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Div ivis ision of In Integrativ ive Organismal Systems (IO IOS) Vir irtual Office Hour

Program Directors in attendance today

• D. Patrick Abbot – Behavioral Systems Cluster (dabbot@nsf.gov)
• Anne Sylvester – Developmental Systems Cluster (asylvest@nsf.gov)
• Edda (Floh) Thiels – Neural Systems Cluster (ethiels@nsf.gov)
• Michael Mishkind – Physiological & Structural Systems Cluster (mmishkin@nsf.gov)
• Gerald Schoenknecht – Plant Genome Research Program (gschoenk@nsf.gov)

Facilitators – Jennifer Visosky, Nancy Arce

Div ivis ision of In Integrativ ive Organismal Systems (IO IOS) Vir irtual Office Hour – Welc lcome!

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IO IOS Vir irtual Office Hour Today’s Topics:

• Recent solicitations and Dear Colleague Letters (DCLs)
• Enabling Discovery through GEnomic Tools (EDGE)
• Open question and answer period

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Recent Solicitatio ions and DCLs

Core IOS solicitation (20-536) has no deadlines and no submission limits. PBI (20- 576) and PGRP (18-579) no deadlines, no limits

• NSF 20-116: DCL: Planning for Midscale Infrastructure for the Biological Sciences
• NSF 20-587: Graduate Research Fellowship Program – time for senior undergraduates to

start thinking about these. Life Sciences applications due 19 October 2020

• NSF 20-585: Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) – updated solicitation, full

proposals due 18 November 2020

• NSF 20-595: Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) – updated solicitation, full proposals

due 4 November 2020

• NSF 20-598: International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) – updated solicitation,

full proposals for Track I (IRES Sites) due 12 November 2020, for Track II (Advanced Studies Institutes) due 9 November 2020

COVID-19 19

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Behavioral Systems

• 1. Animal Behavior Program

Developmental Systems

• 2. Animal Developmental Mechanisms Program
• 3. Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms Program
• 4. Plant, Fungal, and Microbial Developmental Mechanisms Program

Neural Systems

• 5. Organization Program
• 6. Activation Program
• 7. Modulation Program

Physiological and Structural Systems

• 8. Symbiosis, Infection and Immunity Program***
• 9. Plant Biotic Interactions Program
• 10. Physiological Mechanisms and Biomechanics Program
• 11. Integrative Ecological Physiology Program
• 12. Plant Genome Research Program
• 13. Enabling Discovery through Genomic Tools Program

Integrating Mechanisms of Adaptation with Genes in Networks and across Environments

IOS IMAGiNE

Study of mechanisms underlying functional phenotypes, resilience, and robustness

Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)

See DCL NSF 20-044 for more on IMAGiNE

• Connecting genotype and environment to

phenotype in diverse plants, animals, microbes, viruses, or fungi

• Tools, approaches, and infrastructure for

building and benefiting research communities

• Hypothesis-driven research into mechanisms

that underly complex multigenic traits

• Inquiries: BIOEDGE@nsf.gov

Enabling Dis iscovery ry through GE GEnomic Tools (EDGE)

developing tools & resources and testing hypotheses in diverse organisms

NSF 20-532 Current solicitation

FUNCTIONAL GENOMIC TOOLS TRACK: develop tools for gene manipulation and/or phenotyping, analytical approaches, or infrastructure to enable direct tests of gene function on demand in diverse plants, animals, microbes, viruses, or fungi for which these methods are presently unavailable COMPLEX MULTIGENIC TRAITS TRACK: hypothesis-driven research to understand causal mechanisms connecting genomes and complex multigenic phenomes in non- model organisms across a variety of environmental, developmental, social, and/or genomic context

Functional Genomics in Diverse Organisms

NSF 20-532 Current solicitation

FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS TOOLS TRACK (FGT)

For example:

• Development of mutant libraries and/or high-quality reference genomes
• Generalizable high-throughput phenotyping methods
• Innovative approaches for manipulating individual genes or multiple genes simultaneously
• Innovative approaches to test gene function in targeted, single cells in organisms
• Innovative approaches for establishing function of single or networks of genes

COMPLEX MULTIGENIC TRAITS TRACK (CMT)

For example:

• Systems-level analysis of the gene regulatory networks underlying complex traits
• Innovative analytical approaches to linking genes and complex traits
• Elucidation of the causal connections across levels of biological organization that underlie complex multigenic

traits

• Elucidation of multi-genome/epigenome interactions with the environment, with the goal of predicting

complex organismal phenotypes across contexts

No submission deadline