Seed Grant
The Scientific Advisory Committee of the Center for Neurobehavioral Development offers opportunities for student research funding twice yearly. Applications are due October 15th and April 15th. (If the 15th falls on a weekend, the application is due on the following Monday.)
Graduate student and postdoctoral members of the CNBD are welcome to apply for research funding in the area of neurobehavioral development. Note that the awards are competitive; therefore interested candidates should carefully review guidelines of the application.
Application
Spring 2012 Application Deadline: Monday,
April 16th, 2012 by 5:00pm
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Seed Grant Application
Word Seed Grant
Application
Address Applications to:
Scientific Advisory Committee, Dr. Raghu Rao, Chair. All application materials should be submitted electronically to cnbd@umn.edu.
Fall 2011 Awardee
Leah Jappe
“Differential Neural Connectivity in Emotion
Regulatory Circuits in Anorexia Nervosa Compared to Depressed Youth”
Spring 2011 Awardees
Anita Fuglestad
"Development of a Protocol for the Pediatric Option for the
Bod Pod: A Reliability Study of Body Composition via Air Displacement
Plethysmography in Toddlers"
Rachel Penrod
"Characterization of the effects of dopamine of the morphological
development of Medium Spiny Neuron dendritic spines"
Mary Petrosko
"Neurocognitive profile of early-onset marijuana users: A longitudinal
study"
Katie Pfister
"Early Evaluation of Memory Function in Term Survivors of
Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy"
Spring 2010 Awardees:
Jane Brumbaugh,MD,
Department of Pediatrics
“Impact of
Prematurity on Executive Function in Preschool-Aged Children Born
Moderately-to-Late Preterm”
Adriana Herrera, Institute
of Child Development
“Emotion Regulation
Following Early Life Stress: Examination of Physiological Reactivity and
Parent Emotion Socialization”
Sara Langworthy, Institute
of Child Development
“Impact of Executive Function
Impairment on Reward Processing in Children: Neural Correlates and
Individual Differences”
Michelle Loman, Institute
of Child Development
“Attention
and behavior in adolescents with diverse early histories”
Fall 2009 Awardees:
Amanda Kesek, Institute
of Child Development
“Emotional Reappraisal in
Children”
Kristen Lyons, PhD, Institute
of Child Development
“Neurobehavioral Markers of
Age-Related Changes and Individual Differences in Self-Reflection and
Self-Regulation”
Amy Monn, Institute
of Child Development
“The Role of Parent
Executive Function Skills in the Process of Resilient Family Functioning
and Parent Promotion of Child Executive Function Skills”
Spring 2009 Awardees:
Julia Cohen, Institute
of Child Development
“Neural Correlates of Executive
Function and Emotion in Adolescents and Adults”
Janette Herbers,
Institute of Child Development
“Parent-Child Coregulation and
Academic Success of Young Homeless Children”
“Dopamine Polymorphisms and
Infants’ Attention to Novelty”
Mu Sun, PhD,
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
“Prepulse Inhibition of Acoustic
Startle in Transgenic Mice with Iron Deficiency”
Fall 2008 Awardees:
Phu Tran, PhD, Department of Pediatrics - "Assessing the Role of TUF1 in Modulating Amygdala-Based Startle Response"
O. Evren Guler, PhD, Institute of Child Development - "Neural Bases of Declarative Memory Development"