Division of Integrative Organismal Systems Core Programs (NSF)

• Date: 22 October 2020
• Published date: 22 October 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31345

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Grants alert (cont.)

Funds: $100 million total for awards ranging from

$5,000 to $5 million.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and nonprot

organizations.

Areas: NSF said DEB encourages research that

elucidates fundamental principles that identify and

explain the unity and diversity of life and its interactions

with the environment over space and time. Research

may incorporate eld-, laboratory- or collection-based

approaches; observational or manipulative studies;

synthesis activities; phylogenetic discovery projects; or

theoretical approaches involving analytical, statistical or

computational modeling. Proposals should be submitted

to the core clusters (ecosystem sciences, evolutionary

processes, population and community ecology, and

systematics and biodiversity sciences).

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 21-504

Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Secure and Trust worthy Cyberspace

announcement to protect and preserve the growing

social and economic benets of cybersystems while

ensuring security and privacy.

Deadline: Jan. 29, 2021.

Funds: $69 million total for up to 78 awards: 15

education awards, 35 small awards, 25 medium awards

and three large awards.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and nonprot

organizations.

Areas: NSF said the program should address

cybersecurity and privacy and draw on expertise in

one or more of these areas: computing, communication

and information sciences; engineering; education;

mathematics; statistics; and social, behavioral and

economic sciences. Proposals that advance the eld of

cybersecurity and privacy within a single discipline or

interdisciplinary efforts that span multiple disciplines are

both welcome.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 21-500

Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1

announcement to provide an agile, foundationwide

process to fund experimental research capabilities

in the midscale range between the Major Research

Instrumentation and Major Facilities thresholds.

Deadline: April 23, 2021.

Funds: $80 million total for up to 10 awards ranging

from $6 million to $19 million.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and nonprot

organizations.

Areas: NSF said proposers may submit two types of

projects: Implementation (e.g., acquisition/construction)

and Design. Midscale Research Infrastructure-1

implementation projects may include any combination of

equipment, instrumentation, cyberinfrastructure, broadly

used large-scale datasets, and the commissioning

and/or personnel needed to successfully complete the

project, or the design efforts intended to lead to eventual

implementation of a midscale class project. The Design

track is intended to facilitate progress toward readiness

for a midscale range implementation project. Both

Implementation and Design projects may involve new or

upgraded research infrastructure.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 21-505

Division of Integrative Organismal Systems

Core Programs (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Division of Integrative Organismal

Systems Core Programs announcement to support

research aimed at understanding why organisms are

structured the way they are and function as they do.

Deadline: Proposals are accepted at any time.

Funds: $70 million total.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: NSF said proposals are welcomed in all the

core scientic program areas supported by the Division

of Integrative Organismal Systems. Areas of inquiry

include but are not limited to: developmental biology

and the evolution of developmental processes, nervous

system development, structure, modication, function

and evolution; biomechanics and functional morphology;

physiological processes; symbioses and microbial

interactions; interactions of organisms with biotic and

abiotic environments; plant and animal genomics; and

animal behavior. Proposals should focus on organisms

as a fundamental unit of biological organization.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 21-506

Plant Genome Research Program (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Plant Genome Research Program

(PGRP) announcement to support genome-scale

research that addresses challenging questions of

biological, societal and economic importance.

Deadline: Proposals are accepted at any time.

Funds: $30 million total for up to 15 awards.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: NSF said two funding tracks are currently

available: RESEARCH-PGR Track—genome-scale

plant research to address fundamental questions

in biology, including processes of economic and/or

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