Project Grant 2624569
- This $138,000 National Science Foundation award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2024. The fellowship will support integrative research investigating the rules governing interactions between genomes, environments and phenotypes in plant microbiomes under global change. The fellow will test new theory on plant-microbe associations and apply a tradeoff framework analyzing microbial yield,...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded the University of New Hampshire $338,121 on September 1, 2026, to develop artificial intelligence and machine-learning tools for predicting microbial community dynamics in thawing permafrost soils. The award supports research through the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The project combines long-read DNA sequencing technology with mathematical modeling to forecast how permafrost microbe communities respond and...
- This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) is providing $107,197 to North Dakota State University to investigate the impact of wildfires on soil microbial communities and agricultural recovery in western North Dakota. The award, effective March 1, 2025 through February 28, 2026, will support high-resolution microbial and biochemical analyses across three critical post-fire time points to track shifts in microbial composition,...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $240,000 over three years starting on September 1, 2024 to fund a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. The research aims to investigate the effects of bioengineered organisms on community assembly and ecosystem functioning in a soil microbial community. The fellow will use genetic engineering to create microbial consortia and study the impacts on community and...
- This National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology award for $138,000 provides funding from August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2025 to support research investigating the role of host-associated microbes in plant responses to global environmental stressors such as drought. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the fellowship will advance understanding of microbial influences on host acclimation, adaptation, and population persistence under changing...
- This collaborative research project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), aims to advance understanding of soil microbiome composition and function to support sustainable agriculture. Awarded to the University of Delaware on September 1, 2025, with total funding of $562,591 through August 31, 2028, the project will deliver fundamental research outputs including identification of carbon substrate...
- This National Science Foundation project grant award of $276,000 provides funding from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 to support research investigating the effects of microbiome ecological and evolutionary origin on plant-microbiome coevolution. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the fellowship will support a postdoctoral fellow's integrative research exploring how a microbiome's previous associations with plant hosts influence community adaptation and the...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support postdoctoral fellowship research titled "Effects of Community Interactions in Scaling of Microbial Processes" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to conduct basic biological research and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. Specifically, the fellowship will fund research at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana to advance...
- This two-year, $276,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds research into understanding the impact of microbiomes on plant performance in a warming climate. Led by researchers at Durham, North Carolina, the grant supports a postdoctoral fellow investigating how microbial communities inside and on plant surfaces change at elevated temperatures and the effects on plant health. Using molecular, multi-omic, and mathematical modeling approaches, the fellow will examine simultaneous...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology awarded the Institute for Systems Biology $1,585,262 on September 1, 2026, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to investigate how spatial differentiation of ecotypes enhances microbial mutualism and cooperation within microbial communities. Research will use a model synthetic community of sulfate-reducing bacteria (Desulfovibrio vulgaris) and methanogenic archaea (Methanococcus maripaludis) to test the hypothesis...
The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded North Dakota State University $277,596 on September 1, 2026, under the EPSCOR Research Fellows program (Assistance Listing 47.083) to fund an assistant professor fellowship and postdoctoral researcher training in genome-resolved and AI-informed modeling of soil microbiome functions across regional agroecosystem gradients. The research investigates how functional properties of soil microbiomes regulate agricultural productivity and resilience across environmental gradients. The project employs genome-resolved metagenomics, community-scale metabolic modeling, and artificial intelligence to identify microbial functions undetectable through traditional identity-based approaches. By uncovering hidden functional diversity and developing predictive relationships between microbiome function and agroecosystem performance, the work aims to improve understanding of soil microbiomes' contribution to sustainable agriculture. The project reconstructs microbial genomes from regional agricultural soils, derives community-weighted microbial traits including genome size and metabolic potential, and integrates these data within artificial intelligence frameworks to predict agroecosystem functions and resilience. The fellowship strengthens research capacity within an EPSCOR jurisdiction, expands collaborations between North Dakota State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and provides advanced training in computational microbiome science and data science. Performance takes place in Atlanta, Georgia, with a period of performance from September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2028. The award is structured as a Project Grant under the Integrative Activities program, which enhances research competitiveness through capacity building and broadened participation in STEM research and education.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $277.6k | 8/12/26 |