This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $240,000 in funding over 3 years starting June 1, 2025 to investigate how an alpine plant species in the Rocky Mountains will respond and adapt to climate change. The research aims to understand how population responses to microclimate variation impact range shifts under climate change scenarios. The project will use field and greenhouse experiments, genetic analyses, and...
This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) amounting to $138,000 will fund research identifying areas of high biological risk and predicting the impact of climate change on genetic diversity distribution. Awarded under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the grant will support the grantee located in Merced, California in advancing the program's goals of strengthening the Nation's biological science enterprise and increasing scientific knowledge of...
This $794,457 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support the development of new genetic analysis tools. The goal is to incorporate molecular and cellular biology knowledge, such as gene expression patterns and regulatory networks, directly into statistical models used to map genes, predict traits, and simulate changes in the genotype-to-phenotype relationships. The research will be conducted using simulated...
This Project Grant award, totaling $738,601, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program. The goal of the grant is to increase crop yield, specifically in soybeans, under conditions of heat stress and drought by enhancing the plants' ability to cool their reproductive organs. The key products and services to be delivered include: Conducting an integrated analysis of soybean plants subjected to various stress conditions, focusing on...
This $2,963,428 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) aims to develop critical infrastructure and tools for interpreting genomic data. The project will create high-quality genome assembly workflows, comprehensive documentation, and interactive training materials to make these advanced genomic analysis capabilities accessible to a wide audience of biology researchers. This will enable downstream discoveries in areas such as...
This Project Grant award of $520,720 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support research to develop new tools for incorporating emerging models of genetics into genetic mapping, prediction, and simulation. The research, conducted by Colorado State University, aims to better integrate molecular and cellular biology knowledge into statistical models used to map genes, predict traits, and simulate changes in the genotype-to-phenotype...
The National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded $206,971 to the University of California, Merced under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program. The four-year project grant will support collaborative research to harness adaptive genetic variation in drought resistance strategies to manage plant populations under climate change. Researchers will characterize how genetic variation acts through regulatory networks to adaptively tune organismal...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $500,611 provides funding from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025 to support research into the mechanisms of altitudinal range expansion by plant species under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The University Enterprises Corporation at California State University, San Bernardino will analyze historical and contemporary plant samples to elucidate patterns of adaptation that have allowed the model species Arabidopsis...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $121,025 to the New York Botanical Garden to understand the effects of ploidal level on plant responses to global change. The research will investigate how polyploidy affects fern species' ability to respond to increased temperature and decreased water availability through drought simulations. Gene expression and physiological responses to drought and heat will be measured for six...
This $534,635 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support research to investigate the genetic and physiological effects of whole genome duplication events in plants. The principal investigator and their team at the University of California, Santa Barbara will quantify organelle content, measure photosynthetic performance, and analyze nuclear and cytoplasmic gene expression in diploid, polyploid, and aneuploid plant...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $1,346,558 to the National Center For Genome Resources (NCGR), a non-profit research institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The goal of this collaborative research project is to develop computational tools and methods for exploring genetic diversity in plants as they adapt to climate change.
The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year award include:
Creating a modular software tool that enables biologists to identify regulatory DNA elements and connect them to gene expression and climate data, allowing for comprehensive analysis of how genetic diversity drives plant adaptation.
Testing and characterizing the software tool using public plant genomic and phenotypic datasets to demonstrate its capabilities in exploring how genetic diversity enables adaptation to changing climates.
Incorporating the methods developed into the software tool, which will be made available to scientists to aid in studying genetic diversity in various plant species and other organisms.
Conducting K-12, undergraduate, and graduate outreach programs to train the next generation of scientists on using the software tool to combat the effects of climate change.