Kaufman Foundation New Investigator Grants

Kaufman Foundation New Investigator Grants is sponsored by Charles E. Kaufman Foundation. Supports innovative, independent, early-career scientists in Pennsylvania conducting fundamental research in biology, chemistry, and physics.

New Investigator Grants | Charles E.

Kaufman Foundation Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Pennsylvania State University Decoding Mechanisms of Microbiome-Mediated Immunity Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Entangled Spin and Orbital States in Transition-Metal Pyrochlore Compounds Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh An Unappreciated Yet Widespread Route to the Biosynthesis of Peptidic Natural Products Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University From One Host to Another: Deciphering Symbiont Strategies for Host Switching Higher order solvent mixtures as a new optimization domain in organic chemistry Catherine Armbruster, Ph.

D. Defining the role of bacterial population heterogeneity in ecological transitions Astrocyte-neuron dynamics underlying functional sensory shifts during locomotion Optimizing constraints on the equation of state of neutron stars. Jonathan Henninger, Ph.

D. RNA-encoded enhancers and repressors in transcriptional control Quantum altermagnetism in the topology era Priya Sivaramakrishnan, Ph. D.

The choice between RNA and DNA - the cost of conflicts on DNA for embryonic cell fate programming.

Exploring the inter-species interactions controlling bacterial biofilm formation Behavioral plasticity as a mechanism for adaptation in rapidly changing environments Elucidating the mechanism of cation promotion in electrocatalytic processes Investigating synaptic aging and its impact on memory Bacterial contamination dynamics on self-cleaning magnetic carpets Probing quantum spin liquid state in van der Waals-based systems via spin flux and spin dynamics Unveiling the final days of stellar life through exotic explosions Exploring the impact of genetic background on adaptive evolution Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Bucknell University Identification of neural circuits governing flight control in Drosophila Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University Microbial regulation of sex-specific circadian rhythms in the mammalian gut Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University Unraveling multicomponent biomolecular condensates with field-theoretic simulations Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Playing with fire: How bacteria deploy self-targeting antimicrobials during inter-bacterial battles John J.

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Brennan Clean Energy Early Career Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University Creating supercurrents in thermal transport Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania The role of cyclic AMP signaling in acid-base homeostasis of ancestral metazoans Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania Exploring the physics of living systems with microscopic robots Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University The lives and deaths of star clusters and the gravitational waves they leave behind Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Mechanisms of generalization: The role of neural inhibitory processes and time of day.

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh The Quantum Mechanics of Macroscopic Mechanical Systems Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University The Physics and Chemistry of Liquid Condensation in Live Cells Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh Dancing of the Stars: Testing the Formation of the Largest Elliptical Galaxies Assistant Professor, Biology Department, Bucknell University Eavesdropping on Ants: The Molecular Basis of Chemical Communication in Social Insects Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Building a Network of ncRNA Regulation Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University Illuminating Transition Metal Homeostasis in Pathogenic Bacteria Through Fluorescent Sensors Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania Creating Anyons in Optical Fibers Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University Cortical-Basal Ganglia Interactions Underlying Trial-and-Error Movements Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania Complex Traits in Human Evolution Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Temple University Unraveling the Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Plasticity Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Swarthmore College Locus-specific regulation of pericentric satellite sequences Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Singlet Fission: Deriving Fundamental Insights from Computation Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University Four-dimensional quantum Hall physics with light Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania Deconstructing the molecular basis of condensin-mediated chromatin folding Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania Neuroepigenetic Remodeling in Transcription and Behavior Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University Reducing selection bias in gravitational wave detection of compact binary merger Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis using Molecular-Scale Electric Fields Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University Proximity effects and topological spin currents in van derWaals heterostructures Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University Development of Molecular Biradicaloids for Organic Electronic Materials The Nuclear Pore as a Novel Scaffold for Spatial Genome Organization The Nuclear Pore as a Novel Scaffold for Spatial Genome Organization Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University Quantum Measurement and Back-action Manipulation of Many Ultra-cold Atoms Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Ursinus College Interaction of Psychiatric Risk Factor Ankyrin-G and Slitrk2 in Excitatory Synapse Formation Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania Uncovering the Molecular Basis for Ice Recognition by Thermal Hysteresis Proteins Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Development Biology, University of Pennsylvania Building Synthetic Cell-Like Compartments to Investigate the Impacts of Cell Size and Shape on Intracellular Function Theodore Corcovilos, Ph.

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Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Duquesne University Experimental quantum emulation of two-dimensional topological insulators and Majorana fermions using ultracold atoms Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University Epistatic Interactions and Constraints on Evolutionary Outcomes in Yeast Experimental Evolution Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Villanova University Analysis of the role of SMK-1 in the age-dependent regulation of the FOXO transcription factory DAF-16 in Caenorhabditis elegans Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh Protecting quantum information with disorder Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Investigation of pancreatic islet electrical properties by a high density nanodevices array Assistant Professor, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh Co-evolutionary Signatures as a Novel Approach to Gene Discovery Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Charges, Forces, and Particles in Ionic Liquids Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University High-Throughput Probing of Human IncRNA Structure Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Temple University The Development of Chemical Probes to Study Nucleoside Signaling in Bacterial Biofilms Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Pennsylvania State University Functional Studies of Multidrug Resistance Transporters at Single-Protein Level Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Drexel University Solid Xenon Bolometers for Radiation Detection