Project Grant 2611374
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley on July 15, 2026, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). This collaborative research initiative focuses on engineering synthetic multi-kingdom anaerobic communities designed to produce volatile fatty acids from biomass. The award will support basic research activities through...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $1.59M Project Grant to the Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle, WA) effective September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2029, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The project investigates how spatial differentiation of ecotypes enhances microbial mutualism and cooperation within microbial communities. Using a model synthetic community comprising Desulfovibrio...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded $700,000 to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) on September 1, 2025, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for a three-year collaborative research initiative titled "Elucidating and Manipulating Carbon Metabolic Niches in Soil Microbiomes Using Synthetic Communities for Sustainable Agriculture." The primary deliverables include scientific research...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of California, Davis received a $458,552 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2027. This award funds research and development of genetically engineered methanotrophic bacterial strains designed to reduce downstream processing costs associated with polyhydroxyalkanoate...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Arizona State University received a $700,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2028. The award funds research to elucidate and understand "covert" or non-obligate metabolic interactions within synthetic microbial communities—interactions that are not essential to community survival but...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of California, San Diego received a $1.21M Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (CFDA 47.074 – Biological Sciences) awarded August 1, 2026, with completion targeted for July 31, 2029. This research project investigates mechanisms of resource allocation in non-growing bacteria, specifically examining how starving bacterial cells degrade proteins to generate energy and synthesize new...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of California, Santa Barbara received a $832,871 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for collaborative research on termite methane emissions. The award, effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028, supports fundamental research to quantify and understand methane production across termite species in tropical ecosystems. Research...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded UC Berkeley $87,250 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) beginning September 1, 2025, with completion by August 31, 2027. This Project Grant supports the development of genomic language models (GLMs) to predict optimal fungal genomes for enhanced commercial protein production. The primary deliverables include a hierarchical genome-to-phenotype model (G2PM) for...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $900,000.00 to Colorado State University (CSU) aims to develop a novel microbiome modeling platform. The platform will integrate omics data, thermodynamics principles, metabolic models, and artificial intelligence to unravel the metabolism, interactions, and evolution of microbiomes. This research will be applied to address specific questions regarding the microbiome of a "rewired...
- This $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program supports research by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to design, build, and test synthetic signaling systems built from computationally-designed de novo protein components. The goal is to develop stable, tunable, and modular signaling systems capable of precisely controlling biological processes, with applications in biotechnology such as engineered cells for...
Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded $800,000 to the University of California, Santa Barbara under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) on July 15, 2026, with a completion date of June 30, 2029. This collaborative research project will engineer synthetic multi-kingdom anaerobic microbial communities designed to convert plant and agricultural waste into volatile fatty acids (VFAs), supporting U.S. biomanufacturing objectives. The research will develop automation-based experimentation tools to identify optimal microbial combinations for maximizing plant waste conversion to commodity products, as well as genetic engineering tools to enhance bioproduction in difficult-to-culture microorganisms. Specifically, the project will construct synthetic consortia by partnering anaerobic fungi with chain-elongating bacteria—inspired by natural partnerships observed in herbivore rumen environments—to degrade lignocellulose and upgrade fungal byproducts into VFAs. The deliverables include methodologies and computational models advancing understanding of microbial community structure and stability, with anticipated applications to related fields such as human gut microbiome research. The award also encompasses training and outreach activities emphasizing the environmental significance of microorganisms, positioning this research to advance both fundamental microbiology and practical bioproduction platforms for sustainable chemical manufacturing from waste materials.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $800.0k | 7/9/26 |