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NSF program Cross-BIO Activities (727500): 819 awards, $878.8M to 273 organizations
819 NSF awards ($878.8M) under the program element Cross-BIO Activities (727500) to 273 organizations, fiscal years 2022 to 2026, read 2026-11-03.
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Awards
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| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PDB Management by The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2024 | $22,010,332 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2029 | Stephen K Burley | nsf.gov |
| Large-scale CoPe: Strong Coasts: Developing Solutions with Nature and People | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $20,496,333 | September 1, 2022 | February 29, 2028 | Maya A Trotz | nsf.gov |
| Full Proposal: Environmental Data Science Innovation and Impact Lab (ESIIL): Accelerating Discovery by Fostering an Open and Diverse Earth Data Revolution | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2022 | $19,831,200 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Jennifer K Balch | nsf.gov |
| NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology | NSF | Mathematical Science Section | 2023 | $17,750,000 | September 15, 2023 | August 31, 2028 | Antonio Auffinger | nsf.gov |
| AI Institute for Artificial and Natural Intelligence | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $14,375,364 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Richard Zemel | nsf.gov |
| BioFoundry: NSF iBioFoundry for Basic and Applied Biology | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2024 | $13,999,999 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2030 | Huimin Zhao | nsf.gov |
| BII: INSITE: Institute for Symbiotic Interactions, Teaching, and Education in the Face of a Changing Climate | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2022 | $12,245,740 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Michele K Nishiguchi | nsf.gov |
| Mid-scale RI-1 (M1: DA): Designing Scalable Community-driven Infrastructure to Support Biodiversity Genomics (SCIBG). | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2026 | $11,876,081 | October 1, 2026 | September 30, 2029 | Erich D Jarvis | nsf.gov |
| BII: Life without water: protecting macromolecules, cells, and organisms during desiccation and rehydration across kingdoms of life | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2024 | $11,052,709 | October 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Seung Y Rhee | nsf.gov |
| Physics Frontier Center for Living Systems | NSF | Physics Section | 2023 | $10,700,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2029 | Margaret L Gardel | nsf.gov |
| BII: IISAGE - Discovering the mechanisms and evolution of aging differences between females and males | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2022 | $9,791,966 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Nicole C Riddle | nsf.gov |
| BII: Predicting the global host-virus network from molecular foundations | NSF | Division of Biological Infrastructure | 2022 | $8,106,237 | September 1, 2022 | January 31, 2025 | Colin J Carlson | nsf.gov |
| BII: Evolving Meta-Ecosystems in the Arctic | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2024 | $7,871,344 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2030 | Linda A Deegan | nsf.gov |
| BII: EMBER: Embedding Molecular Biology in Ecosystem Research in an era of increasing wildfire and drought | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2024 | $7,541,614 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2030 | Tara Hudiburg | nsf.gov |
| QLCI: Quantum Sensing for Biophysics and Bioengineering (QUBBE) | NSF | MPS - Core Programs | 2026 | $7,500,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Gregory S Engel | nsf.gov |
| NSF-BII: Integrative Movement Sciences Institute | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2024 | $6,952,937 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2030 | Monica A Daley | nsf.gov |
| BII: Predicting the global host-virus network from molecular foundations | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2025 | $6,899,962 | October 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Colin J Carlson | nsf.gov |
| Assessing the Impact of an Inclusive Community of Practice to Advance Motivation and Persistence among STEM Student Researchers | NSF | Education Innovation & Translation Section | 2024 | $6,728,906 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2030 | Travis T York | nsf.gov |
| LTER: Plum Island Ecosystems, the impact of changing landscapes and climate on interconnected coastal ecosystems | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $6,423,839 | October 1, 2022 | September 30, 2028 | Anne E Giblin | nsf.gov |
| BII: Polyploidy: Integration Across Scales and Biological Systems | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2024 | $6,345,720 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2030 | Pamela S Soltis | nsf.gov |
| ART: Translating Engineering Driven Health Initiatives From Idea to Impact | NSF | Workforce and Capacity Building Section | 2024 | $6,283,700 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2028 | Jill S Higginson | nsf.gov |
| ART: Re-engineering Technology Transfer at the University of Wyoming | NSF | Workforce and Capacity Building Section | 2024 | $6,261,590 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2028 | Parag R Chitnis | nsf.gov |
| ART: Accelerating Research Translation in Southern Mississippi from Concepts to Careers | NSF | Workforce and Capacity Building Section | 2024 | $6,000,000 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2028 | Brian J Cuevas | nsf.gov |
| Global Centers Track 1: AI and Biodiversity Change (ABC) | NSF | Office of International Science and Engineering | 2023 | $5,000,000 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2028 | Tanya Berger-Wolf | nsf.gov |
| Global Centers: Alliance for Socially-acceptable & Actionable Plants | NSF | Office of International Science and Engineering | 2024 | $5,000,000 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2029 | Tracy Lawson | nsf.gov |
| Global Centers: International Bioeconomy Macroalgae Centre (IBMC) | NSF | Office of International Science and Engineering | 2024 | $4,908,127 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2029 | john d coates | nsf.gov |
| LTER: Long-term research on the dynamics of high-elevation ecosystems: A framework for understanding rates of ecological response to climate change | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2023 | $4,825,000 | December 15, 2022 | November 30, 2028 | Nancy C Emery | nsf.gov |
| LTER: The Role of Climate Variability in Controlling Arctic Ecosystem Function | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2023 | $4,825,000 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2029 | Kevin L Griffin | nsf.gov |
| LTER: Long Term Ecological Research at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2023 | $4,824,999 | March 1, 2023 | February 28, 2029 | Peter M Groffman | nsf.gov |
| LTER: CAP V: Investigating how relationships between urban ecological infrastructure and human-environment interactions shape the structure and function of urban ecosystems | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2023 | $4,824,997 | March 1, 2023 | February 28, 2029 | Becky A Ball | nsf.gov |
| LTER: Changing Disturbances, Ecological Legacies, and the Future of the Alaskan Boreal Forest | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2023 | $4,824,987 | May 15, 2023 | April 30, 2029 | Michelle C Mack | nsf.gov |
| NQVL:QSTD:Design: Distributed-Entanglement Quantum Sensing of Chemical Properties (DQS-CP) | NSF | MPS - Core Programs | 2026 | $4,000,000 | June 15, 2026 | May 31, 2028 | Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin | nsf.gov |
| BII: Life without water: protecting macromolecules, cells, and organisms during desiccation and rehydration across kingdoms of life | NSF | Division of Biological Infrastructure | 2022 | $3,643,811 | August 1, 2022 | March 31, 2024 | Seung Y Rhee | nsf.gov |
| Using media and technology to advance public awareness of research on microscopic larvae in the deep ocean | NSF | Education Capacity Building & Transformation Section | 2022 | $3,064,523 | August 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Craig M Young | nsf.gov |
| Species interactions and seasonal transmission of fungal diseases in plant populations: experimental tests of historical contingency | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2023 | $2,999,779 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2028 | Charles E Mitchell | nsf.gov |
| RaMP: On-Ramp to the Molecular Machine Shop: Postbaccalaureate Training in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Biodesign | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2022 | $2,999,169 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Ruth E Stark | nsf.gov |
| Understanding biodiversity through a global platform for assembly and analysis of large genomes | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2024 | $2,963,428 | September 15, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Anton Nekrutenko | nsf.gov |
| RESEARCH-PGR: Uncover new molecular mechanisms of cyst nematode resistance in wild soybean with systems biology and genome editing | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $2,816,109 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2028 | Bao-Hua Song | nsf.gov |
| TRTech-PGR: Reprogramming the Plant Cell with Transcription Factors | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $2,670,305 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Bradlee Nelms | nsf.gov |
| LTER Network Office: Pathways to Participation | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2024 | $2,644,020 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2029 | Benjamin Halpern | nsf.gov |
| Center for Theoretical Biological Physics | NSF | Physics Section | 2026 | $2,600,000 | August 15, 2026 | January 31, 2028 | Jose N Onuchic | nsf.gov |
| US-Israel Collab: A structural and multiepistemic approach to modeling Brucella transmission along complex networks in Bedouin communities | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2024 | $2,545,060 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2029 | Julianne Meisner | nsf.gov |
| LTER: Georgia Coastal Ecosystems V | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $2,514,000 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2031 | Merryl L Alber | nsf.gov |
| RESEARCH-PGR: Atomic Numbers: Identifying the conserved genes driving element accumulation in plants | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $2,513,218 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | Ivan R Baxter | nsf.gov |
| RESEARCH-PGR: Enhancing grain yield under a changing climate. | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2024 | $2,454,127 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Ron Mittler | nsf.gov |
| EBRC 2026: Engineering Biology for the Next-Generation Bioeconomy | NSF | Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences | 2023 | $2,418,417 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2025 | India Hook-Barnard | nsf.gov |
| BIO-AI: RESEARCH-PGR: Harnessing Multi-Omics and AI/ML to Unveil Nutrient Recycling Mechanisms in Maize Senescence | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2025 | $2,400,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2029 | Rajandeep S Sekhon | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: IntBio: Defining the mechanisms and consequences of mutualism reorganization in the Anthropocene. | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $2,332,798 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Susan Kalisz | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO: Integrative Wildlife Nutrition: From Molecules and Microbes to Macro-Ecology | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $2,188,601 | September 15, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Katherine R Amato | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO: Linking genome to phenome to understand the function of Masticatory Myosin | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $2,134,685 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Nicolai Konow | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: Rational Design of Noncoding RNA for Epigenetic Signal Amplification | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $2,110,523 | March 15, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Karmella A Haynes | nsf.gov |
| PlantTransform: SMART Grass - Simplified Methods for Accessible and Rapid Transformation of the Grasses | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2024 | $2,086,531 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Nigel J Taylor | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO: Functional genomic dissection of biomineralization at multiple scales using a new marine model | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $2,057,185 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Mark Q Martindale | nsf.gov |
| EFRI BEGIN OI: Implantation of Dense Associative Memory through CArdiac muscle cell-based Reprogrammable Bio-Oscillatory Neural Networks | NSF | ENG - Core Programs | 2024 | $2,000,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Pinar Zorlutuna | nsf.gov |
| RESEARCH-PGR: The Gamete to Zygote Transition of the Plant Epigenome | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2024 | $1,970,969 | September 15, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Venkatesan Sundaresan | nsf.gov |
| TRTech-PGR: Systematic identification and characterization of noncanonical ORFs in four model species | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2024 | $1,938,961 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2028 | Polly Hsu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: Ancient DNA approaches to reconstruct environmental impacts on coral reefs | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2026 | $1,867,914 | December 15, 2025 | November 30, 2028 | Monica Medina | nsf.gov |
| EBRC 2026: Engineering Biology for the Next-Generation Bioeconomy | NSF | Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences | 2022 | $1,831,429 | December 1, 2021 | September 30, 2023 | Douglas Friedman | nsf.gov |
| Development and application of innovative tools to mitigate White Nose Syndrome, a lethal fungal disease decimating North American bat populations | NSF | BIO - Core Programs | 2023 | $1,782,334 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2027 | Bruce S Klein | nsf.gov |
| Role and activity of PRC2 and SWI/SNF in plant adaptability to changing environments | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $1,767,870 | August 15, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Doris Wagner | nsf.gov |
| NSF/BIO-UKRI/BBSRC: Enhancing 3D biostructure data deposition and processing efficiency through automated validation integration. | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2026 | $1,752,474 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2029 | Stephen K Burley | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: Biodiversity and stability on a changing planet: plant traits and interactions that stabilize or destabilize ecosystems and populations | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $1,743,031 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Forest Isbell | nsf.gov |
| Cellular Oligomeric Assemblies: Structures by SSNMR and Integrated Methods | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $1,735,683 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2028 | Ann E McDermott | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Molecular control of differentiation in the enteric nervous system | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,724,897 | January 15, 2022 | December 31, 2027 | Julia Ganz | nsf.gov |
| Critically evaluating the ecological and functional drivers of polyploid establishment using the framework of Modern Coexistence Theory | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2024 | $1,714,712 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2028 | Tia-Lynn Ashman | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Towards Scalable and Robust Inference of Phylogenetic Networks | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $1,711,218 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Claudia R Solis-Lemus | nsf.gov |
| EDGE FGT: MUSH-IT: MUlti-Species Hemimetabolous Insect Tools | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2022 | $1,700,000 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Cassandra G Extavour | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Single-molecule dissection of the Partitioning Defective cell polarity machinery | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $1,699,729 | April 15, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Daniel J Dickinson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Regulation of retrograde transport initiation in the axon terminal | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $1,684,814 | July 15, 2025 | June 30, 2030 | Catherine M Drerup | nsf.gov |
| MFB: Continuous evolution of RNAs with novel functions in mammalian cells | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $1,650,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Samie Jaffrey | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: RESEARCH PGR: The epigenomic selfing syndrome: revealing the impact of breeding system on epigenomes | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $1,648,443 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Ravishankar Palanivelu | nsf.gov |
