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Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) Virtual Office Hour

Program Directors in attendance today

• Jodie Jawor – Behavioral Systems (jjawor@nsf.gov)
• Steve Klein – Developmental Systems (sklein@nsf.gov)
• Sri Raghavachari – Neural Systems (sraghava@nsf.gov)
• Michael Mishkind – Physiological and Structural Systems (mmishkin@nsf.gov)
• Diane Jofuku Okamuro – Plant Genome Research Program (dokamuro@nsf.gov)
• R. Kelly Dawe – for Plant Synthetic Biology (rdawe@nsf.gov)
• Donal Manahan – IOS Division Director – for IMAGiNE 2020

Facilitators – Jennifer Visosky and Nancy Arce

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IOS Virtual Office Hour Today’s Topics:

• Recent solicitations and Dear Colleague Letters (DCLs)
• DCL 20-044: IMAGiNE 2020: Organisms in a Dynamic

Environment

• DCL 20-045: Plant Synthetic Biology
• Open question and answer period

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Recent Solicitations and DCLs

• NSF 20-532 Enabling Discovery through Genomic Tools (EDGE) – new

solicitation, no deadlines

• NSF 20-525 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
• New solicitation, deadline for all Directorates July 27th, 2020
• NSF 20-052 Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) DCL – call for RAPIDs
• Joanna Shisler (jshisler@nsf.gov) – contact for questions
• NSF 20-053 DCL on COVID-19 FAQs
• NSF 20-044 and NSF 20-045 DCLs on IMAGiNE and Plant Syn. Biol.

Core IOS solicitation (20-536) has no deadlines and no submission limits. PBI (18-590) and PGRP (18-579) no deadlines, no limits

COVID-19 Questions

• NSF 20-053 is a full FAQ sheet about COVID-19 related issues
• First off, NSF is still operational, we are primarily virtual. You can still contact

program officers and still submit grants.

• If you are worried about how travel restrictions, or quarantine, might impact

your existing award contact your managing program officer

• If you are applying to an NSF opportunity with a deadline, and you or your

SRO are quarantined and might miss it, contact the managing program officer

• If you were scheduled to be on a panel, but now do not wish to travel –

virtual participation is available

• If your SRO is unable or your university is closed, what about annual reports
• r revised budgets? – contact your program officer

Behavioral Systems

• 1. Animal Behavior Program

Developmental Systems

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

Neural Systems

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

Physiological and Structural Systems

• 8. Symbiosis, Defense and Self-Recognition 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

Dear Colleague Letter (DCL 20-044):

IMAGiNE 2020: Organisms in a Dynamic Environment

Division of Integrative Organismal Systems: Study of mechanisms underlying functional phenotypes, resilience, and robustness

Dear Colleague Letter: Plant Synthetic Biology

• NSF 20-045 highlights NSFs interest in the area of plant synthetic biology across three

existing programs: 1. The Plant Genome Research Program in IOS (NSF 18-579). 2. The Systems and Synthetic Biology cluster in BIO MCB (NSF18-585). 3. Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems in ENG (NSF PD 20-1491).

• Proposals should be submitted to the most appropriate program and the title preceded

by the code “PlantSynBio:” Areas of interest include:

• Plant synthetic biology tool development
• Using synthetic biology to test hypotheses and validate models
• Using synthetic biology to engineer improved or modified biosynthetic pathways