This $500,000 federal Project Grant award, provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) under the Equipment Grants Program (CFDA 10.519), will enable Oregon State University to acquire a mass spectrometer instrument. This specialized scientific equipment will support a diverse range of agricultural research initiatives at the university, including projects focused on organic potato storage, methane emissions from rangeland...
The University of Delaware was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to acquire an Orbitrap quadrupole mass spectrometer. The award is part of the USDA NIFA Equipment Grants Program and will run from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2026. The Equipment Grants Program aims to increase access to shared-use specialized equipment and instruments for fundamental and applied research in food and agricultural sciences...
The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Bowling Green State University a $482,000 Project Grant under the Equipment Grants Program (CFDA 10.519) to procure a high-resolution mass spectrometry instrument. This specialized equipment will be used to analyze small quantities of known and unknown substances, providing detailed information on their weight and structural composition. The primary applications will be analyzing soil organic matter, water toxins,...
The Ohio State University received a $800,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture on June 15, 2022 to produce advanced biofuels and specialty chemicals from agricultural residues through June 14, 2025. The funding supports research under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program to address food and agricultural sciences. Specifically, the university will engineer Clostridium tyrobutyricum...
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received a $496,719 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to acquire an ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) system. The award, made under the agency's Equipment Grants Program (EGP), will allow the university to advance its research on food and health from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The EGP aims to increase access to shared-use...
The Ohio State University received a $750,000 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) to permanently acquire a Bruker TIMSTOF Flex MALDI-2 quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer. This advanced imaging mass spectrometry instrument will empower NIH-funded researchers at Ohio State and Case Western Reserve University to conduct tissue imaging studies with enhanced capabilities, including MALDI-2...
This $499,355 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) Equipment Grants Program (CFDA 10.519) will provide the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a high-resolution mass spectrometer. This specialized equipment will enable researchers to identify diverse novel microbial natural products, including those that play key roles in agriculturally important interactions among microbes, plants, and animals. The award...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) awarded a $206,830 Project Grant under the Equipment Grants Program (CFDA 10.519) to the Division of Agriculture of the University of Arkansas. The grant will enable the acquisition of a state-of-the-art Mastersizer 3000+ Ultra particle size analyzer to support innovative fundamental and applied research in the food and agricultural sciences. The specific objectives are to (1) acquire, install, and...
The Ohio State University was awarded a $736,956 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program (CFDA 10.310). The University will conduct research from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2027 to determine the direct, indirect, and interactive effects of commonly used broad-spectrum insecticides on pollinator foraging behavior, marketable crop yields, and commercial...
This Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) under the Equipment Grants Program (CFDA 10.519) provides $500,000 to Utah State University to acquire a new high-end Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter (FACS) instrument. The new BD FACSDiscover S8 system will support diverse agricultural and biological research projects at the university, including work in areas such as reproductive biology, physiology,...