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)
BIO Centers, Facilities, and Additional Research Infrastructure Cluster (CFARI)
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- Center for Advancement and Synthesis of Open Environmental Data and Sciences
- Competition for the Management of Operations and Maintenance of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
- Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 (Mid-scale RI-1) NSF-wide
- Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 (Mid-scale RI-2) NSF-wide
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DBI Community
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2021
- Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE)
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Cellular Dynamics and Function
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) Crosscutting
- Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) Crosscutting
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DEB Community
- Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research (Capacity)
- Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC)
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2021
- Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES)
- Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID)
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- Center for Advancement and Synthesis of Open Environmental Data and Sciences
- Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO)
- Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) Crosscutting
- Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Signals in the Soil Crosscutting
Division of Emerging Frontiers (EF)
Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the IOS Community
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) Crosscutting
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO)
- Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) Crosscutting
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - IOS
- Developing Country Collaborations in Plant Genome Research (DCC-PGR)
- Metabolomics for a Low Carbon Society (METABOLOMICS)
- Nitrogen: Improving on Nature (Olfactory)
- NSF-Simons Research Centers for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems (MathBioSys)
- Surpassing Evolution: Transformative Approaches to Enhance the Efficiency of Photosynthesis
Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) Crosscutting
Signals in the Soil Crosscutting
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the MCB Community
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation 2021
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) Crosscutting
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - MCB
- Metabolomics for a Low Carbon Society (METABOLOMICS)
- Nitrogen: Improving on Nature (Olfactory)
- NSF Participation in the ERA-Net in Synthetic Biology (ERASynBio)
- NSF-Simons Research Centers for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems (MathBioSys)
- Origin of Life Crosscutting
- Surpassing Evolution: Transformative Approaches to Enhance the Efficiency of Photosynthesis
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DBI Community
- Cellular Dynamics and Function
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2021
- Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE)
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) Crosscutting
- Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) Crosscutting
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DEB Community
- Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES)
- Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC)
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- Center for Advancement and Synthesis of Open Environmental Data and Sciences
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2021
- Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID)
- Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research (Capacity)
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO)
- Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
- Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) Crosscutting
- Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the IOS Community
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) Crosscutting
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO)
- Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) Crosscutting
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the MCB Community
- Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
- Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation 2021
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science (MSB-NES)
- Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) Crosscutting
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Institutes for Data-Intensive Research in Science and Engineering NSF-wide Crosscutting