This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $207,000 provides funding for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026. The grant is awarded under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences. The fellowship will support research examining spatial and temporal variation in heavy metal and salt content accumulated by plant species across urban-rural gradients in North and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $249,000 will fund a postdoctoral research fellowship from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. The fellowship will support research and training focused on "Capturing RNA Modifications from Start to Finish: Transcription to Maturation during Heat Stress" at the Université Paris-Saclay in France under the sponsorship of Drs. Martin Crespi and Moussa Benhamed. The research aims to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences Program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant will provide $240,000 in funding to support a postdoctoral research fellowship focused on investigating the molecular mechanisms governing the remarkable adaptability of aquatic plants. The research aims to elucidate the genetic underpinnings of heterophylly (the ability to produce different leaf forms) and facultative CAM photosynthesis in the model plant Littorella uniflora. The project will employ...
This $1,242,385 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) funds research at the University of Missouri System to coordinate plant responses to abiotic and biotic stresses. The research aims to understand how plants prioritize and integrate signals from diverse environmental stresses like low nutrient availability and bacterial pathogens. A team of researchers with expertise in iron nutrition, bacterial pathogen responses, cellular biology,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $240,000 to support a 3-year postdoctoral research fellowship investigating the rules of life governing interactions between plant genomes, environment, and phenotypes. The project will test the assumption that plant leaf airspaces are saturated with water vapor, which is used in important Earth systems models. If these airspaces are found to be unsaturated, it would overturn decades...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $207,000 provides funding for a postdoctoral research fellowship in biology from February 1, 2023 through January 31, 2026. The fellowship supports research and training under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to advance biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increased knowledge and understanding of major problems. Specifically, the fellow will conduct integrative research...
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 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology award for $138,000 provides funding from August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2025 to support research investigating the role of host-associated microbes in plant responses to global environmental stressors such as drought. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the fellowship will advance understanding of microbial influences on host acclimation, adaptation, and population persistence under changing...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $216,000 Project Grant to support a POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN BIOLOGY from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to study the evolution and characterization of C4 and C3-C4 plant phenotypes. The goal of the Biological Sciences program is to promote advancement in the biological sciences and strengthen the national scientific enterprise through increasing scientific knowledge and...
This $138,000 National Science Foundation award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. The fellowship will support integrative research investigating the rules governing interactions between genomes, environments and phenotypes in plant microbiomes under global change. The fellow will test new theory on plant-microbe associations and apply a tradeoff framework analyzing microbial yield,...