Project Grant R24OD018555

Tridentis Advanced Marine Vehicles LLC and the Watershed Innovation Laboratory at Washington College will develop technology and monitoring solutions for near-shore aquaculture installations under a $149,865 project grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Specifically, the awardees will establish baseline water quality and shellfish testing for aquaculture farms, then develop an efficient and cost-effective material solution to continuously monitor environmental...

This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program aims to develop a novel human stem cell-based microfluidic developmental toxicology platform. The University of Michigan will receive funding from September 2022 to August 2024 to conduct technological development of a repeatable, controllable, high-throughput microfluidic system for generating three-dimensional multicellular organoid models for toxicity testing. The platform seeks...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Cooperative Research Units (CFDA 15.812) program provides $188,679.25 to North Carolina State University (NC State) to conduct research on aquatic species distribution modeling to inform recovery and conservation efforts in the southeastern United States. The key products and services to be delivered under this 4-year award (05/15/2024 - 07/31/2028) include: Developing species distribution models (SDMs) for a suite...

This Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Small Business Innovation Research Program totaling $150,000 will support the development of rapid diagnostic tests for the parasitic infection Amyloodinium ocellatum in fish. Live Advantage Bait, LLC dba Totally Pelagic will utilize next generation approaches to produce highly specific monoclonal antibodies for A. ocellatum dinospores and develop a lateral flow-based rapid diagnostic test. The NOAA SBIR program...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $181,981 to the University of Washington (UW) to develop innovative tools and resources to enhance the use of sea urchins as research models. The key products and services to be delivered include: Establishing efficient protocols for culturing sea urchin cells to investigate gene function in vitro. Enabling rapid, scalable DNA transfection of sea urchin embryos, adult tissues,...

This Project Grant award of $194,375 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) supports the University of Wisconsin-Madison in developing robust genome editing tools for generating floxed alleles and editing amino acid changes in the zebrafish model system. The key objectives are to establish a synthetic exon-mediated integration approach to reliably add LoxP sites to target genes, enabling conditional knockout of genes in specific cell...

This $690,650 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports the development and testing of a field-ready, cost-effective sound playback system for conducting eco-acoustic and marine larval settlement studies. The system will enable researchers to easily manipulate and introduce sound cues in field experiments to investigate how sound impacts diverse marine fauna, with a focus on coral reef ecosystems. The 2-year effort will build,...

This $1,016,000.00 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program will fund the development and application of a low-cost, portable biosensing platform for detecting and monitoring waterborne pathogens in aquaculture and coastal environments. The University of Massachusetts Lowell, as the prime awardee, will lead the effort to adapt its patented biosensing technology to enable real-time pathogen detection and...

Aquaculture System Technologies, L.L.C. (AST) received a $169,892 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop "start-up" beads for fixed film biological reactors. The beads are designed to eliminate losses during the acclimation period by stimulating heterotrophic bacterial growth for 3-4 weeks without rapidly increasing dissolved biodegradable concentrations....

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Cooperative Research Units program award of $261,042.37 to Auburn University will fund a 3-year project to study the toxicity of different life stages of Cahaba River mudsnails to potassium, chloride, and nickel. The project aims to establish a protocol for toxicology testing of contaminants using mudsnails and determine how organism life stage affects the toxicity of these chemicals to three mudsnail species. The resulting data will be summarized in tables and...