Project Grant 2553795
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of South Florida received a $705,311 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for the period July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2030. This collaborative research initiative investigates the parallel origin and evolution of venom systems across multiple venomous animal species, leveraging integrative approaches including artificial intelligence (AI) to...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded $501,107 in project grant funding (CFDA 47.074 – Biological Sciences) to the University of Puerto Rico Research and Development Center Division on August 1, 2025, for collaborative research on social predators and the parallel evolution of weapon complexity. The three-year project, concluding July 31, 2028, will investigate how venom complexity—encompassing both venom toxins and...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Florida State University received a $932,200 Project Grant award on September 15, 2025, from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The award supports a collaborative research initiative examining how neural mechanisms and behavioral processes drive speciation in upland chorus frogs. The research will investigate the relationship between auditory neural circuits and mating...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Florida State University received a $253,886 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded June 15, 2026, with completion targeted for May 31, 2029. This collaborative research project investigates how geological dynamics and biological interactions jointly shape biodiversity in mountain ecosystems, with particular focus on mountain squamates (lizards and snakes). The...
- This collaborative research project, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), investigates the evolution of venom complexity in social versus solitary spiders. The University of Florida, as the primary awardee, will conduct a three-year study (August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2028) with total funding of $698,893 to examine how sociality influences venom composition, toxin diversity, and...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of New Mexico received a $610,890 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2030. This CAREER award supports fundamental research investigating the molecular mechanisms of venom in ectoparasitoid wasps, specifically examining how venom proteins manipulate host insect metabolism,...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Florida State University received a $864,959 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2031. The award funds fundamental research investigating the causal mechanisms linking epigenetic regulation, gene expression, and phenotypic diversity within and across generations using...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology awarded $901,646 to the University of Florida under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for a three-year collaborative research project spanning July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029. This project develops an innovative framework for measuring mammalian diets with unprecedented precision by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies with...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded $739,821 to the University of Florida under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for a five-year CAREER project commencing June 1, 2025, and concluding May 31, 2030. This Project Grant supports an integrated research and educational initiative investigating heterogeneity in lizard-malaria transmission through the combination of mathematical modeling and ecological experimentation....
- Federal Grant Award Summary Mississippi State University received a $399,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology (Biological Sciences program, CFDA 47.074) effective August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2029. The award supports the development of robust, user-friendly machine learning (ML) tools designed to advance demographic inference and population genetic analysis across diverse organisms. The primary deliverables include: (1) machine...
Florida State University received a $899,690 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), awarded July 1, 2026, with completion targeted for June 30, 2030. This collaborative research initiative investigates the parallel origin and evolution of venom systems across multiple animal species using integrative approaches including artificial intelligence (AI). The project delivers fundamental scientific research outputs examining convergent evolution—the phenomenon where different species independently develop similar complex traits—by analyzing how venom systems have arisen over 100 times across more than 200,000 venomous animal species. The research identifies molecular mechanisms, genetic constraints, and gene-regulatory networks underlying the repeated evolution of specialized venom tissues, toxin expression, processing, secretion, and storage systems. The award supports both basic scientific discovery and applied biotechnological innovation by uncovering how evolution repeatedly solves complex biological problems across the tree of life. Products generated through this research include advanced computational models and AI applications for analyzing venom system development, scientific data on convergent evolution mechanisms, and methodological tools applicable to understanding complex trait evolution. These research outputs are expected to advance evolutionary biology knowledge while catalyzing future biotechnological innovations within the broader bioeconomy through identification of functional solutions derived from natural systems.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $899.7k | 5/26/26 |