• Learn how to apply for UCI’s NSF CAREER Institute
• Register for NSF’s 2023 Virtual Grants Conference
• Browse upcoming departmental seminars
• Look at funding opportunities from DOE, ARPA-H, and NSF, as well as a postdoc fellowship opportunity

Apply to the UCI NSF CAREER Institute

UCI offers a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Institute for assistant professors to hone their skills in the art of competitive grant writing and proposal development. Assistant professors who are interested in applying for a spot in the program should review the call for applications. In addition, the Institute is accepting applications for faculty mentors.

Applications for both mentors and mentees are due on Friday, November 17, 2023.

November

Focus on Evolution

German Lagunas-Robles; PhD Student; Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology; UC Riverside

4201 Natural Sciences I and Zoom

November

Developmental and Cell Biology Seminar

Rui Gao; Assistant Professor; Biological Sciences & Chemistry; University of Illinois-Chicago

4201 Natural Sciences I and Zoom

November

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar

Matt Pennell; Associate Professor; Quantitative and Computational Biology and Biological Sciences; University of Southern California

1114 Natural Sciences I

Register for NSF’s Virtual Grants Conference

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is hosting the Fall 2023 NSF Virtual Grants Conference from December 4 – 7, 2023. The conference will provide researchers with the opportunity to learn about NSF in many ways. Highlights include:

• New programs and initiatives
• Proposal preparation
• NSF’s merit review process
• NSF directorate sessions
• Award management topics
• Conflict of interest policies
• NSF systems updates

We encourage BioSci faculty members who are interested in NSF funding to attend this annual conference.

Environmental System Science (ESS)

A funding program whose goal is to advance an integrated, robust, and scale-aware predictive understanding of terrestrial systems and their interdependent microbial, biogeochemical, ecological, hydrological, and physical processes

Pre-application deadline: November 29, 2023
Full application deadline: February 29, 2024

Resilient Extended Automatic Cell Therapies (REACT)

A research program that aims to create bioelectronic devices that can treat chronic conditions remotely

Abstract deadline: November 30, 2023

Branco Weiss Fellowship

A unique opportunity for postdoctoral researchers who have original and independent research ideas that go beyond the mainstream of science

Deadline: January 15, 2024

Designing Synthetic Cells Beyond the Bounds of Evolution (Designer Cells)

A program that supports projects using synthetic biology and bioengineering to create cell-like systems

Deadline: February 1, 2024; every other year thereafter