The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $151,929 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Division to host the Fifth Annual NSF/MCB CAREER Awardee Conference. The conference will bring together a diverse cohort of early-career NSF CAREER Award faculty to enhance their research and teaching through exposure to new technologies, pedagogical approaches, and exchange of scientific ideas. The goals are to facilitate...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program, provides $172,794 to Oregon State University (OSU) to host a two-day conference for NSF Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) CAREER awardees on November 21-22, 2024. The conference aims to create formal and informal opportunities for interaction between current IOS CAREER awardees, enabling them to share successes and challenges of their ongoing projects, stimulate discussion...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program provides $242,103 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to investigate how proteins and lipids coordinate the formation and function of membrane-associated condensates. The research aims to advance the understanding of cell surface organization, which could lead to breakthroughs in biotechnology, disease treatment, and improving overall knowledge of cell communication and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $376,301 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to the University of Rochester. The grant, titled "CAREER: Programmable Microbial Community Composition and Function Using Plasmid Conjugation," aims to develop an innovative platform that leverages horizontal gene transfer to self-regulate and stabilize microbial consortia. The project seeks to overcome challenges in controlling the balance of bacterial species...
This Project Grant award of $120,910 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support a hybrid conference on "MEE HUBS: A Hybrid Conference in Microbial Ecology and Evolution" to be held from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The conference will integrate microbiology, evolutionary ecology, physics, and mathematics to drive innovation in fundamental and applied research questions related to microbiomes. The project will develop a...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $949,953 Project Grant to the Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York, doing business as Rfcuny - Hunter College, from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The grant, funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will support research to identify molecular interactions and build a detailed model of translational regulation, specifically examining the role of eIF3 and 4E-BP in...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $236,098 CAREER grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of California, Berkeley. The project, titled "CAREER: Mitochondrial Genome Partitioning and Quality Control," aims to investigate the mechanisms of mitochondrial genome inheritance and how it relates to mitochondrial function. The research will reveal how mitochondrial DNA transmission is linked to mitochondrial dynamics, identify molecular...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $206,875 Project Grant (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) to Louisiana Tech University to host the "Next Generation of Conversations" conference series. The goal is to foster global collaboration and knowledge exchange in computational, theoretical, and experimental biomolecular research, engaging scientists from Nobel Laureates to early career researchers. The conference will be held at Louisiana Tech University, strategically located...
The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $327,640 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of May 1, 2021 through October 31, 2023. The grant funds research titled "CAREER: UNCOVERING RARE EARTH ELEMENTS BIOCHEMISTRY: FROM ENZYMES TO ECOSYSTEMS" which aims to increase scientific understanding of rare earth element biochemistry from the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $293,514 Project Grant to The Trustees of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. The grant supports research from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant funds development of microelectrophoretic and statistical tools to study kinase- and reactive oxygen species-based signaling pathways in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. The...