Project Grant 2246707
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $417,009 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). This 2-year grant, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2025, will further the development of genetic manipulation techniques for the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Prochlorococcus is the most abundant photosynthetic organism in the ocean, contributing nearly...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $135,529 to the University of Wisconsin - Madison to further develop genetic manipulation techniques for the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Prochlorococcus is the most abundant photosynthetic organism in the ocean, contributing substantially to global carbon fixation. The key objectives are to optimize methods for...
- This Project Grant award of $100,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support research led by the University of Puerto Rico's Research and Development Center to investigate symbiotic relationships between ciliates, bacteria, and archaea in marine oxygen-depleted environments. The study aims to identify the role of these microbial consortia in increasingly prevalent ocean "dead zones" and shed light on their metabolic adaptations and...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences awarded a Project Grant totaling $690,714 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to conduct research on the direct measurement of in situ growth and growth limitation of bacterioplankton species in the ocean. The research is funded through the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to expand fundamental knowledge and understanding of the integrated Earth system. The key objective of this...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) was awarded to Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences for $396,577 to conduct research on the evolutionary patterns, systematics, and biogeographic distribution of two abundant but understudied groups of bacteria known as Patescibacteria and Chloroflexota. The research aims to improve fundamental knowledge about these cryptic microbes that play important roles in marine sediment ecosystems and...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $352,969 to Hofstra University will investigate the relationships between microbial plankton communities and coastal hypoxia (low dissolved oxygen) in Long Island Sound, New York. The project aims to quantify changes in the structure and functioning of bacterial, archaeal, and microbial eukaryotic communities across periods of hypoxia and normoxia. The research will combine field work,...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides a fellowship to an associate professor and training for a graduate student at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). The research is conducted in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology. The project will investigate how interactions between marine microbes, specifically between single-cell predators and their phytoplankton prey, affect the production of...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a three-year, $595,865 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research titled "Features and Implications of Nitrogen Assimilation Trait Variability in Populations of Prochlorococcus." Through this funding, MIT researchers will strengthen the understanding of the integrated Earth system by supporting basic research into the atmospheric, earth, and ocean...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $449,462 Project Grant under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of South Florida (USF) to study the effects of SUP05 cells and viruses on nitrogen cycling in marine oxygen minimum zones. The project is evaluating how the interactions between SUP05 bacteria and the viruses that infect them impact nitrogen transformations and loss processes in these ocean regions. Through a combination of in situ measurements, DNA/RNA sequencing,...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded $550,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program to support the project "EDGE FGT: Genetic Tools for Prochlorococcus That Dominate the Oceans" from May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2023. The project aims to develop genetic tools to study Prochlorococcus, a genus of photosynthetic bacteria that are abundant in oceans worldwide. A sub-award...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $642,399 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to Trustees of Boston University. The grant supports research to understand the process of cell death in the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus, a globally abundant microbe critical to ocean biogeochemistry. The project aims to examine the interplay between cellular metabolism and cell death, as well as the fate of cellular biomass after death and how interactions with other bacteria affect Prochlorococcus mortality. The research will integrate computational modeling and laboratory experiments to shed light on the dynamics of organic matter turnover in the ocean, with potential implications for addressing global challenges like emerging diseases and environmental sustainability. Additionally, the grant will fund an educational program to introduce key microbiology, environmental science, and oceanography concepts to intermediate and high school students from low-income backgrounds. The grant period runs from Sep 1, 2023 to Aug 31, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $642.4k | 8/18/23 |