Directorate for Biological Sciences Dear Colleague Letters

Dear Colleague Letter: Unsolicited Proposals at the Interface of the Biological, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Engineering added 03/13/12 (Replaces NSF 11-010)

Dear Colleague Letter: Cyberinfrastructure in Support of Biological Sciences added 11/22/11

Dear Colleague Letter: Introducing Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) added 10/06/11

NSF-NIST Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research in BIO, ENG & MPS  (NSF-NIST) added 8/29/11

Biological and Computing Shared Principles (BCSP) added 6/1/11

The Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences - implementing an eight month cycle for proposal submission added 5/11/11

Advancing Revisionary Taxonomy and Systematics (ARTS) added 3/10/11

Dear Colleague Letter: Wiki for Enabling International Partnerships for the Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development Program (BREAD Wiki) added 1/10/11

Dear Colleague Letter for the Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES) NSF-Wide Investment Area added 1/10/11

Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CF21)

Life in Transition (LiT)

Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)

See the Supplements & Other Opportunities web page at http://www.nsf.gov/bio/supp.jsp for additional funding mechanisms

ARCHIVED DCLs - For reference only

Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) FY2009 (ARCHIVED)-- Replaced by Solicitation -- see http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503285&org=BIO for details

Emerging Topics in Biogeochemical Cycles (ETBC) (ARCHIVED) The Emerging Topics in Biogeochemical Cycles (ETBC) opportunity has been discontinued. However, proposals aimed at advancing the quantitative and/or mechanistic understanding of biogeochemical cycles over various temporal and/or spatial scales can continue to be submitted to relevant programs in the Geosciences and Biological Sciences Directorates at their regular target or deadline dates. Interdisciplinary proposals bridging the geosciences and biological science disciplines or subdisciplines in the Geosciences Directorate will be co-reviewed by the appropriate programs. Investigators are encouraged to contact the program directors for guidance before the submission.

Enabling Partnerships to Enable Science ("Tools") (ARCHIVED)

Incubator Proposal Opportunity for Research Coordination Networks - Undergraduate Biology Education (ARCHIVED) The call for RCN-UBE proposals is now included in the new RCN solicitation NSF 10-566. Please see that solicitation for details

Microbial Systems in the Biosphere (MSB) (ARCHIVED)

Multi-scale Modeling (MSM) (ARCHIVED)See http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503388&org=EF&from=home for details on new initiative.

Revisionary Syntheses in Systematics (REVSYS) (ARCHIVED)

Upcoming International Opportunity between NSF and JST in Metabolomics (ARCHIVED) replaced by solicitation NSF 11-527 Metabolomics for a Low Carbon Society