Biology and Marine Biology
axel boer
(Axel Boer)
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Data-Driven Discovery Investigator Competition, PI Ann E.
Stapleton Tying networks together: tighter connections between bottom-up simulations and data
analysis method development to better predict biological system function. Not funded (success rate
93/1095).
Senior personnel on NSF DUE WIDER PI Chris Finelli, Building & Using Systems (BUS): Strategies
to increase data-driven STEM teaching. $248,647 Not funded.
I was a collaborator on an NSF proposal from the University of Missouri, PI Toni Kazic, which was
not funded.
The NIH and USDA conference grants I wrote in February and March 2014 for the Gordon
Research Foundation are in review.
Genetic Architecture of Combined Drought And Ultraviolet Radiation Stress Responses In Maize,
USDA CSREES NRI, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, $293,209, 12/15/2008 –
12/14/2013.
NSF PGRP PI Ann E. Stapleton, coPIs Barbara Methe, JCVI, Brad Goodner, Hiram College, Stuart
Gordon, Presbyterian College GEPR Plant host control and feedback responses to phyllosphere
microbes: Change in metagenomes and plant traits in response to environmental stress. $601, 475.
Current. I am the supervisor of all grant activities, with coPI Methe responsible for sequencing and
annotation and coPIs Goodner and Gordon responsible for educational modules for undergraduate
classroom and labs.
NSF PSCIC PI S. Goff, University of Arizona The iPlant Collaborative: A Cyberinfrastructure-
Based Community for a New Plant Biology $50 million renewal for five years. UNCW subcontract
$626,997 Stapleton role: Education, Outreach and Training, Genotype-to-Phenotype Science,
including supervision of genotype-to-phenotype data analysis method integration, supervision of
UNCW undergraduate and graduate students, and strategic planning across the project.
UNCW International Programs Faculty Travel Award, $1000, 5/21/13.
UNCW eTEAL proposal: Getting Ready for Applied Learning—Developing Teaching Assistant
Training Modules to Prepare Undergraduates for Applied Learning in Research Laboratories, not
funded.
PEER NSF NAS partnership program (with my NSF PGRP grant): PROINPA Collaborative
Proposal “Quinoa and drought: can leaf microbial diversity play a role in drought tolerance?”, funds
for Bolivian graduate students to visit UNCW to learn phyllosphere analysis methods. Not funded.
I agreed to take over as PI for two federal grants that were previously managed by BK Song in
2012; I supervised one graduate student from the Song lab.
NSF UBM PI Stuart Borrett coPIs Michael Freeze, Susan Simmons, Marcel van Tuinen, Fred
Scharf, Senior Associates Nolan McMurray and Ann Stapleton BioMaSS: biological and
mathematical synergistic science. $287,311 three years. Responsible for network analysis of
metabolic and gene regulation pathways--student research and classroom modules. Not
funded.