Blog of the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) at the National Science Foundation
Upcoming Meeting: SICB Annual Meeting 2022 January 3-7, 2022 Phoenix, AZ The National Science Foundation (NSF) will have a presence at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology (SICB) from January 3 to 7, 2022 in Phoenix, AZ Please stop by the NSF booth between January 4 and January 6, 2022 …
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Research and Mentoring for Postbaccalaureates in Biological Sciences (RaMP) The slides are available HERE The Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) held a Virtual Office Hour on November 18, 2021 providing information on the new Research and Mentoring for Postbaccalaureates in Biological Sciences (RaMP, NSF 22-506). We were joined by program directors who work directly …
Continue reading Did you miss it? November 2021 Virtual Office Hours Recap – Part II
Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in BIO (BRC-BIO) The slides are available HERE The Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) held a Virtual Office Hour on November 18, 2021 on the new Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology (BRC-BIO) program,(Solicitation 22-500) n as well as the Research and Mentoring for Postbaccalaureates in …
Continue reading Did you miss it? November 2021 Virtual Office Hours Recap – Part I
NSF 22-016 With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) the Division of Integrative and Organismal Systems (IOS) calls for proposals that build on our ongoing programs to move forward our understanding of infection processes in natural systems. All study systems are appropriate, except those that focus solely on human diseases. Proposals that focus on building a mechanistic understanding …
Interested in BIO programs? Not sure what it takes to submit a proposal? Have questions? Teams representing the Biology Integration Institutes (BII) program, Enabling Discovery through Genomics (EDGE) program, and the Arctic Research Program all have upcoming Webinars that may be of interest to you! Scroll down for more info on each program and how …
Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO) The slides are available HERE. The IOS Virtual Office Hour for October 2021 focused on the Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO, 21-622) solicitation. We were joined by program directors who work directly on this funding opportunity. The IntBIO solicitation replaced the Rules of Life Track formerly featured in the core …
Continue reading Did you miss it? October Virtual Office Hours Recap
Proposal Budget Form 1030Download Critical to receiving the funds you need for your proposed project is a well justified budget. Here we’re sharing some best practices and advice for communicating that justification effectively. Starting with a cumulative budget form (link above), the goal is to provide a detailed breakdown of the funds requested (the actual …
Repost from our colleagues in the Division of Environmental Biology (DEB). Project titles matter because they partially determine who will end up reviewing your proposals. Unlike the situation with journals, where an editor can share the abstract of a manuscript with a potential reviewer, all NSF can share is the title. This comes into play …
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BIO’s new solicitation, Organismal Response to Climate Change (ORCC), calls for proposals focused on understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of organismal response to climate change to improve our ability to predict and to mitigate maladaptive biological responses to rapidly changing environments and to facilitate organismal adaptation and persistence. Full Proposal Deadline: March 1, 2022 In particular, …
BRC-BIO is a new solicitation intended to enhance research capacity and broaden participation of new faculty of biology at minority-serving institutions (MSIs), predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs), and other universities and colleges that are not among the nation’s most research-intensive and resourced institutions. Some key information from the solicitation: Primary investigators must hold at least a 50% tenure-track (or tenure-track equivalent) position as an assistant professor …
IOS in Focus 