This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award to The Pennsylvania State University, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will support research to improve understanding of the symbiotic relationship between legume plants and nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria. The $310,000 grant, awarded on September 1, 2023 for a 3-year period, will fund an integrative approach to identify the specific plant and bacterial genes that work together to control the efficiency of...
This $794,457 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support the development of new genetic analysis tools. The goal is to incorporate molecular and cellular biology knowledge, such as gene expression patterns and regulatory networks, directly into statistical models used to map genes, predict traits, and simulate changes in the genotype-to-phenotype relationships. The research will be conducted using simulated...
The National Science Foundation (NSF), under its Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded the University of Wisconsin System $621,502 on August 15, 2023 for a project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EDGE FGT: DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE SELECTION LIBRARY TO RECONCILE CORE METABOLIC KNOWLEDGE GAPS". The project aims to develop tools and resources (algorithms, strains, and plasmids) to rapidly identify the functions of genes in non-model organisms, in order to better...
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...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $623,390 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on May 1, 2021 to complete a collaborative research project titled "Genes to Ecology in Tropical Trees: How Sharing Resistance Gene Alleles Affects Pathogen Transmission and Growth" by April 30, 2024. The grant is being administered under the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and...
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 (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) awarded a $810,001 project grant to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to study the role of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modifications in regulating plant gene expression and response to bacterial pathogens. The 4-year project aims to characterize the addition and removal of m6A on plant RNAs and investigate how these epitranscriptomic processes impact a plant's ability to recognize and respond to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research activities from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2023 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant funding will enable the grantee to conduct research at the University of Pittsburgh aimed at furthering understanding of the evolution of gene regulatory networks through empirical and theoretical approaches. The Biological Sciences program seeks to advance the field and strengthen the national...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) awarded a $981,074 project grant to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) on August 15, 2024. The grant, titled "DISES: Socioecological Outcomes of Restoration in Forest-Grassland Ecosystems," investigates how and why restoration programs impact social and environmental systems in forest-grassland ecosystems. The research employs multiple methods, including remote sensing, field-based ecological...
This $2,963,428 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) aims to develop critical infrastructure and tools for interpreting genomic data. The project will create high-quality genome assembly workflows, comprehensive documentation, and interactive training materials to make these advanced genomic analysis capabilities accessible to a wide audience of biology researchers. This will enable downstream discoveries in areas such as...