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ARS research is organized into National Programs. Within each National Program are research projects. Listed below are  the National Programs and research projects currently conducted at this location.

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Animal Health (NP #103)
Intervention Strategies to Control and Eradicate Foreign Animal Diseases of Swine
(In-House Appropriated)
Intervention Strategies to Prevent and Control Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF)
(In-House Appropriated)
Intervention Strategies to Respond, Control, and Eradicate Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV)
(In-House Appropriated)
Japanese Encephalitis Virus Prevention and Mitigation Strategies
(In-House Appropriated)
Predicting and Mitigating Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) Outbreaks in North America
(In-House Appropriated)
Rift Valley Fever Pathogenesis and Epidemiology
(In-House Appropriated)
The Agrosecurity Partnerships for Innovative Research (ASPIRE) Project for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF)
(In-House Appropriated)
Viral Ecology of Henipaviruses in Endemic Settings and Intervention Strategies to Prevent their Spread to Domestic Animals
(In-House Appropriated)
Achieving Data Quality and Integrity in Maximum Containment Laboratories Training Course
(Cooperative Agreement)
Agricultural Research Service - American Type Culture Collection Biological Repository Partnership
(Cooperative Agreement)
Development and U.S. Based Production of a Rugged Fully Encapsulating Suit for the ABSL-4 Ag and other BSL-4 Environments (Phase 3)
(Cooperative Agreement)
Emerging Coronaviruses Gap Analysis Workshop
(Cooperative Agreement)
Support Research Collaboration Efforts Between USDA/ARS and International Scientists Working on Priority Research Projects of Mutual Interest
(Cooperative Agreement)
Support Research Collaborations, Scientific Trainings, and Conferences for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF)
(Cooperative Agreement)
Supporting Foreign Transboundary Arbovirus Research
(Cooperative Agreement)
Addressing Agricultural Biorisk Evidence Base Gaps with Applied Research
(Interagency Reimbursable Agreement)
Assessing Priorities for African Swine Fever Research Gaps for Outbreak Prevention and Response
(Interagency Reimbursable Agreement)
BSL4ZNet Support and Maintenance
(Interagency Reimbursable Agreement)
Development and Evaluation of Diagnostics for High Consequence Pathogens
(Interagency Reimbursable Agreement)
Establish, Develop and Coordinate a Network of BSL-3 and BSL-4 Large Animal and Laboratory Agricultural Research Facilities
(Interagency Reimbursable Agreement)
Maximum-containment Capabilities for Animal Studies
(Interagency Reimbursable Agreement)
Support for Phase 3 of the RAV3N Partnership Between NBAF and Texas A&M University
(Interagency Reimbursable Agreement)
Development of Diagnostic Tools for Japanese Encephalitis Virus
(Memorandum of Understanding)
Memorandum of Understanding Between the USDA, Agricultural Research Service and the USDA, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service
(Memorandum of Understanding)
Safety and Efficacy Assessment of African Swine Fever Vaccines For Use in the Dominican Republic
(Memorandum of Understanding)
African Swine Fever Collaborative Agreement
(Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement)
Foreign Animal Disease Spatial Analysis and Mapping Collaborative Agreement
(Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement)
Planning and Conducting the 2025 Foot-and-Mouth Disease Symposium
(Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement)
Quantifying the Long-Distance Dispersal Capacity of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD)
(Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement)
Simulation and Epidemiological Parameter Development for Assessing Spread of Foreign Animal Diseases by Feral Swine
(Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement)
Subject Matter Expert Support to NBAF Science Transition
(Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement)
Whole Slide Imaging Analysis Using AI
(Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement)
A Genetic Approach to Assess the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Disease Vectors
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
A Scalable Vascularized Hydrogel System for Agricultural Vector-borne Disease Research
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Addressing Agricultural Biorisk Evidence Base Gaps with Applied Research
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Advance Development of FMD Diagnostics and Production of Mosaic FMD Virus-Like Particles to Globally Relevant FMDV Serotypes
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Analysis of the Cross Protective Response Induced by ASFV Recombinant Vaccine ASFV-G-DeltaI177L
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Analysis of the Immune Response Elicited by Classical Swine Fever Virus Recombinant Vaccine Candidate FlagT4G
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Analysis of the Immunogenicity of ASFV Proteins
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Animal and Arthropod Studies in BSL3 Containment at Pat Roberts Hall for Comparative Zoonotic Arbovirus Studies
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Animal Studies in BSL-3 Containment at Pat Roberts Hall for Comparative Zoonotic Arbovirus Studies
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Applied Epidemiological Approaches to Evaluate the Progressive Control Pathway for Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Endemic Regions
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Assessing the Risk of Arthropod-Borne Disease in the Caribbean and the Americas (RACE Risk of Arthropod-borne diseases in the Caribbean)
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Assessing the Risk of Emergence, Transmission and Establishment of the Japanese Encephalitis Virus in the United States
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Assessment of CCHV in Ugandan Cattle Corridor and Kenyan Arid North Tick Populations
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Assessment of the Immune Response to Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) in Small Ruminant and the Influence of Other Viral Diseases Susceptibility
