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Programs and Funding Opportunities

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Biomolecular Systems Cluster
Cellular Systems Cluster
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Additional Funding Opportunities for the MCB Community
bullet 2010 Project
bullet Funding opportunities for Neuroscience
bullet Interagency Opportunities in Metabolic Engineering
bullet Microbial Genome Sequencing Program FY 2009
bullet Microbial Observatories (MO) and Microbial Interactions and Processes (MIP)
bullet NSF-NIST Interaction in Chemistry, Materials Research, Molecular Biosciences, Bioengineering, and Chemical Engineering Crosscutting
bullet Research Assistantships for High School Students  (RAHSS)
bullet Research Coordination Networks in Biological Sciences (RCN)
bullet Research Initiation Grants to Broaden Participation in Biology  (RIG BP)
bullet Science, Technology, and Society  (STS)

Featured NSF-wide Programs

Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century Workforce (CI-TEAM) NSF Wide Flag

International Research Fellowship Program NSF Wide Flag

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Upcoming Due Dates See All

2010 Project
(NSF  09-514) Full Proposal: February 19, 2009

Biomolecular Systems Cluster
(PD  04-1144) Full Proposal: July 12, 2009

Cellular Systems Cluster
(PD  04-1114) Full Proposal: July 12, 2009

Genes and Genome Systems Cluster
(PD  04-1112) Full Proposal: July 12, 2009


News See All

Image of DNA entering the gp17 motor complex on the T4 capsid. Viruses, Start Your Engines!
Released December 29, 2008
Press Release
Structure of a molecular motor Biologists Learn Structure, Mechanism of Powerful 'Molecular Motor' in Virus
Released December 24, 2008
News From the Field
biology graphic Model Unravels Rules That Govern How Genes are Switched On and Off
Released December 4, 2008
News From the Field

Discoveries See All

AFM images showing two yellow molecules on a blue mica surface. Researcher Says Life Evolved Between the Mica Sheets
Biophysicist Helen Greenwood Hansma of the University of California, Santa Barbara, on the origin of her new hypothesis for the origins of life
Released  July 14, 2008

Photo of a researcher collecting a sample at a mine for microbial analysis. Microbes to People: Without Us, You're Nothing!
How tiny microbes run the world
Released  April 21, 2008

Photo of a microbial community known as a thrombolite. The World's Smallest Whistle-Blowers: Microbes
Microbes warn of ecological damage
Released  April 21, 2008


Events Calendar See All

December 10, 2008  - January 14, 2009
HBCU-UP Proposal Guidelines Review Seminar Series
Other

January 29, 2009
Noyce Scholarship Program Outreach Workshops
Workshop

February 5, 2009
Noyce Scholarship Program Outreach Workshops
Workshop

April 29, 2009  - May 1, 2009
BIO Advisory Committee Meeting
Advisory Committee Meeting




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