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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $240,000 over 3 years to fund a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. The fellowship supports research and training to investigate the influence of epigenetic factors, such as DNA methylation, on developmental processes and body size evolution in small marine worms called meiofauna. The research aims to define DNA methylation patterns, examine the role of methylation in...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides USD 270,000 in funding for a postdoctoral research fellowship focused on understanding the role of epigenetics in bacterial adaptation. The 3-year fellowship, starting June 1, 2025, will investigate how epigenetic modifications influence the ability of bacteria, such as E. coli, to survive and thrive in changing environments, particularly in response to antimicrobial...
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 $240,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support a postdoctoral research fellowship exploring the rules of life governing interactions between genomes, environments, and phenotypes. The fellowship will fund integrative research from November 1, 2023 to October 31, 2026 investigating how genetics, environments, and microbiomes contribute to emergent host phenotypes in green frog tadpoles. Specifically, the fellow...
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 Project Grant award of $240,000 supports research investigating the interactions between seagrasses, environmental conditions, and microbes from March 1, 2024 to February 28, 2027. The award is made through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote biological sciences research and strengthen the scientific enterprise. Specifically, the fellow will conduct three studies to better understand how the presence of the sulfide-oxidizing...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $276,000 provides funding from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 to support research investigating the effects of microbiome ecological and evolutionary origin on plant-microbiome coevolution. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the fellowship will support a postdoctoral fellow's integrative research exploring how a microbiome's previous associations with plant hosts influence community adaptation and the...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $138,000 will fund research and broader impacts activities from August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2025 related to understanding the influence of climate change on fungal endophyte decomposition of plant litter. The award was made under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences. Specifically, the fellow will test hypotheses about how climate, fungal endophyte communities, and their interaction...
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...