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FY2015 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Biochemistry at University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

Funding
$38.4M
$38,422,406
Awards
112
FY2015 NIH awards in Biochemistry
Principal investigators
77
77 lead a grant here, 0 co-investigators
Department rank
#1
of 139 · Ranking
  • NIH names only the principal investigators on an award, so this page lists only them. The department is the award's: it is where ScienceDex counts the award, not a list of the department's members.
  • These are the awards in the Biochemistry row of the University of California, Berkeley page.

Leads a grant in this department

77 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.

  1. Welch, Matthew D

    Leads 4 awards · $2,514,423

    • 5T32GM007232-39Department: NIH department code
      The Molecular Basis of Cell Function
      $1,528,904
      award amount
    • 5R01AI109044-02Department: NIH department code
      Rickettsia mobilization of the cytoskeleton during invasion, motility, and spread
      $383,212
      award amount
    • 5R01GM059609-15Department: NIH department code
      Function and regulation of the Arp2/3 complex
      $366,994
      award amount
    • 5R21AI109270-02Department: NIH department code
      Roles for host cytoskeletal, cell adhesion and membrane trafficking proteins in b
      $235,313
      award amount
  2. Brar, Gloria Ann

    Leads 1 award · $2,355,000

    • 1DP2GM119138-01Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting the roles of pervasive short ORFs in meiosis
      $2,355,000
      award amount
  3. Portnoy, Daniel A

    Leads 2 awards · $2,290,878

    • 5P01AI063302-12Department: NIH department code
      Intracellular pathogens and innate immunity
      $1,907,421
      award amount
    • 5R01AI027655-27Department: NIH department code
      Listeria hemolysin and escape from a vacuole
      $383,457
      award amount
  4. Ngai, John J

    Leads 3 awards · $1,994,773

    • 5U01MH105979-02Department: NIH department code
      Classification of Cortical Neurons by Single Cell Transcriptomics
      $1,456,649
      award amount
    • 5R01DC007235-10Department: NIH department code
      Programs of Gene Expression in Olfactory Neurogenesis
      $322,926
      award amount
    • 3U01MH105979-02S1Department: NIH department code
      Classification of Cortical Neurons by Single Cell Transcriptomics
      $215,198
      award amount
  5. Dillin, Andrew G

    Leads 4 awards · $1,529,422

    • 5T32GM007127-40Department: NIH department code
      Postgraduate Training Program in Genetics
      $509,268
      award amount
    • 5R37AG024365-10Department: NIH department code
      The Perception of Mitochondrial Stress in Receiving Cells
      $368,489
      award amount
    • 5R01ES021667-05Department: NIH department code
      Distal Mitochondrial Signaling in a Multicellular Organism
      $352,688
      award amount
    • 5R01AG042679-03Department: NIH department code
      Cell non-autonomous function of the unfolded protein response
      $298,977
      award amount
  6. Robey, Ellen A

    Leads 4 awards · $1,242,506

    • 2R01AI065537-10A1Department: NIH department code
      Visualizing of Immune Responses to Toxoplasma Gondii
      $391,979
      award amount
    • 5R01AI064227-10Department: NIH department code
      Signals That Control Thymocyte Migration
      $372,582
      award amount
    • 5T32AI100829-04Department: NIH department code
      Immunology & Pathogenesis Program Training Grant
      $286,070
      award amount
    • 5R01AI093132-05Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of T cell responses during chronic infection by Toxoplasma gondii
      $191,875
      award amount
  7. Drubin, David G

    Leads 3 awards · $1,168,181

    • 5R37GM042759-27Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Analysis of the Yeast Actin Cytoskeleton
      $441,265
      award amount
    • 5R01GM050399-19Department: NIH department code
      The budding yeast endocytic pathway
      $414,072
      award amount
    • 5R01GM065462-12Department: NIH department code
      Endocytic Functions for the Mammalian Actin Cytoskeleton
      $312,844
      award amount
  8. Barton, Gregory M

    Leads 3 awards · $1,128,480

    • 5R01AI072429-08Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of TLR trafficking for proper self versus non-self discrimination
      $391,979
      award amount
    • 5R01AI095587-04Department: NIH department code
      Host-Pathogen interactions between Salmonella and Toll-like receptors
      $383,813
      award amount
    • 5R01AI104914-03Department: NIH department code
      Innate immunity and Salmonella pathogenesis
      $352,688
      award amount
  9. Kramer, Richard H

