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Wood Whelan Awardees 2008

The fellowships are listed in the following format:

 

Title and Duration of a Research Project

Recipient (Award in US$)

Host supervisor

Molecular mechanisms of intra-acrosomal calcium mobilization during the acrosome reaction
2 months

Maria Teresa Branham (2500)
Instituto der Histologia y Embryologia
Faculdad de Ciencias Medicas
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
Casilla de Correo 56
5500 Mendoza
Argentina

E-mail: mbranham [at] fcm.uncu.edu.ar

Dr. Alberto Darszon
Instituto de Biotecnologia
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Av. Universidad 2001
Cuernavaca
Morelos 62210
Mexico

E-mail : darszon [at] ibt.unam.mx

Studies on the ability of PfHsp40 ad Pfj1 to regulate the chaperone activity of PfHsp70 of the parasite Plasmodium falciparum and on their potential to serve as anti-malarial targets
2 1/2 months

Melissa Botha (2617)
Dept of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology
P.O.Box 94
Rhodes University
Grahamstown
South Africa 6140

E-mail: g01b0995 [at] campus.ru.ac.za

Prof. Jeffrey Brodsky
Dept. of Biological Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
274 A Crawford Hall
Pittsburgh, PA, 15260
USA

E-mail: jbrodsky [at] imap.pitt.edu

Studies on the moleular mechanisms involved in the regulation of the thyroid hormone receptor expression by insulin-like growth factor type I (IGF-I) in liver and piyuitary cells
4 months

Sebastian Susperreguy (3000)
Centro de Investig. en Bioquim. Clin. e Immunol.
Faculdad de Ciencias Quimicas
Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
5000 Cordoba
Argentina

E-mail : susperreguy [at] mail.fcq.unc.edu.ar

Dr. Ana Aranda
Instituto de Investig.Biomedicas « Albert Sols »
CSIC
C/ Arturo Duperier 4
28029 Madrid
Spain

E-mail : aaranda [at] iib.uam.es

Studies of potato genes regulated by infection with the late blight pathogen
4 months

Briardo Llorente (900)
Institute for Research in Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
Vuelta de Obligado 2490
C1428 ADN Buenos Aires
Argentina

E-mail: llorente [at] dna.uba.ar

Prof.Erik Ostergard Jensen
Dept of Molecular Biology
Aarhus University
Gustav Wieds vej 10
DK 8000 Aarhus C
Denmark

E-mail : eoj [at] mb.au.dk

Evolutive insight into glycosyltransferases related to sucrose metabolism focused by direct evolution of Anabena sp.PCC7120 and Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 proteins
3 months

Letitia Torres (2991)
Biological Research Centre
Foundation for Applied Biological Research
CC 1348
7600 Mar del Plata
Argentina

E-mail : ltorres [at] fiba.org.ar 

Dr. Aurelio Hidalgo
Centro de Biologia Molecular« Severo Ochoa »
Faculdad de Ciencias, Universidad Autonoma
28049 Cantoblanco
Madrid
Spain

E-mail : ahidalgo [at] cbm.uam.es

Intrinsically photosensitive chicken retina ganglion cells: Is a novel visual cycle involved in retinal recycling?
2 ½ months

Daniella Verra (3000)
CIQUIBIC. Depto de Quimica Biologica
Fac. de Ciencias Quimicas
Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
Ciudad Universitaria
5000 Cordoba
Argentina

E-mail: dverra [at] mail.fcq.unc.edu.ar

Prof. Andrew Tsin
Dept of Biology
University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, Texas, 78249-0662
USA

E-mail: Andrew.Tsin [at] utsa.edu

Studies of finger millet stress-responsive transcription factors by microarray analysis and virus-induced gene silencing
4 months

Rame Gowda (2000)
Dept of Crop Physiology
University of Agricultural Sciences,
GKVK Campus
Bangalore 560065
India

E-mail: ramhv [at] rediffmail.com

Prof. Kiran Mysore
Plant Biology Division
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
2510 Sam Noble Parkway
Ardmore, Oklahoma, 73401
USA

E-mail: ksmysore [at] noble.org

Use of the COVG version of the voltage clamp technique to measure ionic and gating current in single frog oocytes expressing cloned ion channels
2 months

