Programs: Directorate forBiological Sciences (BIO)
This is a list of all the programs within the Directorate forBiological Sciences (BIO).
Key: Crosscutting | NSF-wide
Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)
Directorate for Biological Sciences Centers and Research Infrastructure
- Bio/computational Evolution in Action CONsortium (BEACON)
- BioXFEL Science and Technology Center (BioXFEL)
- Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEIN)
- iPlant
- National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
- National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
- Center for Cellular Construction (CCC)
- Protein Data Bank (PDB)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DBI Community
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2018
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Major Research Instrumentation Program: (MRI) NSF-wide
- 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 Biology (ICB)
- Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC)
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2018
- CNH2: Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems Crosscutting
- 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)
- Coastal SEES (Coastal SEES) Crosscutting
- Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
- MacroSystems Biology and Early NEON Science:
- Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
Origin of Life Crosscutting
Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the IOS Community
- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
- MacroSystems Biology and Early NEON Science:
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
- Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - IOS
- Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD)
- Cracking the Olfactory Code (Olfactory) Crosscutting
- Developing Country Collaborations in Plant Genome Research (DCC-PGR)
- Metabolomics for a Low Carbon Society (METABOLOMICS)
- Surpassing Evolution: Transformative Approaches to Enhance the Efficiency of Photosynthesis
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the MCB Community
- EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION 2019
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- MacroSystems Biology and Early NEON Science:
- NSF-NIST Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research in BIO, ENG & MPS (NSF-NIST)
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
- Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - MCB
- Cracking the Olfactory Code (Olfactory) Crosscutting
- Innovations in Biological Imaging and Visualization (IBIV)
- Metabolomics for a Low Carbon Society (METABOLOMICS)
- NSF Participation in the ERA-Net in Synthetic Biology (ERASynBio)
- Surpassing Evolution: Transformative Approaches to Enhance the Efficiency of Photosynthesis
Origin of Life Crosscutting
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DBI Community
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2018
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Major Research Instrumentation Program: (MRI) NSF-wide
- 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
- Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC)
- CNH2: Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems Crosscutting
- Coastal SEES (Coastal SEES) Crosscutting
- Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2018
- Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID)
- Infrastructure Capacity for Biology (ICB)
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
- Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
- MacroSystems Biology and Early NEON Science:
- Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
- 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
- Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
- MacroSystems Biology and Early NEON Science:
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
- Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the MCB Community
- EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION 2019
- Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams) NSF-wide
- MacroSystems Biology and Early NEON Science:
- NSF-NIST Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research in BIO, ENG & MPS (NSF-NIST)
- Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
- Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS)
- Research Coordination Networks Crosscutting
- Research Experiences for Teachers: Supplement Opportunity (RET)
- Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century Workforce NSF-wide