Project Grant 2305817
- 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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $240,000 provides funding for a postdoctoral research fellowship from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027. The fellowship will support research and training to investigate the rules governing interactions between genomes, environment, and phenotypes, with a focus on understanding how repetitive DNA sequences, particularly a satellite repeat on the X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, influence...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $138,000 supported postdoctoral research fellowship at Indiana University from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2024 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The fellowship focused on investigating the cis-regulatory basis of developmental plasticity and growth in the evolution of beetle horns through three main research objectives: 1) characterizing the roles of chromatin accessibility and regulatory element sequences in beetle horn...
- This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports a postdoctoral research fellowship investigating the role of phenotypic plasticity in enabling population persistence in novel environments. The $240,000 award, spanning 3 years from September 2025 to August 2028, will fund a genomic analysis of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans to characterize the mechanisms of environmental assessment and how they vary across...
- This National Science Foundation award of $276,000 provides funding for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2024 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The fellowship supports research and training to increase participation in biology from underrepresented groups. Specifically, the fellow will study extremophile brine flies to understand their genetic adaptations to survive in extreme aquatic habitats. They will characterize the evolutionary history...
- This National Science Foundation project grant award of $240,000 provides funding from August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2026 to support an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. The fellowship will fund research investigating the genetic basis of structural coloration in animals under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The fellow will sequence genomes from over 100 lizard specimens to identify genomic regions controlling structural blue color variation versus...
- This National Science Foundation project grant award of $240,000 provides funding from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026 to investigate heritable viruses as hidden drivers of host phenotypes in aphids. The award is made under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to further the program's goals of advancing biological sciences and strengthening the scientific enterprise. Specifically, the fellow will conduct integrative research using aphids and their densoviruses as a model system to...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $138,000 provides funding from April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2025 to support an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology. The fellowship funding will support research and training focused on investigating the genomics, heat shock proteins, and climate change adaptations of desert-adapted asiloid fly species. The fellow will sequence genomes of asiloid fly groups to create a foundational dataset for further genomic studies. Identification...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $138,000 supports research and training in the area of biological sciences from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2025. The grant funds a postdoctoral fellowship for the study of evolution of innate predator avoidance behavior in flies under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The fellow will investigate how changes in genes lead to changes in insect responses to smells associated with predators and parasites. Using Drosophila flies as a...
- This National Science Foundation project grant award of $276,000 funds an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024. The fellowship supports integrative research investigating the rules governing interactions between genomes, environments and phenotypes. Specifically, the fellow will examine the repeatability and predictability of evolutionary processes across whole genomes in hybrid zones between North American field crickets. Through a genotype-phenotype...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $240,000 provides funding from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026 to support research investigating enhancer and protein divergence at follstatin paralogs underlying genetic assimilation of wing plasticity. The award was made under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences through increasing scientific knowledge and understanding of major issues facing the nation. Specifically, the fellowship will fund integrative research using the pea aphid system to characterize the molecular mechanisms facilitating genetic assimilation and further the understanding of morphological novelty, diversity, and evolution. The fellow will utilize two follstatin gene duplicates in pea aphids that are separately involved in determining wingless morphs in males and females. Experiments are planned to characterize changes in cis-regulation, signatures of selection, and protein function at the paralogs to determine how duplication and divergence facilitated the genetic assimilation of winglessness in this system. Outcomes of the research are expected to provide new insights into this important evolutionary process.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $240.0k | 5/11/23 |