NESCent Science Highlights
NESCent wins 5-year, $25M renewal from NSF
The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) has been awarded a 5-year, $25 million grant renewal from the National Science Foundation.
This is the second major NSF grant that NESCent has received, which brings the total funding for the Center to $40 million. The grant will enable the Center to continue its core programs in evolution research, informatics and education through 2014. [ more ]
News
- Next deadline for short-term visitor proposals is April 1
- Calling all faculty at minority-serving institutions: Apply now for $ to attend Evolution 2010 in Portland
- Former Director Cliff Cunningham finds surprising new branches on the arthropod family tree
- more news
Seminars
- 17-Mar-2010 Genetic Algorithms and Phylogenetic Methods in the Study of Animal Communication (Carlos Botero, NESCent)
- 24-Mar-2010 TBA (Richard Bergl, North Carolina Zoological Park)
- more seminars
Meetings
- 15-Mar-2010 Genetic monitoring: Development of tools for conservation and management Fred Allendorf/Michael Schwartz
- 26-Mar-2010 Building tools for emerging model systems in Development, Evolution, and Ecology Scott Hodges/Elena Kramer/Hopi Hoekstra
- more meetings
Funding Opportunities
- Deadline for Postdoctoral Fellowship proposals is December 1, annually.
- Deadlines for Sabbatical Fellowship, Working Group Meeting and Catalysis Meeting proposals are July 10 and December 1, annually.
- Deadlines for Short Term Visitors proposals are January 1, April 1, July 1 and September 1, annually.
- Informatics White Papers are accepted at any time.
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