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Maximizing survival when hungry: neural mechanisms for computing behavioural priorities
Hunger is a potent internal drive that can significantly change an animal's behavioural priorities. For example, hungry animals favour actions that increase the chance of finding f...
Approaches to Studying Social Motivation in Schizophrenia
Humans are highly social beings that are motivated to seek out, engage in, and maintain interpersonal relationships with others. This fundamental human drive is referred to as soc...
Dynamic Changes in Erythrocyte 2,3 DPG as a Driver of Cardiac Dysfunction in End Stage Kidney Disease
ABSTRACT End-stage renal disease (ESRD) and its associated complications are disproportionately higher in veterans compared to the general U. S. population. Approximately 45,500...
Targeted nanotherapy for the prevention of post-traumatic osteoarthritis
ABSTRACT The latest census indicates that 50+ million adults in the US bear some form of arthritis and by 2030, an estimated 67 million Americans ages > 18 years are projected t...
Learning to adapt to an uncertain future: linking genes, trees, people and processes for more resilient treescapes (newLEAF)
Treescapes - our woodlands, our forests, our urban trees - are critical to our environment, our health and well-being and our ability to transition to a zero carbon economy via pla...
Skeletal complications to a TREM2 variant associated with Alzheimer's Disease
SUMMARY Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a growing health concern and is the most common type of dementia worldwide. Veterans who have been prisoners of war have a 50% greater risk to...
Functional profiling of germline SDH variants associated with cancer susceptibility
Objectives: Loss-of-function (LOF) mutations in SDHA or SDHB result in SDH-deficiency and increase the lifetime risk for developing a number of cancers, including GI stromal tumor...
Validation of Immune Dysfunction in Model of Social Stress: Implications for Major Depression Disorder in Veterans
Project Summary/Abstract At least 30% of Afghanistan and Iraq veterans are affected by Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and 20% are affected by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTS...
BLRD Research Career Scientist Award Application
The overall goal of this Research Career Scientist award is to foster the nominee’s ongoing research program that is focused on the study of extracellular vesicles (EVs) and their...
Collaborative Research:The ferric uptake regulator (Fur) regulates intracellular iron homeostasis via reversible binding of a [2Fe-2S] cluster in Escherichia coli
This NSF award will support a collaborative project of Dr. Huangen Ding (Louisiana State University) and Dr. Codrina V. Ewbank-Popescu (University of St. Thomas) for research condu...
Collaborative Research:The ferric uptake regulator (Fur) regulates intracellular iron homeostasis via reversible binding of a [2Fe-2S] cluster in Escherichia coli
This NSF award will support a collaborative project of Dr. Huangen Ding (Louisiana State University) and Dr. Codrina V. Ewbank-Popescu (University of St. Thomas) for research condu...
Trojan Horse: Using virus-like particles as RNA delivery devices in invertebrates as a pest-control strategy
This proposal aims to spark a revolution in agricultural pest control for the 21st century. Since the middle of the twentieth century, insect pests have been controlled primarily t...
HDHL MICA:Innovative plant protein fibre and physical activity solutions to address poor appetite and prevent undernutrition in older adults, APPETITE
Background: Poor appetite is commonly reported by older adults, and is known to predict poorer health outcomes, such as frailty, disability and mortality. It impacts both on the am...
School attendance among children with neurodevelopmental conditions a year after the COVID-19 pandemic
Education changed dramatically due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools closed in 2019/20. There was compulsory return to school in September 2020 with measures in place to control in...
Quantifying the Dynamic Response in Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs): A Platform for Tuning Chemical Space in Porous Materials
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are periodic crystalline materials with molecular-scale pores that are among the most widely studied classes of materials across a range of scientif...
Biochar Demonstrator Addressing Key Deployment Barriers for Carbon Sequestration
For the UK to achieve net carbon neutrality by 2050, it is estimated that the mix of Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) technologies required will equate to ca. 35 M tonnes of carbon (Mt...
Functional characterization of effectors of the Microbotryum complex of fungal phytopathogens
The emergence of new infectious diseases or modification of existing diseases refractive to treatment, or with expanded host range, poses serious threats to human survival. This pr...
Characterization and functional assessment of a novel population of Wnt/beta-catenin driven adopocytes.
Project Summary/Abstract Obesity, caused by the increase in size and the amount of fat cells (adipocytes), is becoming a worldwide pandemic, producing a huge public health proble...
Northwest European Seasonal Weather Prediction from Complex Systems Modelling
The atmospheric circulation and jet stream (giant current of air) over the North Atlantic strongly influence seasonal weather conditions over Northwest Europe. Recent extreme seaso...
Arrival infrastructures and migrant newcomers in European cities
One of the big issues European societies face is the immigration of an increasing number of migrants from various parts of the world. While European states grapple with the managem...