VCU receives $2.6 million ‘Tree of Life’ grant from NSF
The National Science Foundation has awarded Virginia Commonwealth University a $2.6 million grant to reconstruct the evolutionary origins of the phylum Euglenozoa, which is among the most ancient groups of nucleated organisms and includes species with extraordinary evolutionary, ecological, medical and economic significance.
The National Science Foundation has awarded Virginia Commonwealth University a $2.6 million grant to reconstruct the evolutionary origins of the phylum Euglenozoa, which is among the most ancient groups of nucleated organisms and includes species with extraordinary evolutionary, ecological, medical and economic significance.
Under the award, which is part of the NSF’s “Assembling the Tree of Life” program, VCU will coordinate teams from Michigan State University, the University of Georgia and the University of Sao Paulo, and dozens of individual scientists from around the world. The project will apply VCU’s high throughout genomics expertise to characterize and analyze the genomes of between 200 and 300 strategically selected species of Euglenozoa.
Brief by VCU News Center
