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ACED: Accelerating Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery (ACED) | NSF 24-541

Supports interdisciplinary collaborative research to explore new computational technologies and accelerate scientific discovery.

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June 17, 2024
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Synthesis Center for Understanding Organismal Resilience | NSF 23-564

Supports the establishment of a new Synthesis Center focused on organismal resilience and plasticity as well as training new generations of researchers in data-intensive, open, cross-disciplinary and collaborative science.

Posted December 23, 2008
Full Proposal Deadline:
July 15, 2024
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Building Synthetic Microbial Communities for Biology, Mitigating Climate Change, Sustainability and Biotechnology (Synthetic Communities) | NSF 22-607

Supports research into synthetic microbial communities, including how they form and evolve, how to use them to address biological questions, and/or how to build them for biotechnology or bioengineering applications.

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Full Proposal Deadline:
August 1, 2024
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Biodiversity on a Changing Planet (BoCP) | NSF 23-542

Supports design and implementation projects studying functional biodiversity in the context of unprecedented environmental change. Projects must integrate cellular, organismal, ecological, evolutionary, geological or paleontological approaches.

Posted January 28, 2005
Full Proposal Deadline:
September 5, 2024
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Organismal Response to Climate Change (ORCC) | NSF 23-622

Supports research, research coordination networks and conferences that integrate ecological and evolutionary approaches with genomic, physiological, structural, developmental, neural or behavioral understanding of organismal responses to climate change.

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Full Proposal Deadline:
November 19, 2024
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Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) | NSF 22-603

Supports opportunities for scientists and engineers at the associate professor rank (or equivalent) to substantively enhance and advance their research program through synergistic partnerships.

Posted January 28, 2005
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March 3, 2025
Proposal window February 1, 2025 - March 3, 2025
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NSF-NIST Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research | PD 22-1642

Introduction The National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shared interests in a variety of basic and applied scientific and engineering fields. This program is designed to facilitate collaborative research and educational activities among...
Posted April 21, 2014
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Partnership to Advance Conservation Science and Practice (PACSP) | NSF 24-531

Supports partnerships that conduct research on organismal biology, ecology and evolution to develop and implement action plans and technologies that advance biodiversity conservation.

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Bioinspired Design Collaborations to Accelerate the Discovery-Translation Process (BioDesign) | NSF 23-055

Encourages early-stage collaborations across the biological and engineering sciences and the translation of research findings into use-inspired projects that inform societal impact and future commercialization.

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Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals under U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) of India Collaborative Research Opportunities | NSF 24-054

Encourages collaborative U.S. –India research proposals to support knowledge, technologies and innovation that advance biotechnology and promote the bioeconomy.

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Using Long-Term Research Associated Data (ULTRA-Data) | NSF 24-081

Encourages submission of proposals for projects that use/reuse long-term environmental data to advance understanding of ecological and evolutionary questions.

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Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals under National Science Foundation (NSF) and US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) Collaborative Research Opportunities | NSF 20-094

Dear Colleagues: SCOPE The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Research Cooperation. The MOU provides an overarching framework to encourage collaboration between U.S. and Israeli research...
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Conferences for Building Computational Literacy in Biological Sciences | NSF 20-074

Dear Colleagues: The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) seeks to highlight the importance of computational thinking in biology and STEM education. This activity is a part of NSF's contribution to the Office of Science and Technology...
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Conference Proposals on Clean Energy Topics | NSF 23-108

Invites conference proposals to initiate new collaborations that will advance clean energy technologies and increase their use to benefit the economy, to ensure social justice and to serve the public good.

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Future Proofing Plants to a Changing Climate | NSF 23-096

Supports collaborative research involving scientists from the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom in two focus areas: multi-scale crop physiology or programmable plants.

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Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) | NSF 21-546

Supports the development of genomic tools and research to uncover the relationships between genes and phenotypes across environmental, developmental, social and genomic contexts.

Posted January 28, 2005
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Emerging Mathematical Tools applied to Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease | NSF 24-067

Encourages proposals that enhance our knowledge of pathogen transmission dynamics through novel technologies, such as remote sensing, precision treatment and mathematical or computational models, including artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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Plant Synthetic Biology | NSF 20-045

Supports basic research, tool development and applications to advance the field of plant synthetic biology through ongoing programs in the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate for Engineering.

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Supporting Research at the Intersection of Agricultural Science, Big Data, Informatics, and Smart Communities, a joint effort between NSF and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA/NIFA) | NSF 19-051

Encourages proposals that combine methods in agricultural, biological, and computer and information science and engineering to address pressing challenges in digital agriculture.

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UKRI/BBSRC - NSF/BIO Lead Agency Opportunity in Biological Informatics, Systems Understanding of Host-Microbe Interactions, Synthetic Cells and Cellular Systems, and Synthetic Microbial Communities | NSF 23-143

Invites transatlantic collaborative research proposals that address the priorities of both UK Research and Innovation Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and participating Divisions in NSF’s Directorate for Biological Sciences.

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Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS): Funding to Broaden Participation in the Biological Sciences | NSF 23-145

Encourages proposals or supplemental funding requests from current NSF awardees for projects that foster interest in the biological sciences and broaden participation of high school students.

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Behavioral Systems | NSF 24-546

Supports integrative research on the behavior of individuals and groups of animals. Supports species-specific and comparative studies, as well as modeling and theoretical approaches.

Posted February 16, 2024
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Reproducible Cells and Organoids via Directed- Differentiation Encoding (RECODE) | NSF 21-608

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Divisions of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET), Integrative and Organismal Systems (IOS), Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB), and Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) seek proposals that elucidate mechanisms of, and develop strategies...
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UKRI/BBSRC - NSF/BIO Lead Agency Opportunity in Biological informatics, Microbes and the Host Immune System, Quantum Biology, and Synthetic Cell | NSF 21-100

Invites U.S.–U.K. collaborative research proposals in the following priority areas: biological informatics, microbes and the host immune system, quantum biology, and synthetic cells.

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Clean Energy Technology RAISE or EAGER Proposals | NSF 23-109

Invites Research Advanced by Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (RAISE) and EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals to all NSF Directorates in the area of clean energy technologies.

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