Programs: Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
This is a list of all the programs within the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO).
Key: | Crosscutting NSF-wide
Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)
BIO Centers, Facilities, and Additional Research Infrastructure Cluster
- Bio/computational Evolution in Action CONsortium (BEACON)
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- BioXFEL Science and Technology Center (BioXFEL)
- Center for Cellular Construction (CCC)
- CyVerse: Cyberinfrastructure for the Life Sciences
- National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
- National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
- Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex)Crosscutting
- Protein Data Bank (PDB)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DBI Community
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2021
- Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE)
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams)NSF-wide
- Major Research Instrumentation Program: (MRI)NSF-wide
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination NetworksCrosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DEB Community
- Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research (Capacity)
- Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC)
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2021
- Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES)
- Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID)
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams)NSF-wide
- Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- Center for Advancement and Synthesis of Open Environmental Data and Sciences
- Coastal SEES (Coastal SEES)Crosscutting
- Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO)
- Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)Crosscutting
- Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination NetworksCrosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Signals in the SoilCrosscutting
Division of Emerging Frontiers (EF)
Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the IOS Community
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)Crosscutting
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams)NSF-wide
- Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO)
- Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)Crosscutting
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination NetworksCrosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - IOS
- Cracking the Olfactory Code (Olfactory)Crosscutting
- Developing Country Collaborations in Plant Genome Research (DCC-PGR)
- Metabolomics for a Low Carbon Society (METABOLOMICS)
- NSF-Simons Research Centers for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems (MathBioSys)
- Surpassing Evolution: Transformative Approaches to Enhance the Efficiency of Photosynthesis
Signals in the SoilCrosscutting
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the MCB Community
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation 2021
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams)NSF-wide
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)Crosscutting
- NSF-NIST Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research in BIO, ENG & MPS (NSF-NIST)
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination NetworksCrosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - MCB
- Cracking the Olfactory Code (Olfactory)Crosscutting
- Innovations in Biological Imaging and Visualization (IBIV)
- Metabolomics for a Low Carbon Society (METABOLOMICS)
- NSF Participation in the ERA-Net in Synthetic Biology (ERASynBio)
- NSF-Simons Research Centers for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems (MathBioSys)
- Origin of LifeCrosscutting
- Surpassing Evolution: Transformative Approaches to Enhance the Efficiency of Photosynthesis
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DBI Community
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2021
- Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE)
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams)NSF-wide
- Major Research Instrumentation Program: (MRI)NSF-wide
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination NetworksCrosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DEB Community
- Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES)
- Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC)
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- Center for Advancement and Synthesis of Open Environmental Data and Sciences
- Coastal SEES (Coastal SEES)Crosscutting
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2021
- Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID)
- Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research (Capacity)
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams)NSF-wide
- Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO)
- Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
- Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)Crosscutting
- Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination NetworksCrosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the IOS Community
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)Crosscutting
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams)NSF-wide
- Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO)
- Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)Crosscutting
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination NetworksCrosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the MCB Community
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation 2021
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams)NSF-wide
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)Crosscutting
- NSF-NIST Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research in BIO, ENG & MPS (NSF-NIST)
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination NetworksCrosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Institutes for Data-Intensive Research in Science and EngineeringNSF-wide Crosscutting