Project Grant 2305732
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will fund $240,000 over three years to support an integrative investigation into microevolutionary change in salamanders impacted by urbanization. Awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the funding will support a postdoctoral research fellowship focusing on the northern two-lined salamander. The fellow will examine genomic and phenotypic consequences of urbanization by sampling salamanders from urban, suburban, and...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will fund $240,000 over three years to support a postdoctoral research fellowship in biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The fellowship will fund integrative research investigating the interaction of genomes, environments, and phenotypes in driving the diversification of North American lizards during adaptive radiation. The fellow will generate reference genomes for Anolis lizards, apply cytogenetic techniques to...
- 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 two-year, $276,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds research and training through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to uncover the genomic and developmental basis of gliding structure evolution in gecko lizards. The fellowship recipient will characterize patagium development in multiple gecko species to determine if convergently evolved gliding membranes result from convergent or divergent cellular and developmental patterns. Using histology, apoptosis assays,...
- 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...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program provides $428,321.00 to Ball State University to conduct research on mitonuclear conflict and co-evolution in an all-female salamander species. The research aims to study how the interactions between the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes in these salamanders have evolved and been maintained over millions of years, despite the significant genomic challenges they face....
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support a POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN BIOLOGY from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences and enhance understanding of major problems confronting the nation. The funding will support comparative methods and model clades research in evolutionary developmental biology. Specifically, the grant will provide two...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal Project Grant award of $270,000.00 funds a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. The fellowship supports research and training that will contribute to understanding how bird species adapt to their environment, with a focus on the interplay between structural genetic variants, phenotype, and local adaptation in a cryptic avian species complex. The research aims to determine the impacts of complex...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences Program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant in the amount of $270,000 awarded on October 1, 2025 will fund a postdoctoral fellowship to investigate the genetic program responsible for segment formation and the environmental factors influencing segment addition in annelid worms. The research project aims to identify the genes involved in annelid segmentation, which remains poorly understood compared to segmentation in other organisms like insects...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $218,472 provides funding from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025 to develop molecular tools for exploring mating system diversity in salamanders. The award is made under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support basic biological research that strengthens the nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, the Principal Investigator at the University of North Carolina at Asheville will learn and apply RADcap single...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Infrastructure division will fund $240,000 to support research investigating the effects of polyploidy on developmental and morphological evolution in salamanders. The fellowship awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will enable the grantee to study unique polyploid salamander lineages to better understand how whole genome duplications shape development and phenotype across organ systems. Using techniques like CT scanning, histology, ATAC-seq, RNA-seq, and immunohistochemistry, the fellow will characterize tissue morphology, gene expression patterns, and developmental cellular processes in polyploid salamanders. The award will also support undergraduate research training and educational outreach activities. Findings from this research aim to advance knowledge of polyploidization's role in trait and phenotypic evolution across the tree of life.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $240.0k | 5/23/23 |