Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Indoor Environment - Grants

Recent grants in this program include:
Organization NameProject DirectorProject Title
Marine Biological LaboratoryMitchell L. SoginTo test and develop the rare biosphere as a field of study.
Marine Biological LaboratoryGary G. BorisyTo develop a novel combinatorial technology for imaging and distinguishing between members of a microbial community.
Marine Biological LaboratoryMitchell L. SoginTo develop a prototype tool for describing and comparing microbial communities, VAMPS (Visualization and Analysis of Microbial Population Structures)
Yale UniversityJordan PecciaTo explore the microbial ecology of the built environment.
University of Illinois at ChicagoDavid T. EddingtonTo develop a microfluidic sieve to isolate and analyze individual microbes.
University of Colorado, BoulderNorman R. PaceTo provide renewed support to catalog the indoor microbial world
J. Craig Venter InstituteRoger S. LaskenTo study microbial genomics in the indoor environment using the first robotic pipeline dedicated to high throughput DNA amplification from single cells.
University of South Carolina Research FoundationAlvin FoxTo explore occupied and unoccupied school rooms for microbes using proteomics.
University of Colorado, BoulderNorman R. PaceTo begin cataloging the indoor microbial world.

Program Director: Dr. Paula Olsiewski Bio