Dear
Colleague Letter: Request for Information - Integration Institutes for
Cross-cutting Biology; March 1, 2019
Agency
NSF
Description
The
National Science Foundation's Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) seeks
ideas from the community on fundamental biological research questions and
topics that are poised for major advances. Ideally these ideas would span
multiple levels of organization in living systems and require expertise from
diverse biological subdisciplines. This is a call,
not for research proposals, but for high-level ideas. The deadline for
submissions is March 1,
2019.
Biology
is unified by the goal of understanding the processes that sustain life and
enable biological innovation across all levels of organization, from molecular
to global scales. However, the field of biology has become increasingly
fragmented into sub-disciplines over the past decades due, in part, to advances
that enable deep study of narrowly defined problems. Emerging and mature
technologies deliver high-resolution data at every scale, opening new avenues
for cross-cutting discoveries in biology but also leading to additional levels
of specialization. Creative integration of diverse sub-disciplines at this
stage could significantly enhance our ability to tackle ambitious, fundamental
biological questions — potentially re-unifying biology.
Announcement
Number
NSF
19-027
Closing
Date
March
1, 2019
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19027/nsf19027.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
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