The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the University of Georgia Research Foundation (UGA Research Foundation) to conduct research on the "Thermal Community Ecology of Disease" over a 2-year period from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2025. This research project under the NSF Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) seeks to understand how changes in temperature impact the dynamics of infectious diseases within ecological...
This two-year National Science Foundation project grant of $138,000 supports postdoctoral research on the genetic basis and fitness consequences of thermoregulatory flexibility in junco birds. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the research aims to advance understanding of major problems in biology. The grant period is from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023 and performance will take place in Columbia, South Carolina. The Biological Sciences program seeks to promote...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $240,000 will fund research considering evolutionary responses to temperature variability when predicting risk to climate change and disease in amphibians. The award was made under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support a postdoctoral fellowship investigating how the fungal pathogen Batrachochytridium dendrobatidis increases vulnerability of the northern cricket frog to temperature variability. Over a three...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $414,000 Project Grant to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from February 1, 2023 to January 31, 2026 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The Fellowship will fund integrative research investigating the rules of life governing interactions between genomes, environments, and phenotypes. Specifically, the Fellow will monitor evolution in heat tolerance plasticity of anole lizards on islands in Panama that have...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $207,000 Project Grant to support a postdoctoral fellowship in biology from February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct research on the development and evolution of olfactory perception in response to temperature changes. The fellowship funding will allow the recipient to study how environmental temperature impacts the ability of organisms to detect smells and pheromones,...
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. The grant supports an investigation into the role of transcriptional plasticity in insect host specialization, focused on two species of pine sawfly. The research aims to identify the genes that allow insects to adapt to changes in their environment, which is important for understanding how organisms survive and adapt...
The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $138,000 Project Grant to study macrophysiological patterns in the thermal and optical properties of ant cuticular structures. 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 increased knowledge and understanding of major problems. Funding will support research from March 2022 to February 2024 examining the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "Phenotypic Flexibility May Allow Long-Lived Species to Buffer from Environmental Change" from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The grant was awarded 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...
This two-year National Science Foundation project grant of $138,000 supports postdoctoral research exploring host-parasite co-evolution under diverse selection pressures. Funded through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the award enables the grantee to conduct research at Virginia Tech from September 2021 through August 2023 examining how biological interactions influence evolutionary processes. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the national...
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...