This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $1,580,787 supported research at Grinnell College from September 1, 2022 through November 30, 2022 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The award funded development of a general modeling framework to better understand transmission of the tapeworm parasite S. solidus across its three host species: loons, copepods, and threespine stickleback fish. Investigators integrated field studies, laboratory experiments, genetic...
This Project Grant award of $270,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program supports a postdoctoral research fellowship focused on investigating how parasites can impact the traits of their host organisms and scale up to influence ecosystem functions. The research will use laboratory and field experiments involving the invertebrate Daphnia dentifera and its common parasites to measure parasite impacts on host traits across individual and population...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research by Michigan State University to quantify resource dynamics between parasites and their hosts. The $300,000 grant, awarded on March 1, 2025, will employ state-of-the-art analytical chemistry techniques to determine the resource requirements of parasites across their life cycle and the spatiotemporal dynamics of resources at the tissue and whole-host levels that impact...
This $240,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds research and outreach activities through August 2026. The grant supports an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology to investigate parasitic threats to fish health in collaboration with the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. The fellow will conduct a broad assessment of fish pathogens in over 250 lakes on and near the Lac du Flambeau Reservation to determine prevalence and severity. Research activities include...
This $483,851 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support research at the University of Scranton to study factors influencing the prevalence of parasitic infections in birds. The project will collect and analyze parasite specimens from birds and insect vectors in northeastern Pennsylvania to test hypotheses about host traits and ecological interactions that drive parasitism. The research aims to advance understanding of disease...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $276,000 supports a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from February 1, 2023 to January 31, 2025. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote biological sciences research and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. The fellowship will fund the use of environmental DNA metabarcoding to detect parasite biodiversity and incorporate parasites into ecological networks. This non-invasive...
The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $138,000 Project Grant to study parasitism-induced changes in host behavior across scales from the molecular basis to community impacts. The grant falls under the Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding of major problems. Funding will support research from August 2021 to July...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support an integrative investigation of host-parasite coevolution across heterogeneous environments from February 1, 2022 to January 31, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and understanding of major problems confronting the nation. Specifically, the...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program will provide $270,000 over 3 years starting on April 1, 2026 to support a postdoctoral research fellowship on the eco-evolutionary impacts of cyanobacterial diets on host-parasite interactions. The research will investigate how harmful algal blooms (HABs) and their associated cyanotoxins affect disease epidemics in pond-dwelling organisms like Daphnia. The fellow will use...
This $196,163 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) is funding a collaborative research project on developing advanced mathematical models to improve understanding and management of schistosomiasis transmission dynamics. The project is a collaboration between the University of Florida, University of Georgia, and University of Massachusetts, and aims to create innovative hybrid...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $500,000 to Carleton College from October 1, 2022 through August 31, 2027 to develop a modeling framework for understanding parasite transmission dynamics. The project aims to link ecology, behavior, immunology and spatial/temporal variation to better predict the spread of helminth parasites through multiple host species, including fish-eating birds, copepods, and threespine stickleback fish in freshwater lakes. Field studies, laboratory experiments, genetic analyses and mathematical modeling will be conducted across all three host species and the tapeworm parasite (Schistocephalus solidus) itself. The funding supports collaboration between Carleton College, the University of California Davis, the University of Connecticut, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Biodiversity Research Institute to collect data, run assays and experiments, develop models, and analyze results. Outcomes will include publications, conference presentations and educational materials to share findings.