The University of Nevada, Reno will receive $396,542 over three years from the National Science Foundation under a Project Grant for research titled "INTBIO COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH FOR PROJECTING INSECT RESPONSES TO A RAPIDLY CHANGING CLIMATE." The grant is part of the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which supports basic research to increase scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems confronting the nation. Specifically, the...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a five-year, $2,452,563 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to study species interactions and seasonal transmission of fungal diseases in plant populations. Through experimental testing under field conditions, the university aims to understand how pathogen transmission can be influenced by within-host interactions and varying environmental conditions. It will manipulate disease...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "Predicting How Climate Change Will Impact Insect Adaptation to Host Plant Resistance" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct basic research promoting progress in the biological sciences and strengthening understanding of major problems confronting the nation. Specifically, the two-year grant will fund research...
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro will conduct collaborative research integrating trait diversity across hierarchical scales to predict biological resilience under a $524,421 National Science Foundation project grant awarded through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The research aims to advance understanding of major problems confronting the nation by increasing scientific knowledge and enhancing understanding of biological systems. The five-year award beginning October...
The University of California, Davis was awarded a $582,412 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025. The grant will support research titled "INTBIO COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH FOR PROJECTING INSECT RESPONSES TO A RAPIDLY CHANGING CLIMATE" to be conducted at the university's Davis, California campus....
This $361,227 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program, supports research to investigate how insect immune systems interact with beneficial and pathogenic microbes across different aphid host species. The project, conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, aims to use transcriptome sequencing and immune assays to test the hypothesis that host immune suppression is a key mechanism enabling...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $190,251 project grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE: ROL: MOLECULAR PATTERNS FOR REDOX SENSING AND SIGNALING IN ORGANISMIC DEFENSE." The grant period runs from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2025. The research aims to advance understanding of major problems confronting the nation by promoting progress in the biological sciences....
The University of Alaska Fairbanks received a three-year $511,073 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) beginning January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025. The grant funds an integrative research collaboration to project insect responses to climate change. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance biological research and understanding to strengthen the nation's scientific...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $283,164 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC-G) to develop physiology-based mechanistic models to forecast the responses of sand fly vector species to coarse-scale environmental changes like climate change, as well as fine-scale changes from land use modifications. The project aims to (1) determine the physiological parameters that influence the geographical spread and...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) received a three-year $667,687 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research on isoprene secondary organic aerosol formation. Through June 2026, UNC-Chapel Hill investigators will refine protocols to analyze isoprene secondary organic aerosols, characterize gas-phase oxidation products of re-volatilized multiphase chemical products, and confirm early-generation...