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Supports interdisciplinary collaborative research to explore new computational technologies and accelerate scientific discovery.

Supports pre-tenure faculty in the biological sciences at institutions that traditionally do not receive significant NSF funding in this field, including minority-serving institutions, predominantly undergraduate institutions and R2 institutions.

Supports the design, implementation and evaluation of projects that leverage the work of professional societies to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in the biological sciences.

Supports the establishment of a new Synthesis Center focused on organismal resilience and plasticity as well as training new generations of researchers in data-intensive, open, cross-disciplinary and collaborative science.

Supports biological research experiences for middle school teachers, high school teachers and community college faculty at institutions of higher learning or at nonprofit organizations that conduct education and research.

Supports design and implementation projects studying functional biodiversity in the context of unprecedented environmental change. Projects must integrate cellular, organismal, ecological, evolutionary, geological or paleontological approaches.

Supports networks that provide full-time research, mentoring and training for recent graduates who lacked biological research or training opportunities during college.

Supports networks of scientists focused on integrating biological research discoveries with innovations in education to improve learning experiences for undergraduates.

Supports opportunities for scientists and engineers at the associate professor rank (or equivalent) to substantively enhance and advance their research program through synergistic partnerships.

Supports research on the development of bioinformatics approaches to advance biological research in all areas funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences.

Supports research on the design of instrumentation and associated methods for observing any level of biological phenomena.

Supports research on the design of laboratory- or field-based methodologies that enables new and important insights into biological processes.

An Ideas Lab is an intensive meeting that brings together multiple diverse perspectives to focus on finding innovative cross-disciplinary solutions to a grand challenge problem. The aim of this Ideas Lab is to bring together experts from diverse scientific and...

Supports research and mentoring experiences for undergraduate students to broaden participation in the biological sciences.