New Partnerships Grants

New Partnership grants are focused on catalyzing new interdisciplinary collaborations within UCSB that may require a few key experiments to provide the preliminary data needed to apply for a collaborative research grant. 

July 2019

Development of Novel in situ Method for Measuring Fish Respirometry via Eddy Covariance

Erika Eliason and Nick Nidzieko

Programmable Biocompatible Hydrogels

Max Wilson and Angela Pitenis

Rational Design of Molecular Qubits and Qugates

Trevor Hayton and Vojtech Vlcek

Tunable Metasurface Devices for Beam-Steering and Beam-Shaping

Jonathan Klamkin and Jon Schuller

February 2019

Deciphering the Material Design Rules of Biofilms

Michelle O'Malley and Megan Valentine

Establishment of Retinal Organoids as Model Systems for the Study of Zika Virus Infection of the Eye

Carolina Arias, Dennis Clegg, and Siddharth Dey

Scanning Probe Chemical Analysis of Materials

Mattanjah deVries and Michael Gordon

July 2018

Bio-inspired Soft Metamaterial with Adaptive Thermoradiative Properties

Elliot Hawkes and Bolin Liao

Computational Framework for Interactive Modeling and Simulation Enabling the Development of Transformative Materials

Anton Van der Ven and JoAnn Kuchera-Morin

Phage-based Targeting of Contrast Agents to Image Microbial Distributions in vivo

Irene Chen and Arnab Mukherjee

Spatial Navigation, Sex Hormones, and the Aging Brain

Elizabeth Chrastil, Emily Jacobs, and Mary Hegarty

February 2018

Brain Serotonergic Fibers: From a Single-cell Stochastic Process to Cognition in a Matrix

Skirmantas Janusonis, Bangalore Manjunath, and Nils-Christian Detering

Engineering Calcium-Responsive Paramagnetic Proteins for Functional Neuroimaging

Arnab Mukherjee, Tod Kippin, and Karen Szumlinski

Horticultural Lighting Using Laser-based Systems

Steven DenBaars and Susan Mazer

Symmetric Redox-Flow Batteries for Grid-Scale Energy Storage

Gabriel Menard and Lior Sepunaru

July 2017

Identifying and Characterizing Novel Uncultivable Microbial Species Using Single-cell Genomics

Siddharth Dey and Michelle O'Malley

Large-Scale, Chip-Integrated Quantum Optic

Ania Jayich and Daniel Blumenthal

Organic Electronic Devices for Tactile Sensing in Soft Electronic Applications

Yon Visell and Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

Quantum Information and Energy: An Emerging Materials Nexus

Kunal Mukherjee and Ram Seshadri

About the Program

The CNSI Challenge Grants provide funding to support the initiation of new large-scale and high-impact collaborations by CNSI faculty.

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