nsf - biological sciences sam scheiner [email protected] national science foundation 2005
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NSF - Biological SciencesNSF - Biological Sciences
Sam ScheinerSam [email protected]@nsf.gov
National Science Foundation National Science Foundation 20052005
Directorates• Biological SciencesBiological Sciences• Comp. & Info. Science & EngineeringComp. & Info. Science & Engineering• Education & Human ResourcesEducation & Human Resources• EngineeringEngineering• GeosciencesGeosciences• Mathematical & Physical SciencesMathematical & Physical Sciences• Social, Behaviorial & Econ. SciencesSocial, Behaviorial & Econ. Sciences
Offices• Budget, Finance & Award Management• Information & Resource Management
National Science Board Office of Inspector General
Office of the Director
• Legislative & Public Affairs
• Equal Opportunity Prog.
• General Counsel
• Integrative Activities
• Polar Programs
National Science Foundation Director Deputy Director
Divisions in BIODirectorate for Biological Sciences
Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
Systematic Biology and Biodiversity
Inventories
Population and Evolutionary Processes
Ecological Biology
Ecosystem Science
Division of Integrative Organismal Biology
(IOB)
Behavioral Systems
Developmental Systems
Functional and Regulatory Systems
Environmental and Structural
Systems
Division of Emerging Frontiers
Division of Molecular and Cellular
Biosciences (MCB)
Biomolecular Systems
Cellular Systems
Genes and Genome Systems
Division of Biological
Infrastructure (DBI)
Human Resources
Research Resources
Plant Genome Research Program
EcosystemScience
Henry [email protected]
Mark [email protected]
Martyn [email protected]
EcologicalBiology
Alan [email protected]
Catherine [email protected]
Susan [email protected]
Jess [email protected]
Population and
Evolutionary Processes
Mark [email protected]
John [email protected]
Saran [email protected]
Systematic Biology
and Biodiversity Inventories
James [email protected]
Judith [email protected]
Chuck [email protected]
Juan Carlos [email protected]
DEB Organized into 4 Clusters
Division of Environmental Biology
Developmental Systems
Paul Farel
Susan Lolle
Judy Plesset
Behavioral Systems
Godfrey Bourne
Gary Thompson
Diane Witt
Jerry Wolff
IOB Organized into 4 ClustersDivision of Integrative Organismal
Biology
Environmental and Structural
Systems
Robert Malchow
Bill Winner
Bill Zamer
Functional and Regulatory
Systems
Dona Boggs
Ione Hunt Von Herbing
Steve Rodermel
Cellular Systems
Eve Barak
Michael Mishkind
John Rogers
Jermelina Tupas
MCB Organized into 3 ClustersDivision of Molecular and Cellular
Biosciences
Biomolecular Systems
Parag Chitnis
Mona Norcum
Kamal Shukla
Genes and Genome Systems
Pat Dennis
Susan Porter Ridley
Rita Teutonico
Joanne Tornow
Research Resources
Cluster
Manfred Zorn
Elizabeth Blood
Christopher Greer
Training Cluster
Carter Kimsey
Sally O’Connor
Instrumentation Related
Activities Cluster
Gerald Selzer
Richard McCourt
Helen Hansma
PlantGenome ResearchProgram
Jane Silverthorne
Diane Jofuku Okamuro
Anita Klein
Division of Biological Infrastructure
DBI Organized into 3 Clusters and a Program
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
NEONNational Ecological Observatory Network
NEON infrastructure can address technical issues of:
Scale
Complexity
Interacting Drivers
Biological Processes
Advances for ecology
Knowledge Discovery
Sensing Forecasting
Collaboratory Educational tools
Decision Support
Grand Challenges (NRC 2003)
Invasive Species
Biodiversity, species composition, and ecosystem functioning
Ecological aspects of biogeochemical cycles
Ecological implications of climate change
Ecology and evolution of infectious disease
Ecological Consequences of Land use and habitat alteration
Contact: Liz Blood [email protected]
The 2010 ProjectThe 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
Announcement: NSF 04-510
Contact: [email protected]
Goals: To identify major questions in biology, develop integrative approaches, and integrate scientific concepts and research tools both from within and outside of the biological sciences
Awards made up to $5 Million for up to 5 years.
Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR)
Announcement: NSF 05-597 Preliminary proposals due: October 3, 2005Contact: Chris Greer, [email protected]
Assembling The Tree of Life ProjectAssembling The Tree of Life Project(AToL)
Announcement: NSF 04-526
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: James Rodman, [email protected]
Ecology of Infectious Diseases (EID)
Joint NSF and NIH initiative
Study how large-scale environmental events alter the risks of emergence of viral, parasitic, or bacterial diseases
Announcement: NSF 03-507 Deadline: February 10, 2006Contact: Sam Scheiner, [email protected]
Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates in Biological and Mathematical Sciences (UBM)NSF 04-546 – Deadline: March 29, 2006
Quantitative Environmental and Integrative Biology (QEIB) NSF 05-602 – Target Dates: Jan 9 and July 9
Mathematical Biology Research
Contact: Sam Scheiner, [email protected] NSF 04-546; NSF 05-602
Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH)
complex interactions among human and natural systems quantitative, interdisciplinary analyses NSF 03-597 Deadline: To Be Determined
Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) understanding the dynamics of human action and development interdisciplinary NSF 05-520 Deadline: Anticipated for Fall 2006
Human Interactions
NSF 03-597; NSF 05-520 Deadlines: To Be DeterminedContact: Tom Baerwald, [email protected]
Research Coordination Networks (RCN)
Announcement: NSF 05-569Target Date: last Monday in JuneContact: Alan Tessier [email protected]
Goal: To encourage interactions among scientists to create new research directions or advance a field
Awards will range from $50,000 to $100,000 per year for up to 5 years
Target dates for unsolicited proposals in DEB, IOB & MCB
January 9 to 12
July 9 to 12
Or next business day if date is a weekend or holiday
We are accepting proposals as usual in the core areas:
Biodiversity Surveys and Inventories (BS&I)
Ecological Biology
Ecosystem Science
Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
Population And Evolutionary Processes (PEP)
Systematic Biology
Continuation of Core Panels in DEB
OOpportunities for PPromoting UUnderstanding through SSynthesis
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 a new level of insight that points to new directions in research.
6.5 months salary and fringe benefits for primary PI; up to $25,000 non-PI salary costs, over 2 years.
Announcement: NSF 05-572Target Dates: Jan 9th and July 9th annuallyContact: Mark Courtney, [email protected]
OPUS
Partnerships For Partnerships For Enhancing Expertise In TaxonomyEnhancing Expertise In Taxonomy
Training new generations of taxonomists
Translate current expertise into electronic databases
Monographic research and computer infrastructure
Next competition, March 2007
Please see the announcement for more details.
Announcement: NSF 00-140
Contact: James Rodman, [email protected]
Supports research aimed at understanding the living organism -- plant, animal, microbe --as a unit of biological organization Behavioral Systems Developmental Systems Environmental and Structural Systems Functional and Regulatory Systems
Division of Integrative Organismal Biology (IOB)
IOB: Behavioral Systems Cluster
Focuses on the development, function, mechanisms, and evolution of behavior, biological rhythms, and interactions between organisms including animals, plants, and microbes: social and reproductive behavior behavioral ecology and physiology neural and hormonal mechanisms of behavior;
immunology of behavior biological bases of learning, cognition, and
communication
IOB: Developmental Systems Cluster
Focuses on the nature, control, and evolution of those processes that comprise the life cycle of organisms mechanisms of gametogenesis, fertilization,
embryogenesis, differentiation, pattern formation, and morphogenesis
development, regeneration, and aging of the nervous system
genomic approaches, gene networks, integration of developmental gene pathways, and computational approaches are included.
IOB: Environmental and Structural Systems Cluster
Focuses on the function and evolution of organisms in their physiochemical and biotic environments physiological ecology, functional morphology, animal sensation and movement, molecular bases of tissue biomechanical
properties, environmental genomics.
IOB: Functional and Regulatory Systems Cluster
Focuses on fundamental physiological mechanisms and how they have evolved, with emphasis on organisms as integrated systems. Comparative Physiology Neurophysiology Mechanisms of solute transport Comparative or Evolutionary Immunology Includes research at the genetic, genomic,
cellular, tissue, organ, system, and organismal levels of organization.
