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Appendix III: Summaries of Futures Grant Projects by Year
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... 2003 Futures Grantees, awarded 2004 Signals, Decision, and Meaning in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering Grantees LEE BARDWELL, University of California, Irvine Intracellular Signaling Specificity: Theoretical and Computational Explorations - $75,000 Bardwell's Futures grant was for an interdisciplinary computational and mathematical investigation of the mechanisms that promote specificity in cell signaling, which complemented experimental work in his laboratory. Cells react to a wide variety of stimuli, such as chemical messages sent by other cells.
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... ; resetting by environmental cues; and temperature and nutritional compensation. Dunlap's project proposed to test an alternative model where autocatalysis plays a role equally as important as the existing negative feedback loop in generating a robust biochemical oscillator.
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... URI ALON, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel  Evolutionary Computation Methods for Inference of Signal Transduction Networks - $75,000 Lipson and Alon aim to develop and apply new computational methods for inference of signaling networks within the cell using automated physical experimentation and hypothesis generation. The approach is based on new engineering topological system identification methods combined with a unique automated experimental system capable of accurately controlling and measuring nutrients in cultured systems over time.
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... Ramanathan proposed to understand the role of the MAP Kinase module in the decision-making process of the cell through a combination of experimental and analytical approaches. RAMA RANGANATHAN, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Md.
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... He focused on the development of hardware acceleration of stochastic simulation with a long term vision of continued simulation, speed increases as an automatic consequence of the Moore's law advance of the semiconductor industry, and the extension of the frequency domain analysis approach to address fundamental issues in the processing of stochastic fluctuations within gene circuits and networks, including stochastic modulation of nonlinear biochemical processes, stochastically valid approximate relationships for gene expression control, and the processing of noise in cell-cell communication systems. 2004 Futures Grantees, awarded 2005 Designing Nanostructures at the Interface Between Biomedical and Physical Systems ROBERT AUSTIN, ERIC WIESCHAUS, and DAVID TANK, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
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... engineer alternative metal ion specificity into thrombin; and (3) engineer metal ion activation into other members of the serine protease family.
From page 265...
... ANDREW ELLINGTON, The University of Texas at Austin DAVID LAVAN, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Nano-Biocomposites for Conversion of Sunlight to Electricity - $75,000 These researchers aimed to meld bio- and nanotechnologies to create a technology for solar capture that can be mass-produced and scaled to a variety of energy needs.
From page 266...
... Kelley and Sargent explored the properties of PbS semiconductor quantum dots built using DNA molecules, a novel class of hybrid inorganic bionanostructures. The Sargent group made the remarkable discovery that compared with established synthesis methods, synthesis using DNA as templating material produces radically more efficient light-emitting PbS quantum dots.
From page 267...
... TODD THORSEN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Mesoscale Patterning and Delivery of DNA-Based Nanoscale Buckyballs Using Microfluidic Devices - $75,000 The long-term goal of Luo and Thorsen's collaboration was to combine two approaches, top-down and bottom-up, to develop materials and devices that extend the nanoscale to the mesoscale and to interface nanomaterials with macro applications including drug delivery. The first purpose of their research was to use microfluidic emulsification devices­ a top-down -- approach -- to pattern DNA-based, nanoscale buckyballs that are created from the bottom-up approach.
From page 268...
... THOMAS PERKINS and ROBERT BATEY, University of Colorado Boulder A Widely Applicable, Highly Sensitive RNA-Based Biosensor - $75,000  When applying biosensors in uses ranging from sequencing a single protein to homeland defense, one wants to rapidly distinguish chemicals and detect even trace quantities reliably. The central issues, therefore, are specificity and sensitivity while eliminating false-positive signals, or background.
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... APPENDIX III 269 fluorescence microscopy. By using in vitro selection, this RNA biosensor can be rapidly adapted to different chemical compounds.
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... 2005 Futures Grantees, awarded 2006 The Genomic Revolution: Implications for Treatment and Control of Infectious Disease PHILIP AWADALLA, North Carolina State University, Raleigh HONGYU ZHAO, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. SARAH TISHKOFF, University of Maryland, College Park The Co-evolution of Human and Plasmodium Genomic Interactions - $75,000  Mortality associated with malaria has been a major selective force shaping variation in the human and P
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... MICHAEL LORENZ, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston GREGORY PETSKO, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass. Identification of Isocitrate Lyase Inhibitors as Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial Drugs - $50,000 These researchers tested a new model of drug discovery that uses comparative genomics and computer simulation.
