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 patterns of conditional trade-offs. The fellow's work will explore how trade-offs shape change over time, depend on evolutionary history, and determine coevolutionary diversification using barcoding methods in yeast and Pseudomonas-phage model systems. High-throughput fitness assays and lineage tracking will determine how genetic processes influence phenotypic trade-offs and observed patterns. Additionally, the fellow will develop an undergraduate research program to broaden participation in STEM fields and improve training, contributing to the Biological Sciences program's broader impacts.
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