Sanjeev Kumar Upadhyay (3000)
National Center for Biological Sciences
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
UAS-GKVK Campus
GKVK P.O.
Bangalore 560065
India

E-mail: sanjeevup [at] ncbs.res.in

Professor Michael Sanguinetti
Dept of Physiology
University of Utah
Nora Eccles Harrison CVRTI
95 South 2000 East
Salt Lake City, Utah, 84108
USA

E-mail: sanguinetti [at] xserve.cvrti.utah.edu

Evaluation of activity of Hepcidin-GFP produced by transfected Huh7 cells
2 ½ months

Alkmini Kalousi (3000)
School of Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
University of Thessaly
P.O. Box 1400
Mezourlo Larissa, 41110
Greece

E-mail: alkalous [at] med.uth.gr

Prof. Kostas Pantopoulos
McGill University
Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research
Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital
3755 Cote-Ste Catherine Road
Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2
Canada

E-mail: kostas.pantopoulos [at] mcgill.ca

Elucidating the roles of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in genomic instability of embryonic stem cells
2 months

Philip Litto Thomas (3000)
Division of Molecular Reproductiion
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
Thycaud P.O.
Thiruvananthapuram 695014
India

E-mail: philiplitto [at] gmail.com

Prof. Raj R. Rao
Chemical and Life Science Engineering
Virginia Commonwealth University
601 West Main Street
P.O.Box 843028
Richmond, Virginia, 23284-3028
USA

E-mail: rrrao [at] vcu.edu

Construction of a cDNA library from basophils and screening for basogranulin expression
1 month

Ahmed Fawzi Abou Karima (1680)
Immunopharmacology Group
Southampton General Hospital
MP 837 Level F South Block
Tremona Road
Southampton SO16 6YD
UK

E-mail: aaer1u06 [at] soton.ac.uk

Prof. Peter Zabel
Dept of Clinical Medicine
Divis. of Cellular Allergology
Research Center Borstel
Parkallee 35
22845 Borstel
Germany

E-mail: pzabel [at] fz-borstel.de

Isolation and characteriztion of strawberry genes induced by UV-C treatment
3 months

Hernan Rosli (2940)
Innstituto de Investigaciones Biotecnologicas
Instituto Tecnologico Chascomus (B7130IWA)
Camino de Circunvalacion Laguna Km 6
CC 164 (7130) Chascomus
Pcia. Buenos Aires
Argentina

E-mail: hrosli [at] intech.gov.ar

Prof. Kevin Folta
Horticultural Sciences Dept
University of Florida
1301 Fifield Hall
Box 110690
Gainesville, FL 32611
USA

 

Identification of novel mTOR binding partners
3 months

Dr. Ivan Nemazanyy (3000)
Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics
150 Zabolotnogo str.
03680 Kiev
Ukraine

E-mail: nemazanyy [at] imbg.org.ua

Prof. Ivan Gout
Res. Dept of Structural & Molecular Biology
University College London
Gower street
London WC1 6BT
UK

E-mail: i.gout [at] biochem.ucl.ac.uk

Characterization of aminopeptidase N (an enzyme belonging to the M1 family of metallopeptidases) inhibitors from marine invertebrates
1 month

Dr. Isel Pascual Alonso (1365)
Center for Protein Studies
Faculty of Biology
University of Havana
Havana 10400
Cuba

E-mail: clark [at] ceniai.inf.cu

Dr. Jean-Louis Charli
Instituto de Biotecnologia
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Av. Universiudad 2001
Col.Chamilpa CP 62210
Cuernavaca, Morelos
Mexico

E-mail: charli [at] ibt.unam.mx

Studies of the biochemical properties of the cathepsins secreted by the invasive juvenile stages of the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica
3 months

Ms Ileana Corvo Mautone (3000)
Genetics Dept
School ofMedicine
Universidad de la Republica
Gral Flores 2125  CP 11800
Montevideo
Uruguay

E-mail: icorvo [at] fmed.edu.uy

Prof. John P. Dalton
Inst. for the Biotechnol. of Infectious Diseases
University of Technology
Corner :Thomas and Harris street
Ultimo
Sydney, NSW 2007
Australia

E-mail: John.Dalton [at] uts.edu.au