Cooperative Agreement G21AC10186

This $650,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) supports research to investigate the role of environmental factors in the development of antibiotic resistance among bacteria in municipal wastewater treatment plants. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year award include: Conducting integrated field, laboratory, and computational studies to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $433,247 CAREER grant to the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY ESF) to conduct research aimed at mitigating the transmission of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in agricultural soils. The project, titled "CAREER: SYSTEMS MICROBIOLOGY AND INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION FOR HALTING ENVIRONMENTAL ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE TRANSMISSION (SMILE HEART)", will investigate how non-antibiotic micropollutants in...

This $419,863 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program, supports research to develop new methods for identifying hotspots of fecal contamination in terrestrial environments using coprophagous flies. The key objectives are to: (i) determine how fecal indicators are ingested and persist in coprophagous flies under varying environmental conditions; (ii) quantify fecal indicators in wild-caught coprophagous flies from communities...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to study the spread of antibiotic resistance genes in microbial communities affected by heavy metal pollution. The project aims to investigate how environmental pollution, specifically elevated levels of heavy metals like lead and manganese in a historically contaminated area of Birmingham, Alabama, may contribute to the...

This three-year National Science Foundation Project Grant of $467,622 will fund research into the effects of urbanization on avian immunology and microbiology in California finches. The awardee, California State University Fresno Foundation, will investigate how urban environments impact the innate immunity and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in house finches, pine siskins, and lesser goldfinches. Researchers and students will study immunogenetic variation and microbial prevalence in the...

This three-year project grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development, under the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program (CFDA 66.509), provides $759,980 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to combine metagenomic techniques with microbial culture methods for microbial source tracking, populate a bioinformatics library, and monitor impacts of genetically recoded organisms on natural freshwater microbial communities. A sub-award of $TBD...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $439,974 to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) focuses on advancing the fundamental understanding of how the infiltration of antibiotic-polluted irrigation water impacts antibiotic resistance (AR) in agricultural soils. The key products and services to be delivered through this 5-year CAREER project include: Identifying the factors controlling the persistence of antibiotics and...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $245,014 Cooperative Agreement to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to monitor U.S. broiler chicken operations for antimicrobial use (AMU), antimicrobial resistance (AMR), animal health, and production practices. This project is funded under APHIS's Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025), which supports initiatives to protect U.S. agriculture from...

This three-year National Science Foundation project grant of $140,899 will fund research into the impact of horizontal gene transfer on the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacterial communities. The NSF Division of Environmental Biology awarded the grant on February 1, 2022 under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to investigate how plasmid-borne genes coding for beta-lactam antibiotic resistance evolve when transferred between Escherichia coli, Salmonella enterica, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041, Engineering) provides $280,000 to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System Of Higher Education for a collaborative research project focused on mitigating antibiotic resistance. The key objectives are to: Understand the interactions between antibiotic resistance genes and carbon nanomaterials using reduced graphene oxide membranes; Enhance the electrostatic adsorption of antibiotic resistance genes on the modified...