Lay Nam Chang Dean's Discovery Fund

Title: Biocontrol of crown-gall and hairy-root disease using flagella-dependent Agrobacterium bacteriophages

Amount: $10,000

Title: Exact Analytical Characterization of Quantum Error Correcting Codes via Tensor Network Methods

Amount: $10,000

Title: Elucidating the Impact of Flavobacteriaceae Glyoside Hydrolases on Moon Snail Egg Mass Texture

Amount: $10,000

Title: An Integrated Perspective on Urban Acclimation: From Gene Regulation to Behavior

Amount: $9,700

Title: Epigenetic Silencing as an Antiviral Defense Against a Latent Giant Virus

Amount: $9,872

Title: Decoding Pro-Metastatic Intercellular Communication with Proteomics and AI-Driven Data Analysis

Amount: $14,000

Title: Investigating the Genomic and Functional Basis of Color Polymorphism in a Native Amphibian Model

Amount: $10,000

Title: A Pilot Study of Hybrid and Virtual Autism Assessments in Rural Appalachia: Addressing Barriers to Early Diagnosis

Amount: $10,000

Title: Mapping Evolutionary Pathways to Treatment Failure in Combination Antibiotic Therapy

Amount: $10,000

Title: Exploring Krylov Subspace Techniques in Quantum Linear Solvers

Amount: $12,000

Title: Towards Parametric Reduced-Order Modeling of Large-Scale Plasma Microturbulence Simulations

Amount: $10,000

Title: Modeling Clonal Evolution of Polyploid Cancer Cells

Amount: $10,000

Title: Mimetic Mucin Design

Amount: $10,000

Title: Tensor-Structured Methods for High-Dimensional Problems

Amount: $10,000

Title: Nature-Inspired Organopolysulfides as Redox Comediators for High-Performance Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

Amount: $10,000

Title: The neural mechanisms underlying the association between social cognition and general psychopathology: A pilot fMRI study.

Amount: $15,000

Title: Changes in US Semiconductor Production in the Context of Global Value Chain Transformation

Amount: $10,000

Title: AI-STAT: A general framework for artificial intelligence powered statistical analysis and performance evaluations

Amount: $10,000

Title: Probing Structure-Function Relationships via High Pressure Crystallography and Optical Spectroscopies in Multifunctional Materials for Energy Applications

Amount: $12,733

Title: Breaking the Boundaries of Block Copolymer Synthesis

Amount: $10,000

Title: Network Structures, Social Interactions and Economic Behaviors

Amount: $9983

Title: Cultivating Kindness: Mapping the Socialization Landscape of Prosocial Development in Early Adolescence

Amount: $10,000

Title: Developing and Piloting a Parenting Mobile App to Reduce Treatment-Time for Families in Rural Appalachia

Amount: $20,000

Title: Can Insect Chitin in Bat Guano be Used to Reassemble Past Vegetation in Temperate Southwest Virginia?

Amount: $20,000

Title: Sexual Minority Stress and Alcohol-Related IntimatePartner Violence Among Bisexual+ Couples: A Daily Diary Feasibility Stud

Amount: $10,000

Title: Collaborative Discovery of Non-Opiod AnalgesicMolecules for Chronic Pain

Amount: $20,000

Title: Context Matters: How Ambient Temperature Influences In Vivo Host and Pathogen Responses fora Wildlife Disease System

Amount: $20,000

Title: Targeting Pseudomonas aeruginose infections: Development of a Ligand Screening Assay for the Pivotal Signaling Histidine Kinase GacS

Amount: $10,000

Title: Size Control in Tetraploid Cancer Cells

Amount: $20,000

Title: Phage Ameliorates Colitis in a Mouse Model of IBD

Amount: $20,000

Title: Developing Iron-Catalysts for Hydrocarbon Functionalization

Amount: $10,000

Title: Principles for Pro-Autophagic Membrane Remodeling

Amount: $20,000

Title: Reconfigurable Ferroelectric 2D Halide Perovskites

Amount: $10,000

Title: Failing to Ignore: The Role of the Locus Coeruleus in Age-Related Distractibility

Amount: $20,000

Title: Pioneering New Routes for Antibiotic Development: Specializing and Rationally Pairing Drugs

