Project Grant 2034264
- The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a $950,013 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on January 15, 2021 to fund research understanding the protein composition and dynamics of the nuclear envelope in plants. The research is being conducted under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of California, Berkeley received a $876,250 Project Grant awarded October 1, 2025, by the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). This collaborative research initiative focuses on developing epigenetic editing technologies for crop improvement—a methodology that modulates gene expression without altering DNA sequences. The project will generate novel epigenetic...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $800,000 Project Grant under its Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley. The grant funding will support collaborative research to discover and characterize compact CRISPR gene editing systems that can be encoded in plant viruses. This will enable more efficient and widespread deployment of genome editing capabilities across a variety of crop...
- The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology awarded The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, a $458,919 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The 3-year grant, active from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026, will support a collaborative research project to integrate plant trait data, phylogenetic relationships, and species distribution models to forecast the resilience of North...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $1,384,257 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. The grant funding will support a research project focused on understanding the mechanisms of nutrient sensing and homeostasis in plants. Key objectives include identifying the pathways by which plants respond to low potassium and high magnesium levels, and how...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of California, Berkeley received a $468,683 Project Grant awarded January 15, 2026, by the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). This collaborative research initiative will deliver comprehensive mechanistic distribution models for grass species by integrating physiological, phenological, and phylogenetic data. The project will generate critical scientific...
- The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $1.56M Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The award is part of the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) and will fund research from September 2021 through August 2025 to decipher the robustness mechanisms of the stem promoting transcription factor gradient. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the national...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of California, Berkeley received a $1,278,729 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology (Biological Sciences program, CFDA 47.074) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. The award funds research investigating how cofactor exchange—specifically micronutrient sharing such as vitamins—influences microbial community dynamics, carbon use efficiency (CUE), and soil ecosystem processes in the...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $277,978 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of California, Berkeley. The 3-year grant, beginning on Sep 1, 2023, aims to develop new tools and resources to enable more efficient gene editing in maize, the world's most produced crop. Specifically, the project will generate maize lines that constitutively express the Cas9 gene editing enzyme and engineer...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of California, Berkeley received a $425,116 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. This research initiative, titled "PlantTransform: Defining the Mechanisms Responsible for the Recalcitrance of Cultivated Sunflower to Transformation and Tissue Regeneration," aims to...
The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to conduct research under the Biological Sciences program. The goal of the grant is to advance understanding of major biological problems through basic research projects such as TRTECH-PGR: NSF BSF - Recombining Allelic Diversity via Genome Editing for Dissecting Complex Plant Traits. This project will utilize genome editing techniques to analyze the genetic basis of complex plant traits. The research supported by this award aligns with the objectives of the NSF Biological Sciences program to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding of significant issues. The period of performance for this grant is from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2025.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 5/20/21 | ||
| Not listed | $600.0k | 1/12/21 |