During our initial funding period as an NSF Synthesis Center, Working Groups were chosen to focus on major well-defined scientific questions at the interface between biology and mathematics that require insights from researchers from different disciplines, meeting up to three times over a two-year period. NIMBioS Working Groups have produced more than 300 journal papers, 127 presentations or posters, 16 book chapters, and 21 grant proposals.

We no longer have internal funds to support such groups ourselves, but we are enthusiastic about supporting the development of applications to host such groups using our NIMBioS expertise, infrastructure, and support. Working Groups are relatively small with no more than 15 participants, focused on a well-defined topic and with well-defined goals and metrics of success. If you are interested in getting such a group together, please reach out to us and we will help identify opportunities to target for funding and help you get a proposal together to apply for those opportunities to bring your vision to life at NIMBioS!