The University of Utah will receive $492,516 from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under a three-year Project Grant award titled "Role of Electric Fields and a Dynamic Local Environment in Protein-RNA Molecular Recognition." The grant funds basic research from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024 to advance understanding of major problems in the biological sciences by investigating the role of electric fields and the local molecular...
The University of Utah will receive $217,254 in funding from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences through a three-year Project Grant award to support research titled "Collaborative Research: Bromoform Production and ROS Response to Stress in Seaweeds." The grant's CFDA-listed program, Biological Sciences, aims to advance biological knowledge and understanding of major national issues. Under this award beginning August 1, 2021, the University...
The University of Utah will receive $299,566 from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2024. The funding will support the OPUS: FOREST CANOPY COMMUNITIES AS ARENAS TO ADVANCE SYNTHESES AND UNDERSTANDING OF DISTURBANCE ECOLOGY project. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise...
The University of Utah will receive $566,507 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) from July 2021 through June 2024. The funding will support research into pulmonary aerodynamic valves, their distribution in the lungs, and their functions. The NSF Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding of major issues. This project...
The National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded a $3,000,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support research on DNA and RNA condensate droplets for programmable separation and manufacture of biomolecules. The four-year award running from December 2021 to November 2025 will fund the development of portable educational modules on condensate science and molecular programming as...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, under the Biological Sciences CFDA program (47.074), will investigate a novel regulatory mechanism called "RNA buffering" that maintains messenger RNA (mRNA) levels despite changes in synthesis and decay rates. The $749,978 project at the University of Utah will explore the protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions involved in this process, which challenges...
The University of Utah received a three-year, $576,408 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant supports research into the "Ecological Implications and Evolutionary Dynamics of a Nascent Sodalit-Allied Symbiont in a Parasitoid Wasp" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. This award will fund basic research under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The goal of the program is to advance...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2023. The grant funds postdoctoral research at Utah State University in Logan, Utah to study the evolution of extended floral phenotypes. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through basic research on major problems. This award will further those goals by...
The University of Utah will receive $812,067 in funding from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the project "SAXOPHONE: A GLUCOSE-SENSITIVE TYPE I DPP/BMP RECEPTOR" from January 15, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The funding will support research exploring major problems confronting the nation through increasing scientific knowledge and enhancing understanding of the biological sciences. Specifically, the University of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant, awarded on July 1, 2025, provides $270,000 over a 3-year period to fund a postdoctoral research fellowship. The project aims to elucidate the relationship between the structure and enzymatic activity of biomolecular condensates, which are membrane-less compartments within cells that modulate biochemical reactions. The research will leverage the well-characterized scaffold protein PopZ to systematically...