Travel Grant Recipients of 2013

 

Name	Host Lab	Dissertation Topic
Stefanie Buxa	Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (DISA) Udine, Italy	Pathogen-associated molecular pattern-triggered remote control of sieve element protein-signalling and sieve-tube occlusion.
Viktoria Dotz	Inst för Klinisk vetenskap, pediatrik Umea universitet Umea, Sweden	Metabolic aspects of human milk oligosaccharides
Wei Fan	Laboratory of Signal Transduction National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences	Role of peroxisomes in bone remodelling and the pathogenesis of osteoporosis
Parameswari Govindarajan	Department of Experimental Therapeutics Houston, TX, USA	A detailed study of the implications of the diet, steroid and estrogenic cessation in osteoporotic disease status of small and large animal model
Linlin Hou	Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan	Structural and functional analysis of the interaction of specific protein and protein domains with the core of the RNA exosome in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus
Amit Joshi	University of Caen Caen Cedex- FRANCE	The pathophysiological significance of Factor Seven (FVII) activating protease (FSAP) in stroke
Amit Joshi	Universität Bern - University of Bern Theodor Kocher Institute Bern, Schweiz	The pathophysiological significance of Factor Seven (FVII) activating protease (FSAP) in stroke
Naga Deepa Kandula	Diabetes and Islet Biology Laboratory Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney Camperdown, Australia	Epigenetic mechanisms involved in the conversion of human PANC-1 ductal cell line into insulin-secreting cells.
Vivien Kauschke	Convenor Centre for Neuroscience Anatomy & Histology/School of Medicine Flinders University Bedford Park, South Australia	“Influence of aetiology adapted bone substitutes on the regulation of bone remodeling in systemically diseased bone.”
Peter Krause	Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit Temuco Chile	RNAi-induced insect resistance in rapeseed
Tamara Munoz-Caro	Campus Isla Teja Valdivia, Chile	“Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) as innate effector mechanism against Eimeria bovis” (and other apicomplexan parasites)
Edmilson Oliveira de Filho	Central Veterinary Institute, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Department of Virology, Lelystad, The Netherlands	Molecular studies on Hepatitis E virus (HEV)
Gani Oruqaj	Children Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California	Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) and lipid metabolism in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis - role of peroxisomes in the pathogenesis of this devastating disease
Subhash Pai	Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Ithaca, New York, USA	Investigation of the role of CRT1 gene family in plant defense mechanisms
Ranjithkumar Rajendran	Center for Neurologic Diseases Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA, USA	Evaluation of the Fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE) and its role in Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Jenny Schneiders	Neuroimmunology Laboratory Douglas Mental Health University Institute McGill University Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada	The role of chemokines and immune cells for communication pathways to the brain during systemic inflammation
Marzieh  Shafiee-Hajiabad	Institut für Botanik und Pharmakognosie Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien Wien, Austria	Environmental effects on morphological and phytochemical parameters of Origanum sp.
Feng Zhang	CSIRO Plant Industry Canberra, Australia	Investigating roles of effectors in the interaction between Piriformospora indica and plants