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Bio-hardened Environments: Integrating AI-based Biothreat Detection Networks into Situational Awareness and Rapid Response Systems
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Biologically-inspired Odor Olfactory Detection Guided Machine Learning (BIODOG-ML): Odor Detection from Canines to Instrumentation
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
BSL4ZNet Secretariat Support and Maintenance
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
CCHFV Prevalence Outside the Ugandan Cattle Corridor
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Center for Tick Surveillance
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Characterization and Diagnostic Detection of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Strains Causing Outbreaks in North America
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Characterization of Arbovirus-mosquito-vertebrate Host Interactions
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Characterization of Emerging Zoonotic Threats
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Characterization of Environmental Effects on Mosquito Saliva Composition Using Mass Spectrometry
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Characterization of Risk for Emerging High-consequence Zoonoses in Liberia
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Characterizing the Structure-Function of Various Families of Viroporins to Support African Swine Fever Virus Vaccine Candidates
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Classical Swine Fever (CSF) Vaccine FlagT4G Vaccine Efficacy: Assessing Oral Administration and Protection in Pregnant Sows
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Communications Best Practices for High-containment Laboratories
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Comprehensive Mapping of Livestock B Cell Receptor Repertoire Using Single-cell Sequencing to Enhance Vaccine Development
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Considering FMDV Recombination and Strain Emergence in Context of Development of Live-attenuated Vaccines
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Curated African Swine Fever Genomic Database
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Defining the Upper and Lower Respiratory Tract Transcriptome of Cattle Health and Disease
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Delivery of FMDV Protein Antigens Using a Programmable Transdermal Microneedle System
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Demonstration of Long-term Protection Against RVFV Infection Afforded by a Single Dose of Rift Valley Fever Smithburn MLV Vaccine in Sheep
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Detection and Characterization of Arboviruses and Environmental Influences on Transmission at the U.S. Wildlife and Livestock Interface
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Detection and Characterization of Potential Emerging and Emergent Arboviruses in Mosquitoes in the Caribbean
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Detection and Characterization of Potential Emerging Arboviruses in Brazil
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Detection from Relevant Matrices on Sherlock Disposable Molecular Platform
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Determining Immune Cells Draining to Lymph Nodes and the Factors Affecting the Cell Drainage
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Developing Collaborative Research Partnerships with the BSL4 Zoonotic network (BSL4Znet): Responding to Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Development of a Differential ELISA for ASV Vaccines
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Development of a Novel Epitope-based Vaccine Candidate for FMDV
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Development of Agriculture Model Capabilities for Emerging Disease Threats
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Development of an ASFV Nano-biosensor for Discriminating Between Infected and Vaccinated Animals
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Development of Diagnostic Reagents and Assays for Arbovirus Surveillance
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Development of LAMP Based Diagnostics for Emerging Disease Threats
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Development of Lateral Flow Assays for Rift Valley Fever Virus Antigen and Antibody Detection
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Development of Multiplex Species Agnostic Diagnostics
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Development of Novel Strategies to Investigate Arthropod Feeding and Arbovirus Transmission
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Development of Reagents and New Technology for Detection and Surveillance of Lumpy Skin Disease
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Development of Safe Vaccination Protocols for Pregnant Sows, Piglets and Boars Using ASFV-G-DI177L
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Development of Swine Models for High Consequence-emerging Zoonotic Threats
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Diversity and Cross-species Spillover of High-risk Zoonotic Viruses in Padma River Basin of Bangladesh
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Diversity and Cross-species Spillover of High-risk Zoonotic Viruses in Padma River Basin of Bangladesh
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Ecological and Epidemiological Investigations of High-consequence Zoonotic Pathogens at the Livestock, Wildlife and Human Interface
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Ecological Investigations of Emerging High-consequence Zoonotic Viruses at High-priority Livestock, Wildlife, and Human Interfaces
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Ecological Surveillance of Emerging High-consequence Zoonotic Viruses using Novel Assays
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Ecology of Nipah Virus in Bangladesh
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Effects of Environmental Temperature on Arbovirus Vector Competence of Various Mosquito Species
