The University of Missouri System was awarded a $790,842 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund research from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2025 to characterize interactions at the protein-lipid bilayer interface via single-molecule force spectroscopy techniques. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance biological knowledge and understanding...
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 University of Missouri System was awarded a $353,378 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will support collaborative research from April 2021 to August 2023 titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DIVERSITY OF MODULATION AND FUNCTIONAL FLEXIBILITY IN SMALL NEURONAL NETWORKS: AN EVOLUTIONARY AND MECHANISTIC APPROACH." The research aims to advance understanding of major...
The University of Missouri System was awarded a three-year, $140,559 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research titled "Collaborative Research: Dynamic Zonation in the Plant Root" under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The research, to be performed in Columbia, Missouri from September 2021 through August 2024, aims to advance understanding of major problems in the biological sciences by increasing scientific knowledge of dynamic...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $846,276 project grant to the University of Missouri System under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support research titled "Regulation of the Early Steps of Wound-Activated Jasmonate Biosynthesis." The two-year project beginning January 15, 2022 and ending December 31, 2024 aims to advance understanding of plant defense responses to wounding through investigation of the early enzymatic steps in jasmonate...
This two-year National Science Foundation project grant of $138,000 supports research into the evolution of bacterial strategies for evading predation by amoebae. The grant was awarded on July 1, 2021 to the University of Missouri-St. Louis under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) administered by NSF's Division of Biological Infrastructure. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through...
Oregon State University was awarded a $711,268 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences. The grant is part of the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) and will fund research from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 exploring self versus group-sensing in bacteria. As part of the Biological Sciences program's goal to strengthen the nation's biological research enterprise and increase scientific understanding, this project aims to advance...
This $1,242,385 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) funds research at the University of Missouri System to coordinate plant responses to abiotic and biotic stresses. The research aims to understand how plants prioritize and integrate signals from diverse environmental stresses like low nutrient availability and bacterial pathogens. A team of researchers with expertise in iron nutrition, bacterial pathogen responses, cellular biology,...
This three-year $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences will support research into the molecular mechanisms governing cell membrane repair. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the grant aims to advance understanding of major problems in the biological sciences through basic research. Specifically, the principal investigator will conduct nonlinear surface spectroscopic investigations at Oregon State...
The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $1,004,927 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2025. The grant supports research titled "Probing Phosphorylation Events in Biological Membranes" under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The goal of the Biological Sciences program is to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise by increasing...