SECIM is committed to offering pilot and feasibility funding for projects that support the advancement of metabolomics. See below to view past awardees, their funded projects and their research.
For additional pilot awards and funding opportunities, please visit the UF CTSI.
2018 Pilot and Feasibility Projects and Awardees
University of Florida
Ana Conesa Cegarra, PhD
“ Development of multiomics methods for the integrative study of the Yeast Metabolic Cycle”
Iowa State University
Alan Myers, PhD
“Genetic analysis of central metabolism in developing maize endosperm”
University of Florida
Naykky Ospina, MD
“Metabolomics as a Diagnostic Tool in Patients with Thyroid Nodules”
Ohio University
Mercedes Prieto, PhD
“Using metabolomics to improve nutritional epidemiology and diet intervention studies: a pilot study with Mediterranean diet”
University of Florida
Susan Frost, PhD
“Novel regulation of metabolic flux through the lipid biosynthetic pathways”
University of Florida
Dominick Lemas, PhD
“Human milk metabolomics and pediatric obesity”
Weill Cornell Medicine
Olivier Elemento, PhD
“Validation of computationally predicted metabolic synthetic lethality in cancer cells using a non-targeted metabolomics approach: a pilot study”
2017 Pilot and Feasibility Projects and Awardees
University of Florida
Elizabeth Barton, PhD
“Defining metabolic shifts in mouse muscles lacking IGF-I production”
Nemours Children’s Hospital
Kathryn Blake, PharmD
“Using Metabolomics and Lipidomics Analysis to Explore Metabolites and Pathways Associated Increased Airway Hyperresponsiveness in Patients with Asthma who are Identified by Race (African American) and Genotype (ADRB2 Arg16/Arg)”
University of Florida
Mariola Edelmann, PhD
“Profiling of extracellular and exosome-contained metabolites in Salmonella infection”
Emory University
Kelly Ethun, DVM, PhD
“Milk Metabolomics and Infant Neurodevelopment in the Rhesus Macaque Model”
University of Florida
Michelle Gumz, PhD
“Urinary Metabolite Profile of Non-Dipping Hypertension”
Emory University
Jennifer Kwong, PhD
“Integrated Metabolomics in Aggressive Bladder Cancer”
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
George Kyriazis, PhD
“Skeletal Muscle Sweet Taste Receptors and Nutrient Utilization”
University of Florida
Wellington Rody Jr., DDS
“Metabolomic profiling of gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) in the presence of dentin resorption”
University of Florida
Joseph Ryan, PhD
“Using comparative metabolomics to understand growth and salt tolerance in mangroves”
PI: Erwin Van Meir, Emory University
Erwin Van Meir, PhD
“Define mechanism of action and metabolic vulnerabilities induced by novel anti-cancer agent 64B”
University of Florida
Rui Xiao, PhD
“Metabolic profiling of a ketogenic diet-triggered anti-aging effects in C. elegans”
Texas A&M University
Yi Xu, PhD
“Determine metabolomics signatures important for the ability of Streptococus gallolyticus to promote colon cancer cell proliferation”
2016 Pilot and Feasibility Projects and Awardees
University of Colorado at Denver
Sarah Borengasser, PhD
“Targeted Metabolomics for 1C Metabolites from Maternal Dried Blood Spot Samples Prior to and During Pregnancy”
University of Florida
Fernando Bril, MD
“Identification of Biomarkers Associated with the Progression of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease”
University of Florida
Hans Ghayee, DO
“Metabolic Analysis of Human PCC/PGL Cancer Cells Reveals the Importance of Chromogranin-mediated Deacidification in Cancer Survival”
PI: John Hartman, University of Alabama at Birmingham
John Hartman, MD
“Integration of genetic and metabolic networks that influence cellular aging”
moffitt cancer center
Peter Kanetsky, PhD
“Investigating Eicosanoids Implications on the Blood Pressure Response to Thiazide Diuretics”
