Please take note of these recently published funding opportunity updates:

1) A revision to the DEB Core Programs solicitation has been published. The new solicitation number is NSF 15-500. See it here: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15500/nsf15500.htm.

2) The Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) solicitation has also been updated. The new solicitation number is NSF 15-503. See it here: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15503/nsf15503.htm.

3) Current DEB awardees should have received a reminder about Education and Broadening Participation supplement requests, due December 2. The guidance for these supplements is also online, here: http://www.nsf.gov/bio/deb/suppopp.jsp.

4) A revision of the BIO Postdoctoral Fellowships program has also been published. There are 3 tracks all of which may be relevant to new PhDs in DEB fields: (1) Broadening Participation of Groups Under-represented in Biology, (2) Research Using Biological Collections, and (3) National Plant Genome Initiative (NPGI). See it here: www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15501/nsf15501.htm.

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