WASHINGTON - Senator Chuck Grassley today said that Iowa State University has received three competitive grants totaling $1,567,213 from the National Science Foundation.
Iowa State University will use the money as shown below.
· $1,000,000 to help pay for a project titled, "Mechanism and Genetic Impacts of Transposon-Induced Duplications in Maize."
· $435,497 to help pay for a project titled, "Collaborative Proposal: Biosynthesis of Alkamides – Experimental Modeling of a Modular Secondary Metabolic Pathway."
· $131,716 to help pay for a project titled, "Connections between tagged particles and hydrodynamics in some interacting systems."