Department of Biology Faculty Grants

Grants funded by NSF

NSF C-RUI Grant (DEB-0223089, $841,000, funded September 6, 2002, 4 years), "Theoretical and Empirical Studies of a Conditional Strategy: Environmentally Cued Pupal Color in Swallowtail Butterflies." Project director and Principal Investigator: Wade Hazel, Co-Principal Investigators: Chet Fornari Bryan Hanson, Kevin Kinney, Rick Smock, Robert Stark, Gloria Townsend..Student researchers: Gabe Dunn, Matt Jones, Kate Marshall, Kristen Mellencamp, Qming Deng, Andie Wyatt.

NSF-RUI Grant (#0438404, $196,568, funded Sept. 2002, 3 years), "5-HT AND LOCOMOTION IN ZEBRAFISH." Project director and Principal Investigator: Henning Schneider; Student researchers: Christine Heumann, Marisa Yochum, Kala Pattar, Erin Andrade, Taron Davis, Elizabeth Garland, Jesse Williams, Ali Dudley

NSF-CCLI Grant (#0126409, $171,176.00, funded Jan 15, 2001, 2 years), “Discovering rRNA and Homeobox Genes by DNA Sequencing and Bioinformatics in an Undergraduate Molecular Biology Course.” Project director and Principal Investigator: Chet S. Fornari; Student researchers: Sonia Olikara, Hillary Enyart, Carly Snipes, Patrick Murphy.

Summer 1996-1997, Predator Induced Defense in an Intertidal Barnacle, NSF Research Opportunity Award, Co-PI Curtis Lively and Wade Hazel, Student researchers: Melessa Schellenberger (DPU) and Kristen Michelson (IU).

2006-2007: Kevin Kinney Professional Development Fund award for "Effects of glucocorticoid- and lipopolysaccharide-treated rat microglia on cultures of rat hippocampal cells." In support of sabbatical work with Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA
2005-2006: Kevin Kinney Professional Development Fund award for "Lizard fever- Preliminary investigations of immune-related thermoregulation in a reptile." In support of work with students Marisa Yochum and Dahlia Tawfik.

Chad Byers and Summer Drake >with Vanessa Artman Ecology of Forest communities of the DePauw Nature Park
Haley Grace and Inna Kulheyko with Lynn Bedard Genetic analysis of Histone H4 Temperature Sensitive Mutation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Allison Barnes, Nikki Stone and Erica Ross with Dana Dudle Life on the Rocks: Plant Ecology and Biochemistry in an Abandoned Limestone Quarry

Lyndsay Schroeder with Wade Hazel Life History Strategies in Swallowtail Butterflies

Marisa Yochum and Dahlia Tawfik with Kevin Kinney on the mechanisms of induction of behavioral fever in iguana, Spring 2006. Presented in poster form at the 2006 meeting of the Psychoneuroimmunolgy Research Society, June, 2006.
Phillip Mann with Kevin Kinney on investigations of effects of 2 different denervating agents on antibody production in mice, Spring, 2006. Presented in poster form at the 2006 meeting of the Psychoneuroimmunolgy Research Society, June, 2006.
Lauren Rakes and Marisa Yochum summer research with Kevin Kinney, sponsored by Science Research Fellows Program (MY) and NSF Foundation Grant DES 0223089 (LR, Grant PI Wade Hazel).Project Title: Neuroendocrine Control of Pupal Color.
Kristen Mellencamp and Victoria Sharp with Kevin Kinney on the effects of 6-hydroxydopamine on secondary immune responses in Xenopus. Spring 2004

David Moore and Jac Cooper with Henning Schneider Expression and Characterization of a Zebrafish Serotonin Receptor

Megan Morgeson and Linnea Zielinski with Bruce Serlin Addition of Asian Soybean Rust Fungicides to our Water: What are the consequences?

Songbirds and Forest Communities of the DePauw Nature Park
Faculty sponsor: Vanessa Artman
Life on the Rocks: Evolutionary Ecology of an Abandoned Limestone Quarry
Faculty sponsor: Dana Dudle
Effects of Two Different Types of Denervation on Primary and Secondary Antigen-specific Antibody Response in Mice
Faculty sponsor: Kevin Kinney
Growth Rate and Apoptosis in Human Fibroblasts as Affected by Fungicides
Faculty sponsor: Bruce Serlin
Expression and Characterization of a Zebrafish Serotonin Receptor
Faculty sponsor: Henning Schneide

Life in the Woods: Biodiversity and Ecology of the DePauw Nature Park
Faculty Sponsor: Dana Dudle, Vanessa Artman
Hormonal Control of Pupal Color in Swallowtail Butterflies
Faculty Sponsor: Wade Hazel
Study of H2 production by green alga, Chlamydomanas reinhardtii, on a level of gene expression
Faculty Sponsor: Sergei Markov
Mapping of the Expression of a Serotonin (5-HT) Receptor in the Zebrafish Central Nervous System
Faculty Sponsor: Henning Schneider

Theoretical and Empirical Studies of a Conditional Strategy: Environmentally Cued Pupal Color in Swallowtail Butterflies
Faculty sponsor: Wade Hazel
Stress, Amphibian Immunity and Metamorphosis
Faculty Sponsor: Kevin Kinney
From Head to Tail: Axial Development in Salamanders
Faculty sponsor: Janet Vaglia

Cloning and Sequencing Ribosomal RNA Genes from Caenorhabditis Elegans and Brachionus Plicatilis;
Faculty Sponsor: Chet Fornari
Stress, Amphibian Immunity, and Metamorphosis,
Faculty Sponsor, Kevin Kinney
Theoretical and Empirical Studies of a Conditional Strategy: Environmentally Cued Pupal Color in Swallowtail Butterflies,
Faculty Sponsors: Wade Hazel, Chet S. Fornari, and Paula K. Evans
Effects of sympathetic denervation on immune function in Xenopus laevis;
Faculty Sponsor: Kevin Kinney

Assessment of the Fish Communities of Walnut Fork and Little Sugar Creeks,
Faculty Sponsor: James Gammon

Nest Site Story: Nest Attributes of the Polymorphic White-throated Sparrow; Faculty Sponsor: Rusty Gosner
Effects of Environmental Conditions on In Vitro Propagation of Phalaenopsis;
Faculty Sponsor: Bruce Serlin

A Study of Mate Choice for Good Genes Using Gray Treefrogs,
Faculty Sponsors: Jim Benedix and Becky Talyn

Effects of biomass allocation and maternal environment on germination and early growth in Xanthium strumarium,
Faculty Sponsors Dana Dudle and Tim Griffith,

Effects of Maternal Environment on Biomass Allocation to the Seeds and Burrs of Xanthium strumarium,
Faculty Sponsor: Dana Dudle
Effects of biomass allocation and maternal environment on germination and early growth in Xanthium strumarium,
Faculty Sponsor: Dana Dudle
Effects of light intensity on leaf traits affecting photosynthetic efficiency in Coleus blumei
Faculty Sponsor Dana Dudle
The role of larval eyes in the control of environmentally cued pupal color in the swallowtail butterfly Papilio troilus;
Faculty Sponsor: Wade Hazel

2 Projects: Development of Laboratory exercises in Computer-Assisted data acquisition for Animal Physiology Laboratory Preliminary and Investigations of the Effects of Music on Physiological Indicators of Stress; Faculty Sponsor: Kevin Kinney;