The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $2,325,396 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation on April 1, 2021 to complete work by March 31, 2025. The grant is part of the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and understanding of major problems.
Specifically, the grant will fund research to manipulate plant karyotypes by synthetic centromere formation. The awardee will conduct experiments to develop techniques for artificially inserting functional centromeres into new chromosomal locations. These efforts aim to enhance understanding of centromere function and advance capabilities for plant genome engineering. The University of Georgia Research Foundation will deliver the targeted research services over the four-year grant period at its location in Athens, Georgia.
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