Amount: $20,000

Title: Understanding and Controlling the Ecological Impacts of Battery Materials

Amount: $20,000

Title: Low-Energy Nuclear Recoil Detection via Color Center Creation

Amount: $20,000

Title: Shrinkage on Simplex: Bayesian Inference for Sparse Compositional Data

Amount: $10,000

CO-INVESTIGATORS
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Title: Implementation Training to Enhance Measurement-Based Care Utilization in Outpatient Mental Health

Amount: $19,240

CO-INVESTIGATORS
DEPARTMENT OF MATHMATICS, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Title: Deep Learning for Nonlinear Common Factor Modeling and Forecasting in Economics

Amount: $20,000

Title: Mechanisms of Salmonella enterica Infection by Bacteriophage Chi and Identification of Targets for Phage Therapy

Amount: $10,000

Title: Using a Nanoscale to Whole-Ecosystem Scale Approach to Examine the Role of Reactive Metal Hydroxide Nanoparticles in Drinking Water Reservoirs

Amount: $13,200

Title: Naive Neighbors: Investigating how Viral Bystander Effects Predispose Uninfected Cells to Infection

Amount: $10,000

Title: When a Good Enzyme Goes Bad: Proton Coupled Electron Transfer and the Mechanism of MAO Catalysis

Amount: $10,000

Title: Pheromone Specific Gene Discovery for Developing Controls of Leishmaniasis Disease Vectors

Amount: $5,000

Title: Naive Neighbors: Pain Relief Drug Design with Electric Field Calculations

Amount: $9,500

Title: Strengthening the Evidence for Crosstalk between Flavonoid Metabolism and the Plant Circadian Clock

Amount: $20,000

Title: Experimentally and Computationally Establishing C. diff. PilB for Antivirulence Drug Discovery

Amount: $20,000

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

Title: Superconducting Thin Films for Dark Matter and Neutrino Detection

Amount: $18,000

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Title: Molecular Basis of (Ultra-)Low Gene Expression Noise

Amount: $10,000

Title: Li-ion Batteries for Applications at Extreme Temperatures: an Exploratory Story

Amount: $10,000

Title: Next Generation Porous Carbon Fibers by Polymer Synthesis and Molecular Simulations

Amount: $20,000

Title: Solving an Important Enigma: How Do Gram-Positive Pathogenic Bacteria Excrete Toxins Across Their Cell Wall?

Amount: $5,000

Title: Unraveling the Hidden Connection between Dark Matter and the Hubble Scale

Amount: $5,000

Title: Statistical Monitoring of Raman Spectral Data

co-PIs: John Roberston (BEAM), Ryan Senger (BSE)

Amount: $18,250

Title: New Perspectives of the Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinction Event

Amount: $10,000

Title: Self-Assembling Peptide Nanocoils as Templates to Form Chiral Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Co-PI: Greg Liu (CHEM)

Amount: $18,100

Title: Inventing a Device for Determining Structure-Reactivity Relationships of Nanoparticles Found in Nature and Technology

Amount: $10,000

Title: Spatial Analytics Platform

Co-PI: Marco Ferreira (STAT)

Amount: $20,000

Title: Long-Term Neurobehavioral and Psychosocial Impacts of the Virginia Tech Shootings

Co-PI: Russell Jones (PSYC)

Amount: $20,000

Title: Tetraploidy as a Driver of Tumor Evolution

Amount: $10,000

Title: 3D Engineered Scaffolds to Study Mechanotransduction in Tumor Dormancy

Co-PI: Rafael Davalos (BEAM)

Amount: $20,000

Title: The CHANDLER Reactor Neutrino Detector

Co-PIs: Patrick Huber (PHYS), Camillo Mariani (PHYS), Ali Haghighat (ME)

Amount: $20,000

Title: Stochastic Nonlinear Reduced Order Modeling of the El Nino Southern Oscillation

Co-PI: Traian Iliescu (MATH)

Amount: $11,133

Title: A Tale of Two Networks: Trade and Financial Linkages in the Global Economy

Co-PIs: Shyam Ranganathan (STAT), Sudipta Sarangi (ECON), Byron Tsang (ECON)

Amount: $19,390

Title: Acquisition of a Micromeritics 3Flex Surface Area Analyzer

Co-PIs: Bob Moore (CHEM, John Morris (CHEM), Greg Liu (CHEM), Mike Ellis (ME), Richard Turner (CHEM)

Amount: $20,000

Title: Mechanisms of Innate Immune Responses to Mindfulness Meditation

Co-PI: Coy Allen (CVM)

Amount: $19,682

Title: Desalination of Water via Membrane Separations: Electrodialysis

Amount: $10,000