    Leads 2 awards · $1,083,939

    • 5P30EY003176-33Department: NIH department code
      CORE Grant for Vision Research
      $740,484
      award amount
    • 1R01EY024334-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Understanding how photoswitches restore visual function in blindness
      $343,455
      award amount
  10. Harland, Richard M

    Leads 3 awards · $956,192

    • 5R01GM042341-29Department: NIH department code
      Gene Expression in Amphibian Development
      $356,356
      award amount
    • 5R01DC011901-05Department: NIH department code
      Genetic Analysis of Inner Ear Development in Xenopus tropicalis
      $309,012
      award amount
    • 5R01GM086321-07Department: NIH department code
      Comparative Genetics and Genomics of Xenopus
      $290,824
      award amount
  11. Heald, Rebecca W

    Leads 2 awards · $888,052

    • 5R01GM098766-04Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of Intracellular Scaling
      $445,707
      award amount
    • 5R01GM058065-17Department: NIH department code
      Structure and function of the nuclear pore complex
      $442,345
      award amount
  12. Levine, Michael Steven

    Leads 3 awards · $887,342

    • 5R01GM046638-26Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Characterization of the Dorsal Morphogen
      $375,945
      award amount
    • 5R01NS076542-04Department: NIH department code
      Developmental patterning of the anterior neural plate in a simple chordate
      $328,296
      award amount
    • 5R01GM034431-31Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Analysis of Segmentation in Drosophila
      $183,101
      award amount
  13. Zhou, Qiang

    Leads 2 awards · $798,045

    • 2R01AI041757-16Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Transcriptional Elongation by HIV-1 Tat
      $424,438
      award amount
    • 5R01AI095057-05Department: NIH department code
      Tat cofactors and control of HIV-1 latency
      $373,607
      award amount
  14. Koshland, Douglas E

    Leads 2 awards · $786,877

    • 2R01GM092813-05Department: NIH department code
      Establishment of sister chromatid cohesion
      $502,528
      award amount
    • 5R01GM107583-03Department: NIH department code
      RNA:DNA hybrids and genome instability
      $284,349
      award amount
  15. Isacoff, Ehud

    Leads 1 award · $770,689

    • 5U01NS090527-02Department: NIH department code
      Optical control of synaptic transmission for in vivo analysis of brain circuits and behavior
      $770,689
      award amount
  16. Isacoff, Ehud

    Leads 2 awards · $735,670

    • 1U01MH109069-01Department: NIH department code
      Novel tools for cell-specific imaging of functional connectivity and circuit operations
      $705,670
      award amount
    • 3PN2EY018241-10S1Department: NIH department code
      NDC for the Optical Control of Biological Function
      $30,000
      award amount
  17. Rio, Donald C

    Leads 2 awards · $726,979

    • 5R01GM097352-04Department: NIH department code
      Alternative pre-mRNA Splicing in Drosophila
      $396,176
      award amount
    • 5R01GM104385-03Department: NIH department code
      Human THAP9-an active DNA transposase
      $330,803
      award amount
  18. Feller, Marla

    Leads 2 awards · $718,071

    • 5R01EY019498-07Department: NIH department code
      Development of direction selectivity in retina
      $361,414
      award amount
    • 5R01EY013528-15Department: NIH department code
      Function of neural activity in developing retina
      $356,657
      award amount
  19. Collins, Kathleen

    Leads 2 awards · $696,521

    • 5R01HL079585-10Department: NIH department code
      Biogenesis and Regulation of Human Telomerase
      $367,299
      award amount
    • 2R01GM054198-18Department: NIH department code
      Structure and Function of Telomerase
      $329,222
      award amount
  20. Cox, Jeffery S

    Leads 1 award · $692,921

    • 7DP1AI124619-02Department: NIH department code
      Host-Directed Strategies to Create Synergistic Antibacterial Therapies
      $692,921
      award amount
  21. Nikaido, Hiroshi

    Leads 1 award · $667,403

    • 5R01AI009644-46Department: NIH department code
      Biochemistry of Bacterial Cell Membranes
      $667,403
      award amount
  22. Raulet, David H

    Leads 2 awards · $657,490

    • 5R01AI113041-02Department: NIH department code
      STING-dependent activation of Natural Killer cells by viral and tumor DNA
      $383,222
      award amount
    • 5R01CA093678-12Department: NIH department code
      Role of NKG2D in immune responses to tumors
      $274,268
      award amount
  23. Hariharan, Iswar K.

