Project Grant 1921425

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, will provide $364,324 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to conduct research on the evolution and underlying genetics of thermal physiology and behavior in Drosophila (fruit flies) in response to climate change. The key objectives of this 3-year research project are to: 1) measure the thermal niches and dissect the genetic...

This $621,748 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences (47.074) program will fund research at Rice University to develop a comprehensive framework linking genetic mechanisms of trait expression with environmental preferences to predict gene-by-environment interactions within and among generations. Over four years, the researchers will integrate experiments with fruit flies and population-level theoretical models to examine how environmental exposure variation...

This $324,787 Postdoctoral Fellowship project grant was awarded on October 1, 2023 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY), doing business as Stony Brook University, by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078). The project aims to investigate the role of epigenetics in enabling gentoo penguins to adapt to the rapidly changing environment of the western Antarctic Peninsula, where the species is thriving while related...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will fund $321,072 in research at the Reed Institute under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) from March 2022 through February 2025. The research aims to investigate the evolutionary and biological basis of physical and behavioral traits that are sex-biased toward male or female expression across multiple levels of biological organization. Researchers will study global hormone levels, metabolic enzymes, hormone...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program provides $1,239,776 to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) to conduct collaborative research on the role of gene copy number variation in determining detoxification capacity, individual fitness, and population dynamics of a vertebrate herbivore. The key objectives of this 4-year research project are to: 1) identify individual copy number variation in detoxification genes, 2)...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $999,999.00 in funding to Emory University to study the function of epigenetic memory in cell fate determination and behavior. The research aims to uncover how altered chromatin structure can serve as heritable, transgenerational information and how defects in transcription caused by misregulation of histone methylation can actively influence behavior. The project will leverage...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859) provides $294,647 to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to develop a theoretical, computational, and experimental framework to model epigenetic regulatory networks in human cells. The key objectives are to: 1) establish a methodology to rapidly assemble and stably integrate libraries of CRISPR-based epigenetic regulators...

This $1.3 million project grant from the US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) supports establishing a cattle and sheep pan-epigenome through December 2025. The University of Vermont is leading efforts to comprehensively characterize epigenomic conservation and diversity in multiple breeds of cattle and sheep by examining DNA and RNA methylation, histone modifications, open chromatin,...

The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $247,284 project grant to the University of Oregon to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: BEE: INTEGRATING EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS AND POPULATION ECOLOGY TO DETECT CONTEMPORARY ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE ACROSS A SPECIES RANGE." The three-year award, made on May 1, 2022 under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program, will fund research examining how bee populations are adapting...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $240,000 supports research investigating mechanisms of thermal plasticity and adaptation in a splash pool copepod from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026. The award is made under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to further the program's goals of advancing biological sciences knowledge and understanding major problems facing the nation. Specifically, the fellow will conduct integrative research using lab-reared copepod...