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• ORGANIZATION• FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
– Core Activities (ongoing)– Emerging Frontiers– Developing Expertise– Increasing Diversity– Instrumentation Resources– New & Upcoming
Opportunities
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- supplies most of the Federal support for basic research in "non-medical biological sciences" at U.S. academic institutions (ca. same for "environmental biology")
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Office of the DirectorOffice of the Director
• Legislative & Public Legislative & Public Affairs Affairs
• Equal Opportunity Prog.Equal Opportunity Prog.
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• Integrative actionsIntegrative actions
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• ORGANIZATION• FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
– Core Activities (ongoing)– Emerging Frontiers– Developing Expertise– Increasing Diversity– Instrumentation Resources– New & Upcoming Opportunities
Proposal Policy Changes
• NSF’s new Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide is now in use
• Minimum font size: 10 pt• Required fonts:
• Arial• Helvetica• Palatino• Computer Modern• Georgia Publication Number: NSF 07-140
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• ORGANIZATION• FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
– Core Activities (ongoing)– Emerging Frontiers– Developing Expertise– Increasing Diversity– Instrumentation Resources– New & Upcoming
Opportunities
Population & Evolutionary Processes
Population & Evolutionary Processes
Directorate for Biological Sciences
Directorate for Biological Sciences
Div. of Environmental
Biology(DEB)
Div. of Environmental
Biology(DEB)
Ecological BiologyEcological Biology
EcosystemScience
EcosystemScience
Div. of Integrative Organismal
Systems(IOS)
Div. of Integrative Organismal
Systems(IOS)
BehavioralSystems
BehavioralSystems
Developmental Systems
Developmental Systems
Neural SystemsNeural Systems
ResearchResources
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HumanResources
HumanResources
Div. ofBiological
Infrastructure(DBI)
Div. ofBiological
Infrastructure(DBI)
Div. of Molecular & Cellular
Biosciences(MCB)
Div. of Molecular & Cellular
Biosciences(MCB)
BiomolecularSystems
BiomolecularSystems
Cellular SystemsCellular Systems
Genes and GenomeSystems
Genes and GenomeSystems
As of February 2007
Emerging Frontiers (EF)
Plant GenomeResearch Program
Plant GenomeResearch Program
Systematic Biology &Biodiversity Inventories
Systematic Biology &Biodiversity Inventories
Physiological & Functional
Systems
Physiological & Functional
Systems
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• ORGANIZATION• FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
– Core Activities (ongoing)– Emerging Frontiers– Developing Expertise– Increasing Diversity– Instrumentation Resources– New & Upcoming
Opportunities
Announcement: NSF 06-567
Proposal Target Date: Last Monday in June, annuallyContact: Gerald Wilkinson, [email protected]
Research Coordination Networks (RCN)
• Encourage and foster interactions among scientists
• Create new research directions or advance a field
• Support communication and coordination across disciplinary, organizational, institutional, and geographical boundaries
• $50,000-100,000 per year for up to 5 years
Ecology of Infectious Diseases (EID)
Joint NSF and NIH initiative
Supports the development of predictive models and the discovery of principles governing the transmission dynamics of infectious disease agents.
Announcement: NSF 07-513
Deadline: 2nd Wed in December annually Contact: Sam Scheiner, [email protected]
Award Web Page: http://nsf.gov/bio/pubs/awards/eid.htm
Announcement: NSF 07-535
Assembling theTree of Life Project (AToL)
Constructing a universal Tree of Life for all 1.7 million named species of organisms on earth
Capitalizes on new computational and genomic technologies
Encompasses all microbes, fungi, protists, animals and plants
Contact: AToL Working Group, [email protected]
Announcement: NSF 06-612
Contact: [email protected]
The 2010 Project To determine the function of all genes in
Arabidopsis thaliana
• Determine the function of all genes in Arabidopsis thaliana by the year 2010
• Conduct creative and innovative research in order to determine the function of a network of genes
• Development of critical research tools for Arabidopsis functional genomics
Contact: Patrick Dennis, [email protected]
Announcement: NSF 07-513
Microbial Genome Sequencing
• Support high-throughput sequencing of the genomes of microorganisms (including viruses, bacteria, archaea, fungi, oomycetes and protists)
• In collaboration with the USDA
• Emphasis on: novel biological functions, ecosystem roles, environmental effects, and genome evolution
Announcement: NSF 05-600
Deadline: October 8, 2007Contact: Matt Kane, [email protected]
Microbial Observatories and Microbial Interactions and Processes
(MOMIP)• Develop a network of sites in different habitats
to study and understand microbial diversity over time and across environmental gradients.
• Establish or participate in an internet-accessible knowledge network to disseminate the information.
• Now supports research projects that need not be site-based, and that are smaller and/or shorter in duration than MO projects.
Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH)
• Joint program of three directorates: Biological Sciences, Geosciences, and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
• Focuses on complex interactions among human and natural systems at diverse scales
• Topics are inherently interdisciplinary
Announcement: NSF 06-587
Deadline: see announcementContact: Saran Twombly, [email protected]
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
• Foster greater conceptual synthesis in biological evolution
• Bring together researchers and educators, extant data and information technology resources.
