Cooperative Agreement 5950903004

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Purdue University $650,000 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program to conduct research from June 2023 to May 2027 related to beef cattle production efficiency and health. Specifically, the university will analyze changes in the ruminal, intestinal, and cecal microbiome of grain-finished cattle administered tylosin and monensin antibiotics to characterize...

This four-year, $1.3 million project grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA #10.310) supports the development of pan-transcriptomes to understand genome-phenome relationships in cattle. The awardee, Washington State University, will construct pan-transcriptomes from four ruminant species including cattle breeds to discover transcriptomic variations driving phenotypic divergence....

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded $650,000 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (AFRI, CFDA No. 10.310) to North Dakota State University for a project titled "Diverse and Dynamic Microbial Communities in Cattle." The four-year project, running from June 2022 to May 2026, will evaluate the impact of altering maternal microbiota in beef cattle via high forage or high concentrate diets on offspring...

The University of Pittsburgh has been awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to develop cost-effective molecular methods for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in agricultural animals, particularly farmed deer and cattle. The project aims to create two new detection methods: 1) a reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) test with solid-state nanopore sensing, and 2) an amplicon-based sequencing approach called...

This $325,139 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), 93.350 program, aims to examine the feasibility of using target-specific polyclonal antibodies to neutralize bioactive molecules in the gut microbiome. The primary goals are to 1) determine the impact of six proteins identified as overabundant in inflammatory gut disorders, and 2) evaluate the ability of immunoglobulin Y (IgY) antibodies to neutralize the physiological impacts...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will generate reference quality genome assemblies for rumen protist populations under a $247,720 cooperative agreement from the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Funded through the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program, this project aims to aid further research on the ecological significance and role in methane emissions of rumen protists found in cattle. Over a three-year period ending January 2025, the...

The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $299,139 Project Grant to the West Virginia University Research Corporation to develop an innovative microbial source tracking (MST) approach using next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology. The goal is to create a high-throughput, accurate method to identify specific sources of fecal contamination in surface water, which is critical for watershed managers to implement effective remediation policies and best...

This Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) provides $596,727 to Texas A&M AgriLife Research to develop new biomanufacturing technologies for converting lignocellulosic agricultural wastes into valuable postbiotics and microbial proteins to support cell cultures. The key objectives include isolating and characterizing microbial communities from bovine rumen, insect guts, and herbivorous fish to utilize...

This U01 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $594,933 to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to develop and validate innovative viral enrichment and quantification technologies. The key objectives are: 1) Developing "Viral-MEM", an advanced viral enrichment method to process high-host load tissue samples by removing host nucleic acids while...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded $650,000 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program to identify genetic and biological markers correlated with the development of liver abscesses in feedlot cattle. With a project period from June 2023 through May 2028, this Project Grant will support research at the Agricultural Research Service Plains Area in Fort Collins, Colorado to address the prevalent and costly issue of...