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Encourages proposals on post-transcriptional RNA and post-translational protein modifications and how these modifications influence the properties, interactions, and/or regulation of these macromolecules and their role in cellular and organismal phenotype.

Invites Research Advanced by Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (RAISE) and EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals to all NSF Directorates in the area of clean energy technologies.

Invites proposals that apply new, integrative approaches to understand molecular, biophysical, cellular, and circuit-level neural processes underlying adaptation and resilience in response to changing environments organisms face due to anthropogenic activity.

Invites workshop and planning proposals that address national research infrastructure gaps relevant to the biological sciences community.

Encourages research proposals using comparative approaches to identify evolutionary convergent adaptations to life’s challenges and the mechanisms that underlie them.

Encourages new, integrative approaches to understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics and nature of host-infectious agent interactions in different contexts, across different scales, with alternative outcomes, and in non-model or under-studied systems.

Encourages proposals or supplemental funding requests from current awardees of the Directorate for Biological Sciences to include participation of K-12 science educators in their projects.

Invites proposals focused on plant genetic transformation to certain existing programs at NSF and USDA. Proposals can involve basic research, long-term studies, tool development, or applications emphasizing potential outcomes with societal benefit.

Encourages collaborative U.S. –India research proposals to support knowledge, technologies and innovation that advance biotechnology and promote the bioeconomy.

Encourages submission of proposals for projects that use/reuse long-term environmental data to advance understanding of ecological and evolutionary questions.

Encourages early-stage collaborations across the biological and engineering sciences and the translation of research findings into use-inspired projects that inform societal impact and future commercialization.

Invites conference proposals to initiate new collaborations that will advance clean energy technologies and increase their use to benefit the economy, to ensure social justice and to serve the public good.