FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators
Other Basic Sciences at University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
- 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 Other Basic Sciences row of the University of California, Berkeley page.
Leads a grant in this department
11 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.
Britt A Glaunsinger
Leads 2 awards · $784,109
- 2R01AI122528-11Department: NIH department codeRegulation of Gammaherpesviral Late Gene Expression$393,477award amount
- 5R01CA136367-17Department: NIH department codeDisruption of Cellular RNA Processing by Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus$390,632award amount
Jillian Banfield
Leads 1 award · $615,963
- 2R01AI092531-16Department: NIH department codeMegaplasmids in Gut Microbial Colonization of Premature Infants
Principal investigators: Jillian Banfield (contact PI), Michael Morowitz
$615,963award amount
Michiko E. Taga
Leads 1 award · $612,216
- 2R35GM139633-06Department: NIH department codeMicrobial Corrinoid Metabolism Across Scales: From Molecular Specificity to Community Dynamics$612,216award amount
Kimberley Diane Seed
Leads 2 awards · $601,372
- 5R01AI153303-07Department: NIH department codeMolecular mechanisms driving the coevolution of clinical isolates of phages and epidemic Vibrio cholerae$528,191award amount
- 3R01AI153303-07S1Department: NIH department codeMolecular mechanisms driving the coevolution of clinical isolates of phages and epidemic Vibrio cholerae$73,181award amount
Matthew F Traxler
Leads 2 awards · $575,959
- 5R35GM128849-09Department: NIH department codeConnecting specialized metabolism to social cues in actinomycete bacteria$390,315award amount
- 1R21AI196905-01A1Department: NIH department codeHarnessing high-throughput actinomycete interactions to find novel inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Principal investigators: Matthew F Traxler (contact PI), Jeffery S Cox
$185,644award amount
Sabeeha Merchant
Leads 1 award · $446,567
- 5R01GM042143-31Department: NIH department codeNutritional Cu Signaling and Homeostasis$446,567award amount
Arash Komeili
Leads 1 award · $433,350
- 5R35GM127114-09Department: NIH department codeMolecular Mechanisms of Organelle Formation in Bacteria$433,350award amount
Ben Williams
Leads 1 award · $401,250
- 5R35GM154941-03Department: NIH department codeIdentifying mechanisms underpinning epigenetic homeostasis$401,250award amount
Yangnan Gu
Leads 1 award · $401,250
- 5R35GM154623-03Department: NIH department codeUnderstanding the role of the nuclear pore complex in undifferentiated cell proliferation and gene gating$401,250award amount
Sheng Luan
Leads 1 award · $387,204
- 5R35GM153498-03Department: NIH department codeCalcium encoding mechanisms in a model plant$387,204award amount
Marco Alonzo Duenas
Leads 1 award · $47,105
- 5F31GM157804-02Department: NIH department codeUncovering the Function and Protein Subcellular Localization of Bicistronic Loci in Auxenochlorella protothecoides$47,105award amount
Co-investigators
Named as principal investigators on these awards, which someone else leads. They may belong to another department or institution: their own, below, comes from the awards they lead.
Michael Morowitz
Co-investigator on 2R01AI092531-16, led by Jillian Banfield
Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.
Jeffery S Cox
Co-investigator on 1R21AI196905-01A1, led by Matthew F Traxler
From the FY2026 awards this person leads
- University of Washington · Internal Medicine (NIH department code, 1 award)
- University of California, San Francisco · Other Basic Sciences (NIH department code, 1 award)
- University of California, Berkeley · Biochemistry (NIH department code, 1 award)