NSF award 2540912 · Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

CAREER: Understanding and Harnessing the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Evolution with Microbial and Computational Model Systems

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Award number: 2540912
Period of support: 1 Jun 2026 – 31 May 2031
Amount: $1,742,691
Awardee: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, ANN Arbor, MI
Program: Evo Patterns & Processes
Directorate: BIO

Abstract

One of the deepest mysteries in biology is how life has become so astonishingly complex, which is hard to ignore when looking around at the remarkable biodiversity on earth. Scientists know that evolution is ultimately responsible, but they don't fully understand what fuels the apparent drive for complexity. One hypothesis is that when species face an antagonistic push-and-pull interaction with one another, like…

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