Vectech, Inc. received a $255,781 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on June 15, 2021 to fund research and development of advanced computer vision methods for mosquito surveillance through February 28, 2022. The award was made under the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering innovation and excellence in research and education. Specifically, the grant supports Vectech's...
Farmsense, Inc. received a $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program. The award supports the development of an automated, digital classification and counting system for mosquitoes to enable more effective vector control. The project aims to create an end-to-end digital platform for mosquito surveillance that can support the work of vector control districts. The platform will leverage real-time insect...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $981,168 Cooperative Agreement under its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Solarid Ar LLC, a minority-owned, veteran-owned, Asian-Pacific American-owned limited liability company. This 2-year project aims to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven insect trapping and identification system that can detect, identify, and quantify insects entering insect control devices in real-time. The primary objective is to...
This Project Grant award of $651,084, made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports research to determine how microbes influence the response of their mosquito host to climate change, with a focus on the impacts on Hawaiian honeycreepers, an endangered bird species. The research aims to: Clarify the landscape-scale population dynamics of the mosquito vector Culex quinquefasciatus and its microbiome across an elevational gradient in Hawaii....
This $649,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports Farmsense, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business, in developing novel sensor technologies for precise insect pest monitoring and surveillance in agricultural settings. The project aims to create a system inspired by how bats detect and discriminate between different insects, allowing for tracking of insect pests down to the...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research project on the transmission, control, and risk assessment of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in South Florida. The $323,038 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, will integrate mosquito data from Miami-Dade County and CHIKV outbreak data from Brazil into a hybrid machine learning and mathematical modeling...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the University of Washington under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to investigate olfactory learning and neuromodulation in the Aedes aegypti mosquito from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The research aims to understand how odor learning modifies mosquitoes' biting behaviors through three objectives: testing whether mosquitoes only learn certain odors corresponding to antennal lobe glomeruli tuning;...
This Project Grant award of $193,500.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) is supporting a collaborative research project titled "ACED: PLANET-SCALE AI FOR ACCELERATING ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE - INVASIVE SPECIES AND BEYOND". The goal of this project is to develop and validate an AI framework that can leverage diverse image data from satellite, drone, and internet sources to automate and...
This $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program will fund research at Auburn University to investigate the mechanisms of Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in insects. The project aims to delineate the molecular targets and evolutionary origins of this reproductive manipulation by endosymbiotic bacteria, with the goal of developing novel, environmentally-friendly biocontrol strategies to manage insect pests. The research...
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program. Through this three-year award beginning June 1, 2023, UCSD will investigate olfactory learning and neuromodulation in the Aedes aegypti mosquito vector. The research aims to elucidate the role of dopamine-mediated plasticity in early olfactory circuits and how...