The University of Utah will receive $492,516 from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under a three-year Project Grant award titled "Role of Electric Fields and a Dynamic Local Environment in Protein-RNA Molecular Recognition." The grant funds basic research from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024 to advance understanding of major problems in the biological sciences by investigating the role of electric fields and the local molecular...
The University of Utah will receive $299,566 from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2024. The funding will support the OPUS: FOREST CANOPY COMMUNITIES AS ARENAS TO ADVANCE SYNTHESES AND UNDERSTANDING OF DISTURBANCE ECOLOGY project. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise...
The University of Utah will receive $566,507 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) from July 2021 through June 2024. The funding will support research into pulmonary aerodynamic valves, their distribution in the lungs, and their functions. The NSF Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding of major issues. This project...
The University of Utah will receive $217,254 in funding from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences through a three-year Project Grant award to support research titled "Collaborative Research: Bromoform Production and ROS Response to Stress in Seaweeds." The grant's CFDA-listed program, Biological Sciences, aims to advance biological knowledge and understanding of major national issues. Under this award beginning August 1, 2021, the University...
The University of Utah received a three-year, $576,408 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant supports research into the "Ecological Implications and Evolutionary Dynamics of a Nascent Sodalit-Allied Symbiont in a Parasitoid Wasp" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. This award will fund basic research under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The goal of the program is to advance...
The University of Utah will receive $829,999 from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the project "Molecular Evolution of Cellular Condensates" from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The university will analyze condensate constituents in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans to understand how these membrane-less organelles form and evolve at the molecular level. Researchers will conduct phylogenetic analysis of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry awarded a $420,000 Project Grant to the University of Utah from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The funding supports the development of a novel optical biosensor capable of detecting and quantifying a wide range of biological molecules, including biomarkers found in bodily fluids. The project leverages second harmonic generation (SHG) and optical heterodyning techniques...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The grant funds postdoctoral research at Utah State University in Logan, Utah to study the evolution of extended floral phenotypes. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through basic research on major problems. This award will further those goals by...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $131,176 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The grant funds collaborative research on how a class of proteins called alpha-arrestins regulate nutrient transport and metabolism in eukaryotic cells. Key objectives include determining how loss of alpha-arrestins impacts cellular physiology and mitochondrial function, and developing undergraduate research...
The University of Utah was awarded a $409,494 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports collaborative research titled "MICROSTRUCTURE BY DESIGN: INTEGRATING GRAIN GROWTH EXPERIMENTS, DATA ANALYTICS, SIMULATION, AND THEORY" from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to advance understanding of major problems in materials science through...