Project Grant 1954241

The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $593,028 Project Grant to the University of Houston System to support collaborative research on the evolutionary patterns and mechanisms of trait diversification in the Antarctic notothenioid fish radiation. Under the grant's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) federal grant program, the University will leverage a comprehensive genomic dataset comprising over 250,000 protein-coding exons and conserved non-coding elements across 44...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) Project Grant award of $358,622 to the University of Illinois from March 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026 aims to characterize the evolution of proteins that integrate signals of warming, changing pH, and oxidation in the sensory systems of three species of Arctic and sub-Arctic fish. The research will provide insight into the sensitivity and responses of these fish to climate change through the generation and analysis of...

This federal Project Grant award of $432,357 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research to understand how fishes have adapted to high-pressure environments in the deep ocean. The research aims to: Characterize patterns of genome evolution across 100 species of perciform fishes found at depths ranging from 0-8,000 meters. Measure structural changes in key biomolecules involved in metabolism, cell movement, and stress responses across...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,072 Project Grant under the Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) federal grant program to Portland State University (PSU) effective March 1, 2024. The grant supports a 3-year research project focused on studying the cellular-level responses of Antarctic fish to increasing water temperatures associated with climate change. Key activities include analyzing existing tissue samples from Antarctic fish to characterize their proteome and identify proteins...

This $891,697 project grant, awarded on August 15, 2024 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program, will fund a collaborative research study on pressure adaptation and convergent evolution in deep-sea fishes. The key objectives are to: 1) characterize genome evolution patterns in 100 species of perciform fishes across a 0-8,000 meter depth range, 2) measure structural changes in biomolecules involved in metabolism, cell structure,...

This $206,612 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support research by the University of Miami to investigate the evolutionary adaptations of high-altitude organisms to hypoxic (low-oxygen) environments. The research will test two key hypotheses: 1) that high-altitude species exposed to hypoxia for longer periods have reduced mitochondrial respiration rates to match oxygen supply, and increased mitochondrial efficiency to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $323,227 to the University of Houston System to conduct research on the genetic mechanisms behind seasonal adaptations and antifreeze protein production in high latitude cod species. The research aims to understand how these fishes have adapted to survive in the freezing polar ocean environments. Key activities include observing seasonal changes to kidney morphology in cod species kept at...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $415,682 to the California State University Long Beach Research Foundation to conduct research on the effects of ocean warming on a coastal fish species. The key objectives are to: 1) quantify genetic variation in temperature response, 2) determine if local adaptation to temperature exists, and 3) assess whether evolutionary changes can occur quickly enough to impact population...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), provides $210,495 to support research examining how microbial extremophiles in Antarctica respond to environmental changes in salinity. Led by researchers at the University of Tennessee, the grant will fund comparative analyses of gene expression patterns and secondary metabolite production in lab microcosm studies using microbial isolates previously...

This $477,793 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) funds a research project at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to investigate the impacts of climate change on the biological carbon pump in the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) region. The goal of the project is to develop a novel hybrid modeling framework that integrates observational data from long-term research programs with advanced artificial intelligence and...