The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania received a three-year, $339,937 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences. The grant supports research using genetic and computational methods to investigate morphological variation under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program aims to strengthen basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences through funding of...
This $1,180,492 National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program Project Grant was awarded to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as the Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania, with a performance period from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2030. The grant will fund research to investigate how beneficial microbes that provide essential nutrients to their host, such as legume plants, can influence the evolution of the host's defensive...
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania received a $526,084 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant is part of the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences. Under the award, the University will conduct collaborative research to predict plant phenotypes from molecular profiles using topological data analysis and deep learning. Researchers will use X-ray computed tomography to...
The Pennsylvania State University was awarded a $1.13 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology to conduct research on "Hotspots of Genome Evolution in a Rapid Vertebrate Radiation" from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The grant is being administered under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through...
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania were awarded a $185,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant will fund the development of testing and estimation methods for multi-modality single cell genomics from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The University of Pennsylvania will leverage the funding to advance scientific understanding of major problems in...
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) received a $299,044 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct collaborative research from July 2023 through June 2027. The award will support Penn State's efforts to study the molecular mechanisms regulating complex traits like body size and reproduction in natural populations of five reptile species across three...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $623,390 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on May 1, 2021 to complete a collaborative research project titled "Genes to Ecology in Tropical Trees: How Sharing Resistance Gene Alleles Affects Pathogen Transmission and Growth" by April 30, 2024. The grant is being administered under the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology provides $850,485 to The Pennsylvania State University from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research titled "How many routes to the same phenotype? Genetic changes underlying parallel acquisition of mimetic color patterns across bumble bees." This research aligns with the goals of the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the...
This $298,375 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program supports a collaborative research project focused on understanding how populations evolve in complex, changing environments. The primary awardee, Virginia Tech, will conduct both experimental and theoretical work to investigate the relationships between an individual's environmental preferences, developmental processes, and patterns of phenotypic plasticity. The researchers aim to develop a...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $216,000 Project Grant to support research titled "Mapping the Relationship between Genetic Pleiotropy, Gene Function, and Adaptation" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to further the program's goals of advancing the biological sciences and strengthening the national scientific enterprise through increasing scientific knowledge and understanding of major issues facing...