GRANTS APPLICATIONS 2025
"Integrating Atomic Force Microscope, Rheology and Fluorescence Microscopy to Probe the Biomechanical Response of Escherichia Coli to Nanoplastics"
link: NSF
Role: PI
Year: Fall 2025
Source of Support: NSF: PHYSICS OF LIVING SYSTEMS
Funding amount: $342,00
Comments: No comments
"Educational Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) for nanoscale image''
link: Ralph Powe and others
Role: PI
Year: Fall 2025
Source of Support: UTC Walker Center High Impact Practices Grant
Funding amount: $4,911
Comments: No comments
"Electro-Viscoelastic Response of Lipid Vesicles Mediated by Ion Channels Probed with Optical Tweezers, "
link: Faculty Grants
Role: PI
Year: Fall 2025
Source of Support: UTC Faculty Grants
Funding amount: $2,500
Comments:
"Seeking to Understand the Rheology of Increasingly Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli"
link: Ralph Powe and others
Role: Co-PI (Student Olivia Ziemmer is PI)
Year: Summer 2025
Source: UTC URACE
Funding amount: $1,000
Status: No funded
"AI Clasroom CAS Award"
link: Faculty Grants
Role: PI
Year: Summer 2025
Source of Support: CAS
Funding amount: $1,500
Comments: No comments
"Viscoelastic Dynamics of Lipid- and Polymer-Based Materials for Neuromorphic Applications"
link: Ralph Powe and others
Role: PI
Year: Summer 2025
Source of Support: CEACSE RISE
Funding amount: $70,000
Comments: No comments
"Building a patch clamp system to study electric response of phospholipid membranes in the presence of gramicidin"
link: Faculty Grants
Role: PI
Year: Summer 2025
Source of Support: UTC Faculty grants
Funding amount: $2,500
Comments: No comments
"Structure and Rheology of Passive and Active Silica-Protein Colloidal Systems. "
link: NSF
Role: PI
Year: Summer 2025
Source of Support: NSF CAREER
Funding amount: $753,182
Comments:
"Building a patch clamp system to study biomolecular memristors consisting of ion channel-doped lipid membranes."
Role: PI
Year: Spring 2025
Source of Support: Ruth S. Holmberg grant for faculty excellence
Funding amount: $5,000
Comments: No comments
"Building a patch clamp system to study electric response of phospholipid membranes in the presence of gramicidin"
link: Faculty Grants
Role: PI
Year: Spring 2025
Source of Support: UTC Faculty grants
Funding amount: $2,500
Comments: No comments
"Building Raman spectrometer using optomechanics for research and education"
link: Ralph Powe and others
Role: PI
Year: Spring 2025
Source of Support: UT Alliance Women Foundation
Funding amount: $4,000
Comments: No comments
"CORRELATIVE OPTICAL TWEEZERS AND CONFOCAL FLUORESENCE TO MEASURE BIOMECHANICS AND RHEOLOGICAL
PROPERTIES OF ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT ESCHERICHIA COLI "
link: DURIP
Role: PI
Year: Spring 2025
Source of Support: Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
Funding amount: $1,066,900
Comments: 2 of 3 reviewers agreed to fund the project. See comments on link.
