{"id":5304,"date":"2025-05-01T14:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/?p=5304"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:19:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:19:58","slug":"gsi-2025-pilot-grant-competition-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/2025\/05\/01\/gsi-2025-pilot-grant-competition-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"GSI 2025 Pilot Grant Competition: Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"107\" data-end=\"390\" class=\"\">The Genome Science Institute is excited to announce the four recipients of the 2025 Pilot Grant Competition. This year\u2019s program focused exclusively on projects using the <strong data-start=\"278\" data-end=\"328\">Illumina\/Fluent BioSciences Single-Cell RNAseq<\/strong> platform through the <strong data-start=\"350\" data-end=\"389\">BUCAMED Single Cell Sequencing Core<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"392\" data-end=\"671\" class=\"\">Each awarded project will receive support for up to <strong data-start=\"444\" data-end=\"457\">8 samples<\/strong>, targeting <strong data-start=\"469\" data-end=\"496\">10,000 cells per sample<\/strong>. Funding was open to <strong data-start=\"518\" data-end=\"541\">BU research faculty<\/strong> from both the Medical and Charles River campuses, with the goal of advancing single-cell genomics research across the university.<\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cCytoskeletal control of oligodendrocyte biology in myelin assembly, maintenance and function\u201d<br \/>\nUme Beffert, Ph.D.\u2013 Department of Biology and Angela Ho, Ph.D. \u2013 Department of Biology<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cNeurobiological mechanisms of horned beetle behavioral plasticity using single-cell RNA-seq\u201d<br \/>\nSofia Casasa, Ph.D, &#8211; Department of Biology<\/p>\n<p>3. \u201cThe goal of this proposal is to develop a novel<em> in vitro <\/em>human organoid model system of telomerase dysfunction to study the epithelial intrinsic perturbations at the inception of pulmonary fibrosis\u201d<br \/>\nJonathan Chang, MD \u2013 Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep &amp; Critical Care Medicine; Kostas Alysandratos, MD, PhD \u2013 Department of Medicine; Darrell Kotton, MD \u2013 Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep &amp; Critical Care Medicine<\/p>\n<p>4. \u201csnRNA-seq of Environmental Chemical and High Fat Diet-exposed Liver Background and Rationale\u201d<br \/>\nDavid Waxman, Ph.D. \u2013 Department of Biology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Genome Science Institute is excited to announce the four recipients of the 2025 Pilot Grant Competition. This year\u2019s program focused exclusively on projects using the Illumina\/Fluent BioSciences Single-Cell RNAseq platform through the BUCAMED Single Cell Sequencing Core. Each awarded project will receive support for up to 8 samples, targeting 10,000 cells per sample. Funding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[712],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5307,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions\/5307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}