Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell aims to catalyze breakthroughs in our understanding of chemical processes in the living cell that will lead to a new era of advancement in cell biology.
In 2019, RCSA and its funding partners, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Flinn Foundation, made awards of $1,066,250 in seed funding for cutting-edge research.
Year 2 Awards funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation:
Caitlin Davis, Department of Chemistry, Yale University; Elizabeth Read, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Irvine; Kamil Godula, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego — Metabolite Pools: Where are they, who's using them, and can we?
Alice Soragni, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles; Matthias Heyden, School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University — ProFIDs: Probes to Fold the Intrinsically Disordered
Bin Zhang, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brian Liau, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University; G.W. Gant Luxton, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota — Reconstructing Time-resolved Single-cell Genome Organization
Rongsheng (Ross) Wang, Department of Chemistry, Temple University; Abhishek Singharoy, School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University; Alison Ondrus, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology — Seeing the Forces of Life
Maxim Prigozhin, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Department of Applied Physics, Harvard University; Xin Zhang, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University; Jefferson Chan, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — Small-Molecule Cathodophores for Multicolor Electron Microscopy
Ronit Freeman, Department of Applied Physical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Alexis Komor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego; Davide Donadio, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis — Understanding the Dark Side of the Genome
Total: $956,250
Year 1 Award Made in 2019 co-funded equally by the Flinn Foundation and RCSA:
Laura Sanchez, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago; Judith Su, Departments of Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona — Identifying and Detecting Diseases Prior to Physical Presentation of Symptoms
Total: $110,000