Project Grant 1317291

The Foundation For Applied Molecular Evolution, Inc. was awarded a $1.2 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SYNTHETIC AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACHES TO SEMI-SYNTHETIC CELLS WITH EXPANDED DNA ALPHABETS" from August 15, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant supports research under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to advance fundamental...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $333,684 to the Illinois Institute of Technology for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: OAC CORE: ENABLING EXTREMELY FINE-GRAINED PARALLELISM ON MODERN MANY-CORE ARCHITECTURES." The grant will fund a three-year research collaboration through June 2024 to develop techniques...

This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations provides $250,000 to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FET: MEDIUM: BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION AND ENZYMATIC PROCESSING FOR DEFECT-FREE, SCALABLE NUIC-ACID CIRCUITS." The funding supports investigator-initiated research and education efforts under the official federal grant program "Computer and Information Science and...

This two-year, $211,846 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research supports research into programmable living materials through synthetic biofilm engineering and quantitative computational modeling at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The researchers will develop bioengineering tools to control bacterial cell deposition and assembly into "material blocks" with distinct interfaces. They will also establish modeling approaches to...

This $350,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will fund the development of an open-source, multiscale, application-agnostic platform (OPEN-MAP) for heterogeneous system-in-package co-design. Led by Purdue University, the consortium aims to break barriers across applications, design domains, and abstraction levels in modeling, simulation, optimization, and design through OPEN-MAP. The platform will...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $194,957 to the University of Massachusetts Lowell supports research on reconfiguration algorithms for programmable matter. Programmable matter refers to materials that can change their physical properties on demand, with modular robots that can attach, detach, communicate, and move relative to each other. The research aims to develop new algorithms and...

This three-year, $930,252 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, will support research exploring applications of digital microfluidic technology for DNA storage, computation, and synthetic biology. A team from the University of Minnesota will leverage an electronic platform developed by industrial partner Seagate to manipulate droplets and assemble DNA at...

This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, provides $599,871 to Emory University from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The funding supports collaborative research at the intersection of machine learning, bioinformatics, and molecular biology. The project aims to advance algorithmic research using principled protein language models (PLMs) to gain deeper insight into the structural, functional, and evolutionary organization of...

This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports the development and experimental validation of computational tools for simulation-guided design of DNA nanostructures and molecular systems. The project aims to integrate high-level and low-level computational models to enable more powerful and user-friendly multiscale modeling frameworks for DNA nanotechnology. Key objectives include parameterizing coarse-grained...

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory will provide a two-week intensive Synthetic Biology Summer Course from August 2022 through July 2025 under a $515,458 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences. The course aims to introduce scientists to synthetic biology through a combination of practical lectures, open-ended research projects, and seminars led by field experts. Participants will gain hands-on experience with techniques such as cell-free...