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)
Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) Crosscutting
Directorate for Biological Sciences Centers and Research Infrastructure
- Bio/computational Evolution in Action CONsortium (BEACON)
- BioXFEL Science and Technology Center (BioXFEL)
- Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEIN)
- iPlant
- National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
- National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
- Center for Cellular Construction (CCC)
- Protein Data Bank (PDB)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DBI Community
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2019
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Major Research Instrumentation Program: (MRI) NSF-wide
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DEB Community
- Infrastructure Capacity for Biology (ICB)
- Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC)
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2019
- CNH2: Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems Crosscutting
- 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)
- Coastal SEES (Coastal SEES) Crosscutting
- Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Origin of Life Crosscutting
Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the IOS Community
- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
- Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - IOS
- Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD)
- 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
Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) Crosscutting
Signals in the Soil (SitS) Crosscutting
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the MCB Community
- EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION 2019
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- 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
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
- Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
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)
- Surpassing Evolution: Transformative Approaches to Enhance the Efficiency of Photosynthesis
Origin of Life Crosscutting
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DBI Community
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2019
- 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 Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DEB Community
- Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC)
- CNH2: Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems Crosscutting
- Coastal SEES (Coastal SEES) Crosscutting
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2019
- Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID)
- Infrastructure Capacity for Biology (ICB)
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
- Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the IOS Community
- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
- Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the MCB Community
- EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION 2019
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- 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
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
- Science, Technology, and Society (STS)