The National Science Foundation awarded a $454,130 Project Grant to the University of Connecticut under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund collaborative research from August 2023 through July 2026 to study how the microenvironment of Hawaiian bobtail squid eggs facilitates antimicrobial response to environmental stress through a beneficial symbiosis with bacteria. A multidisciplinary team will examine how physical, chemical, and biological factors...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program grant, with the CFDA number 47.074, was awarded to Regents Of The University Of Michigan Office Of Research And Sponsored Projects Division (doing business as University Of Michigan) in the amount of $931,753.00 on May 1, 2024. The project, titled "PURSUIT: BIODIVERSITY EXPLORATION AND PHYLOGENETIC SYSTEMATICS OF THE ZOOSPORIC FUNGAL PHYLUM BLASTOCLADIOMYCOTA", aims to discover new species and taxonomically revise...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program Project Grant, awarded to New College of Florida on March 15, 2025 for $590,677, supports research to understand how and why marine invertebrates host specific microbes, the diversity of these microbiomes, and how these host-microbe associations evolve over time. The project aims to develop models of host-symbiont interactions, assess the factors driving microbiome assembly, and test these models through experiments...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $898,475 Project Grant to Michigan State University under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2026. The grant funds collaborative research to study the impact of the fungal microbiome in metal tolerance and soil biogeochemical transformations. The Biological Sciences program aims to advance the field and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased knowledge...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation provides $207,000 to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from March 2021 through February 2024. The funding is awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote biological sciences research and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and understanding of major problems. Specifically, the grant will support the fellow conducting basic research at the place of...
This $899,809 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will fund research to elucidate the molecular and cellular mechanisms governing ciliate-algal symbiosis. The grantee, Regents of the University of California at Riverside, will utilize a single-celled ciliate model to identify genotype-phenotype relationships and discover novel genes governing endosymbiosis with dinoflagellate algae....
The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $629,896 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on February 15, 2021 with a completion date of January 31, 2026. The grant supports research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to advance understanding of heterogeneous decision-making in individual microbes and populations through synthetic approaches. As the official program description indicates, the Biological Sciences...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $734,554 to the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE), through its Desert Research Institute (DRI), to study an Antarctic sea squirt and its associated microbiome. The project aims to investigate the structural and functional features of the sea squirt-microbiome partnership, including the geographical range, chemical complexity, and the biological role of a natural product called palmerolide...
The University of Florida was awarded a $172,749 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct research on the cell biology of cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis from August 15, 2021 to July 31, 2024. As part of this award, the University will investigate signaling, regulation and host response pathways involved in the symbiotic relationship between certain marine...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant award, valued at $570,122.00 and effective September 1, 2024, supports a collaborative research effort to investigate innate immune responses in diverse eukaryotic organisms that consume bacteria. The project brings together a cross-disciplinary team of researchers to study innate immunity in sponges, choanoflagellates, and amoebae, which span the evolutionary transition between multicellular animals and their...