The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $527,059 Project Grant through its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to The University Corporation, a non-profit organization affiliated with California State University, Northridge (CSUN). This grant will fund the acquisition of a high-performance computer cluster for computational biology research and education at CSUN. The cluster will enable the analysis of larger datasets and more complex simulations, advancing research in areas...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $246,762 to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2026. The project aims to develop a deeper understanding of the principles governing how biological organisms build robust and precise traits from variable and unreliable components, and how these insights can be applied to improve the resilience of engineered systems. Key focus...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $524,000 will support the development of network-based models to evaluate functional biodiversity responses to climate change and species invasions in marine biological communities. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), this award reflects NSF's mission to promote biological sciences research and strengthen the scientific enterprise. Specifically, researchers at the University of California, Davis will leverage long-term...
This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports the integration of organismal biology into the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) through a Research Coordination Network. The University of Michigan will coordinate this network from July 2021 through June 2026 to promote progress in the biological sciences through increased knowledge and understanding of major problems confronting the nation, as outlined in the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides funding to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) to support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site program in Bioinformatics and Computational Neuroscience. The $421,425 award, covering the summers of 2025-2027, will train 9 undergraduate students per year (27 total) in utilizing quantitative tools to address biological research questions. Students will gain...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $224,910 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The grant, effective from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, supports the development of scalable and automated software tools to simulate and analyze "active dynamics" in complex systems, such as flocks of birds, schools of fish, and networks of cells. The project aims to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Biological Infrastructure provides $404,868 to support an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site program at North Carolina State University from February 2024 to January 2027. The program aims to train 30 undergraduate students, primarily from underrepresented groups, in modeling the dynamics of biological systems using advanced quantitative imaging techniques. Students will conduct research in biology, chemistry,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences and the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems awarded a $240,000 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) under the NSF Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant supports collaborative research to develop unnatural cofactors that can be deployed as stronger-than-nature thermodynamic driving forces in biomanufacturing processes. This is...
This $741,002 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program supports the development of a novel machine learning framework for analyzing large-scale, multi-modal single-cell biological data. The project aims to construct advanced computational tools and user-friendly software to enable more effective extraction of insights and knowledge from complex single-cell datasets spanning genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, and proteomics. The...
This federal Project Grant award of $127,350.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) is funding the "Collaborative Research: Building a Collaborative Network of Researchers in Mechano-Computation" project at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The project aims to establish the "Mechano-Computation for Expanding Scientific Horizons (MESH) Network" to unite researchers across fields like...