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Today’s topic: Rules of Life

Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)

Virtual Office Hour – Welcome!Program Directors in attendance today

• Matt Olson – Evolutionary Processes (matolson@nsf.gov)• Kendra McLauchlan – Ecosystem Sciences (kmclauch@nsf.gov) • Matt Kane – Ecosystem Sciences (mkane@nsf.gov)• Leslie Rissler – Evolutionary Processes (lrissler@nsf.gov)• Chris Schneider – Systematics and Biodiversity Sciences (cjschnei@nsf.gov)• Betsy von Holle – Population and Community Ecology (mvonholl@nsf.gov)

Facilitators – Christina Washington, Bill Lawson, and Megan Lewis

DEB Virtual Office Hour

• DEB Office Hours: second Monday of each month, 1-2 pm EST

Upcoming Topics:Today: Rules of Life Opportunities Mar 9: RAPID/EAGER/ConferencesApr 13: OPUSMay 11: CAREERsJune 8: BIO Postdoc Program

Recent Solicitations and DCLs

• NSF 20-525 – Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) – Deadline July 27, 2020

• NSF 20-524 – Dimensions of Biodiversity – Deadline March 27,2020

• DCL 20-041: Exploring the NSF 2026 Idea Machine - conference (Mar. 15) and EAGER (Mar. 1) proposals

• DCL 20-038 Developing New Research Collaborations Between Evolutionary Biologists and LTER Scientists

• DCL 19-059: Research Opportunities Related to Coastlines and People (CoPe)• DCL 20-033: Developing and Supporting the National Ecology Observatory Network (NEON) User

Community • NSF 20-532 – Enhancing Discovery through GEnomics Tools (EDGE) – No deadline

Remember – Core DEB solicitation (20-502) has no deadlines and no submission limits.

Find links to all recent solicitations and Dear Colleague Letters at the bottom of the DEB webpage (WebSearch: NSF DEB) under Funding Opportunities and Popular Links

DEB Virtual Office Hour

Today’s Topics:• Rules of Life Track in DEB Core Solicitation

• Understanding the Rules of Life – NSF 10 Big Ideas

• Open question and answer period

Life innovates, biology integrates

Biology Rules of Life Track: • Integrative research on questions linking levels of biological organization• Understanding general principles governing key properties of living systems

NSF 20-502 Rules of Life Track

• To be responsive to the RoL track, proposed activities must• Engage or enable innovative approaches to fundamental questions in biology;• Promise results or approaches that are generalizable beyond particular study

systems;• Seek to discover, enable and/or test foundational principles (rules, theory)

that explain or predict the emergence of complex phenomena in biology; and• Apply integrative approaches that span levels of biological organization

beyond the funding programs within a single BIO division.

NSF 20-502 Rules of Life Track

• Additional priorities for Rules of Life proposals include research projects that:

• Emphasize scaling and feedback mechanisms across hierarchical levels of biological organization, including research spanning spatial and temporal scales;

• Use or develop novel approaches or tools to fill significant gaps in understanding structure and function of biological systems;

• Leverage existing infrastructure, data products, and other resources to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of research and training activities;

• Effectively integrate research and cross-disciplinary training throughout the duration of the project; and

• Build research capacity among traditionally underrepresented groups.

(across NSF)

DBI DEB IOS MCB BIO-OCE

BIO – Rules of Life GEO

CISE EHR ENG

NSF- Understanding the Rules of Life

Understanding Rules of Life

Fiscal Year Topic 1 Topic 2

FY19 Epigenetics Synthetic Cell

FY20 Epigenetics (NSF 20-512) Microbiome Theory and Mechanisms (MTM)(NSF 20-513)

FY21 Expected Solicitation Summer 2020 Expected Solicitation Summer 2020

EpigeneticsLetters of intent were due Dec. 20Full proposals were due Feb. 6

MicrobiomeLetters of intent were due Jan. 17Full proposals are due March 2

For questions about URoL Microbiome contact: microbiome@nsf.govFor question about URoL Epigenetics contact: epigen@nsf.gov