This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award of $240,000 from June 15, 2023 to May 31, 2026 supports an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The research aims to study the evolution and development of retinal specializations in fish, which can help understand how the environment and development shape the biology and evolution of the eye. The key products of this project include: 1) evolutionary genomics and...
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...
This $240,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a postdoctoral research fellowship focused on discovering and functionally exploring nature's repurposed enzymes in specialized metabolism. The research aims to identify and characterize new enzymes that have gained novel functions through evolutionary changes, with the potential to discover useful tools for biotechnology and medicine. The fellowship will support a...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program grant provides $270,000 in funding from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028 to support postdoctoral research on mechanisms coupling photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation. The research aims to study a rare case where a nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium has become a permanent compartment within an alga, known as a "diazoplast." The project will identify and test genes important for diazoplast biology, using a...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to further the program's goals of advancing basic biological research and strengthening the Nation's scientific enterprise. Specifically, the grant will fund research leveraging rapid evolution to study the dynamics of polygenic adaptation. The work will be conducted at...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support postdoctoral fellowship research in biology from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen understanding of major problems facing the nation. The funding will support postdoctoral research focused on biophotonics, species relationships, to be conducted in Wexford, Pennsylvania. The Biological...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $138,000 provides funding from November 1, 2022 through October 31, 2024 to support research and training under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The award will fund a postdoctoral fellowship to investigate how gene-environment interactions have shaped the repeated evolution of differentiated multicellularity. The fellow will employ single-cell transcriptomics and comparative analyses to examine how...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $276,000 provides funding for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024. The award supports research and training under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to increase scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems through basic biological research. Specifically, the fellowship will fund integrative research investigating genetic and evolutionary dynamics that produce...
This $270,000 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to fund a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2025. The award supports research and training of the fellow that will contribute to biology in innovative ways, specifically investigating the evolutionary determinants of protein biophysics. The research will determine the relationship between protein thermodynamic stability and effective...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $276,000 supports a postdoctoral fellowship in biology for fiscal years 2022 through 2024 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The fellowship will fund research and training investigating the spatiotemporal coordination of cell and chloroplast division in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Using gene editing, live cell microscopy, and other techniques, the fellow will test hypotheses about cytoskeletal structures...