| Tracking shallow and dynamic chemoattractant gradients - how yeast cells amplify both internal and external signals to locate mating partners | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $1,626,167 | March 1, 2024 | February 29, 2028 | David E Stone | nsf.gov |
| The Neurobiology of Hypoxia Tolerance in the Naked Mole-Rat | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,599,998 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Thomas J Park | nsf.gov |
| The function of Gli proteins in the specification of ossification pathways in pectoral girdle development and evolution | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,578,200 | August 15, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Tetsuya Nakamura | nsf.gov |
| EDGE CMT: NSF-BSF: High-throughput discovery and testing of microbial genes modulating specificity and microbial load on plant roots. | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2024 | $1,573,562 | September 15, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Nathan C Crook | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Physiological genomics of sexually dimorphic developmental plasticity on butterfly wings | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2022 | $1,565,641 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Brian A Counterman | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EDGE CMT: A four-dimensional genotype-phenotype map of poison frog skin color | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $1,557,526 | December 15, 2023 | November 30, 2027 | Rebecca D Tarvin | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: Discovery of Novel Functional RNA Classes by Computational Integration of Massively-Parallel RBP Binding and Structure Data | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $1,555,035 | March 15, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Mitchell Guttman | nsf.gov |
| LTER: Advancing understanding of long-term feedbacks between plant biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems in a changing environment | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2025 | $1,539,374 | September 1, 2025 | February 28, 2031 | Elizabeth T Borer | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Exploring the Functional Diversity of Cytoplasmic Dynein | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,530,496 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Morgan E DeSantis | nsf.gov |
| Mechanisms of non-canonical retron phage defense and expanded biotechnological applications | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $1,500,004 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Seth L Shipman | nsf.gov |
| MFB: Characterization of the Biogenesis, Uptake, and Cellular Response to the Ribonucleoprotein Cargoes of Extracellular Vesicles using EV-CLASP | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $1,500,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Manuel Ascano | nsf.gov |
| MFB: Next-generation Proximity Labeling Technologies to Map Subcellular Transcriptomes and RNA Interactomes in Living Cells with Nanometer Resolution | NSF | Chemistry Section | 2024 | $1,500,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Alice Y Ting | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanisms Underlying Temporal Integration of BMP Signaling in Cell Fate Decisions | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $1,497,932 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2029 | Idse J Heemskerk | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Investigation Of How Proto-Gene Expression Impacts Growth In Budding Yeast | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,491,927 | January 15, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis | nsf.gov |
| ORCC: Do multi-species biofilms accelerate microbial evolution under extreme warming? | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $1,468,004 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Kathleen K Treseder | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Just add water? Investigating RNA stability in desiccated soil bacteria. | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2022 | $1,466,520 | March 1, 2022 | February 29, 2028 | Paul Carini | nsf.gov |
| BIO-AI: The mechanistic and theoretical foundations of exploratory learning in rats | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $1,450,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2030 | Ehren L Newman | nsf.gov |
| NSF-SNSF: Genetic, molecular, and behavioral characterization of inbreeding in a massive wild house mouse pedigree, followed by controlled experimental validations | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2026 | $1,450,000 | June 15, 2026 | May 31, 2030 | Andres Bendesky | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: IIBR Instrumentation: A continuous metabolite sensor for lab and field studies | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $1,447,087 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Cassondra Williams | nsf.gov |
| MFB: Massively parallel identification of translation regulatory sequences in human and viral mRNAs | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $1,440,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Carson Thoreen | nsf.gov |
| BoCP-Implementation: US-China: Trait innovations in the fig mutualism and their contributions to increased patterns of biodiversity | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $1,432,050 | October 1, 2022 | March 31, 2028 | Carlos A Machado | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO: Collaborative Research: Silk Protein Innovation and Novelty (SPIN) : integrating across disciplines to decipher silk fiber evolution | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,423,325 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Akito Y Kawahara | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Molecular Resolution of Long-range Allostery in CRISPR-Cas9 | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $1,400,000 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | George P Lisi | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Research Infrastructure: MorphoCloud: A Cloud Powered, Open-Source Platform For Research, Teaching And Collaboration In 3d Digital Morphology And Beyond | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2024 | $1,397,132 | March 1, 2024 | February 29, 2028 | Ali M Maga | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The multidimensional role of behavior in evolution | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2025 | $1,391,588 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2030 | Martha M Munoz | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanistic studies of cilium proteins in cell signaling | NSF | Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems | 2022 | $1,388,715 | January 15, 2022 | April 30, 2026 | Xuecai Ge | nsf.gov |
| Mechanisms of nutrient sensing and homeostasis in plants | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $1,384,257 | February 15, 2024 | January 31, 2028 | Sheng Luan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Defining the Role of Lipid Perturbations in Cell Survival | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,378,700 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Stephanie M Cologna | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Cytokinesis without an actomyosin ring and its coordination with organelle division | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $1,375,760 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Masayuki Onishi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding non-photochemical quenching under chilling in the warm-season C4 grasses | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2022 | $1,375,334 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Katarzyna Glowacka | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Integrative Systematics: Taxonomy and Evolution of Megalomyrmex Ants and Their Venom | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $1,374,035 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Rachelle M Adams | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: IntBIO: Micro level oxygen transport mechanisms in elite diving mammals: Capillary RBC to myofiber | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $1,363,205 | December 1, 2023 | November 30, 2027 | Ellen C Breen | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: FIRE-MODEL: Using multitemporal ecosystem energetics to understand changes to fuels and future fire regimes | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $1,360,564 | January 1, 2026 | December 31, 2028 | Erin Hanan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The Role of Light Environment and Genetics in Shaping Visual and Behavioral Plasticity | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2023 | $1,353,503 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Erica L Westerman | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Epigenetic Dynamics Shaping the Early Evolution of Duplicate Genes | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $1,350,000 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Frederic J Chain | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EDGE CMT: Linking genomic variation to complex floral trait adaptation across a species boundary | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2024 | $1,346,335 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Lena C Hileman | nsf.gov |
| Elucidating the relationships between asymptomatic honey bee virus infections, flight, heat stress, and antiviral responses | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $1,337,835 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Michelle Flenniken | nsf.gov |
| Evolutionary introduction of asymmetric cell division in regulative embryos | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $1,337,703 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2029 | Mamiko Yajima | nsf.gov |
| Research Infrastructure: RCN: A Comprehensive Toolkit for Interdisciplinary Team Science, & its Context-Dependent Application | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $1,332,796 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2028 | Virginia Rich | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Computing rules of the social brain: behavioral mechanisms of function and dysfunction in biological collectives | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $1,326,037 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2029 | Andrew M Hein | nsf.gov |
| Ideas Lab: Collaborative Research: Integrating cross-kingdom lncRNA genetic and functional interactions to build predictive network models | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $1,325,000 | April 15, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Karen M McGinnis | nsf.gov |
| Periplasmic Chaperone Network Organization and Mechanism | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $1,320,970 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2028 | Karen G Fleming | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The Metabolic Basis of Individual Variation in Behavior | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $1,317,444 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Michael S Reichert | nsf.gov |
| FIRE-NET: Coordinating research and education on fire-prone longleaf pine forests | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $1,311,578 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Gaurav Kandlikar | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Transcriptional Regulation of Primate Gene Expansions | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $1,300,000 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Megan Y Dennis | nsf.gov |
| Informal Biodiversity Education Models for Rural and Tribal Youth | NSF | Education Capacity Building & Transformation Section | 2023 | $1,298,928 | September 1, 2023 | February 28, 2029 | Bradley S Barker | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Investigating the Role of an RNA Interference Pathway in Safeguarding the Tetrahymena Thermophila Somatic Genome | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $1,298,921 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Suzanne R Lee | nsf.gov |
| Mechanisms of microbiota detente with the plant immune system | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2024 | $1,297,952 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Jeffery L Dangl | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanisms and drivers underlying thermal specialization patterns in elastic recoil and muscle powered movements | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,287,864 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Christopher V Anderson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Integrating brain-behavior evolution with real-world science impacts through neuroscience of working dogs | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2023 | $1,286,277 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Erin E Hecht | nsf.gov |
| The evolution of eyes: Physiology, ecology, and selection at the population scale. | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2026 | $1,286,097 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Jeffry L Dudycha | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Characterizing the repeated evolution of dioecy in plants to engineer artificial chromosomes | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $1,283,753 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Alex Harkess | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EDGE CMT: Genomic and molecular bases of pollination syndrome evolution in monkeyflowers | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $1,282,456 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Amy LaFountain | nsf.gov |
| Trading Essentials: Investigating the Impact of Cofactor Exchange on Microbial Community Dynamics, Carbon Use Efficiency, and Soil Ecosystem Processes | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2025 | $1,278,729 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Michiko E Taga | nsf.gov |
| Molecular evolution of Small Multidrug Resistance transporters | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $1,273,110 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Randy Stockbridge | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Characterizing the phylogenetic lineages and genomic factors enabling adaptation in free-living marine nematodes | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $1,264,761 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Holly Bik | nsf.gov |
| Role of type III interferons in promoting barrier formation at mucosal surfaces | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $1,261,546 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2029 | Megan L Stanifer | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Uncovering natural metabolite influences on anti-bacteriophage defenses | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,259,324 | January 15, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Joseph P Gerdt | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Determine the function of plasmodesmata as redox signaling hubs | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $1,258,320 | April 15, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Kyaw Aung | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Functional Analysis of Crest EffectorS in Craniofacial Development | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,257,466 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2027 | Crystal D Rogers | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: IntBio: Defining the mechanisms and consequences of mutualism reorganization in the Anthropocene. | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $1,253,011 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Nicholas G Smith | nsf.gov |
| PlantSynBio: Deciphering the effects of structural variation in specialized metabolites on plant-insect interactions | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2026 | $1,252,158 | July 1, 2026 | June 30, 2030 | Yann-Ru Lou | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Neural basis of visual shape perception | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,250,000 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Yasmine El-Shamayleh | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO: Coordinating and integrating whole-plant responses to abiotic and biotic stress signals via changes in plasma membrane proteomes | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $1,242,385 | September 15, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Scott C Peck | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Determining The Fundamental Rules of RNA Tertiary Contact Formation | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $1,235,574 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Joseph D Yesselman | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: FIRE-MODEL: Advancing nighttime fire behavior predictions to improve safety and resilience | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $1,235,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Lu Hu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the C. Elegans Intestinal Gene Regulatory Network | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $1,234,971 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Erin Osborne Nishimura | nsf.gov |
| Using Machine Learning and Animal Models to Reveal Bacterial Subnetworks Essential for Development Within Complex Gut Microbiomes. | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $1,234,547 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Tanya Berger-Wolf | nsf.gov |
