Project Grant 2516240
- Grant Award Summary Rutgers, The State University received a $819,635 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2029. This collaborative research project will advance understanding of cis-regulatory dynamics in maize domestication and improvement through innovative genomic, epigenomic, and computational approaches. The research will map accessible...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded $729,010 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. for a collaborative research project commencing August 1, 2026 and concluding July 31, 2029. This Project Grant supports innovative genomic, epigenomic, and computational research to characterize cis-regulatory regions—DNA sequences that control gene expression—at single-cell...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary New York University received a $350,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2027. The award funds development of an innovative microfluidic platform called "Crowd-on-Chip" designed to miniaturize plant cell biology research. The primary deliverable is an enhanced prototype microfluidic...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory received a $878,729 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded on May 15, 2026, with completion scheduled for April 30, 2029. The award funds fundamental research to elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which the RNA-binding protein Terminal Ear1 (TE1) regulates post-transcriptional control of developmental gene...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure awarded $686,065 to Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. on July 15, 2026, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct collaborative research examining the role of dihydrouridine (DHU), an RNA covalent modification, in plant stress tolerance. The three-year project, scheduled for completion on June 30, 2029, will deliver fundamental research outputs including...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded $876,250 to the University of California, Berkeley under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for collaborative research on epigenetic editing technologies for crop improvement. The award, effective October 1, 2025, through April 30, 2028, supports the development and advancement of epigenetic editing methods—techniques that modify gene expression without altering...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Cornell University received a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded June 15, 2025, with completion targeted for November 30, 2026. This collaborative research initiative, titled "ACED: Planet-Scale AI for Accelerating Environmental Science—Invasive Species and Beyond," delivers an artificial intelligence (AI) framework designed to address...
- Federal Project Grant Summary Iowa State University of Science and Technology received a $1,035,762 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2028. The award supports fundamental research on the functional genomics of floral meristem termination in maize, with the primary objective of identifying genes and gene regulatory networks critical for proper flower development and...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $900,000 Project Grant to the University of Pennsylvania on September 15, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative, funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), investigates the mechanism of transcription factor (TF) functional divergence through "differential usage of shared binding sites"...
- This $452,399 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Hofstra University to investigate the epigenetic regulation of transposable elements in maize. The research aims to study the RNA-directed DNA methylation (RDDM) induced by naturally occurring maize "killer" alleles and explore the dynamic regulation of transposable element silencing in response to developmental cues. The project will...
New York University received a $668,777 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded August 1, 2026, with completion targeted for July 31, 2029. This collaborative research initiative will deliver innovative genomic, epigenomic, and computational approaches to characterize cis-regulatory dynamics in maize domestication and improvement quantitative trait loci (QTL) at single-cell resolution. The project employs accessible chromatin mapping and transcription factor binding analysis to identify and functionally dissect regulatory sequences that drive important agronomic traits, with the goal of providing unprecedented precision in locating the specific DNA sequences responsible for phenotypic variation in this major crop species. The award will produce research outputs including empirical datasets on cell-type-specific transcriptional networks in maize, development of artificial intelligence models capable of predicting regulatory regions in complex crop genomes, and functional dissection of two critical QTLs relevant to modern maize improvement. Additionally, this collaborative research will contribute workforce development by training a new generation of scientists in rapidly advancing artificial intelligence, genomics, and epigenomics technologies, thereby supporting the nation's bioeconomy and accelerating future breeding efforts and biotechnological applications in agriculture.Federal Project Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $668.8k | 7/13/26 |