• Develop new tools and cross-disciplinary standards for management of biological information, support data analysis capabilities, and host and curate databases.
• Workshops, sabbaticals, postdoctorals
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• ORGANIZATION• FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
– Core Activities (ongoing)– Emerging Frontiers– Developing Expertise– Increasing Diversity– Instrumentation Resources– New & Upcoming
Opportunities
Announcement: NSF 05-579
Deadline: July 17, 2007Contact: Mark Courtney, [email protected]
Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
• Supports teacher-scholars
• Supports plans that effectively integrate research and education
• BIO minimum of $500,000 for 5 years
• Check eligibility criteria
Announcement: NSF 06-589
Deadline: see announcementContact: Edward Murdy, [email protected]
Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)
• Developed to meet the challenges of educating future Ph.D. scientists and engineers
• Emphasizes international training
• Multi-institutional award
• $2 million over 5 years
Contact: Juan Carlos Morales, [email protected]
Partnerships for EnhancingExpertise in Taxonomy (PEET)
• Training new generations of taxonomists
• Translate current expertise into electronic databases
• Monographic research and computer infrastructure
• Next competition, 2007• Please see the announcement for
more details
Announcement: NSF 07-519
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants (DDIG)
• Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) and the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)
• Must pass candidacy by the deadline • Funds research-related costs only• Recent changes:
• increased upper limit to $12,000 • allow travel to meetings
Announcement: NSF 05-607
Deadline: 3rd Friday in November, annuallyContact: Mark Courtney, [email protected]
Announcement: NSF 06-592
Contact: [email protected]
Graduate Research Fellowships
• Awarded for graduate study leading to research-based masters or doctoral degrees
• Science, mathematics, and engineering
• Intended for students at or near the beginning of their graduate study
• Handled through the Div. of Graduate Education (Education Directorate)
• $30,000 / yr for 3 years
Announcement: NSF 05-592
DEB Supplement Deadline: February 1st, annuallyContact: Main award’s NSF Program Director
Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU)
• REU Sites or REU supplements to PIs with existing awards
• Intended to attract and retain undergraduates in mathematics, science and engineering
• Incorporates active research experience
Announcement: NSF 00-144
Target Date: Same as core programs’Contact: Michael Mishkind, [email protected]
Research in Undergraduate Institutions
(RUI)
• Support high quality research by faculty with active involvement of undergraduate students
• Strengthen the research environment in academic departments that are oriented primarily toward undergraduate instruction
Research Opportunity Award (ROA)
• Supplementary funding through ongoing NSF research grants
• Allows faculty at predominantly undergraduate institutions to participate in research activities under the aegis of NSF-supported investigators
Announcement: NSF 05-548
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytimeContact: Main award’s NSF Program Director
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytimeContact: Main award’s NSF Program Director
Research Experiencesfor Teachers (RET)
• Supplements to current NSF Awards
• Helps build long term collaborative relationships between K-12 teachers of science and mathematics and the NSF research community
• Encourages researchers to form partnerships with teachers
Announcement: NSF 05-524
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• ORGANIZATION• FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
– Core Activities (ongoing)– Emerging Frontiers– Developing Expertise– Increasing Diversity– Instrumentation Resources– New & Upcoming
Opportunities
Announcement: NSF 06-586
Contact: Carter Kimsey, [email protected]
Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships & Supporting
Activities • Supports training and research in the areas of
biology and social, behavioral, and economic sciences
• Offers travel grants for graduate students to visit prospective sponsors
• Provides starter research grants for Fellows
• NSF hosts an annual meeting of Fellows and their mentors
Undergraduate Research & Mentoring
in the Biological Sciences (URM)
• Research Mentoring Awards – proposals should emphasize ways of enabling students from under-represented groups to enter and remain in environmental biology
• Travel Awards - awards to professional societies to enable undergraduates from under-represented groups to attend meetings
Announcement: NSF 06-591
Preliminary proposal deadline: 3rd Tues in SepContact: [email protected]
Announcement: NSF 06-027
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytimeContact: Main award’s NSF Program Director
Research Assistantships for High School Students
(RAHSS) • Supplements current NSF awards
• Fosters high school students’ interest in pursuing the biological sciences
• Broadens participation
Agenda
• ORGANIZATION• FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
– Core Activities (ongoing)– Emerging Frontiers– Developing Expertise– Increasing Diversity– Instrumentation Resources– New & Upcoming Opportunities
Deadline: 3rd Thursday in January, annuallyContact: Joan Frye, [email protected]
Announcement: NSF 07-510
Major Research Instrumentation Program
(MRI)• Designed to improve the condition of
scientific and engineering equipment and facilities for research and research training
• Awards for instrumentation will range from $100,000 to $2 million
• Cost sharing at a level of 30% of total eligible costs is required
Announcement: NSF 05-550
Improvements in Facilities, Communications, & Equipment for
Research at Biological Field Stations & Marine Laboratories (FSML)
• Off-campus facilities for R&E
• Preserving access to study areas & organisms
• Provide facilities & equipment in close proximity to study areas
Deadline: March 7, 2008Contact: Kandace Binkley, [email protected]
Deadline: Phase 2 & 3: January 10, 2008 Contact: Terry Woodin, [email protected]
Announcement: NSF 07-543
Course, Curriculum, & Laboratory Improvement
(CCLI)• Division of Undergraduate Education
• Changed substantially in FY 2006Phase 1, Exploratory Projects - up to $150,000 ($200,000
when 4-year and 2-year institutions collaborate) for 1 to 3 years;
Phase 2, Expansion Projects - up to $500,000 for 2 to 4 years;
Phase 3, Comprehensive Projects - up to $2,000,000 for 3 to 5 years.