| UKRI/BBSRC-NSF/BIO: The evolutionary transition of host-microbe interactions from commensal symbionts to blood parasites. | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $1,231,145 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Christopher E Lane | nsf.gov |
| Ecophysiology of chemical defense evolution in poison frogs | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $1,227,000 | April 15, 2024 | March 31, 2028 | Lauren A O'Connell | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: IntBIO: Exploring new ground--development, elaboration, and evolution of vertebrate anterior lateral lines | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $1,225,000 | July 15, 2025 | June 30, 2028 | Michael I Coates | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EDGE FGT: Development of Sphagnum (peat) moss as a lab model system for physiological, molecular and functional genomics studies | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2024 | $1,220,719 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2028 | Sona Pandey | nsf.gov |
| Proton Loading Clusters and Complex Proton Pathways in Proton Pumping Proteins | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $1,217,646 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Marilyn Gunner | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: USA National Phenology Network 2.0: Reimagining how we experience the signs of the seasons | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2024 | $1,217,623 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Theresa Crimmins | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The interaction of deficits in cellular regulation and divergent parental environments to postzygotic isolation in hybridizing milkweeds (Asclepias) | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $1,212,093 | June 15, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Carrie F Olson-Manning | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Temporal and Transgenerational Genomic and Epigenetic Effects of Hybridization in Long-generation Tree Species | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2022 | $1,210,629 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Amanda R De la Torre | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: RUI: Age Structure of social groups as a critical demographic factor in the evolution of behavior | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2026 | $1,207,910 | May 1, 2026 | April 30, 2030 | Vincent A Formica | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Backyard Evolution across a Seasonal Metapopulation in Drosophila | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $1,200,000 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Alan Bergland | nsf.gov |
| CAREER Deciphering how enhancers encode tissue-specificity and phenotypes | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $1,200,000 | December 15, 2022 | November 30, 2027 | Emma K Farley | nsf.gov |
| ARTS: Deploying integrative systematics to untangle Lucidota, the Gordian knot of Neotropical firefly taxonomy. | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2023 | $1,200,000 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Kathrin F Stanger-Hall | nsf.gov |
| MFB: Programmable RNA Targeting and Engineering using Pentatricopeptide Repeat Proteins | NSF | Chemistry Section | 2025 | $1,200,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Chaolin Zhang | nsf.gov |
| Building a platform for high-throughput discovery and prediction of RNA modification enzyme function | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $1,200,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Todd M Lowe | nsf.gov |
| MFB: Cracking the codes: understanding the rules of mRNA localization and translation | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $1,199,997 | January 15, 2024 | December 31, 2026 | Jay R Hesselberth | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Feedbacks among Ecosystem Engineers and their Influence on Ecosystem Functioning | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2024 | $1,199,994 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2028 | Andrew B Davies | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The role of bacterial deaminase toxins in cell physiology and microbial interactions | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $1,199,994 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2030 | Marcos H de Moraes | nsf.gov |
| NSF/BIO-UKRI/BBSRC: Tipping the balance of amphibian microbiome-immune interactions towards greater antifungal defences | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2026 | $1,199,311 | August 1, 2026 | July 31, 2030 | Leon Grayfer | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Microbial Mediation of Temperate Tree Responses to Climate Change | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2024 | $1,198,253 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2029 | Benton Taylor | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EDGE CMT: Shared genetic and cellular mechanisms of vertebrate limb and fin regeneration. | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2024 | $1,174,440 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2028 | Igor Schneider | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding Plastoglobule Lipid Droplet Function Through the ABC1 Atypical Protein Kinases | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $1,174,236 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Peter K Lundquist | nsf.gov |
| CAREER - Insulin Signaling in Lygus hesperus: New Model Needed | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $1,173,006 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Andrew Nuss | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: From clock genes to phenotype: organismal response to artificial light at night | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2022 | $1,172,332 | August 15, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Jenny Q Ouyang | nsf.gov |
| Symbionts and saprotrophs: Cooperation and competition in the rhizosphere determine belowground feedbacks | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2025 | $1,170,730 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2028 | Ember Morrissey | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: NSF-DBT: SYSTEMS LEVEL Understanding OF cyanobacteriaL extracellular polysaccharide biosynthesis and its use as reneweable materials | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $1,170,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Fuzhong Zhang | nsf.gov |
| Research Infrastructure: Enhancing Research and Education at a Midwestern Watershed-Scale Field Station. | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2025 | $1,167,245 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | Thomas B Bragg | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers in an Invasive Host-Parasite System | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2023 | $1,165,173 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Jennifer Koop | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Deciphering Mechanisms Underlying Chemical Adaptation in Insects | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,161,915 | February 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Fang Zhu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Actin-mediated mechanical stress sensing and the control of epidermal tissue integrity | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $1,159,007 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Daniel B Szymanski | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The effects of plant defenses on species interactions across biological scales | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2025 | $1,158,300 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2030 | Monica F Kersch-Becker | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO: Collaborative Research: Silk Protein Innovation and Novelty (SPIN) : integrating across disciplines to decipher silk fiber evolution | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,157,668 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Paul B Frandsen | nsf.gov |
| NSF-SNSF: Revealing the mechanisms of thylakoid biogenesis at the base of the green lineage | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $1,154,987 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2028 | Melissa S Roth | nsf.gov |
| Mechanism and Manipulation of NLR-Mediated Immunity | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2025 | $1,145,609 | September 15, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Junqi Song | nsf.gov |
| CAREER:Unraveling the metabolic networks underlying plant stress adaptation | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,138,854 | March 1, 2022 | February 29, 2028 | Jeongim Kim | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Integrating Genomic, Paleoclimatic, and Morphological Approaches to Unravel the Evolutionary History of Fossil and Extant Marine Fishes Over Time | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $1,138,628 | October 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Dahiana Arcila | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The behavioral, hormonal, and neural basis of coyote monogamy | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2025 | $1,131,989 | April 1, 2025 | March 31, 2030 | Sara M Freeman | nsf.gov |
| EBRC 2026: Engineering Biology for the Next-Generation Bioeconomy | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $1,131,583 | August 1, 2025 | May 31, 2027 | India Hook-Barnard | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Diversification, Disjunction, and Decline in the Mediterranean Basin: Insights from Endemic Bellflowers (Campanulaceae) | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $1,126,562 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2028 | Nico Cellinese | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Characterization of Epigenetic Factors and Their Regulatory Roles in Modulating Mitotic Fidelity | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,124,526 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2027 | Amity Manning | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Dissecting the Mechanism of Replication Initiation in Vertebrates via Single Molecule Imaging | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $1,121,883 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Gheorghe Chistol | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Formation and Regulation of Chromatin-Associated Condensates | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $1,119,765 | December 1, 2021 | November 30, 2026 | Huaiying Zhang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Characterization and Development of Prokaryotic Argonautes for Synthetic Biology | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $1,119,371 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Kevin Solomon | nsf.gov |
| Mechanisms of Bacterial Tyrosine Kinase Activation and Regulation | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $1,117,922 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Ranajeet Ghose | nsf.gov |
| Unraveling novel roles for iron-sulfur cluster trafficking proteins in Fe-S cluster and cell envelope biogenesis | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $1,117,707 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2028 | Franklin W Outten | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Repeated Evolution: Integrating Micro- and Macroevolutionary Analyses and Functional Genomics | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2023 | $1,110,387 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Suzanne E McGaugh | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: 3DForests: Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning To Explore Forest Structure Changes Following Disturbance | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $1,100,215 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Lisa P Bentley | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mitochondrial Transcellular Communication in the Nervous System: Mechanisms of Action and Student Training Opportunities | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $1,100,000 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Martha R Bhattacharya | nsf.gov |
| Replication of G-quadruplex DNA by translesion polymerases | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $1,100,000 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2028 | Robert L Eoff | nsf.gov |
| MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $1,100,000 | July 15, 2024 | June 30, 2028 | Heidi Lempradl | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Exploring novel bacterial immune systems to expand genome editing tools | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $1,100,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2030 | Tianmin Fu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Empirical Tests of the Fundamental Theorems of Evolution and Natural Selection | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2023 | $1,095,443 | February 15, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Matthew E Wolak | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Effects of pregnancy and lactation on muscle-tendon form and function in the rat, Rattus norvegicus | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $1,092,809 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2028 | Nicole Danos | nsf.gov |
| Investigating the role of ATM1, a Class VIII myosin, in Arabidopsis root cell proliferation | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $1,089,467 | July 15, 2024 | June 30, 2027 | Dior R Kelley | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: PlantTransform: Morphogenic-based mechanisms of maize regeneration | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $1,088,678 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2027 | Andrea Gallavotti | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Testing the spatio-temporal repeatability of (co)evolution in Tasmanian devils and their transmissible cancer | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2023 | $1,088,560 | August 15, 2023 | October 31, 2027 | Andrew T Storfer | nsf.gov |
| Dynamics of carbon and energy fluxes in methanogenic archaea | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $1,087,895 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Nicole R Buan | nsf.gov |
| Integrating organismal biology and biogeochemistry to develop science-informed actions to conserve stream biodiversity in a changing climate | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $1,082,076 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2029 | William A Hopkins | nsf.gov |
| Funding for Core Activities of the Board on Life Sciences | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $1,080,916 | November 15, 2022 | October 31, 2027 | Kavita M Berger | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Genomic, cellular, and physiological effects of whole genome duplications on organismal energy production | NSF | Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems | 2022 | $1,080,166 | February 1, 2022 | April 30, 2025 | Joel Sharbrough | nsf.gov |
| Building Capacity in MorphoSource through state-of-art, flexible data storage protocols for broader and more sustainable adoption by museums and other mass-data producers. | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $1,071,404 | September 15, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Douglas M Boyer | nsf.gov |
| Computational methods for large scale transcriptome profiling | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2024 | $1,068,457 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Mihaela Pertea | nsf.gov |
| BIO-AI: Dendritic Democracy in Drosophila Connectomes. | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $1,068,160 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2030 | Jessica Ausborn | nsf.gov |
| Identifying mechanisms that facilitate or prevent microbial community invasion | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $1,066,082 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2029 | Cara H Haney | nsf.gov |
| NSF/BIO-UKRI/BBSRC: Comparing ultrastructure measures across multiscale electron microscopies | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2026 | $1,065,000 | June 1, 2026 | May 31, 2030 | Zachary Freyberg | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Digging deeper to the roots of soil organic carbon formation, persistence, and function: An integrated research, education, and outreach program. | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2023 | $1,062,396 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Vidya Suseela | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Control of NOD2-dependent Lipid Mediator Production | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $1,062,170 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Justine T Tigno-Aranjuez | nsf.gov |
