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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.

Encourages supplemental funding requests from current NSF recipients to support research activities in quantum sensors and biomedical science.

Invites U.S.–Germany collaborative proposals for biological research at molecular, subcellular or cellular scales.

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.

Invites proposals to develop novel tools and methods that improve the ability to measure, analyze, manipulate, or control critical aspects of cellular properties and functions to open new avenues of inquiry in molecular and cellular biosciences.

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 multidisciplinary collaboration between U.S. and French researchers aimed at understanding mechanisms underlying life processes at the molecular and cellular scale using approaches from theoretical and experimental physics.

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 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.