Biology has transformed science over the last century through discoveries that cross subdisciplines from the molecular to the organismal to the ecosystem level. While making great progress, biology has also slowly fragmented into subdisciplines, creating a dynamic tension between unifying principles and increasingly reductionist pursuits. The aim of this solicitation is to bring researchers together around the common goal of understanding how the processes that sustain life and enable biological innovation operate and interact within and across different scales of organization, from molecules to cells, tissues to organisms, species, ecosystems, biomes and the entire Earth. The Biology Integration Institutes (BII) program supports collaborative teams of researchers investigating questions that span multiple disciplines within and beyond biology.
Awards:
Cooperative Agreement
Anticipated Funding Amount:
$15,000,000
Letter of Intent:
Not required
Full Proposal Submission Deadline:
January 12, 2022
Contacts:
Reed Beaman, Program Director, DBI, telephone: (703) 292-7163, email: rsbeaman@nsf.gov
Stephen DiFazio, Program Director, MCB, telephone: (703) 292-4517, email: sdifazio@nsf.gov
Steven E. Ellis, Program Director, DBI, telephone: (703) 292-7876, email: stellis@nsf.gov
