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Since 2018, Dr. Butzin has secured $8.8 million in federal funds
Since 2018, Dr. Butzin has secured $8.8 million in federal funds
Federal funds grants: 6
Includes $4,628,782 as Project Director/PI (3 grants), $292,999 as Co-PI (2 grants), and $3,828,361 as Co-I (1 grant).
Current Funding (newest to oldest)
Current Funding (newest to oldest)
2025 NSF EPSCoR FEC Center Grant
2025 NSF EPSCoR FEC Center Grant
Butzin Role: Center Director and Lead PI
Amount: $2,190,786 for SDSU (total: $5,000,000 across three universities)
Title: Collaborative Research: FEC: Establishing Infrastructure for AI-Driven Discovery of Small Molecules to Combat Antibiotic Resistance, Biofilms, and Aflatoxin Contamination
Duration: 08/15/25 - 07/31/29 (4 years)
Award Number: 2521342
More info here: NSF-Grant-Link
2023 NSF CAREER
2023 NSF CAREER
"The National Science Foundation CAREER award is the most prestigious award presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF)..." quoted from Wikipedia.
Butzin Role: PI
Amount: $1,299,996
Title: CAREER: Bacterial heterogeneity in stress survival
Duration: 04/01/23 - 03/31/28 (5 years)
Award Number: 2240028
More info here: NSF-Grant-Link
"The National Science Foundation CAREER award is the most prestigious award presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF)..." quoted from Wikipedia.
Previous Funding
Previous Funding
2021 NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
2021 NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
Butzin Role: Co-PI
Amount: $243,000
Title: MRI: Acquisition of an Octet RED96 BioLayer Interferometry Instrument for Multidisciplinary Molecular Interaction Research and Training
Duration: 10/01/21 to 09/30/24
Other Investigators:
PI: Dr. Liping Gu (South Dakota State University)
Co-PI: Dr. Michael B Hildreth (South Dakota State University)
Co-PI: Dr. Adam D Hoppe (South Dakota State University)
Co-PI: Dr. Senthil Subramanian (South Dakota State University)
Award Number: 2117500
More info here: NSF-Grant-Link
2020 NSF EPSCoR seed grant
2020 NSF EPSCoR seed grant
Butzin Role: Co-PI
Amount: $49,999
Title: Role of priority effects on gut microbiota assembly on gut mucosal interface
Duration: 10/01/2020 to 09/30/2021 (optional 1-year no-cost extension)
Other Investigators:
PI: Abhijit Maji (SDSU)
Co-PI: Joy Scaria (SDSU)
2019 NSF Funded Grant
2019 NSF Funded Grant
Butzin Role: PI
Amount: $1,138,000
Title: Using a queueing framework to explore the design principles of synthetic circuits in microorganisms
Duration: 08/01/19 to 07/31/23 (optional 1-year no-cost extension)
Award Number: 1922542
More info here: NSF-Grant-Link
2019 NSF SD EPSCoR Grant
2019 NSF SD EPSCoR Grant
Butzin Role: Investigator
Amount: $3,828,361
Title: RII Track-1: Building on The 2020 Vision: Expanding Research, Education and Innovation in South Dakota
Duration: 10/01/19 to 09/30/24
Other Investigators:
G. Melvin Ustad (mel.ustad@sdstate.edu; PI)
Bentley Sayler (Co-PI)
Carol Lushbough (Co-PI)
Senthil Subramanian (Co-PI)
Venkata Gadhamshetty (Co-PI)
Award Number: 1849206
More info here: NSF-EPSCoR-grant
Other Funding
Other Funding
2022 USDA Hatch project
2022 USDA Hatch project
From the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
Butzin Role: PI
Title: Investigating antibiotic surviving bacterial populations
10/01/22 - 09/30/27 (5 years)
SD00H763-22, accession No. 7002192
2018 USDA Hatch project
2018 USDA Hatch project
From the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
Butzin Role: PI
Amount: $220,000
Title: Using synthetic biology to explore the design principles of bacterial persistence
Duration: 03/07/18 - 09/30/22
Award Number: SD00H653-18/project accession no. 1015687
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