Project Grant 2429008
Award Date
8/1/24
Completion Date
7/31/27
Dollars Obligated
$182K
Federal Agency
Division of Integrative Organismal Systems
Federal Grant Program
47.074
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
Similar Awards
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program provides $502,563 to Villanova University to study the developmental reprogramming of neurons in fruit flies (Drosophila) as they mature from larvae to adults. The key objectives are to: 1) Determine how different subtypes of DDAG neurons in adult female flies contribute to mating behaviors, and elucidate the larval counterparts of each DDAG subtype and their functions; and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award of $240,000 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a postdoctoral fellowship at Raleigh, NC to study the neural control of acoustic duetting in fruit flies. The research aims to investigate how the brain evolves to generate new mating behaviors, such as female flies singing back to males during courtship. The project will leverage the fruit fly as a model organism to understand the neural circuitry that coordinates...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $1,324,710 provides funding from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025 to support research understanding how newly evolved genes acquire protein interactions and regulatory mechanisms in Drosophila reproduction. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the award to the College of the Holy Cross will explore how three genes essential for Drosophila melanogaster spermatogenesis evolved novel capabilities, including physical...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $350,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to study how neural circuits in fruit flies process and extract visual features for navigation. The 5-year project, starting on March 1, 2025, aims to identify the key visual cues that contribute to the flies' spatial and directional senses, combining anatomical, physiological, and computational approaches. The research...
The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was awarded a $359,148 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education (47.076) federal grant program. The award will support the development of course-based undergraduate research experiences integrating advanced DNA sequencing technologies at minority-serving institutions from June 2022 to May 2024. Specifically, the Laboratory will partner with New York City College of Technology, Spelman...
This $238,681 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) funds research into the genetic architecture of exploration behavior in Drosophila at the University of Houston-Downtown. The researchers will use novel arena exploration assays and integrated genetic approaches to identify genes and neurons responsible for neophilia, or attraction to novel stimuli. Specifically, they will determine dopamine signaling requirements for exploratory...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $240,000 provides funding for a postdoctoral research fellowship from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027. The fellowship will support research and training to investigate the rules governing interactions between genomes, environment, and phenotypes, with a focus on understanding how repetitive DNA sequences, particularly a satellite repeat on the X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, influence...
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...
This Project Grant award of $1,140,828 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, effective August 1, 2024. The purpose of the award is to generate novel network analysis tools to elucidate the functional logic of 3D vision circuits in the Drosophila (fruit fly) brain. The project aims to shed light on the relationship between microsaccades (small-scale eye movements) and 3D...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $445,419 will fund research into glial regulation of neural homeostasis during environmental stress in Drosophila melanogaster from August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2025. The grant is part of the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote biological sciences research and enhance understanding of major problems. Specifically, the grant recipient, College of the Holy Cross, will study novel mechanisms by which glial cells and...