This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $240,000 provides funding for a 3-year postdoctoral research fellowship to investigate the mechanisms underlying coral bleaching. The research aims to identify the genetic factors and host proteins that regulate the formation and breakdown of the symbiotic relationship between corals and photosynthetic algae, which is crucial for coral survival. The fellow will develop methods to isolate and...
This National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in the amount of $207,000 will fund research from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The fellow will conduct integrative research on the interactions between genomes, environments and phenotypes governing viral-microbial dynamics on successional coral reefs in Ranobe Bay, Madagascar. Using molecular and ecological techniques combined with coral reef restoration, the...
NSF POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN BIOLOGY FY 2021: INVESTIGATING THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF CORAL-ASSOCIATED MICROBES IN REGULATING CALCIFYING FLUID CHEMISTRY This $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), awarded January 1, 2022 with a completion date of December 31, 2023, will fund research investigating the potential role of coral-associated microbes in regulating calcifying fluid chemistry. The grant is part of NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program provides $270,000 in funding over a 3-year period from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028. The award supports a postdoctoral research fellowship to study the chemical, molecular, and cellular processes involved in the symbiotic relationship between cnidarians (such as corals) and algae. The research aims to uncover the mechanisms that lead to partner specificity during the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Program Project Grant award of $240,000 will fund a postdoctoral fellowship focused on integrating behavioral interactions across space and time to discover the rules linking phenotypic diversity to ecosystem function, with a specific focus on coral reef ecosystems. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: 1) Advancing scientific knowledge of collective behavior in coral reef fishes and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $240,000 Project Grant through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. The fellowship will fund a research and training plan to study how climate change-driven increases in temperature affect the bioturbation activities of chironomid larvae and the resulting impacts on nutrient cycling and bacterial activity in freshwater ecosystems, particularly in urban streams in Puerto Rico....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to integrate megafauna community reassembly with ecosystem carbon cycling. As part of the Biological Sciences program's goals to strengthen the Nation's biological research enterprise and increase scientific understanding, this fellowship funding will support the...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $370,100 awarded to the University of Rhode Island from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 will fund research investigating the impacts of ocean warming on the symbiotic nutritional exchange between microbes and reef-building corals during early life stages. As part of the Geosciences program under the CFDA 47.050, the awardee will characterize the development of the coral-algal symbiosis across life histories in Hawaiian and French...
This $276,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant, awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will fund research investigating the cellular mechanisms and evolution of coral-algal symbiosis. The fellow will characterize the symbiosome membrane proteome in the sea anemone Exaiptasia diaphana and coral Acropora millepora to better understand the fundamental processes governing the critical symbiotic relationship between corals and algae. Through techniques including...
The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $138,000 Project Grant to support postdoctoral research titled "Untangling the Roles of Genetic and Regulatory Mechanisms in Adaptive Evolutionary Responses to Climate Change." The grant falls under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to advance biological science knowledge and understanding of major national challenges. The grant will fund postdoctoral fellowship research from March 2022 through February 2024 in...