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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)
Infrastructure Capacity for Biology (ICB)
Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (IIBR)
Sustained Availability of Biological Infrastructure (SABI)
Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC)
Human Resources Cluster
Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) Crosscutting
Directorate for Biological Sciences Centers and Research Infrastructure
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DBI Community
BIO Research Experience for Undergraduates Sites (BIO REU Sites) NSF-wide
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - DBI
Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
Division of Environmental Biology (core programs) (DEB)
DEB Cluster Descriptions
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DEB Community
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - DEB
Long Term Ecological Research (LTER-NCO)
Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER):
Origin of Life Crosscutting
Division of Emerging Frontiers (EF)
EF Active Solicitations
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - EF
Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)
Division of Integrative Organismal Systems Core Programs
IOS Cluster Descriptions
Plant Biotic Interactions
Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
Enabling Discovery through GEnomic Tools (EDGE)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the IOS Community
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - IOS
Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) Crosscutting
Signals in the Soil (SitS) Crosscutting
Understanding the Rules of Life: Microbiome Theory and Mechanisms (URoL:MTM) NSF-wide
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences: Investigator-initiated research projects (MCB)
MCB Cluster Descriptions
Transitions to Excellence in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Research (Transitions)
Semiconductor Synthetic Biology for Information Processing and Storage Technologies (SemiSynBio)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the MCB Community
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - MCB
Origin of Life Crosscutting
Semiconductor Synthetic Biology for Information Storage and Retrieval (SemiSynBio-II) Crosscutting
Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) NSF-wide
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DBI Community
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DEB Community
Additional Funding Opportunities for the IOS Community
Additional Funding Opportunities for the MCB Community
ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions (ADVANCE) NSF-wide
Advancing Theory in Biology (ATB)
Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD)
Bio/computational Evolution in Action CONsortium (BEACON)
Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
Center for Cellular Construction (CCC)
Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI): Crosscutting
DEB Cluster Descriptions
Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2)
Explosives and Related Threats: Frontiers in Prediction and Detection (EXP) Crosscutting
Facilitating Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: NSF-wide
Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) NSF-wide
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) NSF-wide
GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) NSF-wide
Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Institutes for Data-Intensive Research in Science and Engineering - Ideas Labs (I-DIRSE-IL) NSF-wide
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP)
Improvements to Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSML) Crosscutting
Inclusion Across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) NSF-wide
Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) (NSF INCLUDES) NSF-wide
Innovations in Biological Imaging and Visualization (IBIV)
Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program NSF-wide
IOS Cluster Descriptions
Long Term Ecological Research (LTER-NCO)
National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes NSF-wide Crosscutting
National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) NSF-wide
National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program NSF-wide
NSF Participation in the ERA-Net in Synthetic Biology (ERASynBio)
Partnership for Undergraduate Life Science Education (PULSE)
Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET)
Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) NSF-wide
Protein Data Bank (PDB)
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) NSF-wide
Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships NSF-wide
Semiconductor Synthetic Biology for Information Processing and Storage Technologies (SemiSynBio)
Semiconductor Synthetic Biology for Information Storage and Retrieval (SemiSynBio-II) Crosscutting
Understanding the Rules of Life: Building a Synthetic Cell NSF-wide
Understanding the Rules of Life: Epigenetics NSF-wide