The CCBS Opportunity award competition is open to any UCI graduate student or postdoctoral researcher (including project scientists, specialists, etc.), who is present at the CCBS retreat. Any pair (or trio) of individuals who meet the above criteria may jointly submit a proposal for this year's competition following the instructions below:
Theme
Variability and plasticity - That is: Research to understand diversity and difference, and its impact on phenotype and function. Variability here refers to measurable differences across sets of genes, cells, molecules, networks, genotypes or organisms.
Award Information
Each winning proposal will receive $10,000 to be shared between the faculty for lab project expenses; and a $1,000 award for research supplies to be shared between student and/or postdoctoral participants.
Eligibility
- Any UCI graduate student or postdoctoral researcher (including project scientists, specialists etc), who was present at the CCBS 2019-20 retreat, may submit a proposal
- Any pair (or trio) of individuals who meet the above criteria may jointly submit a proposal.
Application Criteria
- A short-term (up to 1 year), feasible research investigation that answers a research question related to this year’s theme
- Must involve participation from at least one lab/research group from a different discipline or department than your own
- Must be a “new” project
How to Submit
- Step I: Before 12:30 PM on on last day of the retreat, hand in (or email to Karen Martin) a one paragraph abstract (can be handwritten) briefly describing the nature of the project
- Step II: Send a more complete description (up to three pages) by email two weeks post the retreat, to kymartin@uci.edu.
2018 - 2019 Awardees
| Title | Participants | Department(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Characterizing the Transition Between Naïve and Primed States of Pluripotent ESCs in Different Mammalian Species | Christina Wilcox, Kate Williams PI - Ali Mortazavi Linh Vuong, PI - Peter Donovan | Developmental & Cell Biology Developmental & Cell Biology |
| Transcriptomic analysis of MCF-10A mammary epithelial acini in normal and invasive states | Sorena Rahmanian, PI - Ali Mortazavi Qingda Hu, PI - Elliot Botvinick | Developmental & Cell Biology Biomedical Engineering and Surgery |
| Understanding cellular state transitions in the mammary gland microenvironment from a control theory perspective | Kevin Nee, PI - Kai Kessenbrock Suoqin Jin, PI - Qing Nie | Biological Chemistry Mathematics and Developmental & Cell Biology |
| Transitional states regulating macrophage heterogeneity in dystrophic muscle | Nick Pervolarakis, Quy Nguyen, PI - Kai Kessenbrock Jenna Kastenschmidt, PI - S. Armando Villalta | Biological Chemistry Physiology & Biophysics |
| Methylation pseudotime: a novel tool for observing protein-DNA interactions | Julien Morival, PI - Tim Downing Adam MacLean, PI - Qing Nie | Biomedical Engineering Mathematics and Developmental & Cell Biology |
| Label-free, non-destructive determination of cell state using high throughput characterization of cell physical properties | Matt Bovyn, PI - Jun Allard Cody Combs, PI - Zuzanna Siwy | Physics and Astronomy and Mathematics Physics and Astronomy |
| Optimal experimental design for feedback models of hematopoiesis | Luis Martinez-Lomeli, PI - Babak Shahbaba/Volodymyr Minin Abdon Iniguez, Shuxiong Wang, PI - John Lowengrub Prasanthi Tata, PI - Richard Van Etten | Statistics Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering & Material Science Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine |