Examples of BIO Research Highlights published on Research.gov.
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Updated: June 29, 2015
Organized by award year of most recent funding.
2013
| Highlight Title |
URL | BIO Division | State, Congressional District | Keywords |
| Visualizing rapid skeletal movements | go.usa.gov/3ZcNH | DBI | Rhode Island District 01, Rhode Island District 02 | X-ray, motion, vertebrate, biomechanics, XROMM, 3D |
| Tiny Caribbean clingfish carries venom | go.usa.gov/3ZTh5 | IOS | Texas District 17 | anatomy, fish, vertebrates, function, evolution |
2012
| Highlight Title | URL | BIO Division | State, Congressional District | Keywords |
| Protecting amphibians from fungus | go.usa.gov/3ZcNj | DEB | California District 13, California District 23 | frog, epidemic, fungus, host, outbreak |
| Mapping cell development one line at a time | go.usa.gov/3ZWUz | MCB | New York District 10 | signal, immune, development, disease, medicine, stem cell |
| A social network for 3-D ecology | go.usa.gov/3ZxT4 | DBI | Maryland District 03 | Ecosynth, vegetation, imaging, citizen science, hardware, remote sensing |
| Mining cellular images | go.usa.gov/3ZxTk | DBI | Massachusetts District 07 | software, imaging, cells, algorithms, liver, cancer, disease |
| Biodiversity as disease defender | http://go.usa.gov/3Zxj9 | DEB | Colorado District 02 | parasite, host, amphibian, wetlands, snails, infection |
| From bioscience to bioeconomy | go.usa.gov/3ZYFk | MCB | Arizona District 09 | function, complexity, man-made, systems, health, technology, disease, nanoscale, smart materials, applied |
| Cultivating future plant genomics researchers | go.usa.gov/3ZYe3 | IOS | Georgia District 10 | genetics, diversity, professional development, mentoring, SoyMap, participation |
| The science behind a flower’s sweet scent | go.usa.gov/3ZYem | IOS | Washington District 7 | attraction, reproduction, pollen, pollinator, genetics, bee, crops |
2011
| Highlight Title |
URL | BIO Division | State, Congressional District | Keywords |
| Surviving white-nose syndrome: How some bats may avoid extinction | go.usa.gov/3Z3WR | DEB | Massachusetts District 07 | sociality, host, pathogen, pollinators, agriculture, fungus, infectious disease, EEID |
| Diagnosing and treating bacterial diseases with a simple cartridge assay | go.usa.gov/3ZZnJ | MCB | Wisconsin District 02 | disease, assay, pollution, pollutant, environment, RET, MRSEC, education |
| iBiology goes behind the science of living things | go.usa.gov/3ZZQB | MCB | Maryland District 08 | education, teaching, resources, ASCB, science communication, |
| The algae pigment shuffle | go.usa.gov/3ZcEz | DBI | California District 15 | Postdoctoral Fellowship, photosynthesis, temperature, environment, fluorescence |
| Pollen over the past millennium | go.usa.gov/3ZxTG | DBI | Massachusetts District 08 | database, image, human impact, data, plants, climate, collections |
| Which plants will survive a warming climate? | go.usa.gov/3ZxDe | DBI | Washington | modeling, mathematics, seeds, dispersal, growth, survival, reproduction |
| Yellowstone ecosystem needs beavers | go.usa.gov/3ZYX9 | DEB | Colorado District 02 | habitats, conservation, ecology, wolves, elk, wetlands, management, recovery |
| From a small weed comes great things | go.usa.gov/3ZYNp | MCB | North Carolina District 01 | Arabidopsis, conference, plant, agriculture, genome, professional development, training |
| The adventures of Bassbot: Robots explain how fishes feed | go.usa.gov/3ZYHY | DBI | Washington District 07 | modeling, anatomy, skeleton, muscle, performance |
| Dynamic activation of protein function | go.usa.gov/3ZYFG | MCB | New Jersey District 06 | structure, regulate, regulation, enzyme, E. coli, gene expression, transcription |
| Protein ‘handshakes’ vital to plant survival | go.usa.gov/3ZYFz | MCB | California District 18, Washington, D.C. | environment, regulatory networks, interactions, cellular communication, interactome |
| A mother’s protective influence: Hormone-mediated maternal effects | go.usa.gov/3ZYe9 | IOS | Michigan District 08 | adaptation, climate change, squirrels, food, population, offspring, survival, reproduction |
