Project Grant 20223941138365

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded Iowa State University a $404,919 cooperative agreement from the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA 10.025). The overall objective is to adopt Oxford Nanopore sequencing technology as a point-of-care diagnostic for avian influenza in field or resource-limited settings. Iowa State University will evaluate sample extraction and sequencing workflows for field use,...

The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. 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 grant runs from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The grant funds research to develop new sequencing-based diagnostic assays for Avian Reovirus, Avian Coronavirus, and Avian Astroviruses. These RNA viruses cause significant...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) awarded a $100,971 Cooperative Agreement to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025). The purpose of this 1-year award, effective July 1, 2024, is to develop high-throughput sequencing methods to rapidly detect and identify members of the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex...

The purpose of this $250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care (CFDA 10.025) program is for the University of Illinois to develop an enhanced capture probe sequencing method. This method will significantly improve the sensitivity of sequencing for detecting and characterizing viruses that cause aquatic and equine neurological diseases,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) provides $197,482 to Iowa State University to develop standardized protocols for next-generation sequencing (NGS) of animal pathogens. The project aims to address the lack of consistency in NGS data analysis and reporting across veterinary diagnostic laboratories. The award will...

The Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences will develop a novel microencapsulation-based technology for whole genome sequencing of RNA viruses from ocean environments under a two-year, $599,048 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences' Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The laboratory aims to address the pressing need for direct quantification methods for small RNA viruses in marine samples, which play a major role in microbial ecology and evolution but are...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award of $270,128 to Evolve Genomix, Inc. aims to develop a low-cost, field-use DNA-based rapid diagnostic device for early detection of plant diseases such as citrus greening. The 9-month project will produce a universal hardware kit and a Huanglongbing (HLB) disease-specific reagent kit designed to have over 90% sensitivity and 100% specificity for...

The purpose of this $145,987 Cooperative Agreement award by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under CFDA Program 10.025 - Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care is to develop high-throughput sequencing methods to rapidly detect and identify members of the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex directly from plant samples. The project aims to expand the range of plant hosts for which the sequencing method has been...

The Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University a $200,452 Cooperative Agreement under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program (CFDA #10.025). The two-year award running from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2025 aims to expand the university's technical and bioinformatics expertise in rapid next generation sequencing and confirmatory modalities to support pathogen detection...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program provides $500,000 from March 2024 through February 2027 to researchers at the University of Maryland and Silvec Biologics, Inc. to develop methods to stabilize RNA genomes in viruses that can be used as therapies to treat plant diseases. The project aims to use computational approaches, including artificial intelligence, to design RNA structures that can be inserted into virus genomes to increase...