| NSF-BSF: Synthetic mycorrhizal community and parasitism management in rhizosphere ecosystems guided by systems biology of mycoparasitism | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $1,051,699 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2026 | Jeffrey P Townsend | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: RESEARCH PGR: The epigenomic selfing syndrome: revealing the impact of breeding system on epigenomes | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $1,051,557 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Andrea L Sweigart | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The genes and gene networks underlying fertilization barriers in a hybrid zone | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $1,051,529 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2029 | Erica L Larson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The developmental response of a parasitic chytrid fungus to amphibian mucus | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,050,000 | January 15, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Lillian K Fritz-Laylin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Phylogenetic scale-dependency of the patterns and processes of quantitative trait evolution | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2023 | $1,047,004 | March 15, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Samantha A Price | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Bacterial heterogeneity in stress survival | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $1,045,632 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Nicholas C Butzin | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: Discovery of Novel Functional RNA Classes by Computational Integration of Massively-Parallel RBP Binding and Structure Data | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $1,042,995 | March 15, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | David A Hendrix | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Developmental programming of behavior by maternal hormones | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2025 | $1,041,154 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2030 | Alexandra B Bentz | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Stress, Recovery, Regeneration, and Resilience in Reproduction | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $1,039,048 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2030 | Kacy Gordon | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EXPAND: Role of Melanin in the Interactions between a Polyextremotolerant Fungus and its Photoautotrophic Partners | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $1,032,070 | June 1, 2025 | May 31, 2028 | Rajib Saha | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Integrating fossils, genomics, and machine learning to reveal drivers of Cretaceous innovations in flowering plants | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $1,031,115 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Stephen A Smith | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EDGE CMT: Predicting the evolution of disease resistance across heterogeneous landscapes | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $1,030,611 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2027 | Loren Cassin Sackett | nsf.gov |
| REU Site: The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project | NSF | Division of Biological Infrastructure | 2022 | $1,028,590 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2025 | Michael D Johnson | nsf.gov |
| NSF-BSF: The Molecular Foundation of Calcium Signaling and Deposition in Bacterial Development | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2026 | $1,027,744 | June 1, 2026 | May 31, 2030 | Marianna Patrauchan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A multiple memory systems approach to understand interval timing | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,022,935 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | James G Heys | nsf.gov |
| Investigating drought recovery mechanisms using plant carbon dynamics and foliar spectroscopy | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2024 | $1,018,305 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2029 | Danielle Ulrich | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Deciphering the roles of nodule-specific PLAT domain genes in the nitrogen-fixing symbiosis and host-strain specificity | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $1,017,957 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Catalina I Pislariu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: IntBIO: Mammalian Tail Innovations & Biodiversity Revealed By the Intersection of Genetics, Biomechanics, and Macroevolution | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $1,017,872 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2029 | Kimberly L Cooper | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Integrating Western Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) to Understand Aphonopelma Diversity Across the Madrean Sky Islands and Educate K-12 Tribal Students | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $1,016,312 | January 15, 2022 | September 30, 2027 | Chris A Hamilton | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The end of winter: How changing snow conditions affect soil redox and biogeochemistry | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2023 | $1,015,196 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Caitlin E Hicks Pries | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Linking systemic stem cell activation to vertebrate limb regeneration | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,012,400 | January 15, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Jessica Whited | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Interactive Effects of Land Cover and Climate Change on Forest Carbon Sequestration: Integration of Research and Education to Advance Fundamental Science and Inclusivity | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $1,010,810 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Andrew Reinmann | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanisms Controlling Signaling Reactions on Membranes through Molecular Assembly at Multiple Length Scales | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $1,010,616 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | YOUNG KWANG LEE | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Distributed spatial neural dynamics | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,006,157 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2027 | Nicholas A Steinmetz | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Examining bacterial filamentation as a mechanism for cell-to-cell spreading in an animal host | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,000,000 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Robert J Luallen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Uncovering Novel Factors for Multipass Membrane Protein Biogenesis | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $1,000,000 | January 15, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Rebecca M Voorhees | nsf.gov |
| 2022 Waterman Award | NSF | SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities | 2022 | $1,000,000 | June 15, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Daniel B Larremore | nsf.gov |
| 2023 Waterman Award | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $1,000,000 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | William R Anderegg | nsf.gov |
| Bridging fields and expanding research opportunities with the timescale of life | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2024 | $1,000,000 | February 15, 2024 | January 31, 2027 | Stephen B Hedges | nsf.gov |
| MFB: Partnerships to Transform Emerging Industries - RNA Tools/Biotechnology: Stabilizing Hairpin Inserts in RNA Virus Induced Gene Silencing Vectors | NSF | Chemistry Section | 2024 | $1,000,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Anne E Simon | nsf.gov |
| Developmental System Drift in Nematode Gut Specification | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $1,000,000 | January 15, 2024 | December 31, 2027 | Morris F Maduro | nsf.gov |
| 2024 Alan T. Waterman Award | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $1,000,000 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Katrina G Claw | nsf.gov |
| Tools4Cells: Realtime metabolite sensing and metabolon formation via biomolecular condensates | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $1,000,000 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Wilfred Chen | nsf.gov |
| NQVL:QSTD:Pilot: Distributed-Entanglement Quantum Sensing of Chemical Properties (DQS-CP) | NSF | MPS - Core Programs | 2025 | $1,000,000 | December 15, 2024 | November 30, 2026 | Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin | nsf.gov |
| Determining how the evolution of the coronavirus macrodomain contributes to its biochemical and virological functions | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $1,000,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Anthony Fehr | nsf.gov |
| TRTech-PGR: Developing an Intracellular Protein Delivery System for In Planta Protein-protein Interaction Studies | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2025 | $1,000,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Guo-Liang Wang | nsf.gov |
| Designer Mitochondria for Biotechnology, Healthcare, and Basic Research | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $999,996 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2028 | Mikhail F Alexeyev | nsf.gov |
| Salmonella sRNAs drive the decision between active stress resistance and persister cell dormancy | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $998,655 | August 15, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Glen M Borchert | nsf.gov |
| NSF-BSF: IIBR Instrumentation: Photonic Band Gap Resonators for High-Field Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Biological Macromolecules | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $998,436 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Alexander Nevzorov | nsf.gov |
| IIBR Research Methods: Developing novel methods to sequence, visualize and analyze GlycoRNAs in diverse organisms | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2024 | $997,082 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Yi Lu | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Dynamics of Computationally Designed Fluorescent Proteins | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $996,744 | December 1, 2021 | November 30, 2027 | Colin A Smith | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Unraveling the Developmental Processes Underlying the Twining Motion of Vines | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $995,325 | October 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Joyce G Onyenedum | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EDGE CMT: Allelic Expression Dynamics During Development and its Roles in Genotype-Phenotype Relationships | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2024 | $995,173 | September 15, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Behnam Abasht | nsf.gov |
| Hydraulics of insect antennae enabling actuation and control | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $993,899 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2027 | Konstantin G Kornev | nsf.gov |
| Taste evolution in Drosophila sechellia, a host specialist | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $992,000 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2028 | Anupama A Dahanukar | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: FIRE-MODEL: Advanced AI Framework to Improve Understanding and Prediction of Wildland Fire | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $989,332 | January 1, 2026 | December 31, 2028 | Heng Huang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER:Why Are Species Where They Are? Identifying the Interplay of the Evolutionary, Environmental, and Biotic Mechanisms Driving Niche Diversification in Oedipodinae Grasshoppers | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $989,063 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Tereza Jezkova | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Bioinformatic Resources for Promoting Research and Education of Giant Viruses | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2022 | $988,984 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Frank O Aylward | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Sensory Innovation and The Ecological Diversification of Snakes | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $987,758 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Alison R Davis Rabosky | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Programmable microbial community composition and function using plasmid conjugation | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $985,496 | February 1, 2025 | January 31, 2030 | Allison J Lopatkin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The coevolution of an eavesdropper sensory system in response to an ever evolving communication system | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $980,509 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Norman Lee | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: NSF-BSF: State-dependent properties of co-transmitting neurons | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $979,794 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2028 | Karla Kaun | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Microclimate Amelioration Underlying Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning Research | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $976,464 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Kirsten Fisher | nsf.gov |
| Role of chromatin remodeling in gene regulation during maize basal endosperm development | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $974,891 | February 15, 2024 | January 31, 2027 | Surinder Chopra | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Elucidating the Causal Link Associated with Energy Metabolism and Mitochondrial Ultrastructure | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $970,785 | April 15, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Jason N Bazil | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Investigating mechanisms of wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility and integrating artificial intelligence in biotechnology | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $965,948 | June 15, 2024 | May 31, 2029 | John F Beckmann | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Linking phenotypes and genomes to environmental maladaptation in two contrasting oak species | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2026 | $963,864 | February 1, 2026 | January 31, 2030 | Leander D Anderegg | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Investigating the Role of Modularity in the Diversification of the Acanthomorph Skull | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2023 | $961,754 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Kory M Evans | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mapping the functional landscape of bacteriophage-host interactions at molecular resolution | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $960,000 | April 15, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Srivatsan Raman | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: PlantTransform: Morphogenic-based mechanisms of maize regeneration | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $959,997 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2027 | David P Jackson | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: RUI: Age Structure of social groups as a critical demographic factor in the evolution of behavior | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2026 | $952,820 | May 1, 2026 | April 30, 2030 | Edmund D Brodie | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Defining the mechanistic role of striosomal microcircuits in decision-making | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $950,000 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Alexander Friedman | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Social tolerance and the neurobiology of group living | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $950,000 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Annaliese K Beery | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Molecular Recognition of 8-oxoguanine Modified G-Quadruplexes by the FANCJ Helicase and the REV1 Polymerase | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $945,910 | January 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Colin Wu | nsf.gov |
| BIO-AI: Designing plant rhizobacteria communities for sustainable agriculture | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $944,832 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Jonathan M Conway | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Frontiers in Xylem/Phloem Integration: The Influence of Transport Physiology on Photosynthesis, Growth and Drought Responses from Leaves to Ecosystems | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2026 | $941,379 | May 1, 2026 | April 30, 2029 | Lawren Sack | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO: Collaborative Research: Phenotypes of the Anthropocene: integrating the consequences of sensory stressors across biological scales | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $939,752 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2028 | Jennifer N Phillips | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Experimental manipulation of host-microbe associations to reveal key features promoting symbiosis | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $938,630 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Kevin J Vogel | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Mechanisms and consequences of centromere drive in monkeyflowers | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $932,841 | July 1, 2024 | December 31, 2027 | Lila Fishman | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: Discovery of Novel Functional RNA Classes by Computational Integration of Massively-Parallel RBP Binding and Structure Data | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $932,563 | March 15, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Elena Rivas | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: IntBio: Integrating behavior, neurophysiology,and neural circuit modeling to understand speciation at multiple scales of organization | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2025 | $932,200 | September 15, 2025 | August 31, 2029 | Emily C Lemmon | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: Ancient DNA approaches to reconstruct environmental impacts on coral reefs | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2026 | $932,086 | December 15, 2025 | November 30, 2028 | Julia E Cole | nsf.gov |
