Funding

Current Funding

National Institutes of Health (NIH) logo

NIH R01 Award GM133184: Riboglow: a robust multi-color riboswitch-based platform for imaging RNA in living cells

NIH MIRA Award GM139644: Illuminating the biochemistry of zinc and RNA in live cells

We have also received funding for undergraduate research from the HHMI, UROP, BURST, BSI, and STEM-Routes UPLIFT.

 

 

Previous Funding

Anna & John Sie Foundation logo
  • ALSAM Therapeutic Innovation Grant: Mapping molecular signatures of prostate cancer progression
  • NIH Director's Pioneer Award: Regulation of cell signaling by transition metal dynamics
  • Sie Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship (BioFrontiers and the Anna & John J. Sie Foundation)
  • NIH 1K99GM12752-01: RNA tools for probing spliceosome dynamics
  • NIH R01 Award GM084027: Genetically encoded sensors shed light on zinc homeostasis
  • NIH R01 Award GM105997: Technologies to define and map novel interorganelle macromolecular interactions
    • In collaboration with Natalie Ahn, Vladislav Verkhusha, and Erik Snapp
  • NSF Major Research Instrumentation Grant MRI 1429782: Development of an advanced bio-imaging instrument: enabling 3D quantitative multi-functional sensing at the nanoscale
  • Human Frontiers Science Program: Investigating the role of secreted RNAs in bacterial virulence
  • Butcher Award (University of Colorado): Developing a platform for in vivo imaging of chronic bacterial infection

  • NSF Career Award MCB-0950411: Live cell imaging of Salmonella effector proteins

    Alfred P Sloan Foundation logo
  • NIH R21: A platform to study tenocyte mechanotransduction
  • NIH R01 Award GM083849: Microfluidics-based selection for optimization of red fluorescent proteins
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research
  • NIH R01 GM084027-01S1: Diversity supplement to "Genetically encoded sensors shed light on zinc homeostasis"
  • NIH R01 GM084027-02S1: Administrative supplement to "Genetically encoded sensors shed light on zinc homeostasis"
  • CU-NIST Seed Grant: Development of a novel platform for high throughput screening of fluorescent biosensors

  • ACS IRG (University of Colorado Cancer Center): Live cell imaging of zinc to examine the role of zinc homeostasis in prostate cancer

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  • Whitehall Foundation Award: Development of genetically encoded fluorescent sensors to examine neuronal Zn2+ dynamics
  • CU Innovative Seed Grant Program: Development of novel technologies for real-time studies of microbial biofilms
  • Butcher Grant (University of Colorado): Calcium sensors: probes to elucidate mechanisms of neurodegeneration
  • NIH R01 Award GM083849-02S1: Competitive revision to: Microfluidics-based selections for optimization of red fluorescent proteins
  • Butcher Award (University of Colorado): Revolutionizing the way we look at cells: inventing organelle biosensors by harnessing the power of proteomics and live cell imaging