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... Nitric oxide is an important mediator of white blood cell function in the pathogenesis and host defense of infectious and inflammatory processes. BABAK PARVIZ, University of Washington, Seattle Direct Electronic Detection of Molecular Recognition and Binding Events with Engineered Nano-Scale Structures - $75,000 Two nano-scale sensing mechanisms based on tunneling current and surface dipole fields were investigated for direct conversion of molecular recognition and binding events to electronic signals.
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... Enhancement of DNA Microarray Hybridization Using Thermal Gradient Induced Convective Flow - $75,000 These researchers proposed to develop a novel but simple and easy-toimplement technique, based on thermal gradient induced convection flow, to enhance DNA microarray hybridization and address the diffusion limitation and low throughput of current microarray technology. This technique would accelerate hybridization kinetics in virtually any microarray platform.
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... is hyperactive and rather than relaxing, as occurs during normal voiding, the EUS contracts and prevents voiding. These researchers proposed to use microstimulation of specific areas of the spinal cord to produce EUS inhibition and thereby restore normal bladder emptying.
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... JANMEY, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Retinal Prosthetics: The Effect of the Elastic Modulus of the Extracellular Matrix on the Development of Differentiation of Specialized Neurons in the Retina - $75,000 How do the cells become organized in the retina and brain? These researchers proposed to utilize techniques from polymer chemistry, physics, and developmental biology to evaluate the effect of the elastic modulus or "softness" of the surrounding material on the development of retinal stem cells and organization of the retina.
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... Feedback Control for Smart Prosthetics: An Integrated Electrophysiological and Near-Infrared Methodology - $75,000 This project proposed to produce insight into the neural mechanisms governing adaptation to sensory feedback from a prosthesis. The researchers planned to track brain activity while subjects perform simple object lifting tasks with a prosthesis that selectively provides tendon vibration (inducing joint motion percepts)
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... RANDALL J NELSON, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis Workshop on New Frontier in Research on Sensorimotor Transformations - $25,000 The workshop brought together NIH funded neuroscientists working on the neural basis of sensorimotor control, investigators developing cortical neuroprothesthics, and neurologists specializing in somatosensory disorders to identify scientific gaps and opportunities common to these research communities and to discuss strategies for developing close-looped sensorimotor integrated smart prosthetics.
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... These researchers proposed to develop a program to create arrays of myoblast-like cells on a scaffold using the electric eel as a guide; cells would develop an electrical potential through normal metabolic processes and this potential would be discharged through an external circuit. 2007 Futures Grantees, awarded 2008 The Future of Human Healthspan: Demography, Evolution, Medicine, and Bioengineering STEVEN AUSTAD, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio DAVID J
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... STEVE N AUSTAD, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
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... These researchers proposed to investigate this influence by a genome-wide survey of CNVs in relation to longevity among the Ashkenazi centenarians. CHRISTINE GRANT, North Carolina State University, Raleigh ANATOLI I YASHIN, KEITH MEADOR, and ELIZABETH ANN GERKEN HOOTEN, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
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... WOODRING ERIK WRIGHT, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas Comparative Biogerontology Initiative - $75,000 These researchers proposed to hold two meetings with senior scholars to develop a plan to test hypotheses about biological factors that control lifespan and healthspan, and compare tissues from multiple species of animals. The scholars were pathologists, comparative physiologists, methodologists, statisticians, and experts in the biology of aging.
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... SHRIPAD TULJAPURKAR, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. TIM COULSON, Imperial College, London Signatures of Healthspan in Humans - $75,000 These researchers intended to study the causal basis for differences in human healthspan by using "signatures" and health trajectories, and assessing the dynamical nature of heterogeneity of healthspan.  CORINNA ROSS, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio SARA ESPINOZA, University of Texas, San Antonio Development of a Small Primate Model of Frailty - $25,000 Frailty has been defined as a wasting syndrome characterized by weight loss, fatigue, weakness, and vulnerability to stressors that predisposes them to increased risk of morbidity and mortality.
