Budget Update and Implications

BIO – Advisory CommitteeApril 19th 2007

James P. CollinsAssistant Director for Biological Sciences

Biology at NSFBIO’s mission: To enable the discoveries for understanding life

BIO’s vision: Inspiring research and education at the frontiers of the life sciences

Elements framing BIO’s vision and for fulfilling BIO’s mission:

Values:• Integration of Research and Education

• Broadening Participation

• International Partnerships

• Alignment with Other Institutional Agendas

Overarching Scientific Themes:• Theoretical Biology

• Systems Biology

• Biology and Society Opportunity: Lead a conversation

Biology at NSF

•Theoretical and conceptual foundations of biology

•Diverse model systems–plant genomics–non-medical microbes

•Ecological forecasting–global change research

•Interdisciplinary research

NSB 2020 Vision

Strategic Plan FY 2006-2011

NSF Budget Request FY 2008

American Competitiveness

Initiative

Alignment with Other Institutional Agendas

NSF Strategic Goals

Discovery

Learning

Research Infrastructure

Stewardship

Amer. Comp. Init. (ACI)

Fundamental Research

21st Century Workforce

Transformative Facilities & Infrastructure

Quality Merit Review

BIO Priorities

Core Programs, IPY, Biology & Society, Theoretical Biology

BIO broadening participation activities

NEON, Plant Cyber Collaborative, Nano Center

Transformative research, organizational change

Aligning BIO – NSF – ACI

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FY 2008 Request

$ %FY 2003 Actual (NSF Total) $5,369.34BIO 580.90 607.85 633.00 25.15 4.1%CISE 496.35 526.69 574.00 47.31 9.0%ENG (less SBIR/STTR) 486.39 519.67 566.89 47.22 9.1% SBIR/STTR 99.07 108.88 116.41 7.53 6.9%GEO 703.95 744.85 792.00 47.15 6.3%MPS 1,086.61 1,150.30 1,253.00 102.70 8.9%SBE 201.23 213.76 222.00 8.24 3.9%OCI 127.14 182.42 200.00 17.58 9.6%OISE 42.61 40.61 45.00 4.39 10.8%OPP 390.54 438.10 464.90 26.80 6.1%IA 233.30 231.37 263.00 31.63 13.7%ARC 1.17 1.45 1.49 0.04 2.8%

Research & Related Activities Total $4,449.25 $4,765.95 $5,131.69 $365.74 7.7%36574.0%Totals may not add due to rounding.

FY 2008 Request

Change over FY 2007 Request

FY 2008 R&RA Request by DirectorateFY 2006 Actual

FY 2007 Request

FY 2008 Request

Research & Related Activities by Directorate

BIO Budget Request by Division

($ in Millions)FY 2007 FY 2008Request Request Amount Percent

Molecular and Cellular Biosciences 111.22 116.37 5.15 4.6%

Integrative Organismal Systems 100.74 105.49 4.75 4.7%

Environmental Biology 109.61 114.66 5.05 4.6%

Biological Infrastructure 85.90 96.10 10.20 11.9%

Emerging Frontiers 99.16 99.16 0.00 0.0%

Plant Genome Research 101.22 101.22 0.00 0.0%

Total, BIO $607.85 $633.00 $25.15 4.1%

Change

FY 2008 NSF Budget Priorities

• Discovery Research for Innovation• Preparing the Workforce for the 21st Century• Transformational Facilities and Infrastructure• International Polar Year Leadership• Stewardship

• Increase support for core BIO research

•EF venture funding for transformative research

•New Plant Science Cyberinfrastructure Collaborative

•New multidisciplinary Center for Research on the Environmental and Health Safety of Nanotechnology

Priority: Stimulate innovation within BIO’s core competencies

Discovery Research for Innovation

Plant Science Cyber Collaborative

To enable new conceptual advances through integrative, computational thinking. This collaborative will use new computer science, computational science, and cyberinfrastructure solutions to address grand challenges in biology. BIO’s investment in this critical activity will involve plant biologists, computer and information scientists, and experts from other disciplines working in integrated teams.

New Nanotechnology Center

A multidisciplinary Center for Research on the Environmental and Health Safety of Nanotechnology will conduct fundamental research on the interactions between nanoparticles and materials and the living world at all scales. Companion research on methods and instrumentation for nanoparticle detection, characterization and monitoring will occur. The fundamental research funded through this center will also support the regulatory mission agencies' abilities to develop science-based standards for risk assessments, such as the standards needed by the EPA to regulate products containing nanomaterials.

Increase support for activities to broaden participation of individuals from underrepresented groups at all levels

Preparing the Workforce of the 21st Century

• Increase support for research resources, including cyberinfrastructure

• Increase funding for National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)–Progress toward meeting milestones

Transformational Facilities and Infrastructure

NEON: FY 2007/2008 Milestones

2007• Final Sites Selected and EIA/EIS initiated• NEON Construction Project Office operational• Project Execution Plan delivered• Preliminary Design Review conducted• Begin NEON fundamental technology unit assembly and CI integration

2008• Fully integrate and validate NEON fundamental technology unit and cyberinfrastructure

• Initiate deployment of BioMesoNet and basic towers at first location

• Bring Project Management Control Software System to a fully operational status

•Support for research that addresses scientific challenges such as biological adaptation and ecosystem dynamics in polar environments using genomics tools

•Support for research on the understanding of environmental change and biotic systems in the polar regions

International Polar Year Leadership

Stewardship

•Emerging Frontiers – transformative research

•Evolving Programs–Biocomplexity

–Mathematical Sciences

•Realignment of Division of Integrative Organismal Systems

Future Direction: Foster transformative research

Central Challenge

Central challenge: Operate the BIO of today while becoming the BIO of tomorrow

BIO’s mission: To enable the discoveries for understanding life

BIO’s vision: Inspiring research and education at the frontiers of the life sciences

Organizational Change:Division of Integrative Organismal Systems

- Behavioral Systems - Developmental Systems - Neural Systems - Physiological and Structural Systems

SUMMARY

•To lead a conversation

•To stimulate innovation within biology

•To foster transformative research

•To become the BIO of tomorrow