Grant Support

Grant Support and Awards

NIH Predoctoral Training Grant (1988-1992)

American Indian Science and Engineering Society: Distinguished Service Award (1995)

National Science Foundation (DBI-9724273 MBRI Instrument Development) (10/1/1997-9/30/2000). Acquisition of Beckman XL-I Ultracentrifuges Development of data analysis software for sedimentation velocity experiments using Raleigh interference optics. (Role: Co-P.I. with Jeff Hansen)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Institutional subaward of UTHSCSA Grant 76200-550802, 10/1/1998-3/31/2000). Acquisition of a parallel computer system for the global analysis of hydrodynamic measurements of biological samples. Development of a parallel Linux cluster for the Monte Carlo analysis of global least squares fits to experimental data. (Role: P.I.)

National Science Foundation (DBI-9974819 Computational Biology) (3/1/2000-2/28/2005). Global Analysis Software for Hydrodynamic and Thermodynamic Studies of Biological Macromolecules. Development of the multi-platform UltraScan data analysis software package for sedimentation and light scattering experiments. Modules for data analysis of sedimentation velocity and sedimentation equilibrium experiments, simulation modules, utilities, utilities and a relational database backend are developed. (Role: P.I.)

National Science Foundation (Research Opportunity Award, subaward to DBI-9974819) (6/1/2000-8/31/2000) Development of global nonlinear least squares optimization algorithm for finite element modeling using automatic differentiation. Methods for the global fitting of finite element solutions to experimental sedimentation velocity data were developed. Algorithms using the "Doesn't use Derivatives" method were developed. (Role: P.I.)
National Science Foundation (ANI-228927 High Performance Network Computing) (9/1/2002-8/31/2004). Internet 2 connectivity for UTHSCSA and UTSA. Implementation of Internet-2 connectivity and needed infrastructure to link UTSA and UTHSCSA to the Abilene network. (Role: P.I.)
The University of Texas Health Science Center Institutional Grant (Institutional: Innovative Teaching Grant) (1/9/2003-8/31/2005). Software development of a Unix-based teaching environment toolkit.. A bootable CDROM is developed based on the Linux operating system which incorporates multiple teaching software applications as well as Internet-2 applications for teleconferencing on the AccessGrid. (Role: P.I.)
Kleberg Foundation Private fund (8/1/2004-7/31/2007) Genomic Diversity in Bacteriophages Characterization of genomic diversity in newly discovered Bacteriophages (Role: Co-P.I.)
San Antonio Life Science Institute (11/01/2004-10/31/2005) Novel Computational Approaches to Hydrodynamic Analysis of Biological Macromolecules Development of highly accurate finite element solutions to the Lamm equation and implementation in parallel distributed systems for multi-wavelength analysis of analytical ultracentrifugation data. Role on Project: P.I.
National Science Foundation. TG-MCB060019T (2/15/2006-2/28/2007) TeraGrid: Modeling of Hydrodynamic Data from an Analytical Ultracentrifuge This project serves to prototype the 2-dimensional spectrum analysis and the genetic algorithm methods for fitting sedimentation experiments in a parallel environment. Role on Project: PI
National Science Foundation Teragrid Allocation TG-MCB070038 (4/1/2007-3/231/2009) High-resolution Modeling of Hydrodynamic Experiments Service Allocation on the NSF Teragrid Supercomputer System (EM64T Lonestar and Track 2 Ranger, both at TACC). This project provides compute cycles on supercomputers to aid in the determination of structure and function from analytical ultracentrifugation experiments with NIH and NSF collaborations. Role on Project: PI
National Institutes of Health 1 R01 RR022200-01A1(4/15/2007 - 4/14/2011) UltraScan Software Maintenance and Development. This projects is a continuation of NSF grant DBI-9974819, and deals with continued development and maintenance of the multi-platform UltraScan software. It includes aims for the development of analysis modules for fluorescence optics and supercomputing interfaces. Role on Project: PI
Department of Defense (2/23/2006-03/22/2008) MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION OF HUMAN FUNGAL PATHOGENS. This project aims to identify pathogenic fungi by sequence analysis of 18s ribosomal RNA. A genomic database is built to catalogue and compare rRNA sequences. Role on Project: collaborator, PI: Dr. Brian Wickes
National Institutes of Health NIA (07/01/2006-06/30/2007) NATHAN SHOCK AGING CENTER - PROGRAM ENRICHMENT CORE The project grant supports the development of an automated data acquisition system and development of an on-line animal database. Role on Project: collaborator, PI: Dr. Arlan Richardson