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... Distinct sources of evidence are converging on common principles to explain coordinated neural and behavioral activities.  SALLY BLOWER, BRADLEY WAGNER, and JUSTIN OKANO, Semel Institute for Neuroscience, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles ALESSANDRO VESPIGNANI and BRUNO GONÇALVES, Indiana University, Bloomington RAFFAELE VARDAVAS, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. Designing an Effective HIV Prevention Plan for Botswana by Coupling an Information Network Model with a Meta-population Transmission Model - $75,000 These researchers planned to use an information network model linked with a transmission model to assess the impact of using antiretrovirals to prevent HIV in Botswana.
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... : Frontiers in Collective Modeling via Scientific Open Source - $50,000 These researchers proposed to adapt modern complex systems methods, both theoretical and computational, to the problem of global sustainability. The principle challenges of multiscale and multidomain modeling will be pursued on scientific and technological tracks: analyzing insect-driven deforestation and climate change and designing a network environment (SOSWorld)
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... DOUGLAS B WEIBEL, University of Wisconsin–Madison Phenotypic Heterogeneity as a Source of Robustness in Bacterial Sensing - $50,000 Using bacterial sensing as a model system, these researchers proposed to examine how the resulting cell-to-cell variability confers functional robustness to a community of cells.
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... DUONG, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Use of an Electronic Nose for Breath-Based Detection of Lung Cancer - $50,000 These researchers proposed to evaluate whether mixtures of volatile organic breath-based biomarkers that have been implicated as diagnostic signatures suitable for a screen for early stage lung cancer can be detected and identified by a low-power, portable, "electronic nose" array of vapor sensors.
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... CATERINA SCOGLIO, Kansas State University, Manhattan MICHAEL L PARCHMAN, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio Quality of Care and Network Properties of Outpatient Health Care Delivery in the Veterans Health Administration - $25,000 These researchers proposed to describe the network comprised of physicians (nodes)
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... LATHROP, University of Maryland, College Park Model-Based Forecasting of Epileptic Seizures - $50,000 Epileptic seizures have similarities to brain storms, yet we have no systematic way that reliably detects impending seizures. This project aimed to blend models based from engineering control theory, and the physics of nonlinear dynamics of the atmosphere, to test whether a novel synergistic approach to detecting epileptic seizures can be developed.
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... WOLFGANG LOSERT, University of Maryland, College Park MINGJUN ZHANG, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Biology on Demand: External Control of a Complex Cellular System, S cerevisiae - $50,000 These researchers proposed to demonstrate external, multivariable control of the budding yeast, a relatively well-characterized complex system.
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... GAUTAM DANTAS, Washington University ROB KNIGHT, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Bethesda, Md.; University of Colorado Boulder BIN WANT, Washington University Functional Metagenomic Discovery of Novel Enzymatic Functions from Ultra Low-Volume Samples with Whole Metagenome Amplification - $75,000 These researchers aimed to develop and apply experimental methods for capturing diverse biological machinery from arbitrary environments using extremely small amounts of genetic material and computational methods to predict how these functions evolved. This research will improve the ability to define fitness landscapes to harness the chemical processing potential of biological systems.
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... WENDELL LIM and PAULA GOMES, University of California, San Francisco NAKFI Grant iGEM Program: Harnessing the Power of Synthetic Biology to Expand the Reach of Biological Education - $25,000 Synthetic Biology provides a motivating and appealing investigative framework for young students to learn about biological mechanisms. This project proposed to harness this power to expand the excitement of biological inquiry and discovery to students from grades 6–14 by creating innovative curricula and providing exciting research experiences at UCSF.
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... LAURA DRESS, B.R.I.D.G.E.™, LLC Developing a Bench-Side Ethics and Community-Based Participatory Research Training Program in Synthetic Biology - $75,000 This project proposed to develop a research and education training program that instructs graduate students in biomedicine, bioengineering, and bioethics on the ethical and social implications of synthetic biology research. The program also sought to develop participatory research practices in synthetic biology to address the need for critical engagement with nontraditional stakeholders.
