The Ohio State University was awarded a $988,596 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will support research from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2025 on the structural dynamics and function of proteins using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and computational methods. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the national...
The University of Chicago received a $206,128 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct collaborative research from June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2027. The research aims to elucidate the mechanism of myoneme contraction in the ciliate Spirostomum ambiguum, a model system for understanding force generation. The university will determine the factors modulating assembly and force generation of myonemes, the contractile...
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) received a $302,799 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct collaborative research understanding and controlling force generation by the centrin-based contractile system in the ciliate Spirostomum ambiguum. Over a four-year period from June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2027, UCSF researchers will combine experiments and computational modeling to elucidate the...
Duke University was awarded a three-year, $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant aims to support research transitioning from single-molecule force spectroscopy to single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy. The Biological Sciences program seeks to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through...
The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $785,201 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado to support research titled "Collaborative Research: Understanding Protein Mechanical Stability and Its Impact on Secretion." The two-year grant running from January 15, 2022 to December 31, 2024 will fund research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The Biological Sciences program aims to promote progress in the...
This four-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences provides $885,852 to Oregon Health & Science University under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) from August 2021 through July 2025. The funding supports quantitative exploration of molecular machine mechanisms to advance understanding of major challenges in biology. As the stated purpose of the Biological Sciences program is to promote progress in the field and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the University of Cincinnati from July 2021 to June 2023. 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. Under this award, the University of Cincinnati will investigate climatic influences on...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program has awarded a $526,873 project grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside) to computationally investigate the mechanisms of molecular glue-enhanced protein-protein associations and the effects of protein oligomerization on kinetic enhancements of protein function. The project aims to combine multi-level simulations and experimental collaboration to elucidate how molecular glues...
The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded University of Central Arkansas a $343,292 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2027. The grant supports research exploring the function of FtsZ proteins and the cytoskeleton in determining the molecular mechanism of mitochondrial dynamics in Dictyostelium discoideum. The university will examine the role of existing FtsZ proteins in...
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of California, Davis a $981,302 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) on May 15, 2022 to complete the project by April 30, 2026. The grant will support research aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms governing cytoskeleton-mediated motility and distribution of peroxisomes and mitochondria in plants. Specifically, the university researchers will investigate the roles of candidate proteins...