Project Grant 2109850
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $494,261 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to conduct research on frog skin evolution and adaptations. The project aims to: 1) quantify how frog skin has evolved over the past 200 million years in response to abiotic and biotic factors, 2) experimentally test the ability of anuran skin to decouple respiration and water loss, and 3) incorporate...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $240,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support a postdoctoral research fellowship exploring the rules of life governing interactions between genomes, environments, and phenotypes. The fellowship will fund integrative research from November 1, 2023 to October 31, 2026 investigating how genetics, environments, and microbiomes contribute to emergent host phenotypes in green frog tadpoles. Specifically, the fellow...
- This Project Grant award of $270,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides funding for a Postdoctoral Fellowship to support research and training that will contribute to innovative advances in biology. The project examines nutritional provisioning in amphibians, focusing on the impacts of seasonality and disease on reproductive traits. The Fellow will integrate field observations, laboratory experiments, and mathematical models to...
- Colorado State University was awarded a $121,120 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct research from June 1, 2022 through May 31, 2023. The award will support research to test the mechanisms and consequences of an adaptive response to a catastrophic fire and heatwave in stream frogs. Specifically, the researchers will measure physiological, genetic, and other changes that...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $345,619 to Cornell University, from October 1, 2024 to November 30, 2026, will fund research to investigate the impacts of sea level rise and saltwater intrusion on coastal amphibian species. The project aims to improve understanding of the salinity tolerance limits of frog and toad species occupying coastal habitats on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. Using an experimental approach, the research will...
- 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...
- This $240,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a postdoctoral research fellowship to investigate the role of amphibian skin microbiomes in limiting the growth of deadly fungal pathogens. The research aims to explore the mechanisms by which certain skin microbes inhibit the fungal agents responsible for amphibian population declines, and to pilot the use of "antifungal probiotics" to protect...
- The University of Florida was awarded a three-year, $744,637 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund research from October 2021 through September 2024 on "Allopolyploidization, Niche Evolution, and Systematics of Central African Night Frogs." As described under CFDA 47.074, the Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the...
- This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports research on how the hormone aldosterone regulates amphibian metamorphosis from aquatic to terrestrial forms. The $629,995 award to the University of Cincinnati, with a performance period from September 2024 to August 2027, aims to reveal aldosterone's precise role in frog development by measuring corticosteroid levels, comparing wild-type and mutant tadpoles,...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant award provides $270,000 in funding from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028 to support a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB). The research will investigate phenotypic plasticity, the phenomenon in which changes in how organisms look, function, and behave are environmentally dependent, using the Mexican spadefoot toad as a model organism. The research aims to understand the proximate origins and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "Fluid Homeostasis in the Evolution of Frog Breeding Phenology" 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. Funding will support postdoctoral research examining how fluid homeostasis influences the timing of frog breeding seasons over evolutionary timescales. The place of performance is Ames, Iowa, where the grantee will conduct laboratory and field work to investigate physiological and genetic mechanisms underlying phenological adaptations in amphibian reproduction.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $138.0k | 6/24/21 |