This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $240,000 provides funding for a postdoctoral research fellowship investigating the rules of life governing interactions between genomes, environment, and phenotypes in the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile), an invasive species with significant negative impacts on native ecosystems and agriculture. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Empirical testing of the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $414,000 Project Grant to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to advance biological science research and understanding. The Fellowship will fund integrative research investigating the evolutionary rules governing interactions between genomes, environments and phenotypes that influence transmission...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support a postdoctoral fellowship in biology from March 1, 2022 to February 29, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct research investigating the behavioral and genetic mechanisms underlying invasiveness at the place of performance in Austin, Texas. The Biological Sciences program aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $138,000 supports an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology for fiscal year 2022 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The fellowship funds research and training investigating the role of genomic preadaptation and physiological state in modulating bacterial invasion success. Specifically, the fellow will quantify invasion outcomes across diverse Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from different environments. The fellow will...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports a postdoctoral research fellowship to investigate the genomic basis of rapid urban adaptation in house mice. The $240,000 award, effective December 1, 2024 through November 30, 2027, will enable the fellow to: 1) characterize temporal shifts in urban mouse population structure and genetic diversity, and 2) identify genomic signatures of rapid adaptation to urban...
This $414,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds postdoctoral research fellowship activities from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026 under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The fellowship will support integrative research investigating the rules of life governing interactions between genomes, environment and phenotypes. Specifically, the fellow will conduct multiple experiments in defaunated and intact tropical forests in Ecuador to investigate how the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant award provides $270,000 to fund a 3-year postdoctoral research fellowship focused on understanding how host immunity drives the evolution of pathogen virulence. The research will use mathematical models and laboratory experiments with Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria to investigate how different components of the immune system and population-level variation in...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $240,000 over three years starting on September 1, 2024 to fund a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. The research aims to investigate the effects of bioengineered organisms on community assembly and ecosystem functioning in a soil microbial community. The fellow will use genetic engineering to create microbial consortia and study the impacts on community and...
NSF POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN BIOLOGY FY 2021: INVADERS FROM THE SEA: UNEARTHING THE GENOMIC BASIS OF MARINE-TO-TERRESTRIAL LIFE-HISTORY TRANSITIONS This $207,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure will fund research from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant aims to advance understanding of major problems confronting the nation by promoting progress in the biological sciences....
This three-year, $240,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation will support genomic research and public education on wildlife viral emergence in Cambodia. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the award will enable a postdoctoral fellow to conduct metagenomic surveillance of rodents, mosquitoes, and the environment to detect known and novel viruses. Sequence data will be analyzed alongside climate and landscape data to model zoonotic spillover risk. The fellow...