    Leads 2 awards · $652,007

    • 5R01GM061672-14Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Cell and Organ Size in Vivo
      $330,018
      award amount
    • 5R01GM085576-06Department: NIH department code
      Identifying novel strategies to promote tissue regeneration
      $321,989
      award amount
  24. Scott, Kristin E

    Leads 2 awards · $633,933

    • 5R01DK098747-03Department: NIH department code
      Modulation of feeding by dopamine and serotonin in Drosophila
      $323,027
      award amount
    • 5R01DC013280-03Department: NIH department code
      Processing gustatory information in the fly brain
      $310,906
      award amount
  25. Lishko, Polina V

    Leads 2 awards · $618,177

    • 1R01GM111802-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Molecular identity of human sperm potassium channel and its role in male fertility
      $422,135
      award amount
    • 1R21HD081403-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Bioactive lipid profiling of mammalian spermatozoa
      $196,042
      award amount
  26. Bilder, David

    Leads 2 awards · $607,018

    • 5R01GM068675-11Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Drosophila Epithelial Polarity
      $314,771
      award amount
    • 5R01GM111111-02Department: NIH department code
      Shaping of simple organ by anisotropic biomechanical forces
      $292,247
      award amount
  27. Rokhsar, Daniel Soleyman

    Leads 1 award · $542,967

    • 5R01HD080708-02Department: NIH department code
      Systematic improvement of Xenopus gene annotations and reference genomes
      $542,967
      award amount
  28. Thorner, Jeremy W.

    Leads 2 awards · $528,432

    • 5R01GM101257-03Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of gene-specific and genome-wide regulation of mRNA turnover
      $298,063
      award amount
    • 3R01GM021841-40S1Department: NIH department code
      Yeast MAPK Signaling Networks: Specificity, Regulation and Function
      $230,369
      award amount
  29. Meyer, Barbara J

    Leads 1 award · $503,078

    • 2R01GM030702-33Department: NIH department code
      Analysis of Nematode Sex Determination
      $503,078
      award amount
  30. Rine, Jasper D

    Leads 1 award · $489,632

    • 2T32HG000047-16Department: NIH department code
      Genomics
      $489,632
      award amount
  31. Firestone, Gary L

    Leads 2 awards · $465,466

    • 5R25GM095401-05Department: NIH department code
      Berkeley Bridges to the Baccalaureate
      $245,022
      award amount
    • 5R01CA164095-04Department: NIH department code
      Indolecarbinol target proteins and anti-cancer signaling in human melanoma cells
      $220,444
      award amount
  32. Ludington, William Basil

    Leads 1 award · $392,500

    • 5DP5OD017851-03Department: NIH department code
      Developing a reduced complexity model gut microbiome in the behavior model, Droso
      $392,500
      award amount
  33. Vance, Russell E

    Leads 1 award · $392,500

    • 5R01AI075039-08Department: NIH department code
      Specificity and in vivo function of the Naip/Nlrc4 inflammasomes
      $392,500
      award amount
  34. Dan, Yang

    Leads 1 award · $384,650

    • 5R01EY018861-07Department: NIH department code
      Clonal origin of visual cortical microcircuitry
      $384,650
      award amount
  35. Adesnik, Hillel

    Leads 1 award · $375,559

    • 5R01EY023756-03Department: NIH department code
      Excitation and Inhibition in Neural Circuits of the Visual Cortex
      $375,559
      award amount
  36. Barnes, Georjana

    Leads 1 award · $374,676

    • 2R01GM047842-20A1Department: NIH department code
      Saccharomyces cerevisiae microtubule cytoskeleton
      $374,676
      award amount
  37. Shastri, Nilabh

    Leads 1 award · $374,528

    • 5R37AI060040-11Department: NIH department code
      Antigen processing in the secretory pathway
      $374,528
      award amount
  38. Marqusee, Susan

