Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research Pre-Seed Program

The Office of Research, in partnership with the Office of the Provost, provides “pre-seed” funding to facilitate the formation of faculty teams and collaboration around critical areas of research expertise or emerging research topics. The goal is to stimulate large-scale research team formation and position UGA faculty groups to be more competitive in attracting resources for collaborative research, including internal UGA seed grants and ultimately, external grant support.

2025 Call for Proposals

UGA’s Teaming for Interdisciplinary Pre-Seed Program is now accepting applications for a new round of funding. Read the call.

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2024 Cohort

Art in a Marsh: Using art to promote education and participatory monitoring of natural infrastructure
Data-Core
Mountain top
Dashboard with scientific data displayed,
Developing an Agricultural Circularity Assessment Protocol (A-CAP) for Nutrient Cycling in the Georgia Poultry Industry
Establishing the Research and Education Programs on Convergent Safety Science and Engineering at UGA
Examining STEM graduate teaching assistants’ experiences and motivations using photovoice
Interdisciplinary-research
Leveraging AI for 21st Century Biodiversity Conservation
Materials- Manufacturing-Machine Learning Nexus
Large Scale Solar Development
Transformative Integration of Cryoelectron Microscopy at UGA

2023 IIPA Targeted Pre-Seed Cohort

Advancing Precision Agriculture through Innovative Sensors and Data Science
Advancing Precision Crop Pest Management Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture
Cultivating Innovation: Precision Agriculture and Controlled Environment Agriculture in a Transdisciplinary Framework
Exploring Autonomous Machinery Operations and Applications in Georgia Agricultural Crops
Farmer Safety Figure
Mobile Sensing for Precision Poultry Disease Management
Precision in Food Supply Chains: The Digital Twin Approach

2023 Cohort

Adaptive Smallholder Agriculture in a Changing Climate
Biomimetic coatings for safer medical devices
Bridging Centers in Life Sciences logo
Creative Community Research Partnerships
Data-driven approach chart
Dawg-omics: A translational approach to discover new diagnostics and therapeutics to benefit man and man’s best friend
Chart - Development of an Artistic Performance and Prediction Lab
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention
Photo of pigs in the forest
Rainbow-Inspired Soft Robotic with Embedded Light Actuators and Nerve System
Satellite Remote Sensing Applications for Global Water Resources
Tracking Mercury Pollution Sources graphic

2022 Cohort

artificial intelligence illustration of robot head between human hands
icon of person standing at desk with a brain floating above.
Mount Etna
ACRE Interdisciplinary Research Team graphic
Mount Chimborazo
diagram of community partners in farmer suicide prevention project
organoid diagram
Polyfluoroalkyl Substances diagram
word cloud in the shape of a tree
fMRI scan of brain
a collage of space scenes
vaccine efficacy graphic

2021 Cohort

aerial of flooded houses
aerial photo of stream and fields
woman working with robot arm
satellite image of hurricane with virus illustrations overlaid
illustration of animals and microbes
Georgia health ranking map
hands with pen at scientific workbench
lettuce grown using aquaponics
informational diagram
figure about type 2 diabetes prevention
HOST Research Initiative collage
light bulb illustration

2020 Cohort

Addiction Prevention Research Team
Cezanne, Dish of Apples, 1876-77
AI driven innovations in agriculture and food systems
Bridging the high-throughput in vitro and in vivo data for risk assessment of bisphenol analogs in diabetes
Catastrophic Wind Disturbances in Natural and Urban Forests – Patterns, Processes, Impacts, and Management
Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Response (CEIRR)
Chicken CRISPR
Drug Development in the Epigenetics Domain
Economic Implications of Climate Change
Global Recipes, Locally Grown
Gut Microbial Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury
Harvard-UGA Collaborations on Foundations of Data Science
Mechanisms and Drivers of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Native Plants and Beneficial Insects (NPBI) working group
Quantum Science and Engineering Program (QSEP) focused on quantum materials and quantum sensing
The Integration of PDE Modeling, Machine Learning and Topology Analysis in MRIs Analysis
Transdisciplinary Earth System Science for Global Solutions and Public Engagement (ENGAGE)
Tumor-specific neoantigen prediction
UGA Opioid Initiative
Workgroup on families, communities, and health