This National Science Foundation project grant of $432,000 provides funding for a postdoctoral fellowship in biology from August 15, 2022 through July 31, 2025. The fellowship, awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports research at the University of California, Berkeley on characterizing distinct life history strategies in the monkeyflowers genus Mimulus. The fellow, Jesús Martínez-Gómez, will employ population genetics and genome sequencing methods to understand how...
This National Science Foundation award provides $138,000 in funding under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025. The fellowship will fund research and training to investigate the association between leaf traits and climate variables in plant species found in California and Hawaii. Specifically, the fellow will develop a database cataloging leaf characteristics of native plants across climate zones...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support postdoctoral fellowship research titled "Hybridization on the Adaptive Landscape" from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote biological sciences research and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. Through this two-year fellowship, the grantee will conduct research at a location in Greenacres,...
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 National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $207,000 provides funding for a postdoctoral research fellowship in biology from February 1, 2023 through January 31, 2026. The fellowship supports research and training under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to advance biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding of major problems. Specifically, the fellow will conduct integrative research...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $240,000 in funding for a postdoctoral research fellowship from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028. The fellowship supports research and training focused on investigating the rules governing interactions between genomes, environment, and phenotypes of lichen holobionts (the lichen organism and its associated microbiome) in response to climate change. The key objectives are to:...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $240,000 supports research investigating the genomic consequences of hybridization in the Mimulus guttatus complex from June 2023 through May 2026. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the award enables a postdoctoral research fellowship for integrative research on the rules governing interactions between genomes, environments and phenotypes during speciation. The fellow will use genomic analyses and greenhouse crosses to...
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 Project Grant of $276,000 will fund an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2025. The fellowship supports integrative research investigating the rules of life governing interactions between genomes, environment and phenotypes under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The fellow will analyze genomic and phenotypic data from rattlesnake hybrid zones to understand the evolution of reproductive isolation. By comparing...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $240,000 in funding to support a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB) that will investigate plant-butterfly dynamics across changing landscapes. The research project will address how variation in habitat quality affects native plant-butterfly networks, including several butterfly species known to migrate between the western United States and Mexico. The research...