1560 - Div of Mole Biological Sciences Proposal Classification Form - Div o

Directorate for Biological Sciences
Division of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
Genes and Genome Systems
Proposal Classification Worksheet
In each category, please choose the most specific descriptors.

CATEGORY I: INVESTIGATOR STATUS (Select ONE)
Beginning Investigator - No previous Federal support as PI or Co-PI, excluding fellowships, dissertations, planning grants,
etc.
Prior Federal support only
Current Federal support only
Current & prior Federal support

CATEGORY II: FIELDS OF SCIENCE OTHER THAN BIOLOGY INVOLVED IN THIS RESEARCH
(Select 1 to 3)
Astronomy
Chemistry
Computer Science
Earth Science

Engineering
Mathematics
Physics

Psychology
Social Sciences
None of the Above

CATEGORY III: SUBSTANTIVE AREA (Select 1 to 4)
BIOMATERIALS
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
DATABASES
ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS/
ENVIRONMENTAL
ENDOCRINOLOGY
EPIGENETICS
EXTREMOPHILES
GENOMICS (Genome sequence,
organization, function)

Fungal
Plant
Animal

HUMAN NUTRITION
MARINE MAMMALS
NANOSCIENCE
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
PLANT BIOLOGY

Arabidopsis-Related Plant Research
REPRODUCTIVE ANIMAL BIOLOGY
SPINAL CORD/ NERVE
REGENERATION
Modeling (general)
Modeling of Biological or Molecular Systems
Computational Modeling

STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
NONE OF THE ABOVE

Viral
Microbial

CATEGORY IV: INFRASTRUCTURE (Select 1 to 3)
COLLECTIONS/STOCK CULTURES
Living Organism Stock Cultures
DATABASES

FACILITIES
Field Stations
LTER Site

INDUSTRY PARTICIPATION
Technique Development
NONE OF THE ABOVE

CATEGORY V: HABITAT (Select 1 to 2)
TERRESTRIAL HABITATS
GENERAL TERRESTRIAL

SUBTERRANEAN/ SOIL/
SEDIMENTS

EXTREME TERRESTRIAL
ENVIRONMENT

MARINE

EXTREME AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT

AQUATIC HABITATS
GENERAL AQUATIC
FRESHWATER

HYPERSALINE

MAN-MADE ENVIRONMENTS
CELL/TISSUE CULTURE (In Vitro)

In Silico

THEORETICAL SYSTEMS

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OTHER ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS

NOT APPLICABLE
NOT APPLICABLE

CATEGORY VI: GEOGRAPHIC AREA OF THE RESEARCH (Select 1 to 2)
WORLDWIDE
NORTH AMERICA
United States

Eastern South America (Guyana, Fr. Guiana,
Suriname, Brazil)

North Africa
African South of the Sahara

Northern South America (Colombia,
Venezuela)

East Africa

Northeast US (CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY,
PA, RI, VT)

Southern South America (Chile, Argentina,
Uruguay, Paraguay)

Madagascar

Northcentral US (IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, ND,
NE, OH, SD, WI)

Western South America (Ecuador, Peru,
Bolivia)

West Africa

Northwest US (ID, MT, OR, WA, WY)

EUROPE

Southeast US (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC,
SC, WV, VA)

Eastern Europe

Southcentral US (AL, AR, KS, KY, LA, MO,
MS, OK, TN, TX)

Scandinavia

Southwest US (AZ, CA, CO, NM, NV, UT)
Alaska

Russia
Western Europe

ASIA

Hawaii

Central Asia

Puerto Rico

Far East

Canada

Middle East

Mexico

CENTRAL AMERICA (Mainland)
Caribbean Islands
Bermuda/Bahamas

Siberia
South Asia
Southeast Asia

South Africa

AUSTRALASIA
Australia
New Zealand
Pacific Islands

ANTARCTICA
ARCTIC
ATLANTIC OCEAN
PACIFIC OCEAN
INDIAN OCEAN
OTHER REGIONS (Not defined)
NOT APPLICABLE

AFRICA

SOUTH AMERICA

CATEGORY VII: CLASSIFICATION OF ORGANISMS (Select 1 to 4)
VIRUSES
Bacterial

ALGAE
PLANTS

Plant

N0N-VASCULAR PLANTS

Animal

VASCULAR PLANTS

PROKARYOTES

GYMNOSPERMS

Archaebacteria

ANGIOSPERMS

Cyanobacteria
Eubacteria

PROTISTA (PROTOZOA)
FUNGI
Filamentous Fungi
Yeasts

LICHENS
SLIME MOLDS

REPTILIA
AVES (Birds)
MAMMALIA
Primates
Monkeys
Apes (Gibbons, Orang-utan,
Gorilla, Chimpanzee)

ANIMALS

Humans

INVERTEBRATES

Rodentia

Hexapoda (Insecta) (Insects)

Laboratory Rodents (Rat, Mouse,
Guinea Pig, Hamster)

VERTEBRATES

Non-Laboratory Rodents

FISHES

Marine Mammals (Seals, Walrus,
Whales, Otters, Dolphins, Porpoises)

Chondrichthyes (Cartilaginous Fishes)
(Sharks, Rays, Ratfish)
Osteichthyes (Bony Fishes)
AMPHIBIA

TRANSGENIC ORGANISMS
NO ORGANISMS

CATEGORY VIII: MODEL ORGANISM (Select ONE)
NO MODEL ORGANISM
MODEL ORGANISM (Choose from
the list or input up to 9 characters)
VIRUS/BACTERIA
Escherichia coli
Bacillus subtilis

PROTISTA

FUNGI

ANIMAL

Dictyostelium

Nematode (Caenorhabditis elegans)

Saccharomyces cereviseae

Fruitfly (Drosophila melanogaster)

Schizosaccharomyces pombe

African Clawed Frog (Xenopus laevis)

PLANT
Mouse-Ear Cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)
Corn (Zea mays)

Mouse, Laboratory

[Enter your own model organism - up to
9 characters]

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
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