Project Grant 2420366
- This $240,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds research assessing the morphological, behavioral, and genetic impacts of methylmercury on spiders. The grant supports a postdoctoral research fellowship in biology for 2023-2027 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The fellow will conduct laboratory and field studies to investigate sub-lethal effects of methylmercury exposure on spiders' behavior, growth, reproduction, and gene expression. Testing will include...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation supports collaborative research titled "Evolutionary and Functional Trade-offs in Extreme Sensory Capabilities of Nocturnal Predatory Spiders" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024 with total funding of $155,719. The research is conducted under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to advance understanding of major problems in biology. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts Office of Research Administration-Lowell...
- This $698,893 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will support collaborative research on how venom complexity has evolved in association with social behavior in spiders. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to investigate how venom composition, including both toxins and microbial communities, has changed across multiple independent origins of social living in spiders. By comparing venom traits in social spiders and their...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research on "The Neurocircuitry of Spider Web-Building" from March 1, 2022 to February 29, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences and increase understanding of major problems facing the nation. The grant will fund postdoctoral fellowship research at a location in Baltimore, Maryland to study the neural mechanisms...
- This $501,107 collaborative research project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will investigate how the complexity of spider venom has evolved in association with social living. The project aims to examine how venom composition, including toxins and microbial communities, has changed across multiple independent origins of social behavior in spiders. By comparing venom traits between social and solitary spiders, the researchers will...
- This $318,075 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support research exploring circadian clocks in spider species. The awardee, The Pennsylvania State University, will collaborate with other institutions to understand the evolutionary origins and underlying mechanisms of extraordinary circadian clocks found in araneoid spiders. The research team will study changes in clock genes and circadian properties across spider species to...
- This National Science Foundation project grant award of $276,000 provides funding from February 1, 2023 through January 31, 2025 to advance research on spider silk structure, mechanics and evolutionary ecology under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). Specifically, the award will support a postdoctoral research fellowship studying the unique horizontal orb webs and silk properties of the Wendilgarda clara spider species that lives at the air-water interface of streams....
- Cornell University was awarded a three-year $725,171 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct research titled "Evolutionary and Functional Trade-offs in Extreme Sensory Capabilities of Nocturnal Predatory Spiders." The goal of this research collaboration is to advance understanding of major biological questions regarding how nocturnal spiders have evolved enhanced sensory abilities to hunt at night...
- The Smithsonian Institution will receive $453,107 under a two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology to conduct research exploring the interplay between form and function in spider predatory strikes. The grant will support collaborative research from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. The research aims to advance understanding of the force-velocity trade-off in spider predatory strikes, with the goal of increasing scientific knowledge of...
- The University of Maryland, College Park received a $314,640 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology to conduct research exploring the interplay between form and function in spider predatory strikes. The two-year award, issued January 1, 2022 and set to conclude December 31, 2024, will fund research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The Biological Sciences program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $541,373 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to Oklahoma State University (OSU) to study the effects of male cannibalism on offspring traits in spiders. The research aims to determine which specific micronutrients, dietary amino acids, or fatty acids in male spider bodies are responsible for the nutritional benefits to female spiders and their offspring. The project will compare nutrient composition between male and female spiders across multiple species, as well as between male spiders and their insect prey, to identify unique nutritional properties of the male body. The researchers will also test if nutritional supplements containing the putative beneficial nutrients have the same effects as consuming the male body directly. This research is expected to provide a model for understanding micronutritional ecology, an emerging area of study, and will involve training students and conducting public outreach. The award period runs from August 2024 to July 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $541.4k | 7/15/24 |