    Leads 1 award · $360,252

    • 2R01GM050945-22Department: NIH department code
      Sequence and Environmental Determinants of the Protein Energy Landscape
      $360,252
      award amount
  39. Miller, Craig Thomas

    Leads 1 award · $347,045

    • 5R01DE021475-05Department: NIH department code
      Developmental genetics of tooth number variation in sticklebacks
      $347,045
      award amount
  40. Hockemeyer, Dirk

    Leads 1 award · $342,235

    • 1R01CA196884-01Department: NIH department code
      Telomerase function in human tumor and stem cell biology
      $342,235
      award amount
  41. Bautista, Diana Michele

    Leads 1 award · $336,092

    • 5R01AR059385-05Department: NIH department code
      Roles and functions of ion channels that mediate mammalian touch transduction.
      $336,092
      award amount
  42. King, Nicole

    Leads 1 award · $333,220

    • 5R01GM099533-04Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Regulation of Choanoflagellate-Bacteria Signaling Interactions
      $333,220
      award amount
  43. Garriga, Gian

    Leads 1 award · $327,933

    • 5R01NS032057-22Department: NIH department code
      Wnt regulation of C. elegans neuroblast and neuronal polarity
      $327,933
      award amount
  44. He, Lin

    Leads 1 award · $310,075

    • 1R01GM114414-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Characterize the role of miR-34/449 miRNAs in regulating motile ciliogenesis
      $310,075
      award amount
  45. Weisblat, David A

    Leads 1 award · $308,284

    • 5R01GM074619-07Department: NIH department code
      Spatial Regulation of BMP Signaling in Dorsoventral Patterning
      $308,284
      award amount
  46. Poo, Mu-Ming

    Leads 1 award · $302,203

    • 5R01NS036999-16Department: NIH department code
      Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity of Neural Circuits
      $302,203
      award amount
  47. Nogales, Eva

    Leads 1 award · $289,223

    • 5R01GM101314-03Department: NIH department code
      Septin Filaments: Architecture, Assembly and Regulation
      $289,223
      award amount
  48. Martin, Andreas

    Leads 1 award · $265,054

    • 5R01GM094497-05Department: NIH department code
      ATP-dependent protein unfolding and translocation by the eukaryotic proteasome
      $265,054
      award amount
  49. Coscoy, Laurent

    Leads 1 award · $257,242

    • 5R01CA168477-04Department: NIH department code
      Immune Modulation by Gammaherpesviruses
      $257,242
      award amount
  50. Rape, Michael P

    Leads 1 award · $255,852

    • 5R01GM083064-07Department: NIH department code
      Dissecting Mechanisms of Ubiquitination and Deubiquitination in Cell Cycle Contro
      $255,852
      award amount
  51. Luo, Kunxin

    Leads 1 award · $204,885

    • 5R21CA187632-02Department: NIH department code
      SnoN in regulating mammary gland development and tumorigenesis
      $204,885
      award amount
  52. Cotter, Peggy A

    Leads 1 award · $202,489

    • 1R21AI119743-01Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms and role of actin-based motility in Burkholderia virulence
      $202,489
      award amount
  53. Werner, Achim

    Leads 1 award · $122,580

    • 1K99DE025314-01Department: NIH department code
      Ubiquitin-dependent regulation of ribosome function in cell fate determination
      $122,580
      award amount
  54. Fletcher, Russell B

    Leads 1 award · $112,297

    • 5K01AG045344-02Department: NIH department code
      Age-related changes in the neural stem cells of the olfactory epithelium
      $112,297
      award amount
  55. Lamason, Rebecca L

    Leads 1 award · $90,000

    • 1K99GM115765-01Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating how intracellular bacterial pathogens hijack host intercellular communication to promote spread
      $90,000
      award amount
  56. Ge, Liang

    Leads 1 award · $86,400

    • 1K99GM114397-01Department: NIH department code
      Functional Dissection of Autophagosome Biogenesis
      $86,400
      award amount
  57. Kienzler, Michael A

    Leads 1 award · $57,962

    • 5F32EY022840-03Department: NIH department code
      Synthesis, Characterization, and Testing of Red-Shifted Glutamate Photoswitches
      $57,962
      award amount
  58. Melville, David

    Leads 1 award · $56,042

    • 5F32HL120576-03Department: NIH department code
      COPII mediated trafficking of large lipoprotein cargos
      $56,042
      award amount
  59. Chandler, James

    Leads 1 award · $54,194

    • 1F32AA024376-01Department: NIH department code
      Microbially-mediated ethanol resistance in Drosophila: host benefits and potential mechanisms
      $54,194
      award amount
  60. Farley, Brian Matthew

    Leads 1 award · $54,194

    • 1F32GM109673-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Nuclear small RNA control of the germ to soma transition
      $54,194
      award amount
  61. Sirkis, Daniel W.

