Faculty Grants
Instrumentation Grants
Students Grants
Awards
- NASA EPSCoR R3 (PI) A lab-on-a-chip platform for bacterial enrichment and single-step RNA purification for rapid screening of spacecraft microbiome. 09/2023-08/2024.
- NASA SBRI Phase I (Subcontract) One-step microbial sample prep device for MinION sequencing. 08/2023-02/2024.
- NSF EPSCoR RII Track-4 (PI) ExoPRIME Technology and Mass Spectroscopy Proteomic Analysis of Immunocaptured Exosomes for Liquid Biopsy. 01/2023-12/2024.
- LaSPACE REA (PI) Gene Sampling Technology for Microbial Screening in Space.09/01/202208/31/2023.
- NASA EPSCoR International Space Station (ISS) Flight Opportunity (Science-I): One-step sampling tool to improve the ISS Bioanalytical Facility. 01/01/2019-12/31/2021.
- LaSPACE REA (PI): Exploring long-term chemistries for genetic analysis in space. 09/01/2018-05/31/2020.
- LaSPACE Research Enhancement Award Program (REA) (PI): Exosomal microRNA expression as biomarkers for assessment of the radiation-induced neurological injury. 09/01/2018-02/29/2020.
- Louisiana Board of Regents Research Competitiveness Subprogram (RCS) (PI): ExoSense: Lab-on-a-chip Platform for Solid-Phase Purification of Exosomes. 06/2018-06/2022.
- Board of Regents Support Fund Superior Graduate Fellows in Molecular Sciences and Nanotechnology 2016-2021 (Co-PI). 08/2016-07/2021. PI: Dr. Ramu Ramachandran.
Instrumentation Grants
- NSF MRI: Track 1 (co-PI) Acquisition of a Nanoparticle Tracking Analyzer to Enhance Nanomaterial Research. 09/2023-08/2024. PI: Dr. S. Wang
- Louisiana Board of Regents Targeted Enhancement Program (co-PI): Atomic Force Microscope. 2022.
- IFM Research Innovation Initiative (Co-PI). Form labs 3D Printer. 2021.
- LaSPACE Special Supplement Competition: EVOS FL fluorescent microscope. 2020
- LBRN: Quant Studio 5 real-time PCR system. 2020
Students Grants
- Ruth Stewart, Ph.D. MSNT: LaSPACE GRSA Extracellular vesicle-based therapeutics for reducing mitochondrial dysfunction in space. 08/15/2022-08/14/2023.
- Ruth Stewart, Ph.D. MSNT LaSPACE GRSA Astrocytes-derived exosomes for reducing neuronal oxidative DNA damage in space.08/15/2021-08/15/2022.
- Faria Binte Hossain, MS MSNT LBRN Summer Research Program. Development of on-chip cell co-culture platform as a model of the blood-brain barrier. 06/01/2022-11/30/2022.
- Deriesha Gaines, Ph.D. MSNT LaSPACE GSRA: Long-term stability assessment of gene sampler tool for genetic analysis on ISS.08/15/2021-08/15/2022.
- Saif Mohammad Ishraq Bari, PhD Engineering LBRN Summer Research Program: PineBio OMICS Bioinformatics training. 2020 (virtual due to COVID19 closure).
- Kristen H. Hope, MS MSNT Summer Research Program. PineBio OMICS Bioinformatics training. 2020 (virtual due to COVID19 closure).
- Kaitlyn Willis, BS Biology LaSPACE LURA: Effect of radiation on mitochondrial mass and oxidative activity.09/01/2018-08/31/2019.
- Kaitlyn Willis, BS Biology LaSPACE LURA: Effect of radiation on the rate of mitochondrial DNA damage and repair. 09/2017-08/2018.
- Kristen H. Hope, BS Biology LaSPACE LURA: Effect of high-energy radiation on the formation of 8- hydroxydeoxyguanosine.09/01/2018-08/31/2019
Awards
- 2023 Senate Chair Award
- 2023 Research Award, College of Applied and Natural Sciences
- Nominated for 2022 Teaching Award for 300 Level and Above Courses, College of Applied and Natural Sciences
- Nominated for 2022 Research Award, College of Applied and Natural Sciences
- 2021 Research Award, College of Applied and Natural Sciences
- Nominated for 2021 Teaching Award for 300 Level and Above Courses, College of Applied and Natural Sciences
- 2021 James C. Jeffrey, M.D. Endowed Professorship in Pre-Med