The University of Rochester received a $898,039 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology. The grant falls under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) and will fund research from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024 on neo-sex chromosome evolution and its impact on speciation-with-gene flow in oceanic island birds. The research aims to advance understanding of major problems in the biological sciences by increasing scientific knowledge of how sex...
The National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded American University a $188,694 project grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support research from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The grant funding will support the university's proposed research project "A U-Statistic Approach to Population Genetics," which aims to advance understanding of major problems in the biological sciences through basic scientific...
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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will fund $321,072 in research at the Reed Institute under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) from March 2022 through February 2025. The research aims to investigate the evolutionary and biological basis of physical and behavioral traits that are sex-biased toward male or female expression across multiple levels of biological organization. Researchers will study global hormone levels, metabolic enzymes, hormone...
This two-year, $207,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds postdoctoral fellowship research in biology. The grant supports the fellow's work at Jeannette, Pennsylvania from June 2021 through September 2023 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The Biological Sciences program aims to promote progress in the field and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding of major issues. This fellowship advances those goals by...
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 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...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation provides $207,000 to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from March 2021 through February 2024. The funding is awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote biological sciences research and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and understanding of major problems. Specifically, the grant will support the fellow conducting basic research at the place of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research from September 2021 to August 2023 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant funds postdoctoral fellowship research at Decatur, Georgia aimed at maximizing the power to uncover molecular mechanisms between genotype and phenotype in biology. The Biological Sciences program seeks to advance the field and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through basic biological...