This $1,150,390 Project Grant award was provided by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859) to Rutgers, The State University. The grant supports a 5-year research project to identify sex differences in circadian output signaling from the brain clock to peripheral metabolic tissues using the Drosophila melanogaster genetic model. The key objectives are to: 1) Map sex-specific circuitry and signaling...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $240,000 in funding from February 1, 2024 to January 31, 2027 to support a postdoctoral research fellowship focused on investigating a novel circadian time-keeping mechanism revealed by environmental manipulation. The research plan aims to identify the location in the brain and the mechanism of a non-canonical clock that can rescue daily rhythms in mice with disrupted central clock...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program, will support research at Villanova University to investigate how larval neurons in the fruit fly Drosophila are reprogrammed during maturation to enable adult-specific behaviors. The $502,563 award, effective April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2028, will fund a project that aims to: 1) Determine how different subtypes of DDAG neurons in adult flies contribute to female mating behaviors...
This $1,000,000 National Science Foundation project grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support research at West Virginia University to explore circadian regulation of olfactory modulation through serotonin signaling in fruit flies. Over a three-year period, the grantee will combine neuroanatomy, molecular biology and physiology experiments to determine how the brain's clock network influences two identified serotonin neurons that project to multiple processing...
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 $207,000 funds research into circadian rhythms in crickets from August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2026. The award is provided through the Biological Sciences program under the Biological Infrastructure division, with a CFDA number of 47.074. The fellowship will support integrative research investigating the interaction of genomes, environment and phenotypes in circadian rhythms, a fundamental biological process. Using the acoustic mating...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program grant (CFDA 47.074) awarded to Carleton College provides $419,182 in funding to support a collaborative research project investigating the integration of temporal, positional, and sex-specifying cues in neuronal development and reproductive behaviors. The 3-year project, with a start date of September 1, 2024, seeks to discover the molecular mechanisms that regulate the generation of specific neurons controlling reproductive...
This $769,794 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports collaborative research conducted by Brown University to investigate the regulation of co-transmission in "bilingual" neurons that release multiple neurotransmitters. The research aims to identify the molecular and physiological mechanisms underlying how these co-transmitting neurons dynamically adapt their signaling properties in response...
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 $300,000 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support research to explore the evolution of neural cell types and circuits in the insect visual system across different species. Led by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the project will utilize state-of-the-art genomic and genetic approaches to investigate how changes in neural composition and wiring affect specific behaviors in mosquitoes, houseflies, and...