Project Grant 2437471
Award Date
6/15/25
Completion Date
5/31/28
Dollars Obligated
$419K
Federal Agency
Division of Biological Infrastructure
Awardee
Bryn Mawr College (K6QTMYRRT6S5)
Federal Grant Program
47.074
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Bryn Mawr, PA, USA
Similar Awards
This $1,414,816 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the functional stratification of sensory encoding in the biological gyroscope of flying insects. Specifically, the grant funds work at Princeton University from January 2022 through July 2024 to reveal the principles of sensory encoding and sensorimotor processing that flies use to control their halteres and aerial maneuvers. The research will combine in vivo imaging and analysis approaches from computational...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $150,000 EAGER/Collaborative Research Project Grant to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). This 2-year grant supports research to investigate the remarkable stability and recovery capabilities of flying insects, such as hawkmoths, during high-speed flight maneuvers. The project combines mathematical analyses, high-fidelity computer simulations, and comparisons to experimental data to...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate awarded a $147,827 EAGER/Collaborative Research grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to investigate the extraordinary stability and rapid recovery capabilities of flying insects, specifically the hawkmoth. This Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) project will use mathematical analyses and high-fidelity computer simulations to fully explore and explain how certain insects can tolerate large...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to The Trustees of Princeton University under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) for work on "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EAGER: CHARACTERIZING A NOVEL TURBULENCE-GENERATING SYSTEM TO FACILITATE EXPLORATION OF INSECT ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR UNDER REAL-WORLD CONDITIONS." The two-year award beginning August 1, 2021 will support Princeton University's development of a novel turbulence-generating system to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $138,000 Project Grant to support research linking biomechanics to neurobiology in bird flight. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the award will enable study of how coordinated bird flight emerges from visual motion processing. The grant aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and increase understanding of major problems by supporting basic research from September 2021 to August 2023 in Missoula, Montana.
This Project Grant award, valued at $243,540.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). The objective of this project is to establish a physics-driven understanding of odor-tracking flapping flight in insects, which could inform the development of bio-inspired flying robots with enhanced aerodynamic performance and olfactory sensitivity. The key products and services to be delivered under this...
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) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $750,000 from July 15, 2024 to June 30, 2028 will support research conducted by the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) to investigate how an insect's hunger state affects its sense of smell and navigational decision-making. The project aims to enhance understanding of how hunger-related signaling, such as insulin, modulates the activity of key inhibitory neurons in the insect brain to...