NSF - Biological SciencesNSF - Biological Sciences

Sam ScheinerSam Scheinersscheine@nsf.govsscheine@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 Gholzhgholz@nsf.gov

Mark Walbridgemwalbrid@nsf.gov

Martyn Caldwellmcaldwel@nsf.gov

EcologicalBiology

Alan Tessieratessier@nsf.gov

Catherine Gehringcgehring@nsf.gov

Susan Mazersmazer@nsf.gov

Jess Zimmermanjzimmerm@nsf.gov

Population and

Evolutionary Processes

Mark Courtneymcourtne@nsf.gov

Sam Scheinersscheine@nsf.gov

John Damuthjdamuth@nsf.gov

Saran Twomblystwombly@nsf.gov

Systematic Biology

and Biodiversity Inventories

James Rodmanjrodman@nsf.gov

Judith Skogjskog@nsf.gov

Chuck Lydeardclydeard@nsf.gov

Juan Carlos Moralesjmorales@nsf.gov

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

Funding Opportunities

Emerging Frontiers

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 eblood@nsf.gov

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: Bio2010@nsf.gov

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, cgreer@nsf.gov

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, jrodman@nsf.gov

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, sscheine@nsf.gov

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, sscheine@nsf.gov 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, tbaerwal@nsf.gov

Research Coordination Networks (RCN)

Announcement: NSF 05-569Target Date: last Monday in JuneContact: Alan Tessier atessier@nsf.gov

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

Funding Opportunities

Ongoing

Core Activities

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

Funding Opportunities

Division of Environmental

Biology

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, mcourtne@nsf.gov

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, jrodman@nsf.gov

Funding Opportunities

Division of Integrative

Organismal Biology

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. 

Funding Opportunities

Division of Molecular and

Cellular Biosciences

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.

Funding Opportunities

Division of Biological

Infrastructure

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 dbrzakov@nsf.gov

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

Funding Opportunities

Development of Expertise

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, ckimsey@nsf.gov

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants (DDIG)

Announcement: NSF 02-173 Deadline: 3rd Friday in November, annually Contact: Dr. Mark Courtney, mcourtne@nsf.gov

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.

Increasing Diversity

Funding Opportunities

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, ckimsey@nsf.gov

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: rig-caabp@nsf.gov

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 soconnor@nsf.gov

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 Scheinersscheine@nsf.govsscheine@nsf.gov

National Science Foundation National Science Foundation 20052005