This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), provides $103,500.00 to fund an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2023. The fellowship supports a research and training plan to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in biology. The research aims to identify previously unobserved associations between bats and viruses, using predictive modeling and field validation. The fellow will develop...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $240,000 supports research under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) from December 1, 2023 through November 30, 2025. The award funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology to develop a comprehensive mathematical model of multisensory integration inspired by insect brain function. The fellow will leverage tools from nonlinear dynamical systems to model how insects combine distinct sensory cues like...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $2,212,841 project grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to the University of Montana. The 4-year project, starting September 1, 2024, will develop a spatially-explicit model to forecast how bats in North America adapt to the disease white-nose syndrome and changing climate conditions. The project will study three bat species and engage a diverse team of researchers across wildlife biology, disease ecology, and computational...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) award provides a $270,000 Postdoctoral Fellowship grant over a 3-year period from September 2025 to August 2028. The fellowship supports research and training to contribute to innovative advances in the biology of behavior. The project will investigate how behavior and brain gene expression change across an animal's lifespan, how the brain and body work together to produce behavior, and how behavior and brain gene...
This Project Grant award of $270,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for fiscal year 2025. The research will contribute to understanding how insect diets have evolved and shaped speciation over millions of years, including the role of symbiotic bacteria. The fellowship will support the postdoctoral researcher in reconstructing evolutionary diet shifts in seed bugs, identifying...
NSF POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN BIOLOGY FY 2020: MECHANISMS OF SENSORY-MOTOR COORDINATION IN ZOOSPORES OF PATHOGENIC CHYTRID FUNGI The National Science Foundation awarded a $207,000 Project Grant to support research on the mechanisms of sensory-motor coordination in zoospores of pathogenic chytrid fungi. The award was made under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences and enhance understanding of major problems confronting the nation. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 Biological Sciences) provides $240,000 to fund a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2024. The fellowship supports a research and training plan that aims to enhance understanding of human-wildlife interactions in the face of global change, with a focus on birds worldwide. The fellow will develop a new modeling framework and global database to predict human-wildlife interactions and determine key drivers....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $308,653 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to New Mexico State University (NMSU) for a 3-year research project investigating the interactive effects of bats and insects on shrub encroachment dynamics in the Chihuahuan Desert. The project aims to quantify bat activity, diet, and arthropod abundance across grass-dominated, shrub-dominated, and transitional habitats to evaluate how insectivorous bats are affected by and...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $171,885 supports research at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The research aims to advance understanding of cranial morphological diversity in bats through an integrative study of functionality. The project will explicitly examine how the interaction of feeding, respiration, olfaction and other cranial functions shaped skull evolution in bats. Researchers will use micro-computed tomography to image...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award of $240,000 from June 15, 2023 to May 31, 2026 supports an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The research aims to study the evolution and development of retinal specializations in fish, which can help understand how the environment and development shape the biology and evolution of the eye. The key products of this project include: 1) evolutionary genomics and...