Below is a list of Biology faculty who have received new grants. Awards are listed in chronological order by start date of the award.  

  • Principal Investigator: John Logsdon, Associate Professor
    Co-Principal Investigator: Drew Kitchen, Chair and Professor, Department of 
                                                  Anthropology, The University of Iowa
    Funding Source/Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
    Award Type: New Training Program Grant
    Title: “REU Site: Engaging Undergraduates in Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Science”
    Time period: 3 years (12/01/2026 through 11/30/2029)
    Total amount: $465,000
  • Principal Investigator: Tina Tootle, Chair and Professor
    Funding Source/Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Award Type: New Research Grant
    Title: “Interplay between lipid droplet factors and actin remodeling in oogenesis”
    Time period: 5 years (08/17/2026 through 05/31/2031)
    Total amount: $3,104,546
  • Principal Investigator: Dan Eberl, Professor
    Funding Source/Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
    Award Type: New Research Grant
    Title: “Regulation of motor mechanisms in active mechanosensation”
    Time period: 4 years (07/01/2026 through 06/30/2026)
    Total amount: $1,232,490
  • Principal Investigator: Maurine Neiman, Professor
    Co-Principal Investigator: Ricardo Azevedo, Professor, Department of Biology and 
                                                  Biochemistry, University of Houston
    Funding Source/Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
    Award Type: New Research Grant
    Title: “Collaborative Research: Theoretical and empirical investigation of mutation rate evolution driven by variation in reproductive mode”
    Time period: 4 years (06/01/2026 through 05/31/2030)
    Total amount: $1,085,683
  • Principal Investigator: Tina Tootle, Chair and Professor
    Funding Source/Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
    Award Type: New Research Grant
    Title: “Defining the form-specific functions and regulation of nuclear actin within the   
               nucleolus”
    Time period: 4 years (06/01/2026 through 05/31/2030)
    Total amount: $500,000
  • Principal Investigator: Anne Martin, Assistant Professor
    Funding Source/Sponsor: Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust
    Award Type: New Research Grant
    Title: “Uncovering molecular mechanisms of cell-cell communication”
    Time period: 3 years (01/26/2026 through 01/25/2029)
    Total amount: $445,611
  • Principal Investigator: Tina Tootle, Chair and Professor
    Funding Source/Sponsor: Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust
    Award Type: New Instructional Grant
    Title: “Enhance undergraduate laboratory education across the four disciplines of    
               Biology”
    Time period: 1 year (01/26/2026 through 01/25/2027)
    Total amount: $194,353
  • Principal Investigator: Doug Houston, Professor and Director, 
                                            Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank (DSHB)
    Funding Source/Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Award Type: Other 
    Title: “DSHB Antibody Research, Production and Distribution Facility”
    Time period: 5 years (09/17/2025 through 05/31/2030)
    Total amount: $3,398,996