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... HUIMIN ZHAO and ZENGYI SHAO, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Genome Mining of Novel Natural Products via Synthetic Biology - $100,000 Microorganisms are a major source of new therapeutic agents. These researchers aimed to develop a new synthetic biology strategy to discover novel natural products from sequenced genomes and metagenomes.
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... RICHARD FRAZIN, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor PETER LAWSON, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Advanced Statistical Methods for Exoplanet Detection - $50,000 These researchers planned to organize a multidisciplinary workshop of experts in order to study the application of state-of-the-art statistical decision theory to the detection of faint exoplanets.
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... The team proposed to focus on producing advanced imaging tools that can probe molecules and peer inside both living cells and humans. RAFAEL PIESTUN, University of Colorado Boulder LILIANA BORCEA, Rice University, Houston, Texas Adaptive Approach for Imaging Through a Highly Scattering Volume Using Spatio-Temporal Waveform Shaping and Statistical Algorithms - $75,000 Efficient optical imaging through highly scattering volumetric media is arguably the next frontier in imaging science, with wide implications in microscopy, security, biomedical analysis, neuroscience, and more.
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... Algebraic Framework for Multifactor Manifold Learning with Applications to Image Science - $100,000 This project proposed to develop a multilinear algebraic framework for computer vision and image science. By exploiting the nonlinear algebra of higher-order tensors, this new framework will yield powerful new computational methods and algorithms for detection and recognition with applications from biometrics and visual surveillance to medical imaging.
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... This project sought to explore new paradigms in data acquisition, nonlinear signal and image processing, more sophisticated data "de-noising" and image analysis in combination with extensive simulation techniques. ANDREW WANG, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ANDREW TSOURKAS, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Development of Nanoparticle-Based Multiplex Multimodality Imaging Agents for the Specific and Sensitive Detection of Cancer - $100,000 This research proposed the development of a new class of imaging agents that enable multiplex and multimodality imaging.
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... AUSTIN TROY, University of Vermont, Burlington LISA WAINGER, University of Maryland, College Park Interactive Games to Value Ecosystem Services - $75,000 These researchers propose a prototype system to combine elements of choice modeling, ecosystem modeling, and interactive multiplayer games to better understand and value ecosystem services. Research results will enable an estimation of ecosystem service values by observing the informed trade-offs that individuals and groups are willing to make in a simulated environment.
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... Army Corps of Engineers - $100,000 There are economic, institutional, and biophysical barriers to using ecosystem services for flood risk reduction. This project aimed to identify these barriers and strategies for overcoming them in Corps of Engineers projects to better operationalize the concept of ecosystem services for policy and improve integration of ecosystem-based approaches into federal decision making.
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... - $100,000 Through a series of interconnected and multidisciplinary working groups, this project proposed to explore the new ideas, approaches, and applications involved in placing green infrastructure and ecosystem services at the foundation of urban and regional planning processes, and the potential for better environmental and social outcomes.
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... These researchers aimed to develop a research network, hold a conference on "Ecosystem Services and Emerging Infectious Plant Diseases of Africa," and educate African women in research. DIEGO ROSE, Tulane University, New Orleans, La.
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... Their hope is that this will improve treatment in developing countries where there are limited diagnostic resources.   ADAM GAZZALEY, University of California, San Francisco JOSE CARMENA, University of California, Berkeley JYOTI MISHRA, University of California, San Francisco Closing the Loop Between the Brain and the Digital World - $100,000 This project proposed to integrate recent advances in brain-computer interfaces (BCI)
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... Using Smart Devices to Capture the Emotionality of Offline Communication - $100,000 The increasing prevalence of online interactions may be inhibiting the development of strong, reciprocal, and emotionally significant offline social ties. These researchers proposed to develop an innovative system using smart devices that detects speech traits indicative of various emotional states and provides data on offline emotionality needed to understand changing social networks.
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... LAKSHMINARAYANAN MAHADEVAN, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. A.R.C.H.I.E.: Adaptive, Reconfigurable Cognition Through Hybrid Inorganic Electronics - $100,000 These researchers aimed to investigate decision making and cognition through proof-of-concept electronic circuits fabricated with correlated electron materials that display phase transitions.
