Great Lakes Regional Center of Excellence

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 The GLRCE is committed to funding development of new vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics to counteract diseases caused by bio-threat agents via the combined research excellence of inter-disciplinary scientists in the Great Lakes region.

GLRCE News


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2012 Annual Meeting: August 21-22   Registration is Open

Mark your calendars-the 2012 GLRCE Annual Meeting is fast approaching.  The meeting will be organized just like last year, at the Gleacher Center.

Please email your registration form to Sandra Dioro-Grant by July 2, 2012.

For more details, please visit our Annual Meeting page


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GLRCE Career Development RFA Issued

We are pleased to announce that there will be funds available this funding year to promote the career of one junior faculty member in the Great Lakes region.  The career development program is designed to identify projects that will strengthen our center’s focus on vaccines, therapeutics, and/or adjuvants against NIAID Category A, B and C Priority Pathogens and Emerging Infectious Disease Agents.

For more information, please see the complete RFA.

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GLRCE Development Project RFA Issued

Funds will also be available to support Development Projects in the forthcoming funding year. The GLRCE Developmental Projects Program will support innovative research that will contribute to the development of new vaccines, therapeutics and/or adjuvants against biological agents from the NIAID Category A, B & C Priority Pathogens and EID while advancing basic knowledge on the mechanisms of disease and/or immunity to disease.

 For more information, please see the complete RFA.


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BRCs and Portal

The Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRCs) are sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to support the biomedical research community's work on infectious diseases. Each of the four centers specializes in a different group of pathogens including:



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GLRCE researchers will conduct collaborative research in the new Howard T. Ricketts Regional Biocontainment Laboratory being constructed by the University of Chicago at Argonne National Laboratory. More information about the lab can be found here.

Information about other NIH/NIAID funded RCEs may be found here.

New PHS 398 Forms from the NIH (mandatory as of May 2008)

More links to external resources may be found on the Links page.


Latest Publications

Anderson VJ, Kern JW, McCool JW, Schneewind O, Missiakas D. 2011. The SLH-domain protein BslO is a determinant of Bacillus anthracis chain length. Mol Microbiol  :. NIHMS292008
Pubmed Abstract 

Kern J, Wilton R, Zhang R, Binkowski TA, Joachimiak A, Schneewind O. 2011. Structure of the SLH domains from Bacillus anthracis surface array protein. J Biol Chem :. PMCID pending
Pubmed Abstract 

Additional publications »

NIH Public Access Policy required for RCE funded publications.

List of Journals that process compliancy to public access policy on behalf of authors.
NIH Resources related to Public Access Policy (including submission process for new publications)

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