The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to Gainesville, FL from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund postdoctoral research aiming to uncover the mechanisms of convergent tooth loss in frogs. As part of its mission to promote biological sciences progress and strengthen the national scientific enterprise, the CFDA 47.074 program supports basic research to increase scientific knowledge...
The National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded a $431,276 Project Grant to the President and Fellows of Harvard College from August 15, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The grant supports research titled "INTBIO COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DEEP TIME, DEVELOPMENT, AND DESIGN: EVOLUTION OF SHARK SKIN TEETH FROM GENOTYPE TO PHENOTYPE TO PROTOTYPE" under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA #47.074). The research aims to advance understanding of how shark skin teeth evolve...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "Parallel Genome and Phenome Evolution within and across Fish Species" from December 2021 through November 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and understanding of major challenges. Through this two-year award,...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $961,754 to Rice University from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2028. The grant supports research investigating modularity in the diversification of the acanthomorph fish skull through three-dimensional geometric morphometrics analysis of micro-computed tomography scan data from over 1,000 fish species. Key products include quantifying the tempo and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support a POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN BIOLOGY from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences and enhance understanding of major problems confronting the nation. The funding will support comparative methods and model clades research in evolutionary developmental biology. Specifically, the grant will provide two...
This three-year, $392,642 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will fund research at the University of Florida to investigate developmental links between teeth and facial growth from birth through adulthood. The principal investigators will use micro computed tomography scanning and Amira software to generate three-dimensional reconstructions of jaws, allowing...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $240,000 provides funding to support a postdoctoral research fellowship that will investigate the rules governing the interactions between genomes, environment, and phenotypes related to the co-development of the trigeminal nerve, teeth, and heat-sensing pit organs in snakes. The research aims to examine the processes of tooth replacement and the associated vascular and nerve connections, as...
This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at North Carolina State University (NC State) to investigate the genetic and regulatory mechanisms underlying developmental evolution in marine annelid species. The project combines comparative genomics, gene expression, and hybridization assays to uncover the relationship between evolutionary divergence and development, with the goal of understanding how...
The University of Florida was awarded a three-year, $766,368 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 research titled "INTBIO COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DEEP TIME, DEVELOPMENT, AND DESIGN: EVOLUTION OF SHARK SKIN TEETH FROM GENOTYPE TO PHENOTYPE TO PROTOTYPE." The research aims to advance understanding of the development and evolution of shark skin teeth...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), totaling $207,000, will fund research into the implications of hybridization on macroevolutionary and contemporary timescales in biology. The award falls under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding of major issues. The grantee, located in Roosevelt, Utah,...