This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation provides $138,000 to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology for fiscal years 2022 through 2024. The fellowship funding is awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to broaden participation of underrepresented groups in biology. The fellowship will support research and training to advance understanding of how maternal microbial exposures during development promote tolerance for beneficial microbes and protection...
This NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB) FY 2023 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure provides $137,000 to support research and training for an early-career scientist. The project aims to investigate the role of gut microbiomes in helping herbivorous hosts, such as snowshoe hares and greater sage-grouse, tolerate toxins found in their plant-based diets. The research will use multi-omics approaches to determine the microbial...
This National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology award for $138,000 provides funding from August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2025 to support research investigating the role of host-associated microbes in plant responses to global environmental stressors such as drought. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the fellowship will advance understanding of microbial influences on host acclimation, adaptation, and population persistence under changing...
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) Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) Program award of $160,000 supports an early career researcher investigating the effect of demographic variables on variation within the ancient oral microbiome. The goal is to elucidate how these differences relate to health outcomes in the past. The researcher, under the sponsorship of Dr. Laura Weyrich at the Pennsylvania State University, will use paleodemographic and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $276,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to support a postdoctoral fellowship in biology from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024. The fellowship will fund the collection and analysis of gut microbiome samples from over 3,300 animal species, representing the most comprehensive dataset to date. This will allow for improved understanding of the origins and ecological controls of gut microbiomes across the...
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) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award provides $270,000 in funding from March 1, 2026 to February 28, 2029 to support a postdoctoral research fellowship focused on elucidating the chemical potential of the small intestinal microbiome. The research aims to enhance the mechanistic understanding of the interplay between the small intestine, distal gastrointestinal tract, and host by: Characterizing the composition and metabolic capabilities...
NSF POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN BIOLOGY FY 2021: USING METACOMMUNITY THEORY TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF MULTI-SPECIES INTERACTIONS ON GUT MICROBIAL ASSEMBLY This $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology will fund research from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $160,000 supports a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to study the relationship between pesticide exposure, social factors, and human biology during childhood. The research will be conducted under the sponsorship of Drs. Elizabeth Mallott and Theresa Gildner at Washington University in St. Louis. The project aims to: 1) examine associations between pesticide exposure, body...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Postdoctoral Fellowship award of $165,000 supports an early career scientist to investigate global variation in the human "estrobolome" and its relationship to lifestyle factors, health, and disease. The estrobolome refers to gut microbes capable of metabolizing estrogens. This research aims to: 1) estimate global variation in estrogen recycling capacities, 2) identify lifestyle factors associated with estrobolome composition, and 3) explore the estrobolome's role in human life history traits, health, and disease. The project will analyze publicly available human microbiome data to compare microbial communities and inferred estrogen recycling capacities across diverse populations. Findings will advance understanding of human estrobolome variation and its implications. This award supports the postdoctoral training of an early career scientist under the sponsorship of Dr. Richard Bribiescas at Yale University, with an anticipated completion date of August 31, 2025.