Project Grant IBN0080805002

This $290,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program is supporting research to study how plant hormones stimulate rapid growth in stamen filaments, the male flower organs that produce pollen. The project aims to examine the cellular and molecular events during stamen filament elongation, revealing how this growth is controlled by hormones and coordinated with pollen release. Key activities include using advanced microscopy, gene expression...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $935,010 Project Grant to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center to investigate the genetic mechanisms governing mating types and sexes in volvocine green algae. This 3-year research project, funded under NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), aims to elucidate how the genetic systems controlling mating types in single-celled algae evolved into the dimorphic sexes seen in more complex...

This Project Grant award of $270,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program funds a postdoctoral research fellowship focused on understanding the "cost of complexity" in multifunctional rhodopsin genes from cyanobacteria. The research seeks to determine how maintaining multiple functions, such as proton pumping and light absorption, impacts the ability of these genes to adapt to changing environmental conditions. The project will...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports a collaborative research project to study how plant hormones regulate rapid growth and development of stamen filaments in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The $651,000 grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, awarded on February 15, 2024, will examine the cellular and molecular mechanisms controlling stamen filament elongation as flowers open, a critical process for...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences awarded a $1,199,995 Project Grant to The Washington University in St. Louis to characterize the genetic and epigenetic determinants of the transition from unicellular to multicellular states in the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. The project, funded through the Biological Sciences CFDA Program (47.074), leverages this organism's ability to regularly shift between unicellular and multicellular forms to...

This two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Biological Infrastructure provides $138,000 to uncover the molecular mechanisms that govern cnidarian-algal symbiosis using forward genetic screens. Funded under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), this award will support research to increase scientific knowledge and enhance understanding of major problems in the biological sciences. Using forward genetic approaches, the grantee will conduct...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $135,529 to the University of Wisconsin - Madison to further develop genetic manipulation techniques for the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Prochlorococcus is the most abundant photosynthetic organism in the ocean, contributing substantially to global carbon fixation. The key objectives are to optimize methods for...

This $476,910 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Integrative Organismal Systems and Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research examining light signaling in marine photosynthetic organisms. Specifically, the grantee Southern Methodist University will investigate the function of blue light sensing proteins called aureochromes that are widely distributed in marine algae. The university will study the photochemical kinetics, expression patterns, and...

This $276,000 National Science Foundation award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) funds a postdoctoral fellowship to investigate the molecular dynamics of assembly of the stinging cell organelle in cnidarians. The fellow will conduct integrative research using the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis as a model to study how different stinging cell types are assembled at the molecular level. Techniques including proteomics, protein interaction analyses, single-cell sequencing,...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $216,000 Project Grant to support the research project "Leveraging Frequent Monoicy-Dioicy Transitions in Hornworts to Understand the Rules of Sex Determination" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. This award falls under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise through increasing scientific knowledge and enhancing understanding of...