{"id":3345,"date":"2018-04-10T16:01:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T20:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/?page_id=3345"},"modified":"2019-02-12T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T15:20:48","slug":"awards-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/initiatives\/seed-grant-rfa\/awards-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"GSI Seed Grant Awards 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Eighth Annual Genome Science Institute Seed Grant Award Recipients<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The BUMC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/initiatives\/seed-grant-rfa\/seed-grant-rfa\/\">Genome Science Institute<\/a> (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 seventh\u00a0annual GSI Seed Grant Award.<\/p>\n<p>Of seventeen\u00a0applications, the following recipients were selected following peer review of the proposals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>1. \u201cDecoding the epitranscriptomic role of 2\u2019-O-methylation during vertebrate embryogenesis\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div>Daniel Cifuentes, Ph.D.<\/div>\n<div>Boston University School of Medicine<\/div>\n<div>Department of Biochemistry<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>2. \u201cCrosstalk between histone ubiquitination and methylation for the regulation of mitochondrial gene expression<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div>Valentina Perissi, Ph.D.<\/div>\n<div>Boston University School of Medicine<\/div>\n<div>Department of Biochemistry<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>GSI Seed grants are intended to support:<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Development of new and emerging areas of genetics and genomics research.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact the GSI at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:gsi@bu.edu\">gsi@bu.edu<\/a> with questions or with your ideas on how the GSI can better facilitate or develop genetics and genomics research at BU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighth Annual Genome Science Institute Seed Grant Award Recipients The BUMC\u00a0Genome 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 seventh\u00a0annual GSI Seed Grant Award. Of seventeen\u00a0applications, the following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12961,"featured_media":0,"parent":759,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3345\/revisions\/3615"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}