Environmental and Structural Systems Cluster

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

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Please be advised that the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) includes revised guidelines to implement the mentoring provisions of the America COMPETES Act (ACA) (Pub. L. No. 110-69, Aug. 9, 2007.) As specified in the ACA, each proposal that requests funding to support postdoctoral researchers must include a description of the mentoring activities that will be provided for such individuals. Proposals that do not comply with this requirement will be returned without review (see the PAPP Guide Part I: Grant Proposal Guide Chapter II for further information about the implementation of this new requirement).

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SYNOPSIS

The Environmental & Structural Systems thematic area focuses on the functional evolution of organisms in their physiochemical and biotic environments. Included are studies of physiological ecology, evolutionary physiology, stress physiology, functional morphology and movement, animal sensation, computational and systems neuroscience, and environmental genomics. Proposals that include computational or engineering approaches in any of these areas of biology are encouraged.

Program Directors:

R. Paul Malchow.  Animal Sensation and Movement, Computational Neuroscience, function and evolution of sensory input

Irwin Forseth.  Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology - Plants and Microbes

Dianna Padilla.  Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology - Animals

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Abstracts of Recent Awards Made Through This Program

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