| Mechanisms of Fidelity in Eukaryotic RNA Polymerases | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $930,000 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Aaron L Lucius | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Fossil Amber Insight Into Macroevolutionary Dynamics in an Ecologically Diverse Island System | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $928,381 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Phillip M Barden | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Resolving multi-scale ecological consequences of thermal refuges amidst climate warming | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2023 | $928,161 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Samuel B Fey | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Why Are Ponds Biogeochemical Hotspots? Examining How Ecosystem Structure and Function Scale with Waterbody Size | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $927,356 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2028 | Meredith A Holgerson | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: The Role of Extracellular RNA in Intercellular and Interkingdom Communication | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $924,987 | March 1, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Corbin D Jones | nsf.gov |
| Individual fitness, directional dispersal, and the dynamics of trailing-edge populations | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2023 | $920,495 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Richard Chandler | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO Collaborative Research: Assessing drivers of the nitrogen-fixing symbiosis at continental scales | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2023 | $920,400 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Ryan A Folk | nsf.gov |
| ORCC: Evaluating the effect of predation on thermal adaptation in response to climate change | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $918,907 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2027 | John P DeLong | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Organelle Networks Orient Cilia and First-Generation College Students for Success | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $918,345 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Domenico F Galati | nsf.gov |
| PACSP - Tools: Restoring Grassland Bird Populations using Genomically-Informed, Full Annual Cycle, Integrated Population Models | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $916,173 | July 1, 2025 | June 30, 2030 | Kristen C Ruegg | nsf.gov |
| Fueling brain function in an extreme model of metabolic plasticity | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $914,424 | September 15, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Joseph M Santin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Reconstructing Parasite Abundance in River Ecosystems Over the Past Half Century | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $909,142 | September 15, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Chelsea Wood | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Expanding Our Understanding of Freshwater Salinization Through Data-Driven Limnology | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $902,621 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Hilary Dugan | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Microbial regulation of plant coexistence and invasive dominance: changes with environmental stress | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $900,734 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Emily C Farrer | nsf.gov |
| ARTS: A corevision of the pinhole borers (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae) and symbiotic fungi (Raffaelea spp.) via multi-generational systematics training | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $900,006 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2028 | Andrew J Johnson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The control of learning rate through multi-timescale cholinergic neuromodulation | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $900,000 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Kishore Kuchibhotla | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Discovering the function of ACT domain repeat proteins in karrikin and KAI2 ligand metabolism in plants | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $900,000 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | David C Nelson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Bioelectric mechanisms of brain development | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $900,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2029 | Beverly J Piggott | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Using non-canonical genetic alphabets to expand genetic codes in synthetic cells | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $900,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Andrew D Ellington | nsf.gov |
| Quantifying Protein Interactions via near-Quantum Optimal Imaging and MINFLUX at kHz Sampling Rates | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $900,000 | April 15, 2025 | March 31, 2028 | Francisco E Becerra Chavez | nsf.gov |
| Genetic Basis and Evolution of the Transcriptional Response to Oxidative Stress in Diverse Yeasts | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $900,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Bin Z He | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanisms of G4 DNA Induced Genome Instability | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $898,898 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Tovah Day | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Cellular Mechanisms of Killer Toxin Resistance in Yeasts | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $898,220 | March 1, 2022 | February 29, 2028 | Paul A Rowley | nsf.gov |
| Molecular signaling in mechanobiology regulation by single-cell analyses using bioinformatics approach | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $898,176 | October 1, 2023 | September 30, 2027 | Yi-Xian Qin | nsf.gov |
| Conservation potential of existing lawns: enhancing and replacing lawns with native plants for biodiversity and ecosystem function in urban plant communities of Chicago | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $897,744 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2029 | Rebecca S Barak | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Prevalence, magnitude, and importance of gut microbial detoxification services in insect herbivory | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $894,597 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Alison Ravenscraft | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Bacterial cytochrome c biogenesis synthase function, specificity and evolution | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $894,559 | March 15, 2025 | February 28, 2030 | Molly C Sutherland | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO: Collaborative Research: Phenotypes of the Anthropocene: integrating the consequences of sensory stressors across biological scales | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $893,079 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2028 | Clinton D Francis | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Genomic and Morphological Divergence During Speciation in a Hyper-Diverse Marine Fish Clade | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $890,044 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Susan E Alter | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: FIRE-NET: Grass Fires: A Convergent Network for Understanding Fuels and Fire Risk in Grasslands | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $889,601 | November 1, 2025 | October 31, 2030 | Jonathan J Henn | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: BoCP Implementation: Using the Past to Predict the Future: How Physiology and other Functional Traits Determine Survival/Extinction in W. Atlantic Mollusks | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $882,749 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Bruce S Lieberman | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Feedbacks From Drought on the Phytochemical Landscape | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $882,712 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2028 | Elizabeth G Pringle | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: The Role of Extracellular RNA in Intercellular and Interkingdom Communication | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2024 | $876,897 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Patricia Baldrich | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: At The Convergence of Life Cycles and Reproduction: Insights Into the Diversity of Life | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $874,010 | May 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Stacy A Krueger-Hadfield | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: How do plants control sperm nuclear migration for successful fertilization? | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $870,396 | January 15, 2024 | December 31, 2026 | Tomokazu Kawashima | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The Nature of Interdomain Coupling in the Farnesoid X Receptor | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $868,281 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Chiamaka D Okafor | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanisms regulating phenotypic plasticity in a highly social hermaphroditic fish | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $867,632 | June 15, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Devaleena S Pradhan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: FIRE-MODEL: Advanced AI Framework to Improve Understanding and Prediction of Wildland Fire | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2025 | $867,245 | January 1, 2026 | December 31, 2028 | Leah L Ding | nsf.gov |
| Investigating a broadly conserved protein of unknown function and its role in pilus biogenesis | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $863,387 | February 15, 2025 | January 31, 2028 | Patrick D Curtis | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Priming CUREs to dissect how the DREAM complex protects cell identity | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $859,596 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Paul Goetsch | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO: Collaborative Research: Feedback between physiological performance and social foraging in multi-species social network of wintering birds | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2023 | $856,412 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Daizaburo Shizuka | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: The Role of Extracellular RNA in Intercellular and Interkingdom Communication | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $856,318 | March 1, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Kendall R Corbin | nsf.gov |
| Investigating Conserved Host Pathways Linking Microbial Detection with Development | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2026 | $855,892 | June 1, 2026 | May 31, 2029 | Nicholas J Shikuma | nsf.gov |
| Elucidating the nature of the symbiosis between reef-building corals and common Endozoicomonas bacteria | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $855,460 | March 1, 2024 | February 29, 2028 | Amy Apprill | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A phylogeny of living and extinct confers | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $853,681 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Kelly Matsunaga | nsf.gov |
| Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics at Georgia Tech | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2025 | $853,155 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2030 | Gregory C Gibson | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Molecular mechanisms of epithelial and mesenchymal plasticity: the reversible regulation of cell polarity and cell adhesion | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $852,499 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Mo Weng | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Quaternary paleontology of Jamaica: Colonization, extinction, and resilience in a biodiversity hotspot | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $851,772 | April 15, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Melissa Kemp | nsf.gov |
| UKRI/BBSRC-NSF/BIO: Interpretable and Noise-Robust Machine Learning for Neurophysiology | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $851,348 | October 1, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Mohsen Imani | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: Functional Biodiversity on a Changing Planet Through the Lens of Seasonal Camouflage | NSF | Division Of Environmental Biology | 2025 | $850,107 | September 1, 2025 | March 31, 2026 | Marketa Zimova | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: Functional Biodiversity on a Changing Planet Through the Lens of Seasonal Camouflage | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2026 | $850,107 | January 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Marketa Zimova | nsf.gov |
| Molecular mechanisms of cerebellar ontogeny | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $849,999 | April 15, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Martin M Riccomagno | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Isoform-Dependent Redox Regulation of Actin | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $848,223 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2027 | Elena E Grintsevich | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Linking Climate, Disease, and Demography To Understand Extinction Risks in Ectotherms | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $844,035 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Joseph R Mihaljevic | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Enabling next era nucleic acid biotechnology through XNA sequencing | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $836,598 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2030 | Jorge A Marchand | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Synthetic Biology Platform to Map and Engineer the Diverse Epigenetic Space | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $825,816 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Albert J Keung | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Adaptive and regulatory diversity in natural CRISPR-Cas systems | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $825,000 | March 1, 2023 | February 29, 2028 | Alexander Meeske | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: The Role of Extracellular RNA in Intercellular and Interkingdom Communication | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $822,736 | March 1, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Miriam K Konkel | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Oligomeric Stoichiometry of Superoxide Dismutase 1 and Neuronal Antioxidant Defense | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $822,273 | April 15, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Tai-Yen Chen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Leveraging soil viromics to unravel ecological patterns in complex communities | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2023 | $820,312 | January 15, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Joanne B Emerson | nsf.gov |
| UKRI/BBSRC-NSF/BIO: Controlling synthetic microbial community structure using physical & biological containment | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $820,000 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Aditya M Kunjapur | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Organic and inorganic carbon metabolism in methanotrophic bacteria. | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $819,654 | February 1, 2025 | January 31, 2030 | Calvin Henard | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Evaluating the contribution of Sensory Drive to the divergence of flower color | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2023 | $819,230 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Matthew H Koski | nsf.gov |
