GSI Seed Grant Awards 2012

Fourth Annual Genome Science Institute Seed Grant Award Recipients

The BUMC Genome Science Institute (GSI), established in 2008, fosters collaboration and serves as a resource for Boston University investigators engaged in genetics and genomics research and education. The GSI is pleased to announce the recipients of the fourth annual GSI Seed Grant Award.

Of eleven applications, the following recipients were selected following peer review of the proposals.

1. “Spermatogenesis and male fertility require ZCCHC11-directed uridylation of small non-coding RNAs“

Matthew Jones, PhD
Boston University School of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Section of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine

Caryn Navarro, PhD
Boston University School of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Biomedical Genetics

Kenneth H. Albrecht, PhD
Boston University School of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Biomedical Genetics

2. “GIP-expressing K-cells develop from enterodndocrine precursors and why this differentiation pathway is favored in obesity and diabetes”

Gustavo Mostoslavsky, MD, PhD
Boston University School of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Immunology Training Program

Cesar A. Sommer, PhD

3. “Serum deprivation response factor is a novel breast cander metastasis suppressor gene”

Sam Thiagalingam, PhD
Boston University School of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Biomedical Genetics

Maria I. Ramirez, PhD
Boston University School of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Section of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine

GSI Seed grants are intended to support:

The expansion of research at Boston University by supporting new collaborations between groups with diverse expertise to address an important scientific question in genetics and genomics research.

Development of new and emerging areas of genetics and genomics research.

The GSI Seed Grant Committee and GSI Directors thank the applicants and reviewers who participated in this process and look forward to continued growth in genetics and genomics research at Boston University.

Please contact the GSI at gsi@bu.edu with questions or with your ideas on how the GSI can better facilitate or develop genetics and genomics research at BU.