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• ORGANIZATION• FUNDING
OPPORTUNITIES– Core Activities (ongoing)– Emerging Frontiers– Developing Expertise– Increasing Diversity– Instrumentation Resources– New & Upcoming Opportunities
Announcement: NSF 07-560
Deadline: 2nd Monday in January, annuallyContact: W. Carl Taylor, [email protected]
Research Initiation Grants (RIG) & Career Advancement Awards (CAA)
to Broaden Participation in the Biological Sciences• Increase the number and competitiveness of
underrepresented groups in biology and scientists at minority-serving institutions.
• For faculty at any college or university.
• Proposed activities must facilitate broadening participation by underrepresented groups in biology.
• RIG - beginning investigators - for activities (e.g. preliminary data or developing collaborations), in order to formulate competitive grant applications.
• CAA – established scientists – to enhance career development and competitiveness (e.g., acquiring new tools, skills).
Human & Social Dynamics (HSD)
• Multidisciplinary research teams
• Focuses on understanding the drivers and consequences of organizational, cultural, and societal change
• FY 2008 emphasis areas not yet announced
Announcement: NSF 06-604
Contact: Rita Teutonico, [email protected]
Contact: Sam Scheiner, [email protected]
Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates in Biological and Mathematical Sciences (UBM)
• Enhance undergraduate training at the intersection of the biological and mathematical sciences
• Involve interdisciplinary teams of undergraduates in genuine research projects
• Strengthen research and education capacity, infrastructure, and culture of the institution
Announcement: NSF 07-539
Science and Society (S&S)Impacts of Biology on Society
Examine the relationships among science, engineering, technology, and society.– Ethics and Values– History and Philosophy – Social Studies – Policy Studies
Announcement: NSF 06-039 Impacts of Bio on SocietyNSF 05-588 Science & Society
Proposal Target Dates: February 1 and August 1, annuallyContact: Frederick Kronz, [email protected]
• Encourage and provide the means to produce integrated analysis and interpretation of a body of research by an individual or team of investigators.
• Provide an account that chronicles how stages of research led to cohesive understanding.
• Generate insight that points to new directions in research.
• 6.5 mths salary and fringe benefits for primary PI; up to $25,000 non-PI salary costs, over 2 years.
Deadlines: January 9 and July 9, annuallyContact: Mark Courtney, [email protected]
OPUSOPUS
Announcement: NSF 06-568
Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through
Synthesis (OPUS)
Contact: [email protected]
Announcement: NSF 06-611
Environmental Genomics (EnGen)
• To enhance the development of fundamental knowledge and strengthen the capacity to apply genomics-enabled methods in research on organisms in their natural environments.
• Research foci should be appropriate to the themes of interest or purviews of the Directorates for Biological Sciences (BIO) and Geosciences (GEO).
• If related to polar species or polar ecosystems, proposals should be responsive to the themes and goals of the International Polar Year (IPY), and submitted to the NSF IPY solicitation
Contact: Office of Polar Programs
Announcement: NSF 07-536
International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008
• An intense scientific campaign to explore new frontiers in polar science, improve our understanding of the critical role of the polar regions in global processes, and educate the public about the polar regions
Planetary Biodiversity Inventories (PBI)
• To accelerate the discovery & study of the world’ biodiversity.
• World wide, species-level systematic inventory of a major group of organisms.
Announcement: NSF 06-500
Deadline: January 12, 2008Contact:Patrick Herendeen, [email protected]
Plant ScienceCyberinfrastructure
(PSCIC)• New program
• Create a cyberinfrastructure collaborative for plant science that will enable new conceptual advances through integrative, computational thinking
• Scientists from various disciplines will work collaboratively on teams
Announcement: NSF 06-594
Contact: Christopher Greer, [email protected]
Advancing Theory in Biology (ATB)
• Develop new conceptualizations and theoretical approaches to identify fundamental principles that traverse levels of biological complexity
• Awards up to $250,000 per year for 3 years
Announcement: NSF 07-556
Proposal Deadline: July 3, 2007Contact: Saran Twombly, [email protected]
National Ecological Observatory Network
(NEON)• A major research infrastructure activity
• Continent-wide network of observatories
• State-of-the-art infrastructure will support interdisciplinary, integrated research
• Award announcement is forthcoming
Contact: Elizabeth Blood, [email protected]