| PACSP TOOLS: Strengthening conservation partnerships by advancing molecular and analytic tools for disrupting illegal wildlife trade | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $817,942 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2028 | Kyumin Lee | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Learning mechanistic models with automated experiments | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $816,778 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Paul A Jensen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: MECHANISMS OF ASSEMBLY AND COEXISTENCE IN SPECIES-RICH MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2023 | $815,698 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2028 | Leonora S Bittleston | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Liminal locomotion: life at the air-water-land interface | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $815,671 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Margaret L Byron | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: In Silico Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $815,404 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Rafael C Bernardi | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Genetic and epigenetic regulation of meiotic recombination in maize | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $814,775 | October 15, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Meixia Zhao | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO: Collaborative Research: Integrated mechanisms of environment-host-virome interactions | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $814,512 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Simon J Anthony | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Identifying the Role of Tandem Repeats in Great Ape Adaptation through Undergraduate Team Research Using a Novel Statistical Framework | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2023 | $811,304 | April 1, 2023 | April 30, 2027 | Rori Rohlfs | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The Effects of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation on Ubiquilin Chaperone and Triage Activity | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $808,961 | August 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | Matthew L Wohlever | nsf.gov |
| EDGE CMT: How the Easter Egg Weevils (Pachyrhynchus) got their spots: the functional genomics of structural colors in beetles. | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2025 | $808,848 | September 15, 2025 | August 31, 2029 | Matthew H Van Dam | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: The Role of Extracellular RNA in Intercellular and Interkingdom Communication | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $805,832 | March 1, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Roger W Innes | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanisms and evolution of defensive microbial symbiosis in insects | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $805,682 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Matthew Ballinger | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: High-Resolution Aerial Forest Mapping Infrastructure and Database to Support Forest and Disturbance Ecology Research | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2022 | $804,753 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Derek Young | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Root Herbivory and Symbiotic Associations Mediate Responses of Root Productivity to Precipitation Extremes and Nitrogen Addition | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2025 | $803,522 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2030 | Laureano Gherardi Arbizu | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO: Collaborative Research: Feedback between physiological performance and social foraging in multi-species social network of wintering birds | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2023 | $802,385 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Maria Stager | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ranges: Building Capacity to Extend Mammal Specimens from Western North America | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $802,097 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2027 | Bryan S McLean | nsf.gov |
| Toxin Activation by the Protein Quality Control System in Bacteria | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $801,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Jodi L Camberg | nsf.gov |
| Regulation of chromatin structure and gene expression by H3S10 phosphorylation | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $800,000 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2027 | Kristen M Johansen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Understanding the Dynamic Regulation of Extracellular Matrix in Controlling Synaptic Homeostasis | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $800,000 | April 1, 2025 | March 31, 2030 | Tingting Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A role for axo-glial interactions between mesocortical dopamine axons and oligodendrocyte lineage cells in cortical hypomyelination caused by chronic adult social isolation | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $800,000 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2030 | Leora Yetnikoff | nsf.gov |
| ABR: Forebrain social communication network in Danionella, a miniature transparent fish | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $800,000 | March 15, 2025 | February 28, 2029 | Andrew H Bass | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Using AI-powered Non-lethal Sampling to Inform Evidence-based Forest Management Practices and Enhance Pollinator Conservation | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2025 | $797,762 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2030 | Christine C Fortuin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Single-Molecule Study of Nucleic Acid Conformational Dynamics in Telomere | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $797,486 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Hui-Ting Lee | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: The Role of Extracellular RNA in Intercellular and Interkingdom Communication | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $796,460 | March 1, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Glen M Borchert | nsf.gov |
| Optogenetic selection for dynamic phenotypes in bacteria | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $796,158 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Mary J Dunlop | nsf.gov |
| Conductive microbial consortia for accelerating interspecies extracellular metabolism and living electronics | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $796,000 | September 15, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Nikhil S Malvankar | nsf.gov |
| Transitions: Creating a Trans-Disciplinary Approach to Discover Multi-Scale Control Mechanisms of Plant Morphogenesis | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $795,626 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | Daniel B Szymanski | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Computational tools for analyzing and interpreting DNA methylation | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2022 | $794,249 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Vicky Yao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Uncovering the regulation of low fidelity mRNA splicing | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $794,235 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Athma A Pai | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Multiplexing Light-Field Microscopy for Cell Biological Research | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2022 | $793,211 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Shu Jia | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO: Collaborative Research: Phenotypes of the Anthropocene: integrating the consequences of sensory stressors across biological scales | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $792,127 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2028 | Sara E Lipshutz | nsf.gov |
| Life History and Coexistence in a Dynamic World | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2024 | $789,668 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | James P O'Dwyer | nsf.gov |
| Impact of Quantum Processes in Reactive Oxygen Species Molecular and Cellular Redox Biology | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $787,016 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Robert Usselman | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: BIO-AI: Human-in-the-loop Artificial Intelligence System for High Throughput Automated Identification of Ground-dwelling Arthropods | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2025 | $785,872 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2028 | Ashley P Dowling | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Complexity From Simplicity: Multi-scale Computational Deciphering of the Viral Life Cycle | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $784,048 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2027 | Elsje Pienaar | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Evolutionary Principles of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $781,296 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2029 | Alex S Holehouse | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Uncovering the role of splicing factors in transcriptional regulation | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $779,999 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Ana Fiszbein | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Functional and evolutionary analysis of transposon-encoded, RNA-guided nucleases across the three domains | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $777,060 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2028 | Samuel H Sternberg | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Parallel evolution in the microbiome: novel methods for detecting repeated, rapid adaptations in metagenomic data | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $776,213 | January 15, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Nandita Garud | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: The Role of Extracellular RNA in Intercellular and Interkingdom Communication | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $771,071 | March 1, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Erica L Westerman | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: IntBIO: Rules for cell membranes in the extremes of the deep sea | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $768,325 | July 15, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Itay Budin | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: PurSUiT: Global Diversity, Distribution and Evolution of Pucciniomycotina Yeasts Inferred from a Tropical Oceanic Hotspot | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $767,462 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2028 | Anthony S Amend | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: ORCC: The role of adaptive plasticity in coral response to climate change | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2022 | $767,109 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Carly D Kenkel | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: FIRE-MODEL: Advancing nighttime fire behavior predictions to improve safety and resilience | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $765,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Jun Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The Role of Common Mycorrhizal Networks in the Establishment, Environmental Change, and Persistence of an Invasive Plant Species in the Tallgrass Prairie | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $761,844 | May 1, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Joanna Weremijewicz | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EDGE FGT: In vivo and in vitro Tools for the Community of Echinoderm Researchers | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2024 | $761,081 | September 15, 2024 | August 31, 2028 | Andrea G Bodnar | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Community Ecology of Bird Migration - Co-Occurring Migrations and Interspecific Interactions | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $758,400 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Emily B Cohen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER Exploiting missense histone mutations to explore mechanisms of gene regulation | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $755,590 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Jennifer M Spangle | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: IntBIO: Mammalian Tail Innovations & Variety Revealed By the Intersection of Genetics, Biomechanics, and Macroevolution | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $751,823 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2029 | Talia Y Moore | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: Rational Design of Noncoding RNA for Epigenetic Signal Amplification | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $750,032 | March 15, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Alisha N Jones | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: determining how light modulates respiratory behavior to inform an increasingly light-polluted world | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $750,000 | March 1, 2025 | February 28, 2030 | Deanna M Arble | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Algorithms and Tools for Allele-Specific Transcript Assembly | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2022 | $749,867 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | Mingfu Shao | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mitochondrial genome partitioning and quality control | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $749,348 | April 15, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Samantha C Lewis | nsf.gov |
| Evolutionary Ecology of Siderophores in Bacteria-Insect-Plant Interactions | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2026 | $745,999 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2030 | Tory A Hendry | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Cortical Perineuronal Net Regulation of Maternal Caregiving Behaviors | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $742,000 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2028 | Joseph S Lonstein | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Integrating Theory & Data to Uncover the Evolutionary Advantages of Recombination | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $740,645 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Amy L Dapper | nsf.gov |
| Neurophysiology of hunger/satiety control during hibernation | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $740,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 29, 2028 | Elena O Gracheva | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO: Collaborative Research: Integrated mechanisms of environment-host-virome interactions | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $739,197 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Liliana M Davalos | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Living on the Edge - Quantitative Systems Physiology of Iron Homeostasis | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $739,176 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2026 | Belinda Akpa | nsf.gov |
| RUI: Molecular Mechanisms of Short-Range Electron Transfer in Metalloproteins | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $737,943 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Oleksandr Kokhan | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: PurSUiT: Systematic viral discovery through structured search of host phylogeny | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2023 | $737,127 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Jocelyn P Colella | nsf.gov |
| Dissecting the antagonistic interaction between Pseudomonas protegens PBL3 and Burkholderia glumae towards development of biopesticides to control Bacterial Panicle Blight of rice | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2024 | $736,183 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Clemencia M Rojas | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: NSF-BSF: Under Pressure: The evolution of guard cell turgor and the rise of the angiosperms | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2024 | $735,900 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2027 | Noel M Holbrook | nsf.gov |
| Conservation of chromatin recruitment mechanisms in metazoan DNA replication licensing factors | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $735,000 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Matthew W Parker | nsf.gov |
| Integrative biology of fiber-reinforced slime in hagfishes | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $728,724 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Douglas S Fudge | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Dissecting Phase Behavior of Pioneer Transcription Factor Condensates and Their Role in Gene Regulation | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $720,947 | January 15, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Priya R Banerjee | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Deconstructing the Fitness Tradeoffs that Limit Viral Host Range | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $716,921 | July 1, 2022 | June 30, 2027 | David A Rasmussen | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Predicting novel interactions between parasitic botflies and high-elevation deer mice under climate change | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $716,280 | September 15, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Zac Cheviron | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A cortex-basal forebrain loop enabling task-specific cognitive behavior | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2026 | $715,655 | October 1, 2025 | February 28, 2029 | Lucas Pinto | nsf.gov |