Supports research and related activities that contribute to a fundamental understanding of life processes at the molecular, subcellular, and cellular levels Biomolecular Systems Cellular Systems Genes and Genome Systems
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)
MCB: Biomolecular Systems Cluster
Structure, function, dynamics, interactions, and interconversions of biological molecules
Integrating theoretical, computational, and
experimental approaches to the study of biological molecules and their functional complexes
Mechanistic studies of the regulation and catalysis of enzymes and RNA
Higher-order characterization of the biochemical processes
MCB: Cellular Systems Cluster
Structure, function, and regulation of plant, animal and microbial cells, and their interactions with the environment and with one another Studies of the structure, function, and assembly of
cellular elements, including eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell walls and envelopes
Intracellular and transmembrane signal transduction mechanisms and cell-cell signaling processes, including those that occur in biofilms
MCB: Gene and Genome Systems Cluster
Genomes and genetic mechanisms in all organisms, whether prokaryote, eukaryote, phage, or virus
Structure, maintenance, expression, transfer, and stability of genetic information in DNA, RNA, and proteins and how those processes are regulated
Genome organization, molecular and cellular evolution, replication, recombination, repair, and vertical and lateral transmission of heritable information
Processes that mediate and regulate gene expression, such as chromatin structure, epigenetic phenomena, transcription, RNA processing, editing and degradation, and translation.
We are accepting proposals as usual in the core areas:• Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biological
Informatics• Starter Grants for Postdoctoral Fellows in Microbial
Biology• Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology• Biological Databases and Informatics• Biological Research Collections• Improvements in Facilities, Communications and
Equipment at Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories
• Instrument Development for Biological Research• Living Stock Collections
Continuation of Core Panels in DBI
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
Announcement: NSF 05-515Deadline: 4th Thursday in January, annuallyContact: Dragana Brzakovic [email protected]
Multi-User Biological Equipment and Instrumentation Resources
Provides support for the purchase of major items
Requests can be $40,000 to $400,000
Single items of biological equipment or several pieces of equipment with a related purpose
Must be shared by 3 to 7 investigators with actively-funded NSF research projects
30% of the total acquisition cost must be shared by the PI’s institution
Announcement: NSF 05-534Deadline:1st Monday in October, annually
Suspended for Budgetary Reasons
Target Date: November 1, 2005
Opportunities Genome-Enabled Plant Research (GEPR) Translational Research from Model
Systems (TRMS) Tools and Resources for Plant Genome
Research (TRPGR)
New! New!
NSF 05-603: Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
Significant Program Changes
The proposal submission deadline has been changed to a target date
Only one proposal will be accepted from an investigator as a principal investigator or a co-principal investigator in response to the new Program Solicitation
There are new proposal categories designed to encourage individual and small groups of investigators to apply
Address important scientific questions in biology
Include a strong linkage between computer, information, computational science and biology
Develop computational, statistical, and other tools in the collection, organization, dissemination, and use of information to solve problems in biology
Postdoctoral Research FellowshipsBiological Informatics
Announcement: NSF 04-539 Deadline: April 10, 2006 Contact: Carter Kimsey, [email protected]
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants (DDIG)
Announcement: NSF 02-173 Deadline: 3rd Friday in November, annually Contact: Dr. Mark Courtney, [email protected]
Division of Environmental Biology and Integrative Organismal Biology (Behavioral Systems only)
Must pass candidacy by the deadline
Funds research-related costs only
Recent changes: increased upper limit to $12,000 allows travel to meetings
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
Announcement: NSF 00-144Target Date:Same as core programs
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 05-548Consult with the Program Director of your particular NSF award.
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
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET)
Announcement: NSF 05-524Consult with the Program Director of your particular NSF award.
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (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 05-592Consult with the Program Director of your particular NSF award.
Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
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
Announcement: NSF 00-139Deadline: December 5, 2005 Contact: Carter Kimsey, [email protected]
Research Initiation Grants (RIG) and
Career Advancement Awards (CAA)
Increase number and competitiveness of underrepresented groups in biology as well as scientists at minority-serving institutions.
Proposed activities must facilitate broadening participation by underrepresented groups in biology.
RIG - beginning investigators – activities leading to competitive grant applications (e.g. preliminary data or developing collaborations)
CAA – established scientists – to enhance career development and competitiveness (e.g., acquiring new tools, skills).
Announcement: NSF 05-581Target Dates: Jan 12th and July 12th annuallyContact: [email protected]
Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology (UMEB)
Research Mentoring Awards - proposals should emphasize factors that enable students from under-represented groups to enter and remain in environmental biology
Travel Awards - awards to professional societies to enable them to bring undergraduates from under-represented groups to meetings
Announcement: NSF 05-558Preliminary proposal requiredContact: Sally O’Connor [email protected]
Research Assistantships for Minority High School Students (RAMHSS)
Involves high school students in research
Supplements to PIs supported by NSF grants
Announcement: NSF 89-39Consult with the Program Director of your particular NSF award.
NSF - Biological SciencesNSF - Biological Sciences
Sam ScheinerSam [email protected]@nsf.gov
National Science Foundation National Science Foundation 20052005