New Collaboration Seed Grants
In the 24-25 and 25-26 academic years, we awarded seed grants to 5 teams from our CEED community to support collection of preliminary data for future external grant proposals. Awardees are:
Eliza Kirsch, Suzanne Edmands, Kaycee Bell
- USC Dornsife Marine and Environmental Biology Department and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
- ‘Assessing the Impact of Rodenticide and Urban Fires on Medium Sized Predatory Mammals’
Craig McGowan and Matt Dean
- USC Dornsife Molecular and Cellular Biology Department and Keck School of Medicine
- Understanding the genetic basis behind why some mammals develop four toes instead of the (ancestral) five.
Thomas Day, Noelle Held, Julia Schwartzman
- USC Dornsife Marine and Environmental Biology Department
- Understanding the link between surface proteins and multicellular structures in marine bacteria.
Sergey Nuzhdin, James Moffett
- USC Dornsife Molecular and Cellular Biology and Marine and Environmental Biology
- Linking metal accumulation to growth performance of giant kelp
Maya Gomez, Carly Kenkel and Cameron Thrash
- USC Dornsife Molecular and Cellular Biology and Marine and Environmental Biology
- Uncovering the molecular basis of branch initiation in the Caribbean reef builder, Acropora cervicornis