skip to content skip to navigation skip to sub-navigation Duke | UNC | NCSU | NSF 

2024 W. Main Street, Suite A200
Durham, NC 27705-4667
Tel: (919) 668-4551
Fax: (919) 668-9198
info@nescent.org

NESCent funds sabbatical scholars, post-doctoral fellows, working groups and catalysis meetings. The abstract from each proposal can be found by clicking on the project title.  For more information about when groups are meeting, see the Calendar.

Search Funded Projects

New Funded Projects

NAME YEAR AWARDED PROJECT TITLE
Catalysis Meeting
Alan Jones (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Etsuko Moriyama (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Joe Thorton (University of Oregon)
Jotun Hein (Oxford University)		 2009 Evolution of G Protein Coupled Signaling: Lineages, Constraints, and Tempo
Jessica Metcalf (University of Adelaide)
Alan Cooper (University of Adelaide)
Rob Guralnick (University of Colorado-Buffalo)		 2009 Integrating datasets to investigate megafaunal extinction in the Late Quaternary
Long-term Sabbatical
John M Logsdon (University of Iowa) 2009 Sex, cells: an evolutionary inquiry into sexual reproduction
Postdoctoral Fellow
Julie A Meachen-Samuels 2009 Competition, Guild Structure and Evolution in the Carnivora
Benjamin D Redelings 2009 Improved Probabilistic Models of Insertion/Deletion for Phylogenetic Inference
Liam J Revell 2009 Process and pattern in the phylogenetic analysis of comparative data
Juan C Santos 2009 Multivariate evolutionary analysis: integrating structural equation modeling and phylogenetics
Eric Schuettpelz 2009 A Phylogenetic Approach to Understanding the Evolution of the Earth's Biomes
Gregor Yanega 2009 A comparative phylogenetic approach to the study of insular avian phenotypes
Short-term Visitor
Claire Williams (Forest History Society) 2010 DOMESTICATING FOREST CARBON: A SYNTHESIS ON FOREST ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Shane Lavery (University of Auckland) 2010 Connectivity of New Zealand coastal marine communities: a synthesis of datasets
Working Group
Kathleen Donohue (Duke University)
Rafael Rubio de Casas (Duke University)		 2009 Germination, Trait Coevolution, and Niche Limits in Changing Environments
Erika J Edwards (Brown University)
Nicolas Salamin (University of Lausanne)
Stephen Smith (NESCent)		 2009 Grass Phylogeny Working Group II: Inferring the complex history of C4 photosynthesis in grasses
Norman Johnson (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
James J Smith (Michigan State University)
Louise Mead (National Center for Science Education)		 2009 Communicating the Relevance of Human Evolution