| US Participation in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) | NSF | BIO - Core Programs | 2022 | $715,000 | February 1, 2022 | February 1, 2023 | Thomas M Orrell | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Advancing Scientific Knowledge of Tropical Mutualistic Network Science and Public Knowledge of Tropical Bee Importance | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $712,581 | May 15, 2022 | April 30, 2027 | Valerie Peters | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The Regulation of Cytokinesis by Calcium | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $700,904 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2027 | Qian Chen | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Expanding and Leveraging the Natural Diversity of Type I CRISPR for Genome Engineering | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $700,010 | March 1, 2024 | February 28, 2029 | Yan Zhang | nsf.gov |
| Neuromodulators constrain the activity of neurons and neuronal networks by restricting their parameter space | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $700,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 29, 2028 | Jorge P Golowasch | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: NSF-BSF: How cell adhesion molecules control neuronal circuit wiring: Binding affinities, binding availability and sub-cellular localization | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $700,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 29, 2028 | Barry Honig | nsf.gov |
| RUI: Investigating enhancer grammar that underlies naive-state pluripotency | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $700,000 | March 15, 2024 | February 28, 2027 | Sharon E Torigoe | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Rejuvenation of plasticity in the mature brain | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $700,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2029 | Ming-fai Fong | nsf.gov |
| Mechanisms for the establishment of polarity during whole-body regeneration | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $700,000 | July 15, 2024 | June 30, 2028 | Mansi Srivastava | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Deciphering how neural circuits extract and preprocess visual features for navigation | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $700,000 | March 1, 2025 | February 28, 2030 | Sung Soo Kim | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Elucidating and Manipulating Carbon Metabolic Niches in Soil Microbiomes using Synthetic Communities for Sustainable Agriculture | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $700,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Gozde S Demirer | nsf.gov |
| NSF-SNSF: Molecular Mechanism of a Life-History Tradeoff between Growth and Survival | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $699,997 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Larry R Baugh | nsf.gov |
| Elucidating homoserine lactone-mediated interbacterial interactions in plant growth-promoting rhizobacterial consortia | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $699,903 | August 1, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Lauren Andrews | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Towards a complete picture of communication in anthropogenic noise - Auditory processing among urban and rural soundscapes. | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $695,109 | October 1, 2023 | July 31, 2028 | Alejandro Velez Melendez | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Bridging plant drought and herbivory stress adaptation through comparative multi-domain trait networks | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2026 | $694,162 | August 15, 2026 | July 31, 2030 | Kailen A Mooney | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Costs and Trade-offs of Phenotypically Flexible Responses to Winter Temperature Variability in Birds | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $693,863 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2027 | David L Swanson | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Building and testing predictions of context dependence of synergistic benefits to plants from multiple symbionts | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2024 | $690,103 | September 15, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | James D Bever | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Circuit-Host Interactions | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2022 | $687,739 | February 1, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Xiaojun Tian | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Molecular Assemblies of Multidomain Signaling Protein on Membrane Surface | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $682,875 | January 1, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Jean K Chung | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: NSF-BSF: State-dependent properties of co-transmitting neurons | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $682,569 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2028 | Sarah Certel | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: IntBIO: Rules for cell membranes in the extremes of the deep sea | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $680,707 | July 15, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Steven H Haddock | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Mechanotransduction, transcription, and alternative splicing in cell biology | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $680,000 | April 1, 2023 | March 31, 2028 | Jimena Giudice | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: NSF-BSF: How cell adhesion molecules control neuronal circuit wiring: Binding affinities, binding availability and sub-cellular localization | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $680,000 | March 1, 2024 | February 29, 2028 | KaI Zinn | nsf.gov |
| LTREB: Interactions Between Population and Ecosystem Dynamics, and the High-Amplitude Fluctuations of Midge Abundances in Lake Myvatn, Iceland | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $674,431 | February 15, 2022 | January 31, 2027 | Anthony R Ives | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Optimizing Photosynthesis: Understanding how membrane lipids tune light collection by LHCII for excitation transfer at the quantum level. | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $674,231 | August 15, 2025 | July 31, 2028 | Helmut Kirchhoff | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: EDGE FGT: Development of Sphagnum (peat) moss as a lab model system for physiological, molecular and functional genomics studies | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2024 | $674,085 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2028 | Alex Harkess | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: Rational Design of Noncoding RNA for Epigenetic Signal Amplification | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $665,786 | March 15, 2023 | February 28, 2027 | Keriayn Smith | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Characterizing germ granule diversity and its influence on germline development in Drosophila | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $662,396 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Matthew G Niepielko | nsf.gov |
| The Dynamic Assembly and Resilience of Panicum Root-associated Microbiota | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $661,989 | January 1, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Joseph Edwards | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Linking microevolution to macroevolution using a high resolution, long term fossil stickleback dataset | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2022 | $661,310 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Yoel E Stuart | nsf.gov |
| Aeroacoustics of the quiet flight of hunting owls | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $661,152 | December 1, 2024 | November 30, 2027 | Christopher J Clark | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Learning Mechanisms from Single Cell Multi-Omics Data | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2022 | $659,948 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Xiuwei Zhang | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO: Collaborative Research: Silk Protein Innovation and Novelty (SPIN) : integrating across disciplines to decipher silk fiber evolution | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $655,390 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Arnaud Martin | nsf.gov |
| Disentangling the importance of climate and species interactions for population persistence | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2024 | $654,761 | September 15, 2024 | February 29, 2028 | Paul J CaraDonna | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Structural and mechanistic studies of RNA-mediated enteroviral genome replication | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $651,273 | February 15, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Deepak P Koirala | nsf.gov |
| Leveraging the Mosquito Holobiont to Suppress Disease and Advance Avian Conservation | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $651,084 | November 1, 2024 | October 31, 2027 | Matthew C Medeiros | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Adapting to life with a dash of salt: Eco-evolutionary consequences of freshwater salinization | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2025 | $649,543 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2030 | Mary A Rogalski | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: The role of quorum sensing in a methane-oxidizing bacterial community | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $648,547 | April 1, 2024 | March 31, 2029 | Aaron W Puri | nsf.gov |
| Using big data and a translational ecology approach to inform full annual cycle conservation of migratory birds in the Appalachian Mountains | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $645,270 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2029 | Emily B Cohen | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: IntBIO: Micro level oxygen transport mechanisms in elite diving mammals: Capillary RBC to myofiber | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $643,665 | December 1, 2023 | November 30, 2027 | Cassondra Williams | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Establishing the mechanistic role of differential phosphorylation in regulating viral life-cycle processes | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $643,259 | February 1, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Jodi Hadden-Perilla | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Integrating a Microbial Data System with an Earth System Model for Evaluating Microbial Biogeochemistry | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $641,155 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Xiaofeng Xu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: How do gall-forming insects escape diverse and evolving clades of parasitic wasps - and how do parasites catch up? | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $639,125 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2028 | Andrew A Forbes | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: De novo emergence of novel regulatory mechanisms that determine carbon and nitrogen resource allocations in plants | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $638,870 | February 15, 2023 | January 31, 2028 | Ling Li | nsf.gov |
| Transitions: Deep Learning Models for Microbial Image Analysis and Time-Series Predictions | NSF | Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences | 2022 | $638,578 | January 1, 2022 | December 31, 2025 | Mary J Dunlop | nsf.gov |
| Integrin alpha(V)beta(8) structure and bidirectional signaling | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $637,920 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Bing-Hao Luo | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: The impact of climate change on functional biodiversity across spatiotemporal scales at Lake Tanganyika, Africa | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2022 | $636,266 | October 15, 2022 | September 30, 2027 | Michael M McGlue | nsf.gov |
| Cross-scale forecasting of Everglades wading bird dynamics | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2023 | $633,443 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2028 | Ethan P White | nsf.gov |
| MFB: Defining a molecular grammar for ribonucleoprotein particle trafficking | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $630,088 | August 15, 2025 | November 30, 2026 | Eric T Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Resolving the Influence of Biologically Relevant Microenvironments on Amyloid Aggregation | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $630,029 | December 15, 2022 | November 30, 2027 | Anne M Brown | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: PACSP TOOLS: EPICS: Explainable AI Driven Individual Photo-Identification and Tracking for Cost-effective Conservation Study | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $630,001 | October 1, 2024 | September 30, 2029 | Xingquan Zhu | nsf.gov |
| GOALI: Leveraging the interconnectedness between mass transfer and cell metabolism for process control of mammalian cell fed-batch and perfusion cultures | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $629,853 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2027 | Sarah W Harcum | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: ORCC: Integrated mechanistic predictions of ecological and evolutionary responses to increasing aridity across the range of an iconic species | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2023 | $622,375 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2027 | Elsa Cleland | nsf.gov |
| NSF-ANR MCB/PHY SuperTrxn In vitro, in vivo, and in silico investigations of supercoil-mediated transcription regulation in bacteria | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $613,800 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2028 | Jie Xiao | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: IntBIO: The Evolution of Immune Investment Strategies Across Amphibian Ontogeny | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $613,690 | August 15, 2023 | July 31, 2027 | Jacques Robert | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Leveraging the footprints of archaic ancestry to learn about human history and biology | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2024 | $613,228 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | PRIYA Moorjani | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Interpretable machine learning deciphers single-cell multi-modal data for understanding cell-type functional genomics in complex brains | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2022 | $613,155 | March 1, 2022 | February 28, 2027 | Daifeng Wang | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Elucidating Biogenic Control of Heterogenous Ice Nucleation | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $610,216 | June 1, 2024 | May 31, 2029 | Konrad K Meister | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Cortical Perineuronal Net Regulation of Maternal Caregiving Behaviors | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $610,000 | July 1, 2024 | June 30, 2028 | KEERTHI KRISHNAN | nsf.gov |
| Genetic Basis of Natural Variation in C. elegans Chemosensory Behavior | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $600,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Denise M Ferkey | nsf.gov |
| IIBR Instrumentation: Optomagnetic twisting cytometry (OMTC) for high throghpout mapping of viscoelastic properties of live tis | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2024 | $600,000 | September 1, 2024 | August 31, 2027 | Pei-Yu Chiou | nsf.gov |
| NSF-SNSF: Adaptive Mechanisms of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases in Brain Development | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $600,000 | January 1, 2025 | December 31, 2027 | Pat Levitt | nsf.gov |
| Disciplinary Improvements: FAIROS-compliant agent AI systems for biodiversity research | NSF | Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 2026 | $598,751 | June 1, 2026 | May 31, 2029 | Elizabeth R Ellwood | nsf.gov |
| NSF-SNSF: AN INTEGRATIVE STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDY TO DISSECT THE REGULATORY MECHANISMS OF CILIARY MOTILITY | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $597,946 | July 15, 2024 | June 30, 2029 | Alan Brown | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: BIO-AI: Human-in-the-loop Artificial Intelligence System for High Throughput Automated Identification of Ground-dwelling Arthropods | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2025 | $596,594 | October 1, 2025 | September 30, 2028 | Khoa Luu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: Smarter Microbial Observatories for Realtime ExperimentS (SMORES) | NSF | BIO - Core Programs | 2023 | $595,184 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2027 | Peter R Girguis | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Investigating Biogeographic Hypotheses and Drivers of Diversification in Neotropical Harvestmen (Opiliones: Laniatores) Using Ultraconserved Elements | NSF | Evolutionary Patterns & Processes | 2024 | $591,779 | January 1, 2024 | December 31, 2028 | Daniel N Proud | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Future phylogenies: novel computational frameworks for biomolecular sequence analysis involving complex evolutionary origins | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2022 | $585,696 | March 1, 2022 | February 29, 2028 | Kevin Liu | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: RNA-encoded Molecular Memory (REMM) | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $584,997 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2027 | David L Glanzman | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: UNRAVELLING THE NOVEL ROLE OF ORGANELLE ION CHANNELS IN XENOPHAGY | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2024 | $584,613 | August 1, 2024 | July 31, 2029 | Nirakar Sahoo | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO: Collaborative Research: Integrated mechanisms of environment-host-virome interactions | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2022 | $581,244 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2026 | Tigga Kingston | nsf.gov |
