This $276,000 National Science Foundation award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research and training from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2024. The fellowship recipient will conduct integrative research investigating the interaction of genomes, environments and phenotypes in evolutionary biology. Specifically, the fellow will study mechanisms connecting short-term plastic behavioral responses to long-term evolutionary change. Using a pupfish system with specialist and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 Biological Sciences) provides $240,000 to fund a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2024. The fellowship supports a research and training plan that aims to enhance understanding of human-wildlife interactions in the face of global change, with a focus on birds worldwide. The fellow will develop a new modeling framework and global database to predict human-wildlife interactions and determine key drivers....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $270,000 provides funding for a 3-year postdoctoral research fellowship from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2028. The fellowship supports research and training that will contribute to innovative advances in the field of biology. The project will use the bluebanded goby, a socially complex fish species, to elucidate how dynamic social environments alter biology and behavior, including the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $240,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to fund an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2023. The purpose of the fellowship is to increase the participation of groups underrepresented in biology. The fellow's proposed studies will investigate interactions between migratory and resident bird species during spring migration stopover periods, which have implications for migration ecology, climate...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to further the program's goals of advancing basic biological research and strengthening the Nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, the grant will fund research leveraging rapid evolution to study the dynamics of polygenic adaptation. The work will be conducted at...
The National Science Foundation awarded $414,000 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The fellowship funding will support integrative research investigating the intersection of genomes, environments, and phenotypes in elevational migrant bird species across the Andes and Himalayas. The fellow will generate valuable museum specimens including frozen tissues and genomic,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB) Project Grant, funded under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program, supports a 3-year research and training program investigating the evolutionary processes driving species divergence and sympatry in island bird radiations. The $240,000 award, commencing on August 1, 2024, will fund a postdoctoral fellow's research focused on the Fiji whistler, a group of brightly colored island birds. The project...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $276,000 provides funding for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024. The award supports research and training under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to increase scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems through basic biological research. Specifically, the fellowship will fund integrative research investigating genetic and evolutionary dynamics that produce...
NSF POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN BIOLOGY FY 2021: INVESTIGATING THE GENETIC AND ECO-EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS UNDERLYING LIFE HISTORY POLYMORPHISMS was a $138,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers from March 1, 2022 to February 29, 2024. The grant was funded through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences and increase understanding of major problems confronting the nation. Specifically, the...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation, awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $240,000 to support a postdoctoral fellowship in biology at Brown University from August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2026. The fellowship will advance the fellow's research using coalescent modeling and simulations to generate insights into human evolutionary history from modern genome data, with a focus on sex chromosome evolution and analyzing sexed versus...