Project Grant 2525976
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program awarded a $557,547.00 project grant to American University on September 1, 2025 for the project "Collaborative Research: The Causes and Consequences of Adaptive Radiation in Animal Communication, from Individuals to Communities". This grant supports fundamental research to study how new and novel traits arise and persist in animal communication, with a focus on observing the rapid...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $207,000 funds research into the mechanisms of phenotypic novelty in cricket song evolution from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026. The award is made under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which supports basic biological research to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise. The fellow will integrate computational and experimental tools to study signal evolution in the Hawaiian field cricket, leveraging its...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $1,263,992 project grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct collaborative research on the mechanistic basis of cricket wing dimorphism. The project aims to develop a powerful model system using North American field crickets in the genus Gryllus to discover the genetic, developmental, physiological, and environmental processes that...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $730,738 Project Grant to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, doing business as the University of Nebraska, to conduct research under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program. The funded project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EDGE CMT: MECHANISTIC BASIS OF CRICKET WING DIMORPHISM: PREDICTING PHENOTYPE FROM GENOTYPE IN COMPLEX THRESHOLD TRAITS", aims to develop a model system using North American field...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program awarded a $736,073 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, to examine intraspecific variation in female choosiness for male courtship songs and its genetic basis in crickets. The 3-year research project, running from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028, aims to quantify individual differences in female choosiness, explore the heritability...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award of $240,000 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a postdoctoral fellowship at Raleigh, NC to study the neural control of acoustic duetting in fruit flies. The research aims to investigate how the brain evolves to generate new mating behaviors, such as female flies singing back to males during courtship. The project will leverage the fruit fly as a model organism to understand the neural circuitry that coordinates...
- This National Science Foundation project grant award of $276,000 funds an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024. The fellowship supports integrative research investigating the rules governing interactions between genomes, environments and phenotypes. Specifically, the fellow will examine the repeatability and predictability of evolutionary processes across whole genomes in hybrid zones between North American field crickets. Through a genotype-phenotype...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $207,000 funds research into circadian rhythms in crickets from August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2026. The award is provided through the Biological Sciences program under the Biological Infrastructure division, with a CFDA number of 47.074. The fellowship will support integrative research investigating the interaction of genomes, environment and phenotypes in circadian rhythms, a fundamental biological process. Using the acoustic mating...
- This Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program. The grant, awarded on September 15, 2025, totals $611,195.00 and aims to investigate how neuronal circuits in the brain influence mating behaviors and contribute to the formation of new species (speciation) in upland chorus frogs. The research project, conducted by the University of Utah, will explore the relationship between auditory neural circuits and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports fundamental research to explore the cultural evolution and development of bird songs. The $352,744 award, with a project period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, will be conducted by the President & Trustees of Williams College. The key objectives of the research are to: 1) understand the tradeoffs between the effectiveness of a song in attracting mates and the...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) provides $1,266,115 to the University of Denver to conduct collaborative research on the causes and consequences of adaptive radiation in animal communication, from individuals to communities. The research aims to observe in real-time how new, novel traits arise and persist in Pacific field crickets that were recently introduced to Hawaii, where their mating songs attract a lethal eavesdropping fly. Through a combination of field and laboratory experiments, the researchers will study the microevolutionary processes that result in evolutionary novelty, with the goal of understanding how organisms can respond to environmental challenges through rapid trait change. The project will also engage the public through K-16 mentorship programs, podcast episodes, and the production of food items inspired by the research to catalyze conversations about animal communication. The project will run from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2029.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $1.3m | 7/18/25 |