| ASBMB Interactive Mentoring Activities for Grantsmanship Enhancement (IMAGE 2.0) | NSF | Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences | 2022 | $579,976 | June 15, 2022 | April 25, 2025 | Squire Booker | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: An integrated approach to understanding the interplay between telomere biology, flowering time regulation, and plant reproductive fitness | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $571,808 | March 1, 2025 | February 28, 2030 | Yevgeniy Shakirov | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Climate and connectivity as drivers of pathogen dynamics within and between urban plant populations | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2023 | $570,269 | January 15, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Rachel M Penczykowski | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Molecular mechanisms of tardigrade disordered proteins adapted to protect against environmental stress | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $568,543 | February 1, 2024 | January 31, 2029 | Caitlin M Davis | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Molecular mechanisms, algorithms and software for design and analysis of genome perturbation experiments | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $568,041 | June 1, 2023 | May 31, 2028 | Yury Pritykin | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Scaling Complexities in Soil Biogeochemistry | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $565,336 | August 1, 2022 | July 31, 2027 | Katherine E Todd-Brown | nsf.gov |
| Capacity: Biological Collections: Curatorial upgrade and digital uncovering of the hidden treasure of Delaware to safeguard, and increase access to, centuries of botanical legacy | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2022 | $564,462 | October 15, 2022 | September 30, 2026 | Cynthia Hong-Wa | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Elucidating and Manipulating Carbon Metabolic Niches in Soil Microbiomes using Synthetic Communities for Sustainable Agriculture | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2025 | $562,591 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Aditya M Kunjapur | nsf.gov |
| IntBIO COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Integrating trait diversity across hierarchical scales to predict biological resilience in an era of extreme environmental change | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2024 | $562,239 | February 15, 2024 | September 30, 2027 | Kevin R Wilcox | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Concise descriptors of genomic data facilitate mechanistic inference | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $562,197 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2028 | Maria Chikina | nsf.gov |
| Sexually antagonistic selection for tolerance to ocean acidification | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2025 | $561,853 | October 15, 2025 | September 30, 2028 | Michael E Hellberg | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: From novel proteins to novel organelles, construction of the cnidarian stinging apparatus | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $560,000 | March 15, 2025 | February 28, 2030 | Leslie S Babonis | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Role of neuron-neuron communication in post-mitotic neuronal maturation | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $560,000 | April 1, 2025 | March 31, 2030 | HaoSheng Sun | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Statistical Models and Parallel-computing Methods for Analyzing Sparse and Large Single-cell Chromatin Interaction Datasets | NSF | Innovation Tools, Informatics, & Functional Genomics | 2023 | $559,251 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | YONG CHEN | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: A Novel Framework for Measuring and Engineering Twisting and Writhing in DNA | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2023 | $556,506 | May 1, 2023 | April 30, 2028 | Enoch Yeung | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Uncovering Mechanisms of DNA-protein Crosslink Repair | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2023 | $555,436 | March 15, 2023 | April 30, 2027 | Jaime Lopez-Mosqueda | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Integrating Field Experiments, Mathematical Models, and Inclusive Education To Understand Ecological Consequences of Variation in Host-Pathogen Interactions | NSF | Organismal Interactions & Ecology | 2022 | $554,146 | June 1, 2022 | May 31, 2027 | Arietta E Fleming-Davies | nsf.gov |
| BBSRC-NSF/BIO: TSLMM: Methodology, software, and applications for tree-sequence-based linear mixed modelling | NSF | Infrastructure, Institutes, & Centers | 2026 | $553,321 | June 15, 2026 | May 31, 2029 | Peter L Ralph | nsf.gov |
| Mechanisms for the propagation of R-loop induced chromosomal fragments in the germline | NSF | Molecular Biosciences | 2024 | $550,000 | May 1, 2024 | April 30, 2027 | Sarit Smolikove | nsf.gov |
| Control of dentate gyrus function and context discrimination by CCK+ interneurons | NSF | Cell Development & Physiology | 2025 | $550,000 | October 1, 2024 | June 30, 2028 | Simon Pieraut | nsf.gov |
Organizations
| Organization | Place | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia University | New York, NY | 0 | $0 | 11 | $27 million |
| Rutgers University New Brunswick | New Brunswick, NJ | 0 | $0 | 4 | $26.4 million |
| University of Colorado at Boulder | Boulder, CO | 0 | $0 | 5 | $26.3 million |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Urbana, IL | 0 | $0 | 5 | $20.8 million |
| University of South Florida | Tampa, FL | 0 | $0 | 1 | $20.5 million |
| Northwestern University at Chicago | Chicago, IL | 0 | $0 | 3 | $20.4 million |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | 0 | $0 | 4 | $20.1 million |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | 0 | $0 | 10 | $19.2 million |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | 0 | $0 | 18 | $18.8 million |
| University of California-Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | 0 | $0 | 13 | $16.4 million |
| Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | 0 | $0 | 10 | $15.9 million |
| University of California - Merced | Merced, CA | 0 | $0 | 3 | $13.9 million |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | 0 | $0 | 11 | $13.8 million |
| University of Delaware | Newark, DE | 0 | $0 | 11 | $13.3 million |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | 0 | $0 | 5 | $12.2 million |
| University of California-Irvine | Irvine, CA | 0 | $0 | 7 | $12 million |
| Rockefeller University | New York, NY | 0 | $0 | 1 | $11.9 million |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | Athens, GA | 0 | $0 | 9 | $11.1 million |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | 0 | $0 | 13 | $10.9 million |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, WI | 0 | $0 | 14 | $10.6 million |
| University of California at Davis | Davis, CA | 0 | $0 | 12 | $10.3 million |
| University of Michigan at Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor, MI | 0 | $0 | 12 | $10 million |
| Regents of the University of Idaho | Moscow, ID | 0 | $0 | 3 | $9.5 million |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | 0 | $0 | 2 | $8.9 million |
| Pennsylvania State Univ University Park | University Park, PA | 0 | $0 | 9 | $8.9 million |
| University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Lincoln, NE | 0 | $0 | 8 | $8.5 million |
| Clemson University | Clemson, SC | 0 | $0 | 8 | $8.2 million |
| Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | 0 | $0 | 7 | $8 million |
| Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc. | Falmouth, MA | 0 | $0 | 1 | $7.9 million |
| University of Wyoming | Laramie, WY | 0 | $0 | 4 | $7.7 million |
| Marine Biological Laboratory | Woods Hole, MA | 0 | $0 | 4 | $7.3 million |
| University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | 0 | $0 | 10 | $7.3 million |
| North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC | 0 | $0 | 11 | $6.9 million |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Washington, DC | 0 | $0 | 1 | $6.7 million |
| University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | 0 | $0 | 6 | $6.7 million |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | 0 | $0 | 9 | $6.6 million |
| University of California Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | 0 | $0 | 9 | $6.5 million |
| Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | Saint Louis, MO | 0 | $0 | 5 | $6.5 million |
| University of Kansas Center for Research Inc | Lawrence, KS | 0 | $0 | 10 | $6.4 million |
| Arizona State University | Scottsdale, AZ | 0 | $0 | 4 | $6.3 million |
| University of Southern Mississippi | Hattiesburg, MS | 0 | $0 | 1 | $6 million |
| Louisiana State University | Baton Rouge, LA | 0 | $0 | 10 | $6 million |
| University of California, San Diego | La Jolla, CA | 0 | $0 | 8 | $5.9 million |
| William Marsh Rice University | Houston, TX | 0 | $0 | 5 | $5.8 million |
| University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | 0 | $0 | 7 | $5.4 million |
| University of California-Riverside | Riverside, CA | 0 | $0 | 8 | $5.4 million |
| University of Missouri-Columbia | Columbia, MO | 0 | $0 | 7 | $5.4 million |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | 0 | $0 | 9 | $5.4 million |
| CUNY City College | New York, NY | 0 | $0 | 3 | $5.3 million |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | 0 | $0 | 8 | $5.2 million |
| University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, IL | 0 | $0 | 4 | $5.1 million |
| Auburn University | Auburn, AL | 0 | $0 | 5 | $4.9 million |
| Mississippi State University | Mississippi State, MS | 0 | $0 | 8 | $4.9 million |
| University of California-Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | 0 | $0 | 4 | $4.9 million |
| Iowa State University | Ames, IA | 0 | $0 | 7 | $4.9 million |
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | 0 | $0 | 5 | $4.8 million |
| Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Inc. | Millbrook, NY | 0 | $0 | 1 | $4.8 million |
| University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus | Fairbanks, AK | 0 | $0 | 1 | $4.8 million |
| Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno | Reno, NV | 0 | $0 | 5 | $4.8 million |
| University of Oregon Eugene | Eugene, OR | 0 | $0 | 5 | $4.6 million |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | 0 | $0 | 5 | $4.5 million |
| University of Montana | Missoula, MT | 0 | $0 | 5 | $4.5 million |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | 0 | $0 | 6 | $4.4 million |
| University of Tennessee Knoxville | Knoxville, TN | 0 | $0 | 4 | $4.4 million |
| Brown University | Providence, RI | 0 | $0 | 5 | $4.4 million |
| San Diego State University Foundation | San Diego, CA | 0 | $0 | 6 | $4.2 million |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | Atlanta, GA | 0 | $0 | 7 | $4.1 million |
| Carnegie Institution of Washington | Washington, DC | 0 | $0 | 2 | $4 million |
| Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | 0 | $0 | 6 | $4 million |
| Indiana University | Bloomington, IN | 0 | $0 | 4 | $3.9 million |
| University of Kentucky | Lexington, KY | 0 | $0 | 8 | $3.9 million |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | 0 | $0 | 3 | $3.8 million |
| University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | 0 | $0 | 6 | $3.7 million |
| University of South Alabama | Mobile, AL | 0 | $0 | 5 | $3.5 million |
| University of Massachusetts Lowell | Lowell, MA | 0 | $0 | 2 | $3.5 million |
| University of Maryland, College Park | College Park, MD | 0 | $0 | 3 | $3.4 million |
| Montana State University | Bozeman, MT | 0 | $0 | 4 | $3.4 million |
| Colorado State University | Fort Collins, CO | 0 | $0 | 5 | $3.3 million |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | 0 | $0 | 5 | $3.3 million |
| University of Arkansas | Fayetteville, AR | 0 | $0 | 5 | $3.1 million |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Blacksburg, VA | 0 | $0 | 4 | $3.1 million |
| Washington University | Saint Louis, MO | 0 | $0 | 4 | $3 million |
| Texas Tech University | Lubbock, TX | 0 | $0 | 5 | $2.9 million |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | 0 | $0 | 2 | $2.9 million |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | 0 | $0 | 5 | $2.8 million |
| University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Charlotte, NC | 0 | $0 | 1 | $2.8 million |
| University of South Carolina at Columbia | Columbia, SC | 0 | $0 | 3 | $2.8 million |
| Washington State University | Pullman, WA | 0 | $0 | 3 | $2.7 million |
| Boise State University | Boise, ID | 0 | $0 | 5 | $2.6 million |
| Texas A&m Agrilife Research | College Station, TX | 0 | $0 | 4 | $2.6 million |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | Amherst, MA | 0 | $0 | 3 | $2.6 million |
| University of Colorado Denver | Aurora, CO | 0 | $0 | 3 | $2.5 million |
| Western Washington University | Bellingham, WA | 0 | $0 | 3 | $2.5 million |
| Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem | Emeryville, CA | 0 | $0 | 1 | $2.4 million |
| University of Rhode Island | Kingston, RI | 0 | $0 | 3 | $2.4 million |
| Oklahoma State University | Stillwater, OK | 0 | $0 | 2 | $2.3 million |
| Northern Arizona University | Flagstaff, AZ | 0 | $0 | 3 | $2.3 million |
| University of California-Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA | 0 | $0 | 3 | $2.3 million |
| Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | 0 | $0 | 2 | $2.3 million |
| New York University | New York, NY | 0 | $0 | 3 | $2.2 million |
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | $0 | 96 | $97,596,590 |
| 2025 | 0 | $0 | 443 | $258,100,504 |
| 2024 | 0 | $0 | 366 | $231,104,169 |
| 2023 | 0 | $0 | 265 | $169,260,810 |
| 2022 | 0 | $0 | 203 | $117,448,173 |
Open federal funding opportunities
From Grants.gov: notices that funded awards in this table, and open notices on the same agency and assistance listing.
| Open opportunity | Number | Agency | Listing | Closes | Award ceiling | Why it matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets) | 26-512 | NSF | 47.074 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) | 25-540 | NSF | 47.074 | November 17, 2026 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) | 24-573 | NSF | 47.074 | January 26, 2027 | $1.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) | 24-527 | NSF | 47.074 | February 8, 2027 | $3.6 million | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.074 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) | 22-603 | NSF | 47.074 | March 1, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) | 26-506 | NSF | 47.074 | March 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) | 24-586 | NSF | 47.074 | April 6, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows | 24-528 | NSF | 47.074 | April 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) | 25-533 | NSF | 47.074 | April 14, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) | 24-588 | NSF | 47.074 | June 1, 2027 | $3.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) | 22-586 | NSF | 47.074 | July 28, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) | 23-601 | NSF | 47.074 | August 18, 2027 | $500,000 | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) | 26-504 | NSF | 47.074 | September 28, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research (HBCU - EiR) | 23-598 | NSF | 47.074 | October 19, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| Plant Biotic Interactions | 20-576 | NSF | 47.074 | October 5, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| Core Research in Biological Sciences (BIO Core) | 26-517 | NSF | 47.074 | October 5, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| National Science Foundation National Innovation Corps Teams (NSF National I-CorpsTM Teams) Program | 25-549 | NSF | 47.074 | October 6, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| Facilitating Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: (RUI and ROA-PUI) | 14-579 | NSF | 47.074 | October 14, 2076 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
| Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (Innovation) | 23-578 | NSF | 47.074 | October 30, 2076 | $800,000 | Same assistance listing 47.074 as 733 awards here |
Updated November 3, 2026. Read from NIH RePORTER ExPORTER and NSF Award Search. Published by NIH and NSF as U.S. government data. NIH awards are fiscal years 2021 to 2025 (NIH files published to 2026-07-09); NSF awards are fiscal years 2022 to 2026 (NSF files published to 2026-11-02). NIH amounts are the total cost of each fiscal year in the window; NSF amounts are the funds obligated in the window. Organizations are matched on the UEI. Open opportunities come from Grants.gov and match on agency and assistance listing number, and on the notice number NIH prints on an award. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.