Project Grant 20223941138253

The University of Maryland Baltimore County was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) to develop an alternative approach for producing all-female Atlantic salmon populations without the use of sex steroids. Over four years from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2026, the University will optimize fish sterilization and germ cell transplantation technology to generate all-X milt for...

This five-year, $600,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) will fund research at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine to develop metrics for identifying optimal broodstock and predicting offspring quality and performance in Atlantic salmon aquaculture. Specifically, the grant will support work to 1) establish characteristics in broodstock or...

This Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program provides $500,000 to Texas A&M Agrilife Research to study neuroendocrine control of reproduction in cattle breeds. The goal is to determine if distinct differences in reproductive function between Bos indicus and Bos taurus cattle can be attributed to differences in hypothalamic and pituitary function. The awardee will...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Washington State University a $1,300,000 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The grant will fund the Decode the Salmonid Genome Project, a research effort aimed at characterizing genome function in rainbow trout to gain insights that can improve agricultural animal production, human and animal health, and species conservation. Through large-scale genome...

Auburn University was awarded a $650,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The three-year award will fund research to identify biomarkers associated with sperm quality and male reproductive performance in hybrid catfish breeding. Specifically, the researchers will study sperm quality, morphology, hatching success, embryonic development and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) aims to revolutionize the use of poeciliid fish (such as guppies, mollies, and swordtails) as a model system for genome editing research. The $1,526,917 award to The Leland Stanford Junior University will develop new methods to enable precise DNA editing in these fish, which are a key integrative biology model but have lacked such tools. The project will establish immortalized cell lines,...

This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research (BRAG) program (CFDA 10.219) provides $649,996 to Auburn University from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The grant aims to improve production traits of farmed catfish through transgenesis and develop reversible genetic sterility in fish to prevent establishment of transgenic genotypes in the natural environment. Key objectives include...

Field Phyto-Nutrients LLC (FPN LLC) received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program to develop algae-based feed for finfish cultivation. Through the award period of September 1, 2022 to February 28, 2023, FPN LLC will process the marine microalgae Crypthecodinium cohnii (C. cohnii) into feed using a low-temperature drying method. C. cohnii contains high levels of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)...

The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $650,000 Project Grant to the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (CFDA 10.310). The three-year project aims to advance understanding of follicle selection in cattle reproduction through a series of experiments testing the role of luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone pulses. The University of Wisconsin-Madison will lead...

This Project Grant award from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Research program (CFDA 93.103) provides $190,296 to conduct an environmental assessment of the use of the estradiol-based medical article "ESTRAQUA" in recirculating aquaculture systems for American eels. The assessment is required by the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine to complete the environmental review for a new animal drug application. The project, performed by Novaeel Inc., will evaluate the environmental...