Project Grant W911QY1910004

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) CFDA 10.310 program provides $194,318.00 to the University of California, Santa Barbara to investigate how agricultural intensification affects mosquito abundance, viral infection rates, and farmworker exposure to mosquito-borne diseases. The research aims to improve the well-being and health of farmworkers, a...

This federal Project Grant award, valued at $214,605.00 and funded by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310), focuses on understanding how thermally tolerant bacterial strains can contribute to shifts in insect vector capacity for plant disease transmission. The research, conducted by Emory University, aims to 1) determine whether Caballeronia bacterial strains with varying...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $283,164 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC-G) to develop physiology-based mechanistic models to forecast the responses of sand fly vector species to coarse-scale environmental changes like climate change, as well as fine-scale changes from land use modifications. The project aims to (1) determine the physiological parameters that influence the geographical spread and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $395,122 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, to conduct research on the link between environmental factors, animal movement, and disease transmission. The key objectives of this 3-year grant are to: (1) learn to use a novel movement-contact model called MOVESTIR, (2) expand the MOVESTIR model to understand how...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $977,779 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to investigate how climate change and land use shifts may impact the synchronization between mosquito vectors and bird hosts, and the implications for West Nile Virus transmission. The research will leverage a combination of modeling, causal inference, citizen science, and field data collection to understand how...

This $505,238 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) will support research to identify skin-associated compounds that can disrupt mosquito landing and biting behavior. The overarching goal is to discover new chemical compounds that can act as improved topical insect repellents compared to DEET, especially for use in tropical regions. The research will involve validating...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $288,060 to Kent State University to study the effects of warming temperatures and biotic interactions on aphid populations in a Rocky Mountain ecosystem. The key objectives are to: (1) integrate the direct effects of temperature on aphid development with indirect effects driven by shifts in above- and belowground interactions, (2) assess local adaptation within plant-aphid...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), aims to investigate the role of human behavior in the dynamics of mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and Zika. The $100,000 grant, awarded to North Carolina State University (NC State), will support a multidisciplinary research project to understand how individual decision-making around mosquito prevention behaviors impacts disease transmission. The...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), supports a collaborative research project on the transmission, control, and risk assessment of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in South Florida. The $323,038 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2027, will integrate mosquito data from Miami-Dade County and CHIKV outbreak data from Brazil into a hybrid machine learning and mathematical modeling...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (CFDA 93.113 Environmental Health) to Emory University for $599,416 will develop, test, and apply new statistical methods to address analytical challenges in environmental epidemiology. The key products and services to be delivered include: Bayesian scalar-on-quantile-function regression models to estimate associations between aggregated health outcomes and population-wide exposure distributions, motivated by...