Researchers - Alaska INBRE

Researchers

2018-2019 Pilot Awards

Investigator	Campus	Project Title
Brandon Briggs	UAA	Cold-region environmental behavior of rotenone and applications to exposure prevention
Nin Dingra	UAA	Antineoplastic, Anti-inflammatory, and Hepatic Clearance Profilling of CORCB-1
Kristen Gorman	UAF	Effects of energetic state and infectious agents on migration by Sockeye Salmon
Micah Hahn	UAA	Understanding the risk of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in Alaska
Inna Rivkin	UAF	Intergenerational Dialogue Exchange and Action to Facilitate Youth Wellness FY19
JENNIFER SHAW	SCF	Predictive Algorithms to Identify Risk for Suicide in an Alaska Native Health System
Patrick Tomco	UAA	Cold-region environmental behavior of rotenone and applications to exposure prevention
Maegan Weltzin	UAF	Pharmacology and function of nicotinic receptors altered by and epilepsy mutation
Cory Williams	UAF	Effects of photoperiod and dopamine disruption on sleep and mass gain
Frank Witmer	UAA	Understanding the risk of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in Alaska

2017-2018 Pilot awards

Investigator	Campus	Project Title
Max Kullberg	UAA	Tumor Antigen Delivery Using Complement Targeted Nanoparticles
Holly Martinson	UAA	Molecular and clinicopathological analysis of Alaska Native breast cancer
Kathryn Milligan-Myhre	UAA	Effects of perchorate on gut microbiota and immune development
Vadim Fedorov	UAF	Importance of microRNA for esteoporosis prevention in hibernating ground squirrel
Kristin O'Brien	UAF	The effect of polyglutamine and glutamic acid repeats on HIF-1 Funcation
Scott Ryan Oliver	UAF	Skeletal Muscle thermogenesis by sarcolipin-uncoupling in ground squirrels
Inna Rivkin	UAF	Intergenerational Dialogue Exchange and Action to Facilitate Youth Wellness
Kevin Winker	UAF	Modeling Asia-to-America avian influenza virus invasions and hunter exposure
Sonia Nagorski	UAS	Assessing spatiotemporal variability of water quality impacts in southeast Alaska

2016-2017 Pilot awards

Investigator	Campus	Project Title
Jason Burkhead	UAA	Copper deficiency in gastrointestinal and liver health
Max Kullberg	UAA	Targeted Reprogramming of Myeloid Derived Suppressor Cells in
Holly Martinson	UAA	Discovering Biomarkers for early detection and treatment of gastric cancer
Khrystyne Duddleston	UAA	Urea-nitrogen salvage and ureolytic microbes; implications for human health
Eric Bortz	UAF	Viral RNA adjucvants to enhance immouotherapy against human tumors
Jack Chen	UAF	Appliation of PATHseq Method in the Detection of Human Pathogens
Vadim Fedorov	UAF	MicroRNAs in muscle astrophory, osteoporis prevention in hibernating mammals
Kelly Drew	UAF	Thermogenesis by sarcolipin-uncouupling in skeletal muscle of ground squirrels
Kat Milligan-Myhre	UAF	Contribution of host genes to microbiota and pathogen susceptibility

2015-2016 Pilot awards

Investigator	Campus	Project Title
Vadim Fedorov	UAF	Molecular basis of muscle atrophy, osteoporosis prevention in hibernating mammals
Max Kullberg	UAA	Targeted drug delivery to reprogram immunosuppressive cells in breast tumors
Molly Murphy	UAF	Virus populations harbored by bats in Alaska
Devin Drown	UAF	Coevolution an virulence of host-symbiont associations
Jonathan Stecyk	UAA	Functional Significance of Altered HCN Channel Expression in the Turtle Pacemaker
Nancy Shelby	UAA	Chronic Inflammation and high incidence of gastric cancer in Alaska natives

2014-2015 Pilot awards

Investigator	Campus	Project Title
Eric Bortz	UAA	Novel human RNA binding proteins target innate immunity to influenza
Jason Burhead	UAA	Copper status and dietary sugars: roles in inflammation, dyslipidemia and NAFLD
Kriya Dunlap	UAF	The environment, diet and metabolic syndrome
Mary Beth Leah	UAF	Phytoremediation for cleanup of diesel-contaminated soils in rural Alaska
Johnathan Stecyk	UAA	Ecological to molecular comparative cardiac physiology
Andrea Ferrante	UAF	Role of structural flexibiloty in epitope selection by HLA-DR
Jang Chen	UAF	Identification of unknown pathogens using next generation sequencing technology
Thomas B Kuhn	UAF	Nanodisc technology: a cell-free system to study lipid regulation of NADPH oxidase
Max Petter Kullberg	UAA	Reprogramming Immunosuppressive Cells in Tumors with Targeted Drug Delivery
Sonia A Nagorski	UAS	Contribution of mercury by spaning salmon to southeastern Alaska streams
Frank Arthur Von Hippel	UAA	Development of genomic approaches to study endocrine disruption
Lillliya Vugmeyster	UAA	Dynamic of amyloid fibrils in different morphological forms