Grant Award Recipients
The PENN Genome Frontiers Institute (PGFI) is pleased to announce and congratulate the recipients of grants from a recent PGFI grant competition entitled “Quantitation of Biological Processes Real-Time in Live Cells.” These highly creative grants range from 1 to 2 years and provide funding from $60,000 to $120,000 for investigators in the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Medicine and the School of Veterinary Medicine. It is anticipated that the results of the subsequent research efforts will help to advance research in the area of live cell genomics which is one of PGFI’s areas of strategic interest. The recipients are:
- Dr. Marija Drndic of SAS (Dept. of Physics) is the PI - Real-time sizing/mass measurement and multi-channel detection of protein molecules extracted from electroporated live cells - $120,000 for 2 years
- Dr. Anna Kashina of SVM (Dept. of Animal Biology) with co-PI Dr. Sergei Vinogradov of SOM (Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics) - In vivo imaging of vesicle trafficking and its regulation by protein arginylation - $60,000 for 1 year
- Dr. Samuel Lamitina of SOM (Dept. of Physiology) with co-PIs Dr. Yale E. Goldman of SOM (Dept. of Physiology) and Dr. Barry S. Cooperman of SAS (Dept. of Chemistry)- Real-Time Proteomics (RTP) by Single Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy - $60,000 for 1 year
- Dr. Michael Lampson of SAS (Dept. of Biology) - Measuring phosphorylation dynamics in living cells: from local signaling networks to tumorigenesis - $60,000 for 1 year