The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded Scripps College a $923,538 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) from July 15, 2021 through June 30, 2025. The grant funds research into the role of the haploidizer gene in genome elimination by a selfish B chromosome. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through basic biological research. This award supports...
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 University of Missouri System was awarded a $624,059 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant falls under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support research elucidating the mechanisms of nematode disease resistance mediated by serine hydroxymethyltransferase from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2025. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the national scientific enterprise by...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $549,879 Project Grant to Lewis & Clark College under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of July 15, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The grant supports research investigating the pathways and regulation of lysosome-related organelle biogenesis. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing scientific knowledge and enhancing...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program Project Grant, awarded to New College of Florida on March 15, 2025 for $590,677, supports research to understand how and why marine invertebrates host specific microbes, the diversity of these microbiomes, and how these host-microbe associations evolve over time. The project aims to develop models of host-symbiont interactions, assess the factors driving microbiome assembly, and test these models through experiments...
The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded Colorado State University a $559,796 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to study Mitonuclear Interactions and Coevolution in the Dynamic Plant Mitochondrial tRNA Pool. The grant will fund research from January 2021 through December 2023 exploring how plant mitochondrial tRNAs interact and coevolve with mitochondrial proteins. The Biological Sciences program supports...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $183,256 Project Grant to Portland State University under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) on June 1, 2022 for collaborative research concluding on July 31, 2023. The research aims to understand how nuclear and mitochondrial genomes contribute to adaptive evolution and discern the impact of sexual reproduction on this process using Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes. The researchers will determine the effect of sexual system on...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $367,636 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from March 1, 2021 through February 29, 2024 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant funds collaborative research on multidimensional single-cell phenotyping to elucidate relationships between genomes and phenotypes. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance biological knowledge and understanding of major problems through basic research. This award supports...
The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "Investigating How Neopolyploidy Affects the Core Microbiome and How the Extended Phenotype Can Facilitate Ecological Establishment." The grant was awarded on August 1, 2021 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to be conducted in Syracuse, NY through July 31, 2023. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the...
Barnard College was awarded a $412,747 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant funds research titled "RUI: Transcriptional Regulation of Host-Pathogen Viral Symbiosis at Single-Cell Resolution" which aims to advance understanding of major biological problems as described under NSF's Biological Sciences program. Specifically, the award supports...