Spring 2015 Postdoctoral Research Awards announced
The CBC is pleased to announce that twenty-one Postdoctoral Research Awards were made in Spring 2015 round, including four for renewal proposals. The awarded projects will be conducted in the core facilities located at the three CBC universities.
Northwestern University Postdoctoral Awardees:
| APPLICANT | ADVISOR/ PI | PROPOSAL TITLE | FACILITY |
| Biancucci, Marco | Satchell, Karla Fullner | Identifying Inhibitors of Novel Ras Bacterial Protease by High Throughput Screening | High Throughput Analysis Laboratory (HTA), NU |
| Chen, Zhonglei | Radhakrishna, Ishwar | EM and MS Analysis of the Interaction Between Nucleosome and Sin3L HDAC Complex | 1. CryoEM Facility, NU
2. Proteomics Center of Excellence, NU |
| Chetnani, Bhaskar | Mondragon, Alfonso | Elucidating the Molecular Mechanism of a Large RNA Switch Using Cryo-Electron Microscopy | CryoEM Facility, NU |
| Dam, Duncan Hieu | Paller, Amy | Mass Spectrometric Quantification of Glycosphingolipids in Diabetic Skin | Proteomics Core Facility, NU |
| Li, Jian (Renewal) |
Morimoto, Richard | Temporal-Spatial Regulation of Stress Response for Organismal Proteostasis Genomics | High-throughput Genome Analysis Core (HGAC), UChicago |
| Lu, Yanyan | Wang, Xiaozhong | A Genome-Editing Approach to Maintain the Haploidy in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells | 1. Flow Cytometry Core Facility, NU
2. Genomics Core Facility, UChicago |
| Manzano, Mark | Gottwein, Eva | CRISPR Screen for Survival Factors of Viral Lymphomas Next | Generation Sequencing Facility, NU |
| Massing, Justin | Meade, Thomas | Targeted-Reporter MR Agents: Extracellular Imaging of Disease-Related Biomarkers | 1. Quantitative Bioelemental Imaging, NU
2. Developmental Therapeutics, NU 3. Center for Adanced Molecular Imaging, NU |
| Rosenthal, Alex | Wells, George | The Influence of Extracellular Glycoconjugates on Biofilm Mechanical Properties | Biological Imaging Facility, NU |
| Uzarski, Joseph | Wertheim, Jason | Advanced Imaging of Decellularized Kidney Matrices Repopulated with Human Epithelial Cells | 1. Electron Probe Instrumentation, NU
2. Center for Advanced Microscopy, NU 3. Microsurgery Core, NU |
| Synatschke, Christopher | Stupp, Samuel | Intrathecally Injected Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery to the Brain | 1. Microsurgery Core, NU
2. Center for Translational Imaging, NU 3. Center for Advanced Microscopy, NU |
| White, Bethany Perez (Renewal) |
Getsios, Spiro | Eph Receptor Binding Partners that Regulate Human Epidermal Stem Cell Fate; Renewal title: RAS Rehab: Identifying Novel Targets to Overcome Oncogene Addiction |
Proteomics Center of Excellence, NU |
| Xiao, Josheng | Ameer, Guillermo | Synergistic Copper Metal-Organic Framework-Hydrogel Composite Improves Wound Healing | 1. CryoEM Facility, NU
2. Biological Imaging Facility, NU |
UChicago Postdoctoral Awardees:
| APPLICANT | ADVISOR/ PI | PROPOSAL TITLE | FACILITY |
| Czyz, Daniel | Crosson, Sean | Host-targeted Therapeutics Cellular Screening Center Core, UChicago |
Cellular Screening Center Core, UChicago |
| Ellenbroek, Johanne | Rhodes, Christopher | PKA-AKAP Signaling and its Role in the Protection of Pancreatic Beta-cells | Proteomics Core Facility, NU |
| Fanning, Sean | Greene, Geoffrey | Revealing the Structure of Multi-domain Estrogen Receptor Alpha with Co-activators by Cryo-EM | CryoEM Facility, NU |
| Luo, Guan-Zheng | He, Chuan | Novel Sequencing Method to Profile N6-Methyldeoxyadenosine in Single-base resolution | Genomics Core Facility, UChicago |
| Liang, Wenguang | Tang, Wei-Jen | Stabilizer/Destabilizer of Chemokines Relevant for Human Diseases | High Throughput Analysis Laboratory, NU |
| McConnell, Sean (Renewal) |
de Jong, Jill | Uncovering diversity of the vertebrate immune system through genomic sequencing of clonal zebrafish lines | 1. Genomics Core Facility, UChicago
2. Bioinformatics Core Facility, UChicago |
| Wallace, Edward | Drummond, Allan D. | Tracking mRNA Localization and Translation Under Heat Stress | Genomics Core Facility, UChicago |
| Zhang, Yilin (Renewal) |
Lengyel, Ernst | Differentiating between benign and malignant ovarian tumors using targeted contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging | Integrated Small Animal Imaging Research Resource (iSAIRR), UChicago |