The 2009-2015 Mississippi EPSCoR award promotes research in Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems. The three research focus areas within this grant are computational chemistry (CompChem), computational biology (CompBio) and biosystems simulation (BioSim). The grant provides support for up to six seed grants per year for innovative research in or between the three focus areas. The current research programs within each focus area are:
The intent is to promote a stronger interdisciplinary research network in Mississippi and to make Mississippi researchers more nationally competitive in research in each of the three focus areas and in research that cuts across focus areas. Seed Grant proposals must be for new unfunded research. The grants are targeted to less experienced investigators initiating research in one of these areas or to experienced faculty changing fields and/or initiating a project in a new area that will strengthen research in modeling and simulation of complex systems. Preference will be given to projects that integrate research across the three focus areas of computational chemistry, computational biology, and biosystems simulation. These seed grants are intended to stimulate new research leading to grant proposal submissions in the near future and to the rapid growth of the research network targeted by the EPSCoR proposal. They are not intended for additional support for established research.