The National Science Foundation awarded a $400,001 Project Grant to The Ohio State University under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support the growth and development of the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center from December 1, 2021 to November 30, 2023. The Center will provide infrastructure capacity for biological research through the maintenance and expansion of biological collections to promote progress in the biological sciences. As the parent organization...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Biological Infrastructure, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA #47.074), provides $807,845 to Oklahoma State University to sustain and distribute the Medicago truncatula mutant resources that were developed from 2004-2013. The project will maintain the ~21,000 Medicago truncatula insertional mutant lines and the large-scale fast neutron deletion mutant collection, and continue distributing these irreplaceable...
This $794,457 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support the development of new genetic analysis tools. The goal is to incorporate molecular and cellular biology knowledge, such as gene expression patterns and regulatory networks, directly into statistical models used to map genes, predict traits, and simulate changes in the genotype-to-phenotype relationships. The research will be conducted using simulated...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $179,150 Project Grant to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of June 15, 2022 through May 31, 2024. The award will support the development of new computational tools and methods to translate single-cell RNA sequencing data into an ultra-high resolution 3D spatial map of gene expression in plant roots. Specifically, the grantee will leverage existing fluorescent...
The Ohio State University was awarded a $299,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for work on "EAGER: IIBR INFORMATICS: A REINFORCED IMPUTATION FRAMEWORK FOR ACCURATE GENE EXPRESSION RECOVERY FROM SINGLE-CELL RNA-SEQ DATA." This two-year award beginning March 1, 2021 will support the development of a new computational framework to more accurately recover gene expression profiles from single-cell RNA...
The Ohio State University received a $322,954 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2024. The grant supports research on plant-soil feedbacks and population dynamics of two arid system shrubs with contrasting spatial distributions and life histories. This work aligns with the Biological Sciences program under the CFDA number 47.074. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the...
This $2,841,262 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Oregon State University (OSU) to leverage the natural diversity of Agrobacterium bacteria to enhance genetic transformation and regeneration capabilities in woody plant species, with a focus on the economically important poplar. The key objectives are to screen ~100 novel Agrobacterium strains, analyze the genetic factors underlying high...
This $720,557 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research to characterize the epigenetic reprogramming that occurs during the transition from plant gametes to zygotes. The research will focus on the model plant Arabidopsis and the economically important crop rice. Key objectives include: 1) Employing recent technical advances to analyze histone modifications in plant egg cells and zygotes, 2) Elucidating the details...
The Ohio State University was awarded a $988,596 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will support research from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2025 on the structural dynamics and function of proteins using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and computational methods. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the national...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $265,043 Project Grant to the New York Botanical Garden under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to digitize and enrich United States herbarium data from tropical Africa. Through this funding, the awardee will image and capture data from over 1.1 million herbarium specimens held in 21 U.S. herbaria focused on tropical African seed plants. The data will be georeferenced, quality controlled, and aggregated into a dedicated...