"Rheo-SANS modeling of charged colloids. "
link:DOE
Role: PI
Year: Spring 2025
Source of Support: DOE VISITING FACULTY PROGRAM (VFP)
Funding amount: $16,000
Comments: No comments
"Dynamic Properties and Aging Process of Charged Colloidal System Under Flow Using Rheo-Microscopy and Computer Simulation "
link: NSF
Role: PI
Year: Spring 2025
Source of Support: NSF-LEAPS
Funding amount: $250,000
Comments: No positive comments
"Rheology of silica particles in Poly-ethylene glycol"
Role: PI
Year: Spring 2025
Source of Support : CAS Research Grants
Funding : 4,946
Status: Funded
"Travel request to a biophysical conference "
Role: PI
Year: SPRING 2025
Source of Support: CAS Travel Grant
Funding amount: $900
Status: Funded
Comments: No comments
GRANTS 2022-2024 Applications
"Building a patch clamp system to study electric response of phospholipid membranes in the presence of gramicidin "
link: Faculty Grants
Role: PI
Year: Fall 2024
Source of Support: UTC Faculty Grants
Funding amount: $2,5000
Comments:
"Optical Tweezers for biophysics education and research"
link: Ralph Powe and others
Role: PI
Year: Fall 2024
Source of Support: UTC Walker Center High Impact Practices Grant
Funding amount: $5,000
Comments: No comments
"Seeking to Understand the Rheology of Increasingly Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli"
link: Ralph Powe and others
Role: Co-PI (Student Tabitha Wilson is PI)
Year: Summer 2024
Source: UTC URACE
Funding amount: $1,000
Status: FUNDED
"The relation between elasticity and viscosity of bacteria E. coli in response to ampicillin"
link: Faculty Grants
Role: PI
Year: Summer 2024
Source of Support: UTC Faculty grants
Funding amount: $2,500
Comments: No comments
"BIOMECHANICS AND RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF ESCHERICHIA COLI IN RESPONSE TO AMPICILLIN "
link: NSF
Role: PI
Year: Summer 2024
Source of Support: NSF CAREER
Funding amount: $598,937
Comments:
"Building a patch clamp system to study biomolecular memristors consisting of ion channel-doped lipid membranes."
Role: PI
Year: Spring 2024
Source of Support: Ruth S. Holmberg grant for faculty excellence
Funding amount: $5,000
Comments: No comments
"The relation between elasticity and viscosity of bacteria E. coli in response to ampicillin"
link: Faculty Grants
Role: PI
Year: Spring 2024
Source of Support: UTC Faculty grants
Funding amount: $2,500
Comments: No comments
"Building a patch clamp system to study biomolecular memristors consisting of ion channel-doped lipid membranes"
link: Ralph Powe and others
Role: PI
Year: Spring 2024
Source of Support: UT Alliance Women Foundation
Funding amount: $25,000
Comments: No comments
"Modeling anisotropic structure of colloidal systems under flow using computer simulations and Rheo-SANS "
link: DOE
Role: PI
Year: Spring 2024
Source of Support: DOE-EARLY CAREER
Funding amount: $875,000
Comments: 2 of 3 reviewers agreed to fund the project. See comments on link.
"Rheo-SANS modeling of charged colloids. "
link:DOE
Role: PI
Year: Spring 2024
Source of Support: DOE VISITING FACULTY PROGRAM (VFP)
Funding amount: $16,000
Comments: No comments
"Rheo-SANS studies of mixture of silica particles with lysozyme"
link: Ralph Powe and others
Role: PI
Year: Spring 2024
Source of Support: ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Grant
Funding amount: $10,000
Comments: Comments provided. 3 of 5 reviewers provided good score.
"Dynamic Properties and Aging Process of Charged Colloidal System Under Flow Using Rheo-Microscopy and Computer Simulation "
link: NSF
Role: PI
Year: Spring 2024
Source of Support: NSF-LEAPS
Funding amount: $250,000
Comments: No comments
"Travel request to a biophysical conference "
Role: PI
Year: Fall 2023
Source of Support: CAS Travel Grant
Funding amount: $900
Status: Funded
Comments: No comments
"Visco-elasticity of bacteria E. coli and the antibiotic response "
Role: PI
Year: Spring 2023
Source of Support: UTC Faculty Development Grant
Funding amount: $2,158.58
Status: Funded
Comments: No comments
'Rheology of BSA proteins'
Role:PI
Year: Spring 2023
Source of Support: Ruth S. Holmberg grant for faculty excellence
Status: Not funded
Comments: No comments
"Using Molecular Dynamic Simulation to Determine the Electric Potential for Electroporation of Membranes of
Chemo-treated Cancer Cell Membranes"
Role: Co-PI (Dr. Khalid Tantawi is the Lead PI)
Year: Fall 2022
Source of Support: UTC SIM Center (CEACSE)
Funding amount: $100,000
Status: No Funded
Comments: No comments
"Rheology of E. Coli and the antibiotic response"
Year: Summer 2022
Role: PI
Source of Support: UTC SIM Center (CEACSE) Faculty Initiation and Career Opportunity
Funding amount: $15,000
Status: No Funded
Comments: No comments