This five-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation aims to deconstruct the fitness tradeoffs that limit viral host range. With $599,448 in funding, the award supports research from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2027.
The grant falls under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which promotes progress in the biological sciences. The grantee, North Carolina State University, will investigate major problems confronting the nation by increasing scientific knowledge and...
North Carolina State University will receive $323,984 over five years from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on plant-pollinator-pathogen dynamics under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The research aims to integrate molecular, cellular, organismal and community scales to better understand how plants structure pollinator and pathogen interactions. The Biological Sciences program supports basic research to advance knowledge in biology and strengthen the nation's...
The University of Virginia was awarded a $1,066,257 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund research from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2027 to study backyard evolution across a seasonal metapopulation in Drosophila. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $673,715 project grant to The University of North Carolina at Charlotte under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2024.
The grant funds the "IIBR INFORMATICS: ACCURATE ASSESSMENT OF PROTEIN-DNA COMPLEX MODELS AND APPLICATIONS" project. This project aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems in the biological sciences, as outlined in the...
This $231,141 federal Project Grant, awarded on August 1, 2024 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), seeks to understand the process by which virus-derived genetic material can be integrated into host organisms such as insects and then utilized for the benefit of the host. The research will focus on multiple examples of these evolutionary processes, with the goal of discerning physiological and genetic patterns that lead to new traits and...
This two-year National Science Foundation project grant of $138,000 supports postdoctoral research exploring host-parasite co-evolution under diverse selection pressures. Funded through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the award enables the grantee to conduct research at Virginia Tech from September 2021 through August 2023 examining how biological interactions influence evolutionary processes. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the national...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research activities from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2023 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant funding will enable the grantee to conduct research at the University of Pittsburgh aimed at furthering understanding of the evolution of gene regulatory networks through empirical and theoretical approaches. The Biological Sciences program seeks to advance the field and strengthen the national...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The grant funds postdoctoral research at Utah State University in Logan, Utah to study the evolution of extended floral phenotypes. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through basic research on major problems. This award will further those goals by...
This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at North Carolina State University (NC State) to investigate the genetic and regulatory mechanisms underlying developmental evolution in marine annelid species. The project combines comparative genomics, gene expression, and hybridization assays to uncover the relationship between evolutionary divergence and development, with the goal of understanding how...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to Greenville, North Carolina from September 2021 to August 2023 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). This funding will support research entitled "Microbes and Microplastics: Microbial Adaptations During the Anthropocene" conducted by a postdoctoral fellow. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific...