Grants Awarded since 1996
Grants Awarded in 2008
Louise Glass,Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley
Mathieu Paoletti, Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Champignons, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, France
Role of the HET domain in Fungal Nonself Recognition.

William J. Jagust, Department of Public Health and Neuroscience, University of California Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michel Isingrini, Universit. François Rabelais, Centre de Recherche sur la Cognition, Tours, France
Brain Basis of Metamemory in Aging .

Steven R. Beissinger, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & management, University of California Berkeley
Jean-Dominique Lebreton, Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive, CNRS UMR 5175, Montpellier, France
Integrated Approach for Population Viability Analyses With Limited Data.

George Smoot, Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley
James G. Bartlett, Département de Physique, Université Paris 7 Denis-Diderot, Paris, France
Empowering the CMB: Measuring Power Spectra From the Planck Mission.

Judith P. Klinman, Department of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley
Nicolas Mano, CRPP-UPR 8641, Pessac, France
A Miniature Membraneless Biofuel Cell.

Philip Marcus, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley
Patrice Le Gal, Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Équilibre, Université de Provence, Marseille, France
Numerical Simulations Versus Experiments on Inertial-Gravity Waves.

Alexandra Navrotsky, NEAT-ORU & Thermochemistry Facility, University of California Davis.
Christophe Drouet and Sophie Guillemet, CIRIMAT, UMR CNRS 5085, INSIACET, Toulouse, France
A Thermodynamic Approach for the Understanding of Nanomaterials Properties.

Jere H. Lipps, Museum of Paleontology, University of California Berkeley
Marie-Thérèse Vénec-Peyré, Département Histoire de la Terre, Université de Paris 6, Paris, France
Effect of Pollution on Foraminifera.

William A. Lester, Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley
Roland Assaf, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Ivry sur Seine, France.
Development of Size-Independent Estimators for Quantum Monte Carlo forces.

Niek Veldhuis, Department of Near Eastern studies, University of California Berkeley
Francis Joannès, Département d'Histoire, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
Hellenistic Babylonia: Texts, Iconography & Names.

Geaorge Brook, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley
Laurent Messonnier, Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Physiopathology, Université de Savoie, Le Bourget du Lac, France
Effects of Endurance Training on Glucose and Lactate Metabolism During Exercise and Recovery in Men and Women- Advancing our Knowledge and Methods of Investigation.

Juan F. Medrano, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis
Patrice Martin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Contribution of Genomics to the Understanding of Milk Fat Composition Using Gene Expression Profiling of Mammary Epithelial Cells Isolated from Milk and Microdissected Biopsies.

Stefano Varesse, Department of Native American Studies, University of California Davis
Philippe Descola, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, Collège de France, Paris, France
All our Relatives: Indigenous Cosmocentric Epistemologies in Dialogue.

Philip Filippou, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Berkeley.
Jacky Mazars, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
High Performance Modeling of 3D Soil-Structure Interaction Under Earthquake Excitation .

Kurt Cuffey, Department of Geography, University of California Berkeley
Peter Van Der Beek , Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Relief Development in the Western Alps (France, Switzerland) in response to Quaternary Glaciations Assessed Through High-Resolution 4He/3He/HeThermochronology.

Edgar Knobloch, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Alain Bergeon, IMFT, UMR CNRS 5502, Universit/ Paul-Sabattier, Toulouse, France
Localized Structures in Driven Dissipative Flows.

Larry Hyman, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Marie Hombert, Dynamique du Langage, Institut des Sciences de l'Homme, Lyon, France
Towards a Re-Evaluation of the History of the Peopling and Languages of Sub-Sahara Africa.

Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley.
Gérard Smadja, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon, Villerbanne, France
The Nearby Supernova Factory.

Robert Knight, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley.
Olivier Bertrand, INSERM U821, Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier, Bron, France
Spatio-Temporal Organization of Cortical Oscillatory Activities in Human Audition.

Bob B. Buchanan, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley.
J.-Ph. Reichheld, LGDP UMR CNRS-IRD-UPVD 5096, Université de Perpignan, Perpignan, France
The Next Step in the Identification of Thioredoxin Target Proteins: In Vivo Characterization With Mutants.

Ravi Rajan, Deborah Letourneau, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Cruz.
Christophe Bonneuil, Centre Koyré d'Histoire des Sciences et des techniques-MNHN CP 25, Paris, France
Mobilizing Science for Public Policy on Ecological Risks of Genetically Engineered Organisims.

Christine Hastorf, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
Gilles Touchais, Département d'Archéologie et Histoire de l'Art, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne, Paris, France
Food Archaeology in Argolid (Greece): Cross-Correlation Between Isotopic Analysis and Macroscopic Observation of the Dental Remains.

Irfan Siddiqi, Quantum NanoelectronicsLab., Physics Departement, University of California, Berkeley.
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Institut Néel, Nanosciences Department, CNRS, Grenoble, France
Microwave Nanomagnetometry of Single Molecules, Towards Single Spin Measurement and Control.

Karlene Roberts, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
Erik Hollnagel, Ecole National Supérieure des Mines de Paris, Sophia-Antipolis, France
Research in Catastrophic Risk Management-Finally, the twain shall meet.
