The University of Southern California was awarded a $2,500,651 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will support research from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2026 to develop machine learning, systems modeling, and experimental approaches to understand the universal rules of life of microbiota using marine time series data. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote...
The University of Southern California was awarded a $1,599,992 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences. The grant is part of the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support basic research that advances understanding of major problems in the biological sciences. Under this award, USC will conduct research from August 2021 through July 2025 to modularize and minimize the yeast transcription factor repertoire. The goal is to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $599,999 Project Grant to the University of Southern California (USC) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA #47.070) federal grant program. The grant supports research and graduate student training focused on modeling, optimization, and analysis of biologically-inspired microbial community networks. Key areas of investigation include understanding the phenomenon of quorum sensing, which enables collective behaviors in...
The University of Southern California was awarded a $450,822 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure. The grant falls under the Biological Sciences federal grant 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 problems. The grant will fund research from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2026 titled "CAREER: DE...
The University of Southern California will receive $451,571 from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for a two-year Project Grant award ending July 31, 2024. The grant funds research to map global distributions of B-vitamins in surface ocean waters and analyze their effects on phytoplankton species biogeography and ecosystem functioning. Researchers will establish the first global map of B-vitamin distributions...
The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $899,374 project grant to the University of California Irvine from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The grant supports research titled "BEE: TESTING A PHYLOGENETIC TRAIT FRAMEWORK FOR SOIL MICROBIOMES" under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The research aims to advance understanding of major problems confronting the nation by promoting progress in the biological sciences. Specifically, the...
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was awarded a $260,535 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences. The grant supports the research project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MIM: USING MULTILAYER INTERACTION NETWORKS TO PREDICT MICROBIOME ASSEMBLY AND FUNCTION" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. Under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), UCLA researchers will use multilevel interaction networks to predict microbiome...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $996,521 project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the Carnegie Institution of Washington for the period of April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. The goal of the research project is to scale single-cell physiology studies to better understand community stability in the natural gut microbiome. As part of this work, Johns Hopkins University will expand its microbiome curriculum to additional middle schools in Baltimore County...
The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $186,835 Project Grant to the University of Southern California Department of Contracts and Grants to support the project "RAPID: FAST COVID-19 SCENARIO PROJECTIONS IN PRESENCE OF VACCINES AND COMPETING VARIANTS" from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2022. This funding supports research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $359,983 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 a collaborative research project titled "Microbiome Mediation of Multi-trophic Interactions in a Tree Diversity Experiment" from June 1, 2021 through May 31, 2025. The research aims to advance understanding of major problems confronting the nation by...