Project Grant 1938112

This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $800,219 to the College of the Holy Cross to conduct research on the energetic tradeoffs in the facultative symbiosis between the coral Astrangia poculata and its algal symbiont Breviolum psygmophilum. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) quantify the effects of symbiotic state on the coral's reproductive investment and larval performance, which are key fitness...

This $502,071 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of California, Merced to define metabolic complementation within the sea anemone microbiome. The research aims to advance understanding of how microbial communities cooperate to enhance the fitness, health and survival of eukaryotic hosts. Specifically, the three-year award will fund work to quantify the microbiome's impact on host fitness using gnotobiotic sea anemones, reintroduce isolated microbial...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $370,100 awarded to the University of Rhode Island from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 will fund research investigating the impacts of ocean warming on the symbiotic nutritional exchange between microbes and reef-building corals during early life stages. As part of the Geosciences program under the CFDA 47.050, the awardee will characterize the development of the coral-algal symbiosis across life histories in Hawaiian and French...

This $228,683 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research examining the role of cleaning symbiosis in transferring microbes on coral reefs. Specifically, the University of Miami will study how cleanerfish may serve as keystone regulators of microbial communities, enhancing diversity and transferring key species between clients. Researchers will also assess if cleanerfish facilitate reef resilience by aiding microbial recovery after...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program grant for $366,200 awarded to the University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office Division will support a collaborative research project titled "INTBIO: Collaborative Research: Integrating Nanobiotechnologies to Understand the Role of Nitro-Oxidative Stress in the Coral-Dinoflagellate Mutualistic Symbiosis Dynamics". The project will use a multidisciplinary approach combining marine biology, molecular sciences,...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $539,985 supports research into the stoichiometric trait distribution of the marine microbiome. Funded through the Geosciences program under the Division of Ocean Sciences, the award will quantify the relationship between environmental conditions and the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus ratios in marine microbes. Over three years, the researchers from Colorado State University will characterize the biomass elemental composition of 50 marine...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded a $384,490 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant supports a collaborative research project focused on "Integrating Nanobiotechnologies to Understand the Role of Nitro-Oxidative Stress in the Coral-Dinoflagellate Mutualistic Symbiosis Dynamics." The project aims to investigate the mechanisms behind coral bleaching events,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) a $652,262 Project Grant through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research on how microbial symbionts protect eelgrass from the impacts of thermal stress associated with global climate change. The research aims to: (1) assess the assembly and function of the eelgrass microbiome under ambient and elevated temperature conditions, (2) determine how...

This five-year, $3 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research at the University of Colorado Boulder, Cornell University, Florida Atlantic University, and the University of New Mexico to develop methods for understanding how the functioning and dynamics of complex ecological interaction networks emerge and respond to environmental change. The researchers will measure multivalent interactions among fish and other...

This $439,396 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Duke University from September 2022 to August 2025 to develop a model microbial consortium for interrogating organic matter decomposition and carbon cycling in coastal systems under changing environmental conditions. Researchers will integrate field, laboratory, and modeling work to examine the functional roles and responses to temperature variation of diverse...