Faculty Member Receives ARRA Funding from the NIH
Peg Riley's laboratory has been awarded 3 NIH supplemental funding requests from the President's ARRA program, totaling nearly $300,000 in direct costs. The purpose of the student supplement is to support 3 undergraduates in summer research on the existing proposal entitled "Evolution of Stress-induced Bacterial Toxins". The students will learn plasmid transformation. If loci associated with stress response of bacteriocins are located on the plasmids, the students will attempt to move these genes into a naive background to assess the percent each gene contributes to the stress-based phenotypes.
The Administrative supplement's goal was to help stimulate the scientific economy. With it, we are able to provide immediate employment for several qualified women in science, increase our spending on micro array technology (which is produced by a small domestic-based company), and enable us to more readily continue our research into antibiotic resistance.
