st. and 15th Ave
Atabey, Playa
P.O. Box 16040
Havana, Cuba

E-mail: almeida [at] cim.sld.cu

 

Prof. Inger Helene Madshus
Institute of Pathology
Oslo University Hospital
Norway