This $747,521 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems supports collaborative research titled "The Intersection Between Cell Fate Decisions and Phenotypic Diversification in a Rapidly Radiating Butterfly Lineage." The grant funds research through July 2025 aimed at increasing scientific knowledge and understanding of major biological problems as part of the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The Smithsonian Institution Office...
This $1,137,520 National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant awarded to Clemson University under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) aims to conduct integrative functional and quantitative genomics research on butterfly wing color and patterning. The work will identify the genetic architecture of a polygenic and polymorphic phenotype found in male butterflies, study the evolutionary processes underlying its adaptive gain, and test hypotheses about how this phenotype is driving...
Duke University was awarded a three-year, $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant aims to support research transitioning from single-molecule force spectroscopy to single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy. The Biological Sciences program seeks to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through...
The George Washington University will receive $410,662 under a four-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant, awarded August 15, 2021 and running through July 31, 2025, supports collaborative research titled "The Intersection Between Cell Fate Decisions and Phenotypic Diversification in a Rapidly Radiating Butterfly Lineage." The research aligns with the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Cornell University a $760,528 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct collaborative research on the regulatory basis of repeated color pattern evolution in butterflies. The research aims to address fundamental questions about the structure, function, and evolution of cis-regulatory elements, which play an essential role in phenotypic evolution by regulating gene expression patterns during development....
Duke University was awarded an $825,211 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology on August 15, 2021 to be completed by July 31, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's 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 understanding of major problems confronting the nation. Specifically, the grant will fund Duke University's...
Duke University was awarded a $792,127 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers under the NSF Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund a collaborative research project titled "INTBIO: Collaborative Research: Phenotypes of the Anthropocene: Integrating the Consequences of Sensory Stressors Across Biological Scales." The project will examine the physiological, behavioral, and fitness responses of six bird species to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research using butterfly wing color patterns to elucidate an uncharacterized Wnt pathway. The two-year award runs from March 1, 2022 through February 29, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences. Funding will support the awardee's research using butterfly wing color patterns to increase understanding of a major uncharacterized signaling...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program Project Grant awarded to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) provides $300,000 over a 5-year period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2029. The grant will fund research to explore the evolutionary development of neural cell types and visual circuits across insect species, including mosquitoes, house flies, and butterflies. The project aims to utilize the insect visual system as a model to understand...
The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "Effects of Individual Experience on Population Social Structure: Integrating Development, Gene Expression and Social Ecology." The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct research from March 2022 to February 2024 in Hillsborough, North Carolina. The goal of the Biological Sciences program is to promote advancement in the biological sciences and...
Duke University was awarded a $710,178 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 the collaborative research project "ROL: The Intersection Between Cell Fate Decisions and Phenotypic Diversification in a Rapidly Radiating Butterfly Lineage." The research aims to advance understanding of major problems in the biological sciences by investigating how cell fate decisions influence phenotypic diversification in an evolutionary context. The three-year award beginning August 15, 2021 will allow investigators to study developmental processes in a group of butterflies that exhibit notable variations, with the goal of increasing scientific knowledge relevant to the Biological Sciences program objectives.