Project Grant 2244871
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Illinois received a $477,249 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) beginning July 1, 2025 and concluding June 30, 2028. This award supports research to bridge the molecular-fossil gap in angiosperm evolution by examining pollen records from the Chloranthaceae plant family. The project will deliver a new phylogenomic tree for Chloranthaceae...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Illinois received a $378,820 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2029. This collaborative research initiative investigates evolutionary convergence in agricultural weeds, specifically utilizing the plant genus Amaranthus to understand how certain species rapidly adapt to crop field...
- The University of Illinois was awarded a $166,372 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology to support collaborative research on seed-fungal interactions and their influence on tropical tree recruitment. The four-year award, effective March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2027, will fund research and training under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). Specifically, the grant will support research investigating how seed chemistry...
- This $290,025 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research to develop new methods for detecting eukaryotic symbionts associated with insects. The primary awardee, the University of Iowa, will use the funding to: 1) design PCR blocking primers to inhibit amplification of insect DNA while allowing detection of other eukaryotic organisms, and 2) conduct large-scale surveys of insect-symbiont diversity across two...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Illinois received an $800,001 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Biological Infrastructure under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to develop PALYIM (Palynology Image Analysis Platform), a web-accessible platform for automated pollen identification and analysis. The two-year project, which commenced August 1, 2025 and concludes July 31, 2027, will create a centralized repository of vetted machine learning...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (CFDA Program 47.074, Biological Sciences) will provide $409,569 to the University of Illinois from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026 to conduct collaborative research on deciphering the host- and environment-dependencies in the legume-rhizobia symbiosis. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Conducting manipulative experiments to measure the benefits...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Illinois received a $245,730 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026. This collaborative award establishes the Global Union of Bat Diversity Networks (GBATNET), a network-of-networks initiative linking 14 regional and global networks to accelerate interdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange on bat biology and...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $277,546 awarded to the University of Illinois will fund collaborative research and broader impact activities related to the evolution of insect wings under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). Specifically, the award will support an integrative phylogenomic study from January 2023 to December 2025 examining wing repurposing, vestigiality and loss patterns in cockroaches and termites to better understand the value of wings...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Illinois received a $659,749 Project Grant from the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) (CFDA 10.310), effective March 1, 2026 through February 28, 2029. This research initiative addresses nontarget-site (NTS) herbicide resistance in waterhemp, a significant weed species affecting Midwestern agriculture. The project employs an epidemiological approach to analyze weed management...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded $1,229,253 to the University of Illinois under a Project Grant for "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ROL-RULES FOR DYNAMIC-LIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL SCULPTING OF GENOMES." The grant supports research from June 15, 2021 through May 31, 2025 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The Biological Sciences program aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $1,312,678 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund research to uncover the true diversity of phytoplasmas worldwide through screening preserved insect specimens in a museum biorepository using next-generation DNA sequencing. Key deliverables include screening insects for phytoplasmas, obtaining partial phytoplasma genomes and host plant data for newly detected insect-associated phytoplasmas, reconstructing phylogenetic relationships among known phytoplasmas to classify new strains and estimate lineage origins, and updating an online database with all previously known and newly discovered phytoplasma-host associations. The award will also support training students in leading-edge methods for studying agriculturally important microbes to cultivate new expertise in the field. The grant period runs from May 15, 2023 through April 30, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $1.3m | 5/8/23 |