Systems Biology-Enabled Microbiome Research to Facilitate Predictions of Interactions and Behavior in the Environment
 DE-FOA-0002602
Grants.gov  https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=336982
Required preapplication due January 14, 2022

BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH BER supports fundamental, interdisciplinary research to achieve a predictive systems-level understanding of Earth, environmental and biological systems. The overarching goals of the BER Program are to solve critical challenges in energy security and environmental stewardship. As part of its mission, BER invests in crosscutting technologies and programs to enable multi-scale, systems-level research to achieve a predictive understanding of systems biology, biological community function, and environmental behavior. The GSP supports research in genome biology as it relates to Bioenergy, Biosystems Design, and Environmental Microbiome Research. These three program pillars are tightly integrated across a portfolio of research projects on bioenergy, biosystems design, synthetic biology, microbiome science, sustainability, computational biology, and related topics that seeks to catalyze omics-enabled discoveries about the functional characteristics of cells, organisms, and whole biological systems. Supported research aims to enhance the nation’s energy and environmental security, and to promote basic research in the environmental and biological sciences in support of DOE’s mission.