Funding

We are fortunate to receive generous active funding from the following sources:

National Science Foundation

• Grant DBI-0109732 to Pedro Mendes, awarded by the Plant Genome Research Program for a project entitled An Integrated Approach to Funtional Genomics and Bioinformatics in a Model Legume
• Grant DBI-0217653 to Grant Cramer (Mendes co-PI), awarded by the Plant Genome Research Program for a project entitled Integrative Functional Genomic Resource Development in Vitis vinifera: Abiotic Stress and Wine Quality.

National Institutes of Health

• Grant 1R01GM068947-01 awarded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to Reinhard Laubenbacher (Mendes co-PI) on Mathematical Modeling of Biochemical Networks in Yeast.

Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

• Startup funds to Pedro Mendes for research in simulation of biochemical networks
• Funding to Pedro Mendes under the auspices of the collaboratory with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for research on bioinformatics of Plasmodium falciparum.

Sun Microsystems

• Funding to Bruno Sobral (Mendes co-PI) for the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, supporting some efforts in the COPASI project.

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

• Postdoctoral Fellowship to Ana Margarida Martins for research on bioinformatics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

In the past we also received funding from:

• NSF Quantitative Systems Biotechnology grant to Pedro Mendes for a project on "Reverse-engineering biochemical networks from experimental data"