The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $499,999 Project Grant entitled "BOCP-DESIGN: US-CHINA: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LAND-USE CHANGE AND ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY AS DRIVERS OF ANIMAL COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY IN THE ZHOUSHAN AND CARIBBEAN ARCHIPELAGOS" to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). This grant, funded under the NSF Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), aims to understand why human-caused habitat modification leads to biodiversity...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $404,316 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology. The grant falls under the 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 enhancing understanding of major problems. Through this funding, the University will deliver a research project from August 2021 to July 2024 to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $654,980 Project Grant to the University of Texas at El Paso under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of April 15, 2021 through March 31, 2025. The grant will support collaborative research titled "Life Cycle Evolution in Rotifera: The Influence of Sexual Reproduction on Contemporary Systematics of Monogononta." As described under CFDA 47.074, the Biological Sciences program aims to promote advancement in...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support a postdoctoral fellowship in biology from March 1, 2022 to February 29, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct research investigating the behavioral and genetic mechanisms underlying invasiveness at the place of performance in Austin, Texas. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) provides $551,736 to Yale University to conduct collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: BEE: NICHE EVOLUTION AND THE ASSEMBLY OF REPLICATE ISLAND LIZARD FAUNAS." The research is being performed under 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 scientific knowledge...
The University of New Mexico was awarded a three-year, $942,923 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund collaborative research on the genomics of speciation and evolution of ecological traits in a geographic radiation of island kingfishers from June 2021 through May 2024. The Biological Sciences program supports basic research to increase scientific knowledge and...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $256,890 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research titled "INTBIO: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INTEGRATING MOLECULAR, CELLULAR, ORGANISMAL AND COMMUNITY SCALES TO UNDERSTAND HOW PLANTS STRUCTURE POLLINATOR-PATHOGEN DYNAMICS." The grant was awarded on January 1, 2022 under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences and increase understanding of major...
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 $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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,501,418 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Arlington to fund a collaborative research project examining snake venom systems as a model for understanding the structure and evolution of regulatory networks underlying organism-level physiological traits. The project, which runs from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2027, aims to advance fundamental understanding of how new gene regulatory networks arise and how variation in these networks...