This National Science Foundation project grant award of $276,000 funds an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024. The fellowship supports integrative research investigating the rules governing interactions between genomes, environments and phenotypes. Specifically, the fellow will examine the repeatability and predictability of evolutionary processes across whole genomes in hybrid zones between North American field crickets. Through a genotype-phenotype...
This National Science Foundation award of $276,000 provides funding for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2024 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The fellowship supports research and training to increase participation in biology from underrepresented groups. Specifically, the fellow will study extremophile brine flies to understand their genetic adaptations to survive in extreme aquatic habitats. They will characterize the evolutionary history...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $240,000 in funding to support a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB). The fellowship will fund research and training that investigates how DNA transfer drives ecological relationships across different levels of biological organization. The project aims to uncover patterns of DNA transfers within microbial communities and use this information to model past and...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $276,000 provides funding for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024. The award supports research and training under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to increase scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems through basic biological research. Specifically, the fellowship will fund integrative research investigating genetic and evolutionary dynamics that produce...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation provides $207,000 to support a postdoctoral fellowship in biology from March 2021 through February 2024. The funding is awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote biological sciences research and enhance understanding of major problems facing the nation. The fellowship will allow the recipient to conduct basic research in biology, advancing scientific knowledge and strengthening the scientific...
This $276,000 National Science Foundation award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research and training from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2024. The fellowship recipient will conduct integrative research investigating the interaction of genomes, environments and phenotypes in evolutionary biology. Specifically, the fellow will study mechanisms connecting short-term plastic behavioral responses to long-term evolutionary change. Using a pupfish system with specialist and...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $138,000 provides funding from April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2025 to support an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology. The fellowship funding will support research and training focused on investigating the genomics, heat shock proteins, and climate change adaptations of desert-adapted asiloid fly species. The fellow will sequence genomes of asiloid fly groups to create a foundational dataset for further genomic studies. Identification...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to further the program's goals of advancing basic biological research and strengthening the Nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, the grant will fund research leveraging rapid evolution to study the dynamics of polygenic adaptation. The work will be conducted at...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $240,000 to fund a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB) for FY 2024. The fellowship supports research and training to investigate the rules governing interactions between genomes, environment, and phenotypes across spatial and biological scales. The key objectives are to characterize variation in bioenergetic and behavioral traits, study how this variation...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $276,000 will fund an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2025. The fellowship supports integrative research investigating the rules of life governing interactions between genomes, environment and phenotypes under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The fellow will analyze genomic and phenotypic data from rattlesnake hybrid zones to understand the evolution of reproductive isolation. By comparing...