Project Grant 2208959
Award Date
8/1/23
Completion Date
7/31/25
Dollars Obligated
$276K
Federal Agency
Division of Biological Infrastructure
Awardee
Not listed
Federal Grant Program
47.074
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
West Orange, NJ 07052, USA
Similar Awards
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) awarded a $240,000 Project Grant to fund a postdoctoral fellowship investigating the genomic and environmental factors underlying reproductive isolation and adaptive introgression in speckled rattlesnakes. The 3-year award, effective September 1, 2024, will support research and training to understand how natural selection influences speciation, as well as the development of online tutorials and book chapters on...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $276,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology. The Fellowship will fund research and training from July 2022 through June 2024 to evaluate the performance of ancestry estimation methods in garter snake populations. The Fellow will use simulated and sequence data from three sympatric hybridizing garter snake species to assess how the spatial distribution of discrete...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $276,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to fund a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2025. The Fellowship will support research and training investigating the ordered evolution and muscle-specific specializations of constriction behaviors in snakes. The Fellow will map different constriction forms on the snake family tree, study specializations of their muscles, and investigate...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $276,000 funds an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024. The fellowship supports integrative research investigating the rules governing interactions between genomes, environments and phenotypes. Specifically, the fellow will examine the repeatability and predictability of evolutionary processes across whole genomes in hybrid zones between North American field crickets. Through a genotype-phenotype...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $240,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in biology. The fellowship supports research to study the skeletal and behavioral underpinnings of extreme locomotor diversity in snakes. The research aims to better understand how snakes with a simple body plan can evolve numerous strategies to move through different environments, which has implications for ecology, conservation, and the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $240,000 in funding to support a 3-year postdoctoral research fellowship focused on using snake venom as a model system to investigate the evolution of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) and their role in shaping organismal phenotypes. The research aims to advance the understanding of the "rules of life" governing the linkages between genomes, environments, and...
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...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will fund $240,000 over three years to support a postdoctoral research fellowship in biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The fellowship will fund integrative research investigating the interaction of genomes, environments, and phenotypes in driving the diversification of North American lizards during adaptive radiation. The fellow will generate reference genomes for Anolis lizards, apply cytogenetic techniques to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $240,000 provides funding to support a postdoctoral research fellowship that will investigate the rules governing the interactions between genomes, environment, and phenotypes related to the co-development of the trigeminal nerve, teeth, and heat-sensing pit organs in snakes. The research aims to examine the processes of tooth replacement and the associated vascular and nerve connections, as...
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...