This National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site award, funded through the NSF Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will provide $477,292 to the University of California, Riverside to train 30 undergraduate students over 3 summers (2025-2027) in next-generation plant biology and plant-microbe interactions research. The 10-week summer program aims to engage students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, in hands-on laboratory...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), under its Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded a $1,059,027 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside), a public research university. This collaborative research project aims to investigate the evolution of the megadiverse plant bugs, the insect family Miridae, which are both significant crop pests and beneficial predators. The research team will construct a phylogeny of plant bugs using...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) awarded a $464,968 project grant to the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. This 3-year REU site grant, effective April 15, 2024, will support the training of 30 undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds in plant genome research at the Boyce Thompson Institute on the Cornell University campus. The students will develop interdisciplinary skills in data analysis, bioinformatics, experimental...
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a three-year, $850,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences. The grant supports research examining the plastidial MEP-pathway signature in mitochondrial structure and function. The research aims to increase scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems confronting the Nation, as outlined in the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074)...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $211,210 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant will support collaborative research examining the role of soil microbiome resilience in ecosystem recovery following severe wildfire. As part of the Biological Sciences program's goal of strengthening the nation's biological research...
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco was awarded a $404,922 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation on May 1, 2022 to support an NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site in Molecular Biosciences through April 30, 2025. The grant supports an REU site that will promote progress in the biological sciences by providing research experiences for undergraduate students to increase scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems in the field....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $478,729 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site focused on Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Rapid Environmental Change. The grant provides funding from February 2021 through January 2024 to engage undergraduate students in hands-on research exploring how organisms and ecosystems respond to and are impacted...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $919,999 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside. This 3-year grant, beginning September 1, 2023, supports research to investigate the evolution and functional role of small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) in diverse bacterial lineages, particularly those living symbiotically within pest insect hosts. The project aims to determine how sRNA sequence divergence and...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation provided $292,773 to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center to operate a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site from March 2021 through February 2023. The REU site supports undergraduate students in plant science research projects at the Center under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The Biological Sciences program aims to advance basic biological research and strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise. As an...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $381,493 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site focused on next-generation cell biology of plants and plant pathogens. The three-year award, which runs from March 2021 through February 2024, will fund research experiences and training for undergraduate students in major problems related to plant biology. As the official awardee, UC Riverside will receive the funding and oversee execution of project activities to promote progress in the biological sciences by increasing scientific knowledge and understanding of plant cell processes and plant-microbe interactions through hands-on research opportunities for students.