Project Grant R24OD036201

Award Date 8/1/24
Completion Date 7/31/28
Dollars Obligated $1M
Funding Federal Agency
Office of the Director
Federal Grant Program
93.351
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Ames, IA 50011, USA

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Infrastructure Programs (CFDA 93.351) provides $1,023,185 to Iowa State University to expand the zebrafish research community's toolbox for conditional gene expression studies and improve precision genome editing techniques.

The key objectives are to: 1) develop new Cre recombinase-based conditional alleles for genes involved in epigenetics, mitochondrial biology, and other understudied areas; 2) further refine the GenEWELD and DonorGUIDE methods for precisely integrating long DNA fragments and short sequences into the zebrafish genome; and 3) continue disseminating these advanced genome editing resources to the broader zebrafish research community. Iowa State University is collaborating with Texas A&M AgriLife Research on the project, with the Texas institution focusing on improving the precision integration techniques. The project period runs from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2028.

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