Dr. Heinz Gert de Couet, the current Division Director for IOS, is ending his rotation and returning to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in August. IOS is grateful for his leadership and he will be missed. Due to his departure, IOS is searching for its next Division Director. In the Directorate for … Continue reading
Author Archives: bioiosbloggers
NSF IOS and USDA-NIFA Announce FY17 Plant Biotic Interactions Awards
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) have issued 27 research project awards, totaling more than $18 million, to support research into the relationships between plants, microbes, and other organisms in their environment. This new inter-agency collaboration … Continue reading
New Opportunity: NSF-Simons Research Centers for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems (MathBioSys) NSF17-560
The Simons Foundation and NSF join forces to fund up to 3 new math-bio research centers. Continue reading
EDGE Program Announces Its First Ten Awards!
IOS’s new program Enabling Discovery Through Genomic Tools (EDGE) has announced its first 10 awards totaling $14 million in 2017. These projects span a variety of non-model animals and plants with the goal of developing and rapidly disseminating genomic tools for researchers to use to understand how gene function creates the functional and physical characteristics of … Continue reading
Tips for preparing your CAREER proposal
The deadline for CAREER (NSF17-537) proposal submission, 19 July, 2017, is fast approaching. Below we are reposting tips for CAREER submission from an earlier blog. You will also want to consult the current Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG NSF 17-1). You may also want to check out our prior postings on full proposal submission … Continue reading
IOS Collaborators and Other Affiliations (COA) Template
See also: “Revised IOS Solicitation (NSF 17-508): preliminary proposals due one day earlier” (10/31/16) Filling out the COA template The Collaborators and Other Affiliations (COA) template, an Excel file sent by email and available for download here, is required for all IOS preliminary and full proposals. The COA template helps us to manage the review of … Continue reading
Revised IOS Solicitation (NSF 17-508): preliminary proposals due one day earlier
A revised solicitation for the IOS Core Programs was just released. The revised solicitation (NSF 17-508) replaces solicitation NSF 16-505 and applies to preliminary proposal submissions due January 19, 2017, and invited full proposal submissions. Note that this preliminary proposal deadline is one day earlier than advertised in the previous solicitation due to the closure … Continue reading
New PGRP Solicitation
Proposal submission – any day, any time As you may have heard, IOS recently made some changes to the Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP). The new PGRP solicitation (NSF 16-614) was released on 28 September, 2016. You will find it includes a few changes, as well as some familiar opportunities and some new offerings. The changes include relaxed submission … Continue reading
Tips for preparing your DDIG application
Originally posted on IOS in Focus:
The deadline for submitting Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants (DDIG) is fast approaching! All materials must be submitted in Fastlane by October 9, 2014. Awards are made for doctoral candidates to expand an existing body of dissertation research. They may also include participation in scientific meetings, and fees for research…
Focus on Broader Impacts: Dr. Martin Tresguerres, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Dr. Martin Tresguerres of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, has developed a distinctive broader impacts plan. In collaboration with the Birch Aquarium of Scripps (BAS), he has created a detailed public museum exhibit to educate the general public about coral cell biology and ocean acidification. His exhibit contains several panels with interactive … Continue reading
