The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $2,500,000 Project Grant award from the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) program to conduct research on virus transmission during commingling events in cattle. The project aims to understand why some cattle become infected and sick during commingling, while others do not, by tracking the transmission of a cattle coronavirus and analyzing the cattle's immune systems and microbiomes. This research could help control and prevent virus transmission in both animals and humans. The University of Minnesota has partnered with Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Mississippi State University on sub-awards to support the US-UK collaborative study on the ecology and evolution of pathogen-microbiome-host interactions during population-level intermingling events. The project will run from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026.
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