(FOA)-Enabling
Discovery through GEnomic Tools (EDGE); February
12, 2019
Agency
National
Science Foundation (NSF)
Description
The
Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) recognizes that a lack of
methods for analysis of gene function represents an obstacle to progress in a
range of diverse non-model organisms. These organisms are important for
understanding numerous basic science questions in organismal biology as funded
through the Division’s core programs. Enabling Discovery through Genomic Tools
(EDGE) is designed to provide support for development of tools, approaches and
infrastructure necessary for direct tests of cause and effect hypotheses
between gene function and phenotypes in diverse plants, animals, microbes,
viruses and fungi for which these methods are presently unavailable. Such
approaches are essential to advance understanding of the genomes-to-phenomes
relationship, an area relevant to Understanding the Rules of Life: Predicting
Phenotype, one of the 10 Big Ideas for future NSF
investment.
To
meet the goal of catalyzing communities to enable direct tests of
cause-and-effect hypotheses about genes and phenotypes in organisms for which
such tools and infrastructure are presently lacking, EDGE proposals must
include training and rapid dissemination plans enabling larger communities of
investigators to utilize the newly-developed tools quickly, thereby catalyzing
an increase in the capacity of research communities to test cause-and-effect
hypotheses about genes and phenotypes in organisms for which such tools and
infrastructure are presently lacking.
Announcement
Number:
NSF
19-527
Closing
Date:
February
12, 2019
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19527/nsf19527.htm
Contact
Information
Michelle
Elekonich
(703)
292-7202