Congratulations to our new Seed Grant Awardees and welcome to the SDCSB community!

• Dr. Andrew Allen (J Craig Venter Institute) “Functional Diversity of Marine Eukaryotic Phytoplankton”
• Dr. Eric Bennett (UCSD Biological Sciences) “Elucidate the dynamics of individual mRNPs in response to cellular stress conditions that induce autophagy”
• Dr. Steve Briggs (UCSD Biological Sciences) “Profiling the transcriptome and proteome”
• Dr. Pieter Dorrestein (UCSD School of Pharmacy) “Topographical molecular analysis of the skin from a man and a woman”
• Dr. Julian Schroeder (UCSD Biological Sciences) “Network analysis and modeling of CO2 stress controlled stomatal development and patterning”
• Dr. Andrew Su (The Scripps Research Institute) “Network-Augmented Genomic Analysis (NAGA) applied to RIG-I signaling”
• Dr. Amir Zarrinpar (UCSD Medicine) and Dr. Satchin Panda (The Salk Institute) “Circadian Changes in the Microbiome Meta-Transcriptome”