This $918,053 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports fundamental and applied research to document and characterize the diverse communities of marine epizoic diatoms living on endangered marine megafauna. The overall project objectives are to: 1) describe and formally document up to 50 new species of epizoic diatoms; 2) reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships of these diatoms to understand their evolution and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,101,964 project grant to the Institute For Systems Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: IMAGINE: QUANTIFYING DIATOM RESILIENCE IN AN ACIDIFIED OCEAN." The grant, awarded June 15, 2021 with a completion date of May 31, 2024, will fund research to increase scientific understanding of how diatom populations respond and adapt to increasing ocean acidification. The Biological...
This three-year, $317,027 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support collaborative research on the phylogenomics and taxonomic revision of the diatom order Rhopalodiales. The research team, consisting of scientists from three U.S. universities and seven international institutions, will gather genomic and morphological data to address the evolutionary origins and diversification of Rhopalodiales. They will seek to determine when the...
This three-year, $390,357 National Science Foundation project grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support research investigating marine diatom-parasite relationships in upwelling systems. The principal investigator at Princeton University will analyze archived samples from diatom-dominated upwelling regions using tag sequencing, metagenomics, and quantitative PCR to identify diatom-parasite pairs and examine their abundance, diversity, and dynamics over the course of blooms....
This three-year, $811,924 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology and Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund collaborative research on the phylogenomics and taxonomic revision of the diatom order Rhopalodiales. The research team, comprised of scientists from three U.S. universities and seven international institutions, will gather genomic and morphological data to address the evolutionary origins and diversification of Rhopalodiales,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems provides $1.6 million to support research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) from August 2021 through July 2024. The grant funds the development of new molecular genetic tools by the J. Craig Venter Institute to define phenotypes in the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia, which can cause harmful algal blooms. Two subawards totaling $100,000 each were provided to the University of...
The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $392,981 Project Grant to the University of Washington's Office of Sponsored Programs for the research project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: IMAGINE: QUANTIFYING DIATOM RESILIENCE IN AN ACIDIFIED OCEAN." The three-year award, issued on June 15, 2021 with a projected completion date of May 31, 2024, will fund research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The Biological Sciences program aims...
This $590,677 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program aims to enhance understanding of the diversity, assembly, and evolution of microbiomes associated with marine invertebrates. The award to New College of Florida supports the following key activities: Investigating how and why particular microbes are hosted by different invertebrates, whether microbial diversity is related to host diversity, and how these associations change over...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $352,969 to Hofstra University will investigate the relationships between microbial plankton communities and coastal hypoxia (low dissolved oxygen) in Long Island Sound, New York. The project aims to quantify changes in the structure and functioning of bacterial, archaeal, and microbial eukaryotic communities across periods of hypoxia and normoxia. The research will combine field work,...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $1,053,775 provides funding from June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2026 to support research examining the cellular metabolism and physiology of diatom-diazotroph associations (DDAs) and evaluate their ecosystem and biogeochemical impacts. The University of Rhode Island will investigate the responses of DDAs to different nitrogen sources and temperatures, compare DDA physiology and metabolism to asymbiotic diatoms, and model ecosystem-level...