Project Grant F20AP12071

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded Oregon State University (OSU) a $385,709 Project Grant under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) to advance solutions for controlling the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans, which causes white-nose syndrome in North American bat populations. The key products and services to be delivered through this 20-month grant include: Evaluating the lack of non-target effects of the proposed gene-silencing...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) provides $162,499.00 to Northern Arizona University to conduct surveillance and assessment of the spread of the bat pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans and the progression of white-nose syndrome in western bat populations. The project will focus on monitoring Myotis bat species in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded Northern Arizona University $291,660 under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. The project aims to investigate the apparent delayed progression of white-nose syndrome in southwestern bat populations to better understand the invasion dynamics of this disease and determine what factors may be enabling bats in the region to persist...

This $1.78 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology will fund research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop strategies to mitigate white-nose syndrome (WNS), a lethal fungal disease decimating North American bat populations. Over three years, the university will interrogate how the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) initiates infection by adhering to bat skin, using a first-of-its-kind keratinocyte cell line from...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded a $132,710 Project Grant to Bioconciencia A.C. from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684). The grant will support continued efforts to document winter bat ecology in Mexico and assess potential entry and spread of Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) fungus. Key activities include winter colony counts and searches for new bat hibernacula, with...

The University of Wyoming, through its Sponsored Programs department, was awarded a $149,500 Project Grant by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684). The grant will fund a vaccination efficacy trial for endangered Northern long-eared bats in the Bearlodge Mountains of Wyoming. Key activities include capturing bats at water sources and summer roosts, administering oral white-nose syndrome vaccines or placebo...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the CFDA 15.684 White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program provides $325,110 to the University of Montana to investigate the divergent disease outcomes of white-nose syndrome (WNS) in two subspecies of the cave myotis bat. The research aims to identify genetic factors associated with disease resistance, as well as model the potential spread and impact of WNS across the bat's range....

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $187,030 Project Grant under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) to the University of Illinois. The funding supports a range-wide population genomic assessment of the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) to establish baseline population parameters, delineate subpopulations, examine gene flow, and assess the impacts of threats like white-nose syndrome, wind turbine mortality,...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation (CFDA 15.684) program, is providing $325,588 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to research how the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans causes white-nose syndrome in hibernating bats. The goal is to identify the specific proteins or "adhesins" on the fungus that enable it to bind to and infect bat skin cells, known as...

This cooperative agreement award of $302,525 from the U.S. Geological Survey will support statistical prediction and data integration for white-nose syndrome surveillance and management from September 2021 through September 2025. The award was made under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As the awardee, UW-Madison will leverage its expertise in statistics and data science to develop models and integrate data to improve...