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)
Human Resources Cluster
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE)
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) NSF-wide
- BIO Research Experience for Undergraduates Sites (BIO REU Sites) NSF-wide
- Research Experiences for Teachers Sites in Biological Sciences (BIORETS)
BIO Centers, Facilities, and Additional Research Infrastructure Cluster (CFARI)
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- Center for Advancement and Synthesis of Open Environmental Data and Sciences
- Competition for the Management of Operations and Maintenance of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
- Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (Mid-scale RI-1) NSF-wide
- Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 (Mid-scale RI-2) NSF-wide
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
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Cellular Dynamics and Function
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) Crosscutting
- Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) Crosscutting
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Biodiversity on a Changing Planet (BoCP) Crosscutting
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
- 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 Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
- Signals in the Soil Crosscutting
Biodiversity on a Changing Planet (BoCP) Crosscutting
Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS) Crosscutting
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 Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Biodiversity on a Changing Planet (BoCP) Crosscutting
Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS) Crosscutting
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - IOS
- 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
Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) Crosscutting
NSF-Simons Collaboration on a National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB) Crosscutting
Signals in the Soil Crosscutting
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the MCB Community
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO)
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) Crosscutting
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS) Crosscutting
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - MCB
- 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 Life Crosscutting
- Surpassing Evolution: Transformative Approaches to Enhance the Efficiency of Photosynthesis
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DBI Community
- Cellular Dynamics and Function
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2021
- Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE)
- 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
- Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) Crosscutting
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- 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
- 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 Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
- Signals in the Soil Crosscutting
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 Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the MCB Community
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO)
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) Crosscutting
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Institutes for Data-Intensive Research in Science and Engineering NSF-wide Crosscutting
Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Phase I: Development Grants (PIPP Phase I) Crosscutting
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) NSF-wide
- Astronomy Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites (AST REU Sites) NSF-wide
- BIO Research Experience for Undergraduates Sites (BIO REU Sites) NSF-wide
- Chemistry Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites (CHE REU Sites) NSF-wide
- CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites (CISE REU Sites) NSF-wide
- OCE Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites (OCE REU Sites) NSF-wide
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
- SBE Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites (SBE REU Sites) NSF-wide