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...   DEBRA WEINER, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass.; Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass. KALEV LEETARU, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign WEI LU, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Lifelong Learning Locker, Life-Sciences Linker: Adaptive Learning, Content Management, Framework for Lifelong Learning and to Promote Innovation and Research Collaboration - $100,000 These researchers aimed to develop Lifelong Learning Locker, Life-Sciences Linker, an Internet-assisted, adaptive-information management, learning, and networking system for use throughout life.
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... This project sought to consider systematic approaches to enable incorporation of innovation into both present and future reactor designs.   JOHN HOLZRICHTER, Physical-Insights Associates PER PETERSON and ELI YABLONOVICH, University of California, Berkeley Optically Coupled Nuclear Reactor - $100,000 These researchers proposed to design an advanced high-temperature reactor concept utilizing opto-electric conversion and optical thermal regulation.
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... They will then evaluate and report the efficacy of this method in expanding the nuclear specialist workforce.   PETER HOSEMANN, University of California, Berkeley A Revolutionary Method to Study Radiation Damage in Novel Nanostructured Alloys - $75,000 In this work, researchers proposed to create novel 3-D-nanostructured materials via powder metallurgy and cold compacting techniques and evaluate the new alloys for their ability to accommodate radiation damage and implantation utilizing an unprecedented novel implantation and characterization tool.
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... Steel Fuel Claddings - $75,000 This project sought to investigate fabrication of fuel claddings of radiationresistant oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) steel using a cold spray materials deposition process.
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... 2014 Futures Grantees, awarded 2015 Collective Behavior: From Cells to Societies ANAMARIA BEREA, University of Maryland, College Park Emergence of Communication in Socio-Biological Networks from Individual Subjective Signals and Responses - $75,000 This project aimed to model the emergence and evolution of communication in socio-biological groups. The model will be developed as a dynamic computer simulation to visually demonstrate the co-evolution of networks and languages.
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... This project proposed to incorporate state-of-the-art monitoring technology to examine how honey bees adjust colony interaction patterns in response to disease. Lessons learned may help to manage disease transmission in bees, humans, and other animals.
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... Tinkering or De Novo Evolution: The Neural Basis of Collective Defense Behaviors - $50,000 Do different types of collective behaviors share similar sensory cues and cognitive bases within and across distantly related organisms? This project proposed to assess the neural mechanisms of whether and how collective nest defense (mobbing of parasites)
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...   ODED NOV and MAURIZIO PORFIRI, New York University GUY BLOCH, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Toward an Integrative Science of Collective Behavior: A Cross-Species Model for the Interplay Between Individual Variation and Behavioral Plasticity and Its Influence on Group Performance - $100,000 Using humans and bees as model systems, combined with modeling tools from dynamical systems theory, these researchers sought to understand and model how individual variation and behavioral plasticity interact to shape group performance. The insights will contribute to the foundation of an integrative science of collective behavior transcending species boundaries.
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... This project sought to leverage the explosion in genetic data from social species to generate and test new evolutionary theory that incorporates molecular mechanisms that shape collective behavior. 2015 Futures Grantees, awarded 2016 Art, Design and Science, Engineering and Medicine Frontier Collaborations: Ideation, Translation, Realization BRANDON BALLENGÉE and PROSANTA CHAKRABARTY, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge SEAN MILLER, John Erickson Museum of Art; SOIL art collective and artist-run space; University of Florida, Gainesville RACHEL MAYERI, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Calif.
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... Sentient Architectural Systems: Transforming Architecture by Coupling Human Neurology to Interactive Responsive Building Environments - $100,000  This project proposed to explore possibilities for a built, inhabited environment to be sentient by examining the mutual influence between these interactive spaces and people's well-being and consciousness. The team will study how a building's communication and control systems can be developed in ways that actively respond and resonate with human consciousness.
