Project Grant 2209354
- 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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $240,000 over three years starting on September 1, 2024 to fund a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. The research aims to investigate the effects of bioengineered organisms on community assembly and ecosystem functioning in a soil microbial community. The fellow will use genetic engineering to create microbial consortia and study the impacts on community and...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $414,000 Project Grant to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from February 1, 2023 to January 31, 2026 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The Fellowship will fund integrative research investigating the rules of life governing interactions between genomes, environments, and phenotypes. Specifically, the Fellow will monitor evolution in heat tolerance plasticity of anole lizards on islands in Panama that have...
- This National Science Foundation project grant award of $276,000 provides funding from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 to support research investigating the effects of microbiome ecological and evolutionary origin on plant-microbiome coevolution. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the fellowship will support a postdoctoral fellow's integrative research exploring how a microbiome's previous associations with plant hosts influence community adaptation and the...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support postdoctoral fellowship research titled "Effects of Community Interactions in Scaling of Microbial Processes" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct basic biological research and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. Specifically, the fellowship will fund research at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana to advance...
- This National Science Foundation project grant award of $138,000 provides funding from November 1, 2022 through October 31, 2024 to support research and training under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The award will fund a postdoctoral fellowship to investigate how gene-environment interactions have shaped the repeated evolution of differentiated multicellularity. The fellow will employ single-cell transcriptomics and comparative analyses to examine how...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $240,000 in funding for a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship focused on studying the impact of sociality on evolution. The fellowship supports a research and training plan that aims to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in biology. Key components include: Implementing a grant writing workshop to enhance the diversity of postdoctoral scholars in the U.S....
- This $240,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, will fund a postdoctoral research fellowship to investigate the role of symbiosis in driving the evolution and diversification of Hawaiian cixiid planthoppers. The research aims to leverage the unique geography and biodiversity of Hawaii to understand how microbial partnerships may contribute to host species diversity...
- 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 $138,000 National Science Foundation award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. The fellowship will support integrative research investigating the rules governing interactions between genomes, environments and phenotypes in plant microbiomes under global change. The fellow will test new theory on plant-microbe associations and apply a tradeoff framework analyzing microbial yield,...
This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund postdoctoral research exploring the effects of rapid evolution on alternative community states at multiple spatial scales. The fellow, Lucas Nell, will conduct laboratory experiments and develop mathematical models to study how trait evolution influences the composition of alternative microbial community states in monkeyflower nectar and their prevalence across a metacommunity. In the lab, communities exposed to varying levels of initial trait variation will be analyzed to compare patterns under weaker versus stronger evolutionary conditions. A simulation model will assess how metacommunity-level coexistence is maintained despite alternative states that typically inhibit coexistence. The research aims to advance understanding of historical contingency in community assembly and implications for other microbial systems like the human gut. Outreach activities will include mentoring an undergraduate research team and a paid internship program for formerly incarcerated scholars.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $138.0k | 6/23/22 |