The use of model organisms in comparative studies with non-model organisms is not excluded. Studies of the interactions of these microbes among each other and with plants and animals, e.g., symbiosis, may also be supported. Applicants are reminded that BIO does not support research with disease-related goals, including the etiology, diagnosis, or treatment of physical or mental disease, abnormality, or malfunction in human beings or animals. Animal or plant models of such conditions or the development or testing of drugs or other procedures for their treatment also are not eligible for support. No Awards have yet been made.
Former fellows are still eligible to apply for research starter grants at the end of the fellowship.
This program terminated in fiscal year 1998. These Fellowships were sponsored jointly by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and NSF as part of a five year program to encourage and train recent Ph.D. scientists in molecular evolution.