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... KIU LEE, Case Western Reserve University, Washington, D.C. SCOTT AUERBACH, University of Massachusetts Amherst ANDRÉ THOMAS, Texas A&M University, College Station Fostering Empathy and Improving Focus Through the Groove Enhancement Machine: Facilitating Sensorimotor Coordination and Cooperation Among Groups of Individuals - $100,000  Rhythmic ensemble performance (clapping or drumming)
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... FRANDSEN AUTOGENA, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom Ice-Time/Nuclear-Time: Micro-Global Perspectives of the Arctic - $75,000  Ice-Time/Nuclear-Time examines altering perceptions of geologic deep time, using Greenland as a unique window into issues of climate change. The project proposed to explore ecological, scientific, and socio-cultural interconnections between the rapidly melting ice sheet and the long-term implications of uranium mining in Greenland.
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... 2016 Futures Grantees, awarded 2017 Discovering the Deep Blue Sea: Research, Innovation, Social Engagement BRANDON BALLENGÉE, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge/ Ballengée Studio LLC * Fiscal agent for grant, Ballengée Studio LLC BENJAMIN DUBANSKY, University of North Texas, Denton DIEGO FIGUEROA, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley CHRISTOPHER HAYES, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg DAVID MURPHY, University of South Florida, Tampa ADAM SKARKE, Mississippi State University, Starkville Creating Resilience: Building a Gulf of Mexico NAKFI Alumni Working Group - $25,000 Composed of alumni from an interdisciplinary art, science, and outreach meeting of NAKFI, this group's goal was to become a resilient regional network of specialists from diverse backgrounds collaborating creatively to address complex socio-ecological issues facing Gulf communities and ecosystems.
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...   TIMOTHY BRODERICK, Wright State Research Institute, Beavercreek, Ohio * Fiscal agent for grant, Djerassi Resident Artists Program DANIEL KOHN, Kohnworkshop ALYSON SANTORO, University of California, Santa Barbara MARGOT KNIGHT, Djerassi Resident Artists Program JODY DEMING, University of Washington The Deep Sea Memory Project - $100,000 This project proposed to explore the largely unknown world of the deep sea in the context of memory.
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... This effort aimed to develop tools to characterize plastic distributions in the deep blue sea and their effects on marine organisms.   DIEGO FIGUEROA, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley ELIZABETH NYMAN, Maritime Studies, Texas A&M University, Galveston MARK DION, Conceptual Artist Studio NUNO NUNES, Tecnico U., Lisbon, Portugal JANET HWANG, ArtCenter College of Design Promoting Public Stewardship of the Deep Blue Sea Through RealTime Interaction with a Mesophotic Reef - $100,000 This project consisted of interactive lessons and a travelling exhibit to be used across K–12 classrooms, community centers, and museums.
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... Fiscal agent for grant, Djerassi Resident Artists Program JULIE HUBER, Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass. HEATHER SPENCE, Michelle's Earth Foundation, Arlington, Va.
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...   CHRISTOPHER MARTENS, HOWARD MENDLOVITZ, and HARVEY SEIM, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Fuel Cell Energy for Sustained Hydrocarbon Time-Series Measurements in the Deep Blue Sea - $100,000 Understanding the impacts of oil and gas releases in the deep sea requires sustained time-series measurements using fast-response sensors and advanced power systems. New fuel cell technology will be coupled with underwater membrane inlet mass spectrometers (MIMS)
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...   LARRY PRATT, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass. IMPeL: The Immersive Mesopelagic Performance Lab - $25,000 Artists and scientists plan to research and develop a "performance lab" designed to allow humans to inhabit the perspective of deep sea organisms and embody different processes and patterns key to the daily life and health of the ocean's Mesopelagic zone.
From page 323...
... A Data Transcoding Toolkit and Spatiotemporal Listening Environment for the Creative and Scientific Exploration of Emerging Sonification Interactions with Deep Ocean Microbial Ecology (soniDOME) - $100,000 The soniDome Project sought to collaboratively develop data transformation software tools and methods to expand the creative and scientific understanding of deep ocean microbial ecologies.
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...   PATRICIA YAGER and JULIE SPIVEY, University of Georgia, Atlanta CURTIS DEUTSCH and HARTMUT FRENZEL, School of Oceanography, University of Washington Mapping Deep Blue Habitat in a Changing Climate - $100,000 This project proposed to create an interactive data visualization platform that maps projected changes in deep ocean habitat. This platform will be useful to scientists, educators, conservationists, ocean resource managers, and policymakers, and will also be modified for use in aquariums, science museum exhibits, and online.


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