Driving Biological Projects

DBPs awarded in 2012

EuPathDB BRC

• Hendrik Stunnenberg (Radboud University) and Richard Bartfai (University of Nijmegen): Placing the Plasmodium falciparum epigenome on the map.
• Adrian Hehl, Michael Grigg and Nicholas Smith (University of Zurich): Sexual Development in Toxoplasma: High-Throughput Functional Genomics & Proteomics.
• Scott Dawson (University of California, Davis): High throughput 3D localization of 960 candidate cytoskeletal and organelle-associated proteins in Giardia intestinalis.

PATRIC BRC

Joseph Wade (Wadsworth Center, University at Albany, State University of New York): Identification of Salmonella-specific Regulatory Networks.
• Jon McCullers and Jason Rosch (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital): Integrated genomic approaches to elucidating novel virulence factors for bacteria complicating influenza

VectorBase BRC

• Catherine A. Hill (Purdue University): RAD Sequencing of SNPs in the Ixodes scapularis.
• Jaroslaw Krzywinski (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine): 2. Ultra-deep exploration of transcription in Anopheles gambiae.

ViPR BRC

• Richard J. Kuhn and Catherine A. Hill (Purdue University): Functional metabolomics of dengue virus infection in the human host and mosquito vector – a novel avenue for antiviral target discovery.

DBPs awarded in 2010

EuPathDB BRC

• Brian Gregory (UPenn) & Jonathan Wastling (University of Liverpool): “A Comprehensive Catalog of Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum Parasite and Infected Host Cell Transcriptomes and Proteomes”
• Manuel Llinas (Princeton) & Michael Ferdig (University of Notre Dame): “Dissection of Plasmodium falciparum genetic crosses by mass-spectrometry-based metabolite QTL”
• John Boothroyd (Stanford): “High-throughput analysis of oocyst development in Toxoplasma”

PATRIC BRC

• Michael McClelland (University of California, Irvine): “Fitness Annotation of Bacterial Genomes”
• Yung – Fu Chang (Cornell University): “Comparative Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis of Clostridium difficile Strains”

VectorBase BRC

• David C. Schwartz (University of Wisconsin-Madison): “Physical Reference Maps for Vector Genome Assembly”
• Leslie B. Vosshall (Rockefeller University): “Comparative Neurotranscriptome of Aedes aegypti”

ViPR BRC

• Abraham Brass (Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard University): “Creation of a Dengue Virus-Host Interaction Database Using Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics”
• Lynn W. Enquist, and Moriah L. Szpara (Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University): “Deep Sequencing and Neuronal Microarrays for Functional Genomic Analysis of Herpes Simplex Virus”