This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant award, valued at $570,122.00 and effective September 1, 2024, supports a collaborative research effort to investigate innate immune responses in diverse eukaryotic organisms that consume bacteria. The project brings together a cross-disciplinary team of researchers to study innate immunity in sponges, choanoflagellates, and amoebae, which span the evolutionary transition between multicellular animals and their...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $413,329 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to the University of Colorado Boulder to support research integrating immune system and microbiome function during amphibian development from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The award will fund research examining how the immune system and microbiome interact and influence each other during amphibian growth and maturation. A subaward of $50,000 will support related...
Auburn University was awarded a $352,805 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers on August 1, 2021, with a completion date of July 31, 2024. 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 scientific knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems confronting the Nation. Under this award, Auburn...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $372,060 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) - Brooklyn College will support research comparing the immune system structure, function, and memory in animal species with and without intact adaptive immune systems. The 3-year project aims to use single-cell RNA sequencing, immunization experiments, and pathogen exposure to better understand the evolutionary...
This $214,612 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a collaborative research project to investigate how the antimicrobial functions of immune cells, specifically neutrophils, scale with body mass in terrestrial mammals. The project, led by The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Upstate Medical Center), aims to understand how neutrophil antibacterial responses, gene expression, and energetics...
Auburn University was awarded a $324,379 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support the research project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: UNDERSTANDING THE RULES OF HONEST SIGNALING" from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $458,718 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of Illinois to conduct a collaborative research study on how the antimicrobial functions of immune cells, specifically neutrophils, scale with body mass in terrestrial mammals. The research will investigate how neutrophil antibacterial responses, gene expression, and energetics vary across mammalian species ranging from mice to elephants. The project aims...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $426,255 project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of Texas at Austin to investigate the evolution of immune system development across amphibian life stages. The key objectives are to: (1) use mathematical models and empirical data to predict how evolutionary history, pathogens, and environment influence T cell diversity within and among frog life stages; (2) quantify T cell receptor diversity across...
The University of South Florida was awarded a $684,557 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant falls under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) and will fund research linking individual variation in immunity and behavior to landscape patterns in disease risk using the National Ecological Observatory Network. Specifically, the grant will support collaborative research examining how landscape features influence the...
Auburn University was awarded a two-year, $248,950 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will support research from July 2021 through June 2023 on "EAGER-FORGOTTEN N-CONJUGATE CYTOKININS AND THEIR ACTIVE ROLE DURING SENESCENCE." The Biological Sciences program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and enhancing...