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Dr. Lauren Fuess

  • Assistant Professor at Biology, College of Science & Engineering

Grants

2025

  • Fuess, Lauren Elizabeth (Principal), Percent Contribution: %90, Bucklin, Carrie Jo (Supporting), Percent Contribution: %10. CAREER: Characterizing the mechanisms linking bleaching recovery to pathogen susceptibility in a model cnidarian system, National Science Foundation, Federal, $676765.5. (Submitted: 2024, Funded: August 2025 - 2030). Grant.

2024

  • Fuess, Lauren Elizabeth (Principal), Sharp, Katherine H (Co-Principal). BRC-BIO: Establishing Astrangia poculata as a study system to understand how multi-partner symbiotic interactions affect pathogen response in cnidarians, National Science Foundation, Federal, $490280. (Submitted: December 2022, Funded: January 2024 - December 2026). Grant.
  • Fuess, Lauren Elizabeth (Principal), Percent Contribution: %75, Klinges, Grace (Principal), Percent Contribution: %10, Veglia, Alex (Principal), Percent Contribution: %10, Rosin, Ashely (Supporting), Percent Contribution: %5. An Integrative 'Omic Approach Leveraging Historical SCTLD Data To Identify Predictive Markers of SCTLD Resistance, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, State, $178703. (Submitted: March 2024, Funded: July 2024 - June 2025). Grant.
  • Jones, Nicholas (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, Fuess, Lauren Elizabeth (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %50. An integrative approach to identify and experimentally validate environmental variables which affect SCTLD outcomes, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, State, $61223. (Submitted: 2024, Funded: July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025). Grant.
  • Fuess, Lauren Elizabeth (Principal), Percent Contribution: %5, Gignoux-Wolfsohn, Sarah (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %95. Supplement- RAPID: Leveraging a Natural Bleaching Event to Assess Links between Bleaching and Disease, National Science Foundation, Federal, $46250. (Submitted: March 2024, Funded: May 2024 - April 2024). Grant.

2023

  • Fuess, Lauren Elizabeth (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, Gignoux-Wolfsohn, Sarah (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %50. RAPID: Leveraging a natural bleaching event to assess links between bleaching and disease, National Science Foundation, Federal, $245384. (Submitted: September 2023, Funded: 2023 - 2025). Grant.
  • Fuess, Lauren Elizabeth, Gabor, Caitlin. Planning: CREST Center in Bioinformatics, National Science Foundation, Federal, $199960. (Submitted: June 2023, Funded: September 2023 - August 2025). Grant.
  • Fuess, Lauren Elizabeth (Principal), Percent Contribution: %30, Klinges, Grace (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, Holstein, Daniel (Principal), Percent Contribution: %10, Veglia, Alex (Principal), Percent Contribution: %10. Tracking Bacterial, Viral, and Gene Expression Shifts throughout SCTLD Development in the Dry Tortugas, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, State, $259253. (Submitted: April 2023, Funded: July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024). Grant.
  • Borbee, Erin (Principal), Percent Contribution: %75, Fuess, Lauren Elizabeth (Other), Percent Contribution: %25. A new paradigm for symbiosis, immunity tradeoffs in a coral model system, Astrangia poculata, National Science Foundation, Federal, $138000. (Submitted: December 2021, Funded: August 2023 - July 2025). Grant.

2022

  • Gignoux-Wolfsohn, Sarah (Principal), Fuess, Lauren Elizabeth (Supporting). Identifying Predictors of Coral Disease Resistance, Paul M. Angell Foundation, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $75000. (Submitted: July 2021, Funded: 2022 - 2023). Grant.
  • Huertas Pau, Maria del Mar (Principal), Percent Contribution: %75, Lu, Yuan (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %5, Fuess, Lauren (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %5, Peterson, Ryan (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %5, Koh, Gar Yee (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %5, Gracia, Dana (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %5. MARK:Acquisition of tissue processing and embedding machines to produce fixed-paraffin-embedded blocks of biological tissues, Texas State University, $52500. (Submitted: September 2022, Funded: September 2022 - February 2023). Grant.

2021

  • Fuess, Lauren Elizabeth. Identifying predictors of host response to a novel coral disease, Texas State University, Texas State University, $8000. (Submitted: October 2020, Funded: 2021 - 2022). Grant.
  • Fuess, Lauren Elizabeth (Principal), Daniel, Kristy Lynn (Other). 2021 Early Career Fellowship, The National Academies, Federal, $76000. (Submitted: May 2021, Funded: September 2021 - August 2023). Grant.

2019

  • Fuess, Lauren E (Co-Principal), Bolnick, Daniel I (Co-Principal), Wegrzyn, Jill (Co-Principal). Intersect Fellowship Program for Computational Scientists and Immunologists, American Association of Immunoligsts, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $50000. (Submitted: 2018, Funded: February 2019 - January 2020). Grant.

2016

  • Fuess, Lauren E (Principal). Investigating the effects of transforming growth factor beta and immune challenge on host gene expression in the Caribbean coral Orbicella faveolata., Beta Phi Chapter of the Phi Sigma Biological Honor Society, Graduate Student Society, $3000. (Submitted: 2016, Funded: 2016). Grant.

2015

  • Fuess, Lauren E (Principal). Investigating the effects of symbiont variation and immune challenge on host gene expression in the Caribbean coral Orbicella faveolata, Beta Phi Chapter of the Phi Sigma Biological Honor Society, Graduate Student Society, $5000. (Submitted: 2015, Funded: 2015). Grant.
  • Fuess, Lauren E (Principal). Graduate Research Fellowship, NSF, Federal, $138000. (Submitted: 2014, Funded: June 2015 - May 2018). Grant.

2014

  • Fuess, Lauren E (Principal). Investigating the transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) pathway in the coral Orbicella faveolata: Trade-offs between symbiont density and immune performance, Beta Phi Chapter of the Phi Sigma Biological Honor Society, Graduate Student Society, $1500. (Submitted: 2014, Funded: 2014). Grant.

2012

  • Fuess, Lauren E (Principal). Fulbright Full Grant, The Fulbright Program, Federal, $20000. (Submitted: 2011, Funded: August 2012 - June 2013). Grant.