Project Grant R34DA059510
- This Project Grant award of $428,271 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports collaborative research to investigate the behavioral and neuromolecular mechanisms underlying aggression biases in cichlid fish species. The primary awardee, the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), will lead a multidisciplinary team to conduct social learning experiments, genetic analysis, neural activity mapping, and brain gene expression analyses on two...
- This $480,454 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund a collaborative research project at the University of Texas at Austin on the "Behavioral and Neuromolecular Mechanisms Underlying Aggression Biases in Cichlid Fish." The project will use a multidisciplinary approach combining social learning experiments, genetic analysis, neural activity mapping, and brain gene expression analyses to investigate how...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) award of $149,752 will fund a collaborative research project at the University of Oklahoma examining the impacts of variation in mating behavior of sailfin molly fish on top-down ecological control within aquatic communities. The project will use mesocosm experiments to evaluate how the frequency of different male mating strategies (courtship vs. sneaking) affects female foraging rates, with the goal of understanding how...
- This federal Project Grant award, titled "Collaborative Research: Male-Male Competition and Speciation: Behavioral and Neuromolecular Mechanisms Underlying Aggression Biases in Cichlids", is funded by the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program. The project will receive $890,730 in funding over a 5-year period from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2030. The research will use a multidisciplinary approach, including social learning...
- This two-year National Science Foundation project grant of $276,000 supports postdoctoral research fellowship activities focused on advancing understanding of social dominance behaviors through integrative research. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the fellowship will investigate how past social interactions shape self-assessment of fighting ability in Amazon mollies through a Bayesian framework. The fellow will conduct two experiments to test whether the winner-effect...
- This $421,587 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a longitudinal study on the development of social integration in a non-human primate species. The research, led by the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) at Hunter College, examines how early rearing environments and maternal social networks impact the origins and evolution of social bonds and an individual's position...
- This $306,173 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative research on the process and consequences of social partner choice in animals. The grant is awarded under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to the University of California, Los Angeles from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2026. The research will develop a novel framework to understand how animals integrate interactions across multiple social situations to choose partners. It will assess how differences in...
- This federal Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $131,085 to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to support research aimed at defining the neural mechanisms that enable flexibility in innate social behaviors, specifically focusing on the role of preoptic hypothalamus neurons in regulating male mating behavior in mice. The...
- This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $329,849 to San Diego State University Research Foundation to study factors affecting foraging and provisioning decisions in rapidly changing landscapes. The research will examine how human-modified habitats shape macaque behavior in agricultural intensification contexts and people's...
- This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $816,063 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct research on the neural mechanisms underlying how social stimuli elicit motivated behavior. The key focus of the research is to understand how neural representations of social rank information, such as dominant and submissive social cues, converge onto brain...
A MODELING FRAMEWORK AND ARENA FOR MEASURING CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES OF BEHAVIOR - PROJECT SUMMARY SOCIAL BEHAVIORS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR SURVIVAL AND REPRODUCTION. THEY ALSO EVOLVE QUITE RAPIDLY AND CAN VARY EVEN AMONG CLOSELY RELATED SPECIES. TRADITIONALLY, SOCIAL BEHAVIORS ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO STUDY BECAUSE OF THE COMPLEXITY OF THEIR INPUT, REQUIRING CONSPECIFICS TO TRIGGER AGGRESSIVE, COOPERATIVE, PARENTAL, OR REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIORS. ADDITIONALLY, CONTEXTUAL DATA IS IMPORTANT, SUCH AS HIERARCHICAL STATUS AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS CAN ALSO PLAY A ROLE. T HIS GRANT WILL PROPOSE TO CREATE A BEHAVIORAL ARENA CAPABLE OF MIMICKING NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR SOCIAL REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIORS, INCLUDING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN A LARGE NUMBER OF CONSPECIFICS, ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS SUCH AS MALE DISPLAYS, AND CONTEXTUAL DATA SUCH AS HIERARCHICAL STATUS BETWEEN VARIOUS MALES. TOOLS WILL BE CREATED TO TRACK ANIMALS IN THIS ARENA AND BUILD A COMPUTATIONAL FRAME WORK TO MEASURE AND COMPARE SOCIAL BEHAVIORAL DYNAMICS. THIS WORK WILL UTILIZE LAKE MALAWI CICHLIDS, A POWERFUL EVOLUTIONARY MODEL FOR IDENTIFICATION OF GENES AND NEURAL CIRCUIT CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH DIFFERENCES IN BEHAVIOR. THIS PROJECT WILL GENERATE NEW TOOLS AND DATASETS FOR MODELING SOCIAL BEHAVIORS, PAVING THE WAY FOR A LARGE-SCALE R01.
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