STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY GRANTS/GIFTS

Cryo-Electron Microscopy and Electron Tomography Grants

Richard Henderson (Medical Research Council)

Enhancement of Electron Cryomicroscopy at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, 2000-2002.*

David Agard, John Sadat (UC San Francisco)

Development of a Next-Generation High Resolution Electron Microscope CCD Camera, 2001.

Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (UColorado)

Equipment for Electron Microscopy, 2001-2003.

Eva Nogales (UC Berkeley)

Support for an Electron Microscopy Specialist/Engineer and Systems Manager, 2002-2004.

Bertil Daneholt, Ulf Skoglund (Karolinska Institute)

Support for an Electron Tomography Facility, 2002-2004.
[Joint funding with the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research]

Richard Henderson and Tony Crowther (Medical Research Council), Wah Chiu and Steven Ludtke (Baylor)

Consortium in Computational Method Development in Electron Microscopy for Single Particle Reconstruction Towards Atomic Resolution, 2002-2004.

Division of Biology (Caltech)

Support of Research in Cryoelectron Microscopy, 2003-2005.

Division of Physical Sciences and Division of Biological Sciences (UC San Diego)

Support of Research in Cryoelectron Microscopy, 2005-2007.

Harry Noller (UC Santa Cruz)

An Application to the Agouron Institute for Support of Studies on X-Ray Crystallography of the Ribosome, 2000-2002.

Thomas Earnest (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)

Structural Biology of Large Biomolecular Complexes using Synchrotron-based Biological Crystallography, 2001-2002.

Thomas Steitz, Peter Moore (Yale)

High Resolution Crystal Structure of the Ribosome and its Components, 2000-2002.

Venki Ramakrishnan (Medical Research Council)

Crystal Structures of Functional States of the Bacterial Ribosome and Studies on Bacterial and Eukaryotic Initiation, 2004-2009.

John Abelson (UC San Francisco)

A fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) study of spliceosome assembly in yeast, 2008-2010.

* Funding dates correspond to Agouron Institute fiscal years. Fiscal year 2000 = July 1, 1999 to June 30, 2000.