(FOA)-Understanding
the Rules of Life: Epigenetics; December 20, 2019
Agency
National
Science Foundation
Description
The
purpose of the Understanding the Rules of Life: Epigenetics (URoL:Epigenetics) program is to enable innovative
research and to promote multidisciplinary education and workforce training in
the broad area of epigenetics. The URoL:Epigenetics program is a wide collaboration across
Directorates/Offices within the National Science Foundation with a focus on
understanding the relationship between epigenetic mechanisms associated with
environmental change, organismal phenotype, and resultant robustness and
adaptability of organisms and populations.
Successful
projects of the URoL:Epigenetics Program are expected to use
complementary, interdisciplinary approaches to investigate how epigenetic
phenomena lead to emergent properties that explain the fundamental behavior of
living systems. Ultimately, successful projects should identify general
principles ("rules") that underlie biological phenomena within or across scales
of size, complexity (e.g., molecular, cellular, organismal, population) and time
(from sub-second to geologic) in taxa from anywhere within the tree of life,
including humans. URoL:Epigenetics projects must integrate perspectives
and research approaches from more than one research discipline (e.g., biology,
chemistry, computer science, engineering, geology, mathematics, physics, social
and behavioral sciences). The interdisciplinary scope of URoL:Epigenetics projects also
provides unique training and outreach possibilities to train the next generation
of scientists in a diversity of approaches and to engage society more
generally.
The
URoL:Epigenetics Program
offers two submission tracks: Track 1 - for projects with a total budget of up
to $500,000 and an award duration of up to 3 years, and Track 2 - for projects
with a total budget of up to $3,000,000 and award duration of up to 5
years
Announcement
Number:
NSF
20-512
Closing
Date:
Letter
of Intent Due: December 20, 2019
Full
Proposal Deadline: February 6,
2020
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20512/nsf20512.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Contact
Information
Mitra Basu
(703)
292-8649