Join the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) on Monday May 22, 2023 at 4pm ET to hear more about the Building Research Capacity for New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO) program. This webinar will also include time for Q&A. The BIO-BRC program focuses on enhancing research capacity and broadening participation of new faculty at minority-serving institutions …
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Meet with NSF Program Directors at ASM Microbe 2023
Program Directors from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) will be attending the Microbe meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) in Houston, Texas on June 16-18, 2023. Come visit us at in the Exhibitor Hall at booths 2202 and 2204 on Friday and Saturday from 10am-5pm, and Sunday 10am-4pm …
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Volunteer to be an IOS Reviewer!
The success of the NSF merit review process depends on qualified scientific reviewers (like yourself!) to share your time and expertise to review proposals submitted by your peers. IOS needs reviewers to serve as both ad hoc reviewers (typically reading 1 proposal and providing a written review)) and panelist reviewers (who sit on a 2- …
LIFE: Leveraging Innovations From Evolution Town Hall and Scoping Sessions
NSF, in partnership with KnowInnovation, will be hosting a virtual Town Hall and two Scoping Sessions (one in-person and one virtual) focused on LIFE: Leveraging Innovations From Evolution. LIFE aims to bring together diverse scientists to think on specific research challenges and opportunities, including technological and educational training needs, that leverage convergent evolution to investigate …
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Save the Date! NSF Virtual Grants Conference June 5-8, 2023
Are you a new faculty, researcher or administrator wondering about funding opportunities available at NSF? Would you benefit from learning more about NSF policies or procedures? The 2023 NSF Virtual Grants Conference is designed to give key insights into a wide range of current issues at NSF. Highlights will include new programs and initiatives, proposal …
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Did you know? Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO) has been added as a track to the core IOS solicitation
We want to highlight that the "Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO)" funding opportunity is now a track within the IOS core programs (NSF 23-547). The purpose of this track is to support collaborative proposals to tackle bold questions in biology that require an integrative approach. Typically, this type of research will span different sub-disciplines of …
NSF Workshop: Building Bridges to Use-Inspired Research and Science-Informed Practices
We invite you to participate in a workshop aiming to strengthen partnerships among academic, private, and government organizations. Supported by NSF's Directorate of Biological Sciences (BIO), the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), and the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) this workshop will build new connections among key biological sciences communities to successfully conduct …
New Opportunities for Bioinspired Design
NSF released two new Dear Colleague Letters (DCLs) focused on bio-inspired design and prioritizing interdisciplinary collaborations: Bioinspired Design Collaborations to Accelerate the Discovery-Translation Process (BioDesign) Announcement of 2023 Convergence Accelerator Track M: Bio-Inspired Design Innovations BioDesign DCL Through the new BioDesign DCL, the IOS Core Programs and Plant Genome Research Program aim to facilitate the translation …
NSF announces solicitation for open-source ecosystems
Are you interested in developing a community to manage open-source products, such as software, hardware, models, specifications, programing languages or data platforms? If so, consider submitting a proposal to the Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program. This program aims to support new managing organizations to catalyze distributed, community-driven development and growth of new open-source ecosystems (OSEs). The expected …
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IOS Bids Farewell to Evan Balaban
For the past seven years, Evan Balaban has been a Program Director in the IOS Neural Systems Cluster working with the Organization and Activation Programs. Evan will be starting a position as a Distinguished Researcher/Full Professor at the Universidad Carlos III Madrid (UC3M) in Spain, where he will be guiding the development of their new Neuroscience …
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