CBR researchers receive 2022 UBC Science STAIR Grants

June 15, 2022

From left to right: Dr. Leonard Foster, Dr. Hongshen Ma, and Dr. Chris Overall. All are 2022 UBC Science STAIR grants recipients

From left to right: Dr. Leonard Foster, Dr. Hongshen Ma, and Dr. Chris Overall. All received 2022 UBC Science STAIR Grants.

 

Congratulations to Dr. Hongshen Ma, Dr. Chris Overall, and Dr. Leonard Foster, who received 2022 Support for Teams to Advance Interdisciplinary Research (STAIR) Grants from UBC Science!

STAIR Grants are designed to initiate new collaborative, interdisciplinary research projects at UBC. Teams of two researchers apply – the collaboration must be interdisciplinary and the researchers must not have worked together in the past.

Successful teams received funding to support two graduate students for one year ($20,000 for each student) and a $5,000 research stipend for materials and supplies, shared between the two PIs. Congratulations, all!

 

Effects of microplastic ingestion on mosquitoes and honey bees

  • Michelle Tseng (Botany)
  • Leonard Foster (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medicine)*

 

Macrophage phenotyping using autofluorescence imaging and machine learning

  • Pauline Johnson (Microbiology and Immunology)
  • Hongshen Ma (Mechanical Engineering, Applied Science)*

 

Protease Activity in the Plant Cell Wall

  • Geoffrey Wasteneys (Botany)
  • Chris Overall (Oral Biological & Medical Sciences, Dentistry)*

 

* denotes CBR PI

 

Read the original announcement and learn more about UBC Science STAIR Grants: Support for Teams to Advance Interdisciplinary Research

Multidisciplinary research collaborations are vital to tackling some of the most pressing problems we face. Funding organizations recognize this, and often require interdisciplinary teams to come forward with new proposals addressing complex issues. By stimulating innovative, cross-disciplinary scholarship and research, STAIR grants serve as a stepping stone to external funding opportunities.

These grants are intended to stimulate new, interdisciplinary research collaborations for one year, with the expectation that results obtained will be used to secure additional funding for subsequent years. Researchers must be from different departments (one in UBC Science, the other may be in UBC Science or another faculty at UBC Vancouver). They must not have an existing research collaboration, and never have published together.