Project Grant 2305876
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB) FY 2023 award, funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports research and training focused on exploring the rules of life governing interactions between genomes, environment, and phenotypes in a plant-fungal symbiosis. The $240,000 award will fund a 3-year project that aims to identify the genetic regulation occurring across plant and fungal species to understand how their...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $240,000 in funding for a postdoctoral research fellowship from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028. The fellowship supports research and training focused on investigating the rules governing interactions between genomes, environment, and phenotypes of lichen holobionts (the lichen organism and its associated microbiome) in response to climate change. The key objectives are to:...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $240,000 over three years starting on September 1, 2024 to fund a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. The research aims to investigate the effects of bioengineered organisms on community assembly and ecosystem functioning in a soil microbial community. The fellow will use genetic engineering to create microbial consortia and study the impacts on community and...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $138,000 Project Grant to study how arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi impacts pollination and plant fitness in anthropogenically disturbed environments. The grant, provided under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will fund research from August 2021 to July 2023 exploring how the symbiotic relationship between plants and fungi is impacted by human disturbances and influences plant reproduction. The Biological Sciences program aims to...
- This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2025. The $270,000 award will fund research and training to examine how soil microbiota associated with dead trees influences the assembly and biodiversity of the next generation of trees in northern temperate forests. The research aims to quantify the specificity of soil legacies, the temporal dynamics of mutualistic...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award of $240,000.00, to be carried out from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026, will fund a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. The research will focus on quantifying the diversity and climate change response in the Chamaecrista fasciculata-rhizobial symbiosis. The project will leverage the partridge pea plant and its associated rhizobial bacteria to evaluate how climate change impacts plant-microbial interactions, with the goal of...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award for $270,000 funds a postdoctoral research fellowship from Sep 1, 2025 to Aug 31, 2028. The fellowship supports research and training that will contribute to innovative advances in biology. Specifically, the project investigates how long-term soil warming affects the traits and gene expression of fungal-feeding nematodes (fungivores) and aims to establish predictive links between nematode traits and...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences Program (CFDA 47.074) project grant in the amount of $240,000 will fund a postdoctoral research fellowship from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027. The research will investigate the environmental drivers of soil fungal pathogen spread, focusing on Coccidioides immitis, the pathogen that causes Valley Fever. The project aims to uncover the roles of landscape structure and local climate in shaping fungal pathogen distributions using genomic...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) is supporting a collaborative research project to develop a new framework for understanding the evolution of specialization in plant-endosymbiont responses to varying environments. The $175,511 project, awarded on October 15, 2025 and running through September 30, 2028, will evaluate the extent of mutualistic partnerships between a saltmarsh grass and its fungal partners along a stress...
- This $138,000 National Science Foundation award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. The fellowship will support integrative research investigating the rules governing interactions between genomes, environments and phenotypes in plant microbiomes under global change. The fellow will test new theory on plant-microbe associations and apply a tradeoff framework analyzing microbial yield,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $240,000 in funding from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027. The grant supports a postdoctoral research fellowship focused on examining priority effects within and between fungal symbiont guilds associated with a native grass species, Schizachyrium scoparium. The research will manipulate the order of arrival of different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and root endophytic fungi to evaluate how community assembly affects the host plant's growth, reproduction, and nutrient content. The study aims to help predict appropriate fungal symbionts for plant restoration based on desired outcomes. The fellowship also includes efforts to examine and implement alternative assessment strategies in STEM education to improve inclusion of underrepresented groups. The research outcomes are expected to enhance understanding of the mechanisms driving microbial community assembly and their influence on plant-fungal relationships.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 6/17/24 | ||
| Not listed | $240.0k | 6/26/23 |