This $276,000 National Science Foundation award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research and training from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2024. The fellowship recipient will conduct integrative research investigating the interaction of genomes, environments and phenotypes in evolutionary biology. Specifically, the fellow will study mechanisms connecting short-term plastic behavioral responses to long-term evolutionary change. Using a pupfish system with specialist and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,419,596 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). The grant aims to identify the genetic basis of phenotypic plasticity - the ability of organisms to change their physical traits in response to environmental changes. Specifically, the research will study genetic variation underlying the spectacular carnivore larval morph in Mexican spadefoot toads, which is...
The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $980,000 Project Grant to The Washington University to support research examining neuronal plasticity and the evolvability of behavior through September 2026. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), this award will allow researchers to test the hypothesis that activity-dependent wiring changes in response to altered sensory feedback drive coordinated modifications between peripheral organs...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "Parallel Genome and Phenome Evolution within and across Fish Species" from December 2021 through November 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and understanding of major challenges. Through this two-year award,...
This $1,297,896 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program will support research by Texas A&M University to investigate the evolutionary and neurogenomic mechanisms underlying species discrimination and behavioral isolation in North American stream fishes. The project will integrate genomic, transcriptomic, and functional approaches to connect patterns of behavioral, neural, and genomic variation within species to the larger processes of...
This $298,375 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program supports a collaborative research project focused on understanding how populations evolve in complex, changing environments. The primary awardee, Virginia Tech, will conduct both experimental and theoretical work to investigate the relationships between an individual's environmental preferences, developmental processes, and patterns of phenotypic plasticity. The researchers aim to develop a...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant, awarded on January 1, 2026, provides $270,000.00 in funding over a 3-year period to support a postdoctoral research fellowship focused on elucidating the neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying adult sexual plasticity in the bluebanded goby fish. The research aims to investigate how dynamic social environments drive rapid changes in the brain, gonads, and behavior of this socially complex species. The project...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences project grant, awarded under CFDA 47.074, provides $242,000 to the University of Houston System to study the phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution of a freshwater microbial eukaryote in response to environmental changes caused by road salts and nanoparticle biocides. The 3-year project will measure organismal and gene expression traits before and after experimental evolution in contaminated environments to understand how...
This federal Project Grant award of $626,837.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports collaborative research at Stony Brook University to investigate the role of phenotypic plasticity and natural selection in the early stages of new species formation in threespine stickleback fish. The research will examine recently-established freshwater stickleback populations near Anchorage, Alaska that have diverged from their marine ancestors,...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "Phenotypic Flexibility May Allow Long-Lived Species to Buffer from Environmental Change" from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The grant was awarded 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 enhancing understanding of major problems...