Project Grant 2319124
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers Project Grant award to The Johns Hopkins University is part of the Biological Sciences CFDA 47.074 program. The $312,597 grant, running from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026, supports collaborative research to determine the relationship between microbial genes and ecosystem processes in order to improve biogeochemical models for nutrient management. The project will focus on the microbial process of denitrification,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Michigan Technological University to develop and test modeling approaches that quantify denitrification and nitrogen fixation in streams. The grant, which runs from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025, supports research to improve understanding of nitrogen cycling and removal in freshwater ecosystems. The project aims to create open-source models that can estimate denitrification rates in...
- This $439,396 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Duke University from September 2022 to August 2025 to develop a model microbial consortium for interrogating organic matter decomposition and carbon cycling in coastal systems under changing environmental conditions. Researchers will integrate field, laboratory, and modeling work to examine the functional roles and responses to temperature variation of diverse...
- 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...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will provide $382,727 to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The project will develop a comprehensive "gene annotation pipeline" toolbox to rapidly identify the functions of unknown genes, especially in non-model organisms. This will involve creating a library of microbial strains that can select for key metabolic reactions...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $800,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to The Washington University's Office of Sponsored Research Services Division. The 3-year project aims to investigate the metabolic cooperation between a phototrophic bacterium and a methanogenic archaeon, and how this "syntrophic" interaction influences methane production and the nitrogen cycle in anoxic environments. The research will shed light on how these...
- The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology awarded the Institute for Systems Biology a $1.59 million Project Grant (CFDA 47.074, Biological Sciences program) effective September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2029, to investigate how spatial differentiation of ecotypes enhances microbial mutualism and cooperation. The primary research deliverable will be foundational scientific knowledge regarding how microbial species within the same population specialize to perform...
- This $396,079 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) aims to investigate how bacteria and biofilm growth in river sediments regulate the formation of low-oxygen microzones that produce the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) will perform sediment column experiments, microfluidic studies, and numerical simulations to characterize the spatio-temporal dynamics of these anoxic microzones and...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) in the amount of $300,000 supports research by Duke University to develop an integrated experimental and computational approach to uncover the design principles governing microbiome function. The key objectives are to apply advanced machine learning techniques, high-throughput microbial community construction, and metabolomics to elucidate the molecular networks and cellular...
- This $300,785 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a research project to characterize the chemical composition and bioavailability of dissolved organic matter released by marine nitrifying microorganisms. The project aims to determine how this material contributes to carbon cycling in the deep ocean, which may help improve biogeochemical models and inform potential marine carbon dioxide removal activities. The research will...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant, awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $163,362 from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026 to Duke University to conduct collaborative research. The project aims to determine the relationship between microbial genes and ecosystem processes in order to improve biogeochemical models for nutrient management in water systems like the Chesapeake Bay and wastewater treatment plants. Specifically, the research will investigate how the abundance of genes involved in denitrification, a critical process for removing excess nitrogen pollution, correlates with denitrification rates. The team will use controlled laboratory experiments and work closely with water management partners to assess how incorporating gene abundance data can enhance the predictive capabilities of ecosystem models used to guide clean water policies and decisions.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $163.4k | 8/7/23 |