#  Major Grants 

 



Sort2021 – 2025

NIH 1R01HG011485-01 - *“*[*Statistical and high-throughput models of enhancer function and evolution*](https://reporter.nih.gov/search/t-rz1eSGekuvtUF5P5w4iA/project-details/10098556)*”*, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health. $2,246,451 total funds. Lead PI: Edwards. Co-PIs: Jun Liu, Tim Sackton, Emma Farley, Cliff Tabin.

2019 – *present*

Australian National University Seed Funds, *“Evolutionary responses to environmental change: comparative genomics and indigenous perspectives”,* Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. $30,000 AUD. PI: Craig Moritz.

2019 – *present*

*“Impacts of Desertification on Vertebrate Biodiversity in Northwest China”*, Harvard Global Institute, Harvard University. $98,045.

2018 – 2023

NSF DEB-1831560 – Dimensions US-BIOTA-São Paulo: Collaborative Proposal: *"*[*Traits as*](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1831560&HistoricalAwards=false)

[*predictors of adaptive diversification along the Brazilian Dry Diagonal*](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1831560&HistoricalAwards=false)*"*, $1,994,393 total funds; $419,334 to Harvard.



2016 – 2018

Lemann Brazil Research Fund at Harvard University – *"Prioritizing biodiversity of birds and butterflies in Cerrado habitats of Brazil using geographic and phylogenetic information systems"*, $147,000. Co-PIs: N. Pierce & C. Miyaki (Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo).

2014 – 2017

NSF DEB 1355343/1355292 - Collaborative Research: *"*[*Phylogenomics of palaeognathous birds and the genomic basis of flightlessness".* ](http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1355343)$950,000 total; $600,000 to Harvard. PI Edwards, Julia Clarke; co-PI Michele Clamp.

2013 – 2017

NSF IOS-1258784 - Collaborative Research: *"*[*A New Model For Chemical Ecology: Integrating Chemistry, Genetics and Behavior to Understand the Role of Individual Scent in a Colonial Nesting Seabird"*](http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1258784&HistoricalAwards=false), $270,000. Lead PI, Gabrielle Nevitt (UC Davis)[ ](http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1258784&HistoricalAwards=false)

2009 – 2012

NSF IOS-0922640 - Collaborative research: *"*[*Molecular mechanisms of scent mediated self / non-self recognition in a pelagic seabird"*, ](http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0922640)$270,000. Co-PI: Gabrielle Nevitt (UC Davis)

2009 – 2012

NSF IOS - 0923088 - Collaborative Research: [*"Plumage redness and good genes in the House Finch"*](http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0923088), $300,000. PI: Geoff Hill (Auburn University)[ ](http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0923088)

2009

William F. Milton Fund, Harvard University *"A Transcriptome Resource for Genomic Studies of Host-Parasite Interactions and Avian Infectious Disease"* $35,000.

2008 – 2012

NSF DEB-0826811 URM (Undergraduate Research & Mentoring): Undergraduate Diversity at SSE/SBB, $67,500.

2008 – 2011

NSF DEB 0743616 - Collaborative Research: *"Estimating Species Trees from Multilocus DNA Sequence Data"*, $450,000. Co-PI: Dennis Pearl.

2008 – 2011

NSF - MCB - 0817687 Collaborative Research: "*Evolution of Sex Chromosomes in Turtles",* $205,000. PI: Nicole Valenzuela (Iowa State University), Co-PI: Edwards.

2008 – 2010

NSF DEB-0815705 - Collaborative Research: *"Multilocus Comparative Phylogeography of Pine-Oak Woodland Birds in North America"*, $143,000. PI: Garth Spellman (Black Hill State University), Co-PIs: John Klicka and Scott Edwards.

2007 – 2010

NSF 0646400 *"Computerization of the Ornithology Collections at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University",* $479,656.

2002 – 2006

NSF 0207870 BAC Libraries for the Reptilia, Including Birds: *"Genomic Resources for Comparative Biology"*, $1,095,531. PI: Edwards; Co-PIs: C. Amemiya, J. R. Macey.

2002 – 2006

NSF DEB-0227714 UMEB (Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology): *"Undergraduate Diversity at the Society for the Study of Evolution and the Society of Systematic Biologists"* , $60,000. Co-PI: E. Zimmer.

2001 – 2005

NSF DEB-0108249 - *"Multilocus Tests of Speciation Models and Comparative Phylogeography of Australian Birds"*, $375,000. Co-PI: P. Beerli.