This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology, totaling $122,698, will fund research into the effects of climate change on sex ratios in dioecious plant populations. The award was made on September 1, 2022 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support basic biological research strengthening the scientific enterprise. Specifically, the University of Georgia Research Foundation will conduct collaborative research with scientists in China...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $935,010 Project Grant to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center to investigate the genetic mechanisms governing mating types and sexes in volvocine green algae. This 3-year research project, funded under NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), aims to elucidate how the genetic systems controlling mating types in single-celled algae evolved into the dimorphic sexes seen in more complex...
This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology, totaling $378,678, will fund research into the evolutionary origins of sex chromosomes in docks and sorrels (Rumex). The grant was awarded on August 1, 2021 to Howard University under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The Biological Sciences program aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increasing scientific...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers provides $501,356 in funding to Hope College from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025. The award supports research under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to investigate the transcriptomics underlying environmentally-based plasticity in floral function in maples and other plant species. Specifically, the grantee will examine differences in gene expression and how the...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology, totaling $254,466, will fund collaborative research between the United States and China from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. The research is being conducted under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074), which supports increasing scientific knowledge and understanding of major biological problems. Specifically, the award will support a comparative study of the functional...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $216,000 Project Grant to an individual located in East Lansing, Michigan from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise through increasing scientific knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems. Under this award, the grantee will conduct research to uncover the regulatory...
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...
Cornell University was awarded a $476,779 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant falls under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support collaborative research titled "Mechanisms of Differentiation and Morphogenesis of the Ligule/Auricle Hinge." The research will be conducted from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024 in Ithaca, NY. The Biological Sciences program aims to increase scientific knowledge and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $240,000 provides funding for a postdoctoral research fellowship from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027. The fellowship will support research and training to investigate the rules governing interactions between genomes, environment, and phenotypes, with a focus on understanding how repetitive DNA sequences, particularly a satellite repeat on the X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, influence...