Project Grant F21AP00195

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 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...

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. Fish and Wildlife Service under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) provides $195,000 to the University of Nebraska to conduct a two-year continuous monitoring project. The project aims to characterize critical habitats and roosting areas in the central Great Plains along the Missouri River for bat species impacted by white-nose syndrome, including the northern long-eared bat, little brown bat, and tricolored...

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 Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) provides $325,588.00 to the University of Wisconsin - Madison to conduct research on how the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans causes white-nose syndrome in hibernating bats. The research aims to identify the specific fungal proteins or "adhesins" that enable the fungus to bind to and infect bat skin cells. The findings could lead to...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $340,771 Project Grant under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) to Bat Conservation International, Inc. (BCI) to monitor bat populations and investigate patterns of white-nose syndrome progression across the range of the cave myotis (Myotis velifer) in five U.S. states and two Mexican states. The award, effective from March 1, 2025 to March 31, 2027, aims to build a data pipeline for assessing white-nose...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) provides $162,499 to Northern Arizona University to assess the spread and impacts of the bat fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) in western U.S. regions. The project will focus on conducting Pd surveillance across four western states (New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, California) to understand variations in white-nose syndrome...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) will provide $325,110 to the University of Montana to conduct research on the impacts of white-nose syndrome on bat populations. The key products and services to be delivered include: Generating whole genome sequences from cave myotis bat specimens to identify genes associated with different disease outcomes and assess the susceptibility of...

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,...