Project Grant 2523903
- This $626,680 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research at Colorado State University from January 2024 through December 2026. The research aims to understand the mechanistic, functional, and evolutionary bases of slow-fast phenotypic diversity and its significance in social honeybee groups. Investigators will study genetic lines of honeybees bred for low and high metabolic rates to understand fundamental differences. A...
- This $654,761 National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant awarded to the Chicago Horticultural Society's Chicago Botanic Garden division will investigate how bee populations respond to rapid environmental changes. The researchers will use in-situ temperature manipulations and cross-population comparisons to measure the direct and indirect effects of climate change, including impacts mediated through changes in food resources and nest parasites, on vital...
- This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems provides $138,000 to fund postdoctoral research integrating genes, environment and behavior to understand nutrient foraging in honey bees. The award period is from March 2022 through February 2024, with performance taking place in State College, Pennsylvania. This award supports the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in biology and strengthen the...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $240,000 in funding to support a postdoctoral research fellowship in biology from July 2024 to June 2027. The fellowship will investigate how honeybee swarms utilize local information to adapt their internal and external structures in response to environmental perturbations such as wind, rain, and temperature changes. The research will involve experimental studies using X-ray...
- This three-year, $753,407 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Marquette University to understand how honeybees collectively manage thermal fluctuations. The principal investigator will study the physiological, genetic, behavioral and neural mechanisms that allow honeybee colonies to effectively regulate temperature through fanning behavior. The research aims to determine how social interactions shape fanning responses, uncover neural gene networks associated with...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 Biological Sciences) provides $452,959.00 to the University of California, Merced for a research project titled "Downscaling the Effects of Network Structure on Pollinator Fitness". The project aims to understand how individual bee behaviors, such as flower visitation and foraging time, impact their reproduction and the persistence of bee populations. By studying a native solitary bee species through...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports research, education, and outreach activities focused on understanding and improving the health and swarming behavior of honeybee colonies. The $325,000 award to North Dakota State University (NDSU) will fund the development of novel diagnostic methodologies that integrate vibroacoustic and electric field measurements to monitor the health of bee colonies, aiming to reduce...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation supports research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: BEE: INTEGRATING EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS AND POPULATION ECOLOGY TO DETECT CONTEMPORARY ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE ACROSS A SPECIES RANGE" being conducted by the University of California, Merced from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2025. The $216,783 in funding is provided under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to increase scientific knowledge and understanding...
- This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) aims to develop a large dataset of expertly labeled bee images, create an AI-based classification model to identify bee species, and establish a research hub website for automated bee identification, data sharing, and citizen science. The total funding amount is $342,866.00, to be provided over the award period from August 15, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The University of Kansas Center for...
- This $241,419 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the protective symbiosis mechanism of honey bees at the University of Michigan from October 2022 to October 2023. The goal is to characterize how a bacterial symbiont protects honey bee brood from fungal pathogens by investigating its antifungal properties. Researchers will use microbiology, genetics, genomics, chemistry and bee rearing to determine how the trait evolved and identify the antifungal metabolite...
This $500,000 Project Grant awarded on November 1, 2025 by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 Biological Sciences) aims to investigate how honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) integrate daylength and temperature cues in their nervous system to synchronize their foraging behaviors with environmental conditions. The University of Kentucky Research Foundation, a non-profit subsidiary of the University of Kentucky, will conduct this research over a 3-year period ending on October 31, 2028. The project goals include providing high school students opportunities to learn about beekeeping, environmental science, and STEM careers, as well as advancing scientific understanding of how organisms adapt to ecosystem changes that cause mismatches between environmental cues. The research will leverage innovative behavioral tracking, molecular, imaging, and functional nervous system studies to examine the impacts of current and projected daylength and temperature changes on honey bee behavioral rhythms. The honey bee is an ideal model species to identify features of the nervous system that confer resilience to environmental change, given its ability to thrive in diverse ecosystems.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $500.0k | 7/23/25 |