The National Science Foundation awarded a $199,586 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota Office of Sponsored Projects Administration to conduct research on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of mutualisms for species range expansion from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. This award supports research under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $188,491 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program to the University of New Mexico. This 5-year grant, effective January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2029, will support collaborative research to investigate how microbial symbionts influence the health and stability of host plants, including grasses important for ranching and landscaping. The research team will use long-term demographic data from a unique...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $699,688 provides funding over four years from April 2022 through March 2026 for research into ecological and coevolutionary feedbacks in multi-mutualist communities. The award is made under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to support basic biological research that strengthens the Nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts Boston will conduct experimental research using strains of budding...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $229,210 EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project grant to the University of Mississippi. The grant titled "Surveying Impacts of Community Context on Adaptive Mutational Landscapes" will run from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025. The project aims to examine how community context alters species evolution using new techniques in whole-genome analyses. It will bridge the fields of...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $1,414,358 to support research examining how plant traits and species interactions influence ecosystem and population stability in the face of climate change. The Regents of the University of Minnesota will conduct theoretical modeling, greenhouse and field experiments, and engage in knowledge sharing activities from January 1, 2023 to...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $276,000 provides funding from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 to support research investigating the effects of microbiome ecological and evolutionary origin on plant-microbiome coevolution. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the fellowship will support a postdoctoral fellow's integrative research exploring how a microbiome's previous associations with plant hosts influence community adaptation and the...
This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund postdoctoral research exploring the effects of rapid evolution on alternative community states at multiple spatial scales. The fellow, Lucas Nell, will conduct laboratory experiments and develop mathematical models to study how trait evolution influences the composition of alternative microbial community states in monkeyflower nectar and their prevalence across a...
This $1,180,492 National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program Project Grant was awarded to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as the Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania, with a performance period from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2030. The grant will fund research to investigate how beneficial microbes that provide essential nutrients to their host, such as legume plants, can influence the evolution of the host's defensive...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $826,475 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota Office of Sponsored Projects Administration to support collaborative research titled "Microbial Necromass Decomposition: Moving from Predictions to Principles" from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support postdoctoral fellowship research titled "Effects of Community Interactions in Scaling of Microbial Processes" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct basic biological research and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. Specifically, the fellowship will fund research at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana to advance...