Funding Opportunities
Travel Grants
The Plant Resilience Institute, or PRI, offers travel grants of up to $500 each to support PRI trainees in presenting their research at conferences worldwide. Eligible applicants must be current PRI lab members and first authors of a research poster or presentation at the event they plan to attend. This opportunity is available for all career stages and throughout the year.
Seed Grant Program
PRI invites proposals for innovative, trainee-led research in the area of plant resilience. We encourage proposals to be synergistic across MSU laboratories and focus on projects that are both high-risk and high-reward.
The proposed research must not already be funded by an existing grant and should be distinct from current research programs. Proposals are required to focus on plant resilience, broadly defined.
Spring 2026 Seed Grant Cycle
Proposals must be received by February 27, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. ET for consideration in the spring 2026 cycle. Any graduate student or postdoctoral researcher at MSU may submit a proposal.
Seed Grant Awardees
View the list of funded PRI Seed Grant projects from previous rounds.
Postdoctoral Fellowships
To support the next generation of leaders in plant resilience research, PRI offers three-year postdoctoral fellowships in plant resilience to early-career candidates including finishing PhD students and current postdoctoral scholars. PRI Postdoctoral Fellows develop and conduct collaborative research projects that leverage PRI’s strengths while incorporating their own research background and interests to expand the PRI research portfolio. PRI has funded six fellows to date, begining with the first cohort in 2021 and the second in 2024. Future fellowship applications will be posted on our job opportunities page.
