Project Grant 2521636
- Brown University was awarded a $947,500 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Integrative Organismal Systems. The grant falls under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise through increasing scientific knowledge and enhancing understanding of major problems confronting the Nation. Specifically, the three-year grant will fund research from January 2021 to...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program is supporting research to investigate the origin and development of novel traits, specifically focused on the stinging apparatus of cnidarians (e.g., corals, jellyfish). The $230,000.00 award to Cornell University, which began on Mar 15, 2025 and is set to conclude by Feb 28, 2030, aims to characterize the protein-protein interactions necessary for the construction of the...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $142,508 Project Grant to the California Academy of Sciences to support collaborative research integrating phylogenomics with the fossil record of sea urchins. The goal of this three-year award, running from April 2021 through March 2024, is to advance understanding of macroevolutionary patterns in sea urchins through integrating modern genomic techniques with the fossil record of this model clade. This award supports the Biological Sciences program's...
- The University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography was awarded a $673,107 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of April 15, 2021 through March 31, 2024. The grant funds collaborative research between the awardee and other institutions to integrate phylogenomics with the fossil record to advance macroevolutionary research using sea urchins as a model clade. The Biological Sciences program aims...
- This $360,044 award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program supports a collaborative research project at Indiana University, Bloomington. The project aims to uncover fundamental principles of evolution by studying the relationship between an individual's choice of environment and the developmental processes that are shaped by that environment, using fruit flies as a model organism. The research will integrate theory and experiments across...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $415,782.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to Baylor University. The funding will support research to study how the evolution of feeding structure morphology in sea urchins is influenced by functional performance, and how this performance impacts the long-term evolution and ecology of these animals. The researchers plan to create a publicly accessible online database of 3D digital scans of all known...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Cornell University a $760,528 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct collaborative research on the regulatory basis of repeated color pattern evolution in butterflies. The research aims to address fundamental questions about the structure, function, and evolution of cis-regulatory elements, which play an essential role in phenotypic evolution by regulating gene expression patterns during development....
- This $900,000 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to The Johns Hopkins University. The grant will support research to investigate the mechanistic roles of hyper-divergent regions in gene-by-environment interactions and their impact on adaptation. The project will use cutting-edge genomics, genetic crosses, and high-throughput experiments with nematode species to uncover molecular details on how evolution...
- This $298,375 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program supports a collaborative research project focused on understanding how populations evolve in complex, changing environments. The primary awardee, Virginia Tech, will conduct both experimental and theoretical work to investigate the relationships between an individual's environmental preferences, developmental processes, and patterns of phenotypic plasticity. The researchers aim to develop a...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports research at Brown University to investigate the evolutionary mechanisms underlying the diversity of life on Earth. The research focuses on analyzing changes in the developmental programs of echinoderms, such as sea urchins and sea stars, to understand how unique cell types like micromeres evolved and their potential role in species divergence. The $1,337,703 award provides funding over a 4-year period from Sep 1, 2025 to Aug 31, 2029 to conduct this fundamental research in cell and developmental biology. In addition to the scientific research, the project also emphasizes outreach activities, including laboratory tours, student and teacher mentoring, and engaging undergraduates in the research. The results from this project are expected to provide insights into the essential mechanisms that enable Earth to host millions of diverse living organisms.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $1.3m | 8/14/25 |