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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)
Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC)
Human Resources Cluster
Directorate for Biological Sciences Centers and Research Infrastructure
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
Science and Technology Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education (C-MORE)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the DBI Community
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - DBI
Developing a National Research Infrastructure for Neuroscience (NeuroNex)
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
Developing a National Research Infrastructure for Neuroscience (NeuroNex)
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)
Developing a National Research Infrastructure for Neuroscience (NeuroNex)
NSF-Simons Research Centers for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems (MathBioSys)
Additional Funding Opportunities for the IOS Community
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - IOS
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences: Investigator-initiated research projects (MCB)
MCB Cluster Descriptions
NSF-Simons Research Centers for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems (MathBioSys)
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
Academic Research Infrastructure Program: Recovery and Reinvestment (ARI-R²) 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
Advancing Theory in Biology (ATB)
Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD)
Bio/computational Evolution in Action CONsortium (BEACON)
Center for Cellular Construction (CCC)
Cultivating Cultures for Ethical STEM (CCE STEM)
Cyber-Innovation for Sustainability Science and Engineering (CyberSEES)
Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) - Data and Software:
Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century Workforce NSF-wide
DEB Cluster Descriptions
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
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 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)
Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
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
Science of Learning: Collaborative Networks (SL-CN)
Semiconductor Synthetic Biology for Information Processing and Storage Technologies (SemiSynBio)
Understanding the Rules of Life: Building a Synthetic Cell NSF-wide
Understanding the Rules of Life: Epigenetics NSF-wide