This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $270,000 in funding from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028. The award supports a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB) focused on studying the chemical, molecular, and cellular processes involved in the formation of symbiotic relationships between cnidarians (such as corals) and algae. The research aims to uncover the mechanisms that lead to specificity in these...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support postdoctoral fellowship research titled "Tracing Coral Reef Energy Fluxes from Genes to Ecosystems in a Changing Climate." The two-year award, made under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will fund fellowships for research examining how coral reef ecosystems respond to climate change impacts at multiple levels of biological organization, from genes to whole reef systems. The fellowships will be...
This $276,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant, awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will fund research investigating the cellular mechanisms and evolution of coral-algal symbiosis. The fellow will characterize the symbiosome membrane proteome in the sea anemone Exaiptasia diaphana and coral Acropora millepora to better understand the fundamental processes governing the critical symbiotic relationship between corals and algae. Through techniques including...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program, provides $240,000 in funding from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027 to support a postdoctoral research fellowship. The fellowship will investigate how interactions among individual coral reef fishes drive ecosystem-scale function in coral reef environments. The research will integrate field and laboratory studies to uncover the relationship between individual behavioral...
This National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in the amount of $207,000 will fund research from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The fellow will conduct integrative research on the interactions between genomes, environments and phenotypes governing viral-microbial dynamics on successional coral reefs in Ranobe Bay, Madagascar. Using molecular and ecological techniques combined with coral reef restoration, the...
NSF POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN BIOLOGY FY 2021: INVESTIGATING THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF CORAL-ASSOCIATED MICROBES IN REGULATING CALCIFYING FLUID CHEMISTRY This $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), awarded January 1, 2022 with a completion date of December 31, 2023, will fund research investigating the potential role of coral-associated microbes in regulating calcifying fluid chemistry. The grant is part of NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $442,152 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to Arizona State University to integrate nanobiotechnology approaches to understand the role of nitro-oxidative stress in the coral-dinoflagellate symbiotic relationship. The 3-year research project aims to create a 3D bioengineered coral model to study the cellular responses of both coral cells and dinoflagellate algae under stress conditions that can lead to coral...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $138,000 will fund research investigating the energetic tradeoffs of symbiosis and immunity in the coral species Astrangia poculata from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2025. The award was made under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which supports basic biological research to strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, the fellow will conduct integrative transcriptomic, metabolomic, and immunological assays to test the...
This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure provides $138,000 to uncover the molecular mechanisms that govern cnidarian-algal symbiosis using forward genetic screens. Funded under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), this award will support research to increase scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems in the biological sciences. Using forward genetic approaches, the grantee will conduct...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded a $384,490 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant supports a collaborative research project focused on "Integrating Nanobiotechnologies to Understand the Role of Nitro-Oxidative Stress in the Coral-Dinoflagellate Mutualistic Symbiosis Dynamics." The project aims to investigate the mechanisms behind coral bleaching events,...