Project Grant 20266701146251
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Vermont & State Agricultural College received a $120,000 predoctoral research fellowship award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), effective May 1, 2026 through April 30, 2028. The award supports doctoral-level research investigating epigenetic modifications, specifically histone acetylation, and their role in mediating the...
- This predoctoral research grant of $178,204, awarded May 1, 2026, through the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Foundational and Applied Science Program (CFDA 10.310), supports dissertation research on plant health and production, specifically addressing russeting traits in potato (Solanum tuberosum) cultivation. The three-year project, conducted at the University of Georgia Research Foundation in Athens through April 30, 2029,...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Illinois received a $180,000 pre-doctoral fellowship award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310), effective May 1, 2026, through April 30, 2029. The award supports research focused on understanding tissue-specific resistance mechanisms in maize plants against bacterial pathogens. This research project aims to elucidate how plants...
- This National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in the amount of $240,000 will support research and training from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The fellow will leverage biocoronas to enhance agricultural nanotechnology by characterizing biocoronas formed on nanocarrier surfaces in plants and using this data to optimize gene editing mediated by nanomaterials. Specifically, the fellow aims to extract and identify the in...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB) FY 2023 award, funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports research and training focused on exploring the rules of life governing interactions between genomes, environment, and phenotypes in a plant-fungal symbiosis. The $240,000 award will fund a 3-year project that aims to identify the genetic regulation occurring across plant and fungal species to understand how their...
- The Trustees of Indiana University received a three-year, $180,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The grant will fund research into soybean cyst nematode effector proteins and their interactions with soybean plant immune responses and genes. Specifically, the principal investigator will study 11 uncharacterized soybean cyst nematode...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (CFDA 47.074), awarded on October 1, 2025, provides $270,000 in funding through the Division of Biological Infrastructure to support a three-year research project (completion date: September 30, 2028) examining biodiversity in hybrid plant-insect systems. The fellowship supports empirical research testing the hybrid bridge hypothesis using oak trees and cynipid gall wasps as a model system. The research...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $270,000 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (CFDA 47.074) to support research aimed at understanding the evolution of insect diets over millions of years. The 3-year fellowship, commencing on August 15, 2025, will enable the postdoctoral researcher to reconstruct the evolutionary history of diet shifts in seed bugs (Lygaeoidea) using genomic data. The researcher will infer a new phylogenetic tree of the seed bug superfamily and analyze how...
- This National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology award for $240,000 will fund research from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026 exploring the role of hybridization on diet breadth evolution in the fall webworm. The fellowship recipient will conduct laboratory and field experiments in collaboration with veterans from the community college system to assess the influence of hybridization on diet breadth in two genetically distinct biotypes of the fall webworm...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded $270,000 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) on August 15, 2026, to support a postdoctoral research fellowship investigating the role of plant immunity in maize microbe-dependent heterosis. The fellow will conduct research examining how immune responses to microbes differ between maize pure lines and hybrids, with particular focus on microbe-triggered immunity (MTI)...
This $120,000 predoctoral fellowship award, made by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Program (CFDA 10.310), supports research conducted at The Ohio State University from May 1, 2026 through April 30, 2028. The fellowship addresses two AFRI Farm Bill priority areas—Plant Health and Production and Plant Products, and Agriculture Systems and Technology—by investigating the role of small non-coding RNA regulation and epigenetic mechanisms in insect-plant interactions. The research specifically examines how soybean aphids, one of the most damaging pests affecting soybean production, have evolved to overcome existing host plant resistance (HPR) genes. By identifying the molecular basis of these adaptations, the research aims to enable the development of improved preventative pest management measures and extend the effective longevity of HPR as a long-term agricultural management tool. This predoctoral fellowship supports the training of the next generation of agricultural researchers while advancing fundamental understanding of pest adaptation mechanisms critical to U.S. agricultural productivity and food security.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $120.0k | 4/21/26 |