Project Grant 2434513
Award Date
7/1/25
Completion Date
6/30/28
Dollars Obligated
$845K
Federal Agency
Division of Environmental Biology
Federal Grant Program
47.074
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Madison, WI 53715, USA
Similar Awards
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research to investigate the evolutionary and ecological stability of interactions between the pea aphid and its parasitoid wasp, Aphidius ervi. The $509,821 award to the University of Georgia Research Foundation aims to uncover how the balance between resistance and susceptibility to the parasitoid wasp is maintained, and how agricultural management practices can mitigate the...
This $535,370 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports collaborative research at Syracuse University to study the effects of warming temperatures and biotic interactions on aphid population dynamics. The research aims to improve understanding of factors affecting insect herbivore abundance under current and future climate scenarios. Key aspects of the project include: Conducting field experiments in a Rocky Mountain...
This $919,730 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research by Auburn University to analyze the phylogeny and invasiveness of aphids. The project aims to (i) estimate phylogenetic relationships among aphid lineages, (ii) use comparative phylogenetic analyses to investigate drivers of biological invasions, and (iii) extend practical biodiversity science through international collaboration and student training....
This $361,227 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to investigate how insect immune systems interact with bacterial symbionts. The primary objective is to use transcriptome sequencing and immune assays to test the hypothesis that host immune suppression is a key mechanism driving the distribution of symbiotic microbes across aphid species. A secondary...
This $158,371 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will fund collaborative research on the integrated dynamics between plants and aphids mediated by above- and below-ground mutualisms in a rapidly warming Rocky Mountain ecosystem. The research aims to: Integrate the direct effects of temperature on aphid development with indirect effects driven by shifts in above- and below-ground ecological interactions. Assess...
This $290,025 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research to develop new methods for detecting eukaryotic symbionts associated with insects. The primary awardee, the University of Iowa, will use the funding to: 1) design PCR blocking primers to inhibit amplification of insect DNA while allowing detection of other eukaryotic organisms, and 2) conduct large-scale surveys of insect-symbiont diversity across two...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $371,044 in funding to support research on the evolutionary ecology of leafflower plants and moths. The award will fund four master's students at the University of Texas Permian Basin (UTPB) to study the genetics, microbiology, and biology of leafflower moths that have transitioned from mutualistic to parasitic relationships with their host plants. The project will...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $240,000 provides funding from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026 to investigate heritable viruses as hidden drivers of host phenotypes in aphids. The award is made under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to further the program's goals of advancing biological sciences and strengthening the scientific enterprise. Specifically, the fellow will conduct integrative research using aphids and their densoviruses as a model system to...
This Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) provides $552,890 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program (CFDA 10.310) to The Ohio State University from February 1, 2023 to January 31, 2026. The grant aims to advance climate-resilient, integrated resistance management programs for host plant resistant crops through a combined experimental and mathematical modeling approach...
The University of Wisconsin System, through its University of Wisconsin - Madison division, was awarded a $299,900 Project Grant from the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) to develop algorithms and a decision framework for using insect eavesdropping technology to monitor pest damage in major agricultural crops. The key objectives are to: (1) Develop an algorithm that correlates insect eavesdropper sensor signals to pest density, and (2) Create a decision tree...