Project Grant 2312043
- The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $206,320 Project Grant to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center for the period of May 1, 2022 through April 30, 2023. The grant supports collaborative research to develop an artificial chromosome system in Chlamydomonas based on CENH3 tethering under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The Biological Sciences program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's...
- This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure provides $138,000 to uncover the molecular mechanisms that govern cnidarian-algal symbiosis using forward genetic screens. Funded under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), this award will support research to increase scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems in the biological sciences. Using forward genetic approaches, the grantee will conduct...
- Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a Project Grant of $1,606,828 to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The award, dated December 15, 2025, with completion targeted for November 30, 2028, supports research examining epigenetic regulation of heat stress memory in photosynthetic cells. The project deliverables include fundamental research on transgenerational heat...
- This $1,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems supports research to examine the genetic and molecular changes that have enabled self-fertility to evolve in two different nematode (worm) species, Caenorhabditis elegans and C. briggsae. The key objectives are to reconstruct the evolutionary steps that allowed specific regulatory proteins (FOG-2 and SHE-1) to emerge from related gene families and become essential...
- This National Science Foundation project grant award of $138,000 provides funding from November 1, 2022 through October 31, 2024 to support research and training under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The award will fund a postdoctoral fellowship to investigate how gene-environment interactions have shaped the repeated evolution of differentiated multicellularity. The fellow will employ single-cell transcriptomics and comparative analyses to examine how...
- This $332,924 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) funds research at the University of Nebraska from August 2022 to July 2025 investigating convergent evolution of mitochondrial cytochrome c maturation systems in plant and algal species. The research will use molecular biology, genetics, plant growth assays, and computational analysis to study numerous pathway switches and assess the mechanisms and evolutionary importance when there is...
- This $750,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports collaborative research on the evolution and development of fundamental plant reproductive structures called sporangia. Led by the New York Botanical Garden, this interdisciplinary project will investigate the molecular genetics of sporangium development in the model fern Ceratopteris. The research aims to elucidate the core genetic network underlying sporangium...
- This $1,220,400 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences supports a collaborative research project between investigators in the U.S. and U.K. to better understand the regulatory mechanisms controlling mammalian gene expression. The project, funded through NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), aims to define the roles of different DNA regulatory elements and how they work together to precisely control gene expression....
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will fund $321,072 in research at the Reed Institute under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) from March 2022 through February 2025. The research aims to investigate the evolutionary and biological basis of physical and behavioral traits that are sex-biased toward male or female expression across multiple levels of biological organization. Researchers will study global hormone levels, metabolic enzymes, hormone...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems provides $1.6 million to support research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) from August 2021 through July 2024. The grant funds the development of new molecular genetic tools by the J. Craig Venter Institute to define phenotypes in the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia, which can cause harmful algal blooms. Two subawards totaling $100,000 each were provided to the University of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $935,010 Project Grant to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center to investigate the genetic mechanisms governing mating types and sexes in volvocine green algae. This 3-year research project, funded under NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), aims to elucidate how the genetic systems controlling mating types in single-celled algae evolved into the dimorphic sexes seen in more complex multicellular species. Key objectives include elucidating the gene expression programs governed by the transcription factors MID and VSR1 in isogamous and oogamous volvocine representatives, determining the physical interaction and co-evolution of these two factors, and modeling the expansion of the underlying gene regulatory networks during the transition to oogamy. Advancing the fundamental understanding of sex determination in this model algal lineage could provide insights applicable to sex determination and evolution across the plant kingdom, including in emerging algal crop species.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $935.0k | 7/28/23 |