Project Grant 2316390
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $442,152 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to Arizona State University to integrate nanobiotechnology approaches to understand the role of nitro-oxidative stress in the coral-dinoflagellate symbiotic relationship. The 3-year research project aims to create a 3D bioengineered coral model to study the cellular responses of both coral cells and dinoflagellate algae under stress conditions that can lead to coral...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded a $384,490 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant supports a collaborative research project focused on "Integrating Nanobiotechnologies to Understand the Role of Nitro-Oxidative Stress in the Coral-Dinoflagellate Mutualistic Symbiosis Dynamics." The project aims to investigate the mechanisms behind coral bleaching events,...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $370,100 awarded to the University of Rhode Island from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 will fund research investigating the impacts of ocean warming on the symbiotic nutritional exchange between microbes and reef-building corals during early life stages. As part of the Geosciences program under the CFDA 47.050, the awardee will characterize the development of the coral-algal symbiosis across life histories in Hawaiian and French...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $156,000 Project Grant to the University of Rhode Island (URI) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083). The grant will support a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship project entitled "Do Pelagic Subsidies Modulate Coral Survivorship in a Warming Ocean?". The project aims to uncover the mechanisms by which regional oceanographic patterns, such as upwelling and internal waves, may enhance the...
- This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program, totaling $739,133, supports collaborative research on sources and transformations of export production from coral and plankton bioarchives. The University of Rhode Island will receive funding through February 2024 to conduct a novel 50-year record of pelagic-benthic coupling by analyzing coral and plankton samples. The Geosciences program aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system...
- The University of Hawaii at Manoa was awarded a $723,890 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant supports research exploring the molecular mechanisms of symbiosis stability in reef-building corals from March 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The NSF Biological Sciences program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing scientific knowledge and...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $551,633 to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside aims to elucidate the mechanisms enabling symbiotic dinoflagellates to proliferate within cnidarian hosts after thermal stress disrupts their symbiosis. The project will leverage a symbiodiniaceae pigment mutant and the small sea anemone Exaiptasia diaphana model system, employing high-resolution live imaging to track symbiont...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) awarded a $689,238 project grant to Trustees of Tufts College to conduct collaborative research on the reproductive energetic tradeoffs of facultative coral-algal symbioses. The project will utilize the northern star coral, Astrangia poculata, as a model system to examine how the flexible coral-algal symbiosis affects the energy corals devote to key biological processes like development, growth, maintenance, and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will provide $495,000 to American University to conduct research on the microbiome of the coral endosymbiont (Symbiodiniaceae). The project aims to characterize the taxonomic and functional diversity of the bacterial communities associated with Symbiodiniaceae, which are photosynthetic microalgae that form a symbiotic relationship with coral. The research will investigate how these...
- The University of Rhode Island received a two-year, $241,424 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to conduct research titled "RII TRACK-4: SURVIVING CLIMATE CHANGE: THE ROLE OF ADAPTATION AND ACCLIMATIZATION IN TROPICAL CORALS" from February 1, 2021 to January 31, 2023. The grant aims to enhance understanding of how tropical corals adapt and acclimate to climate change through research examining the role of genetic and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program grant for $366,200 awarded to the University of Rhode Island (URI) Research Office Division will support a collaborative research project titled "INTBIO: Collaborative Research: Integrating Nanobiotechnologies to Understand the Role of Nitro-Oxidative Stress in the Coral-Dinoflagellate Mutualistic Symbiosis Dynamics". The project will use a multidisciplinary approach combining marine biology, molecular sciences, ecophysiology, physics, nanoengineering, and 3D fabrication to explore how free-radical concentrations and dynamics within the complex coral-algae symbiosis may contribute to coral bleaching. Key expected outcomes include transforming the understanding of free-radical dynamics in symbiotic organisms in relation to the coral tissue microenvironment. The project will run from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $366.2k | 7/16/23 |