Project Grant 2142931

This five-year, $2.94 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Cornell University to understand the mechanisms by which land use change triggers zoonotic pathogen spillover from wildlife to humans. The grant funds an interdisciplinary team to apply convergent biological, computational, and social science approaches to identify the "rules of emergence" driving land use-induced spillover of bat-borne...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $365,556 supports collaborative research between mathematicians, biologists, and engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop new mathematical tools and biological experiments essential to understanding virus spread and extinction. Funded through the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the research will establish an integrated experimental-mathematical framework to study how spatial structure affects viral evolution...

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University $4,997,658 under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025) on June 1, 2023 for a project period ending May 31, 2025. The university will use mathematical modeling, field sampling, genomic surveillance, biochemical analysis, and immunological studies to expand knowledge of species susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2....

The National Science Foundation awarded a $414,000 Project Grant to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to advance biological science research and understanding. The Fellowship will fund integrative research investigating the evolutionary rules governing interactions between genomes, environments and phenotypes that influence transmission...

This National Science Foundation project grant award of $276,000 provides funding for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024. The award supports research and training under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to increase scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems through basic biological research. Specifically, the fellowship will fund integrative research investigating genetic and evolutionary dynamics that produce...

This Project Grant award of $149,190, obligated on December 17, 2025, and administered through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), supports investigator-initiated biomedical research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. The research project, titled "Investigating a Hemagglutinin Mediated Molecular Mechanism of Avian Influenza A Virus Host...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $502,001 to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden to advance understanding of adenovirus evolution through genomic sequencing and analysis. The award will support sequencing the genomes of hundreds of adenovirus samples from reptile hosts across squamate diversity. Computational phylogenetic analyses will infer adenovirus relationships and rates of host switching,...

The University of New Mexico received a $205,869 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant funds collaborative research to systematically discover and characterize viral diversity across the mammalian tree of life. Researchers will sequence viruses from cryogenically frozen tissue collections of wild mammals stored in natural history museums. This will further the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded a $613,690 Project Grant to the University of Rochester to investigate the evolution of immune investment strategies across amphibian ontogeny. The project, titled "Collaborative Research: INTBIO: The Evolution of Immune Investment Strategies Across Amphibian Ontogeny," falls under NSF's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program, which supports basic research to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise....

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award in the amount of $270,000 provides funding for a postdoctoral fellowship from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028. The fellowship supports research and training aimed at improving the understanding of how pathogen virulence evolves in response to host immunity. The research will use experimental and simulation methodologies with the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a model system to examine 1) how...