Cornell University received a $1,177,301 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant was awarded on July 1, 2023 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support research activities focused on developing computational tools and synthetic biology techniques to improve functional annotation of plant enzyme genes. Specifically, the grant will facilitate deposition of published plant enzyme activity data into public...
The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded $311,411 to Boyce Thompson Institute For Plant Research Inc. under Project Grant COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MECHANISMS OF DIFFERENTIATION AND MORPHOGENESIS OF THE LIGULE/AURICLE HINGE. The award period runs from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The funding supports research into the mechanisms of differentiation and morphogenesis of the ligule/auricle hinge under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA...
The National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded Cornell University a $433,388 project grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2026. The grant will support collaborative research to better understand how plants structure pollinator-pathogen dynamics across molecular, cellular, organismal and community scales. Specifically, the funding will enable researchers to integrate data and insights...
The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $456,313 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant supports the research project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MECHANISMS OF DIFFERENTIATION AND MORPHOGENESIS OF THE LIGULE/AURICLE HINGE" being conducted from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant is part of the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote...
Cornell University was awarded a $303,954 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology. The grant falls under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) and will fund the collaborative research project "Bees of the World - Phylogenomics, Biogeography, and Evolution of Host-Plant Associations" from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The project aims to advance scientific understanding of major problems in biology by increasing...
The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded Cornell University a $798,040 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support research titled "Engineering an Inorganic Carbon Highway to Improve C3 Photosynthesis." Over a three-year period from August 2021 through July 2024, Cornell University will conduct research aimed at advancing the understanding of major problems confronting the nation in the...
This $735,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Cornell University to investigate the functional interactions of plant-specific genes that regulate the coordinated 3D patterning of grass leaves. The project will focus on the liguless1 (LG1) and wuschel-related homeobox3 (WOX3) transcription factors, which are critical for leaf width, length, angle, and wrapping - key features that maximize...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) awarded a $464,968 project grant to the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. This 3-year REU site grant, effective April 15, 2024, will support the training of 30 undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds in plant genome research at the Boyce Thompson Institute on the Cornell University campus. The students will develop interdisciplinary skills in data analysis, bioinformatics, experimental...
This four-year National Science Foundation project grant of $863,173 supports research at Cornell University from February 2022 to January 2026 to test the long-term effects of challenges on behavior, physiology, epigenetic state, and fitness in organisms. The Biological Sciences program of the NSF's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems aims to increase knowledge of fundamental biological principles through basic research, such as this collaborative research project examining whether...
Cornell University was awarded a $1,021,609 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. 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 challenges. Specifically, the grant will fund collaborative research between January 15, 2022 and December 31, 2025 exploring the...