    Leads 1 award · $54,194

    • 1F32AG050404-01Department: NIH department code
      Biochemical dissection of amyloid precursor protein transport from the Golgi
      $54,194
      award amount
  62. Heath-Heckman, Elizabeth A.

    Leads 1 award · $52,406

    • 1F32NS095665-01Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating molecular mechanisms mediating cellular responses to touch and pain
      $52,406
      award amount
  63. Mardinly, Alan Robert

    Leads 1 award · $52,406

    • 1F32NS095690-01Department: NIH department code
      Holographic control of neural ensembles during sensation
      $52,406
      award amount
  64. Marks, Jessica

    Leads 1 award · $52,406

    • 1F32GM113379-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis by membrane curvature.
      $52,406
      award amount
  65. Modzelewski, Andrew Joseph

    Leads 1 award · $52,406

    • 1F32CA192636-01Department: NIH department code
      Investigating the role of Retrotransposon muERV-L reactivation in Tumorigenesis
      $52,406
      award amount
  66. Xin, Nan

    Leads 1 award · $52,406

    • 1F32AG051353-01Department: NIH department code
      Spatial and Temporal Resolution of the Plasticity in Mitochondrial Proteomes
      $52,406
      award amount
  67. Reniere, Michelle Lynne

    Leads 1 award · $51,944

    • 5F32AI104247-03Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of Listeria virulence gene expression by glutathione and hydrogen sulf
      $51,944
      award amount
  68. Frakes, Ashley Elizabeth

    Leads 1 award · $50,690

    • 1F32AG051355-01Department: NIH department code
      Cell non-autonomous regulation of the unfolded protein response in aging
      $50,690
      award amount
  69. Clemens, Daniel Montgomery

    Leads 1 award · $50,280

    • 5F32NS087798-02Department: NIH department code
      Communication of Trans-membrane Voltage to the Enzymatic Active Site of Ci-VSP
      $50,280
      award amount
  70. McCleary, David F

    Leads 1 award · $38,148

    • 5F31AG047795-02Department: NIH department code
      Regulation of yeast chronological lifespan during growth in high calorie media.
      $38,148
      award amount
  71. Vlasits, Anna

    Leads 1 award · $36,884

    • 5F31NS089197-02Department: NIH department code
      Dendritic Integration and Direction Selectivity in Starburst Amacrine Cells
      $36,884
      award amount
  72. Nichols Doyle, Randilea

    Leads 1 award · $36,796

    • 1F31AI118288-01Department: NIH department code
      Cell-type specific control of immune responses mediated by inflammasomes in vivo
      $36,796
      award amount
  73. Arroyo, David

    Leads 1 award · $35,610

    • 5F31EY024842-02Department: NIH department code
      Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells intra-retinal signaling and e
      $35,610
      award amount
  74. Cisson, Jennifer

    Leads 1 award · $33,635

    • 5F31CA186532-02Department: NIH department code
      The Tumor Suppressive Role of the mir-200 family of microRNAs
      $33,635
      award amount
  75. Hespen, Charles W

    Leads 1 award · $30,368

    • 7F31GM103031-04Department: NIH department code
      Direct gas sensing and repellent response to toxic gases in anaerobic pathogens
      $30,368
      award amount
  76. Penn, Bennett

    Leads 1 award · $21,344

    • 7K08AI104766-04Department: NIH department code
      Identifying the Human Targets of Secreted M. tuberculosis Effectors by Proteomics
      $21,344
      award amount
  77. Ellefson Crowder, Marina Lyn

    Leads 1 award · $19,753

    • 5F32GM105199-03Department: NIH department code
      Elucidating Differences between Meiotic and Mitotic Spindles
      $19,753
      award amount