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32 researchAlbert and Ellen Grass FacultyGrant ProgramEight investigators received Grass Faculty Awards atthe MBL in 2005. The goal of this program is to takeadvantage of the collaborative environment of theMBL and bring together neuroscientists at the assistantor associate professor level from different institutionsto work together to conduct specific research inneuroscience.Leonardo Belluscio, Ph.D., an investigator with theNational Institutes of Health and Rory McQuiston,Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department ofAnatomy and Neurobiology at Virginia CommonwealthUniversity in Richmond conducted a research projecttitled “Odorant activation of juxtaglomerular neuronsin the mammalian olfactory bulb: Contributions toolfactory sensory processing.”William N. Green, Ph.D., an associate professorin the Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacologyand Physiology at the University of Chicago andJohn Marshall, Ph.D., an associate professor in theDepartment of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiologyand Biotechnology at Brown University continued theirresearch titled “Targeting and trafficking of glutamatereceptors by PDZ domain proteins.”Richard Kramer, Ph.D., an associate professor inthe Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at theUniversity of California, Berkeley and Sonia Gasparini,Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Neuroscience Centerat Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center inNew Orleans, conducted research titled “Remote photiccontrol of dendritic excitability with light-activated ionchannels.”Mark Warchol, Ph.D., an associate professor in theDepartment of Otolaryngology at Washington UniversitySchool of Medicine in St. Louis and Stefan Heller,Ph.D., an associate professor in the Mass Eye and EarInfirmary at Harvard Medical School conducted a projecttitled “Identification and isolation of stem cells from thevertebrate inner ear.”DOMESTIC INSTITUTIONS REPRESENTEDAlbert Einstein College of MedicineAnne Arundel Community CollegeBoston CollegeBoston University School of MedicineBrown Medical SchoolBrown UniversityBuffalo, University atCalifornia Institute of TechnologyCalifornia, University of, BerkeleyCalifornia, University of, Los AngelesCalifornia, University of, San DiegoChicago Medical SchoolChicago, University ofColumbia UniversityColumbia University Medical CenterConnecticut, University ofCornell UniversityDartmouth CollegeDuke University Medical CenterFlorida, University ofGeorge Mason UniversityGeorgia Institute of TechnologyHarvard Medical SchoolHarvard UniversityHouston, University ofHunter CollegeIllinois, University of, at ChicagoJohns Hopkins Medical School, TheKeystone SchoolLouisiana State UniversityLouisiana State University Health SciencesCenterLoyola University ChicagoMaryland, University ofMassachusetts Eye and Ear InfirmaryMassachusetts Medical School, University ofMichigan State UniversityMillersville UniversityMinnesota, University of, DuluthMount Holyoke CollegeMount Sinai School of MedicineNational Institutes of HealthNew Jersey, University of Medicineand DentistryNew Mexico State UniversityNew York Medical CollegeNew York University School of MedicineNorth Carolina, University ofNorthwestern University Medical SchoolNotre Dame, University ofOhio UniversityPennsylvania, University ofPittsburgh, University ofProvidence CollegeReed CollegeRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteRockefeller University, TheRoger Williams UniversityRosalind Franklin UniversityRutgers UniversitySt. Mary’s College of MarylandStanford UniversityState University of New York DownstateMedical UniversityTexas Health Science Center, University ofTexas Medical Branch, University ofTexas, University ofTexas, University of, AustinTexas, University of, HoustonTexas, University of, San AntonioTufts UniversityUnion CollegeUtah, University of