The University of California, Davis was awarded a three-year, $1.13 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant funds research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to disentangle the developmental drivers of behavioral individuality using a clonal fish model. The research aims to increase scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems confronting the Nation by promoting progress in the...
The University of California, Davis was awarded a three-year, $675,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will support research examining sulfated peptides that can facilitate pathogen virulence. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through basic biological research. This award will allow UC Davis researchers to study molecular mimics that...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $536,699 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2027. The grant funding supports the University's research project titled "Evolutionary and Demographic Responses to Climate in Natural Populations." The project aims to increase scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems confronting the nation by...
The University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) received a $765,540 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences program (CFDA 47.074) to investigate how the spatial arrangement of microbial cells affects the ecosystem process of denitrification. The research will use evolutionary algorithms and 3D printing to construct and analyze pre-defined spatial communities of bacteria capable of performing different steps of the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) has awarded a Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) in the amount of $160,771 for the period of September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The grant will fund a research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: POLYMORPHISM, MATING CONFLICT, AND THE STRENGTH OF TOP-DOWN CONTROL IN TROPHIC CASCADES." The project will investigate how variation in male mating strategies in sailfin molly...
The University of Virginia received a $416,757 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology on January 1, 2022 for research concluding on December 31, 2025. The grant supports collaborative research titled "Does Cytonuclear Coevolution Drive Reproductive Isolation? Dissecting the Architecture of Genetic Incompatibility Across a Species Range" under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The Biological Sciences program aims to...
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 Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $1.56M Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The award is part of the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) and will fund research from September 2021 through August 2025 to decipher the robustness mechanisms of the stem promoting transcription factor gradient. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the national...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $246,762 to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2026. The project aims to develop a deeper understanding of the principles governing how biological organisms build robust and precise traits from variable and unreliable components, and how these insights can be applied to improve the resilience of engineered systems. Key focus...
The University of California, Davis was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences. 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 increasing knowledge and understanding of major problems. Specifically, the grant will fund research from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023 exploring an...