University of Florida
Hendrik Luesch, PhD
“The functional interplay of marine natural products: marine cyanobacterial small molecules as activators of secondary metabolism in marine actinobacteria”
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Luke Norton, PhD
“The Regulation of Hepatic Pyruvate Metabolism by Pioglitazone”
University of Florida
Christina Pacak, PhD
“Human Urinary Renal Epithelial Cells as Metabolic Biomarkers for Barth Syndrome”
University of Florida
Mohan Raizada, PhD
“Discovery of an Unique Bacterial Metabolic Profile in Resistant Hypertensive Patients”
University of Florida
Stephanie Wohlgemuth, PhD
“Effect of early gestational heat stress on the skeletal muscle metabolome in dairy cows”
2015 Pilot and Feasibility Projects and Awardees
University of Florida
Keith Choe, PhD
“Metabolic profiling of aging in a long-lived and stress resistant C. elegans mutant”
sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Paul Coen, PhD
“The role of NAD+ and SIRT1/3 in mitochondrial dysfunction during disuse-induced muscle atrophy”
University of Miami
Kunjan Dave, PhD
“Impact of recurrent hypoglycemia on brain metabolite profile”
University of Florida
Jesse Gregory, PhD
“Metabolic Consequences of Vitamin B6 Insufficiency and Associations with Cardiovascular Disease”
University of Florida
Kevin Kenworthy, PhD
“The Development of Metabolomic Markers in Bermudagrass (Cynodon spp.) for Sting Nematode (Belonolaimus longicaudatus) Response”
University of Florida
Chris Martyniuk, PhD
“Metabolomics profiling in a diet-induced zebrafish model for obesity”
Binghamton University, State University of New York
Laura Musselman, PhD
“Tissue-specific analyses of Drosophila metabolism”
University of Alabama
Laura Reed, PhD
“Characterizing the metabolism of a deadly mushroom toxin in Drosophila”
Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute
John Seal, MD
“Metabolomics Approach to Allograft Assessment in Liver Transplantation”
University of Florida
Eric Triplett, PhD
“A metabolomics blueprint for culturing the citrus greening pathogen”
George Washington University
Maria Wing, PhD
“Prebiotics in Peritoneal Dialysis”
2014 Pilot and Feasibility Projects and Awardees
University of Illinois
Lisa Ainsworth, PhD
“Metabolite profiling of ozone stress in maize resistant C. elegans mutant”
University of Miami
Sanjoy Bhattacharya, PhD
“Imaging lipids in the control and glaucomatous Trabecular meshworktion during disuse-induced muscle atrophy”
University of Florida
Samantha Brooks, PhD
“Metabolomic diagnostics in the horse”
University of Florida
Rhonda Cooper-DeHoff, PharmD
“A targeted pharmacometabolic investigation of the acylcarnitine pathway and incident impaired fasting glucose”
Yeshiva University, Einstein Stable Isotope and Metabolomics Core Facility
Irwin Kurland, MD, PhD
“MALDI visualization and IROA profiling of lipin 1 regulation of skeletal muscle metabolism”
University of North Florida
Amy Lane, PhD
“Chemical communication signals as modulators of microbial metabolism”
University of Florida
Stuart McDaniel, PhD
“Sexual antagonism in exuded non-volatile metabolites in C. purpureus”
University of Miami
Ami Raval, PhD
“Nicotene alters brain oxidative metabolism”
University of Florida
Kelly Rice, PhD
“Utilization of a global metabolomics approach to probe the effects of nitric oxide on physiology of the pathogen Staphylococcus aureus”
University of Florida
Weihong Tan, PhD
“Aptamer-conjugated nanostructures for MALDI-MS detection and identification of metabolites”
Cornell University
Thomas Walsh, MD
“Metabolomic-based investigation on the effects of flucononazole in Candida albicans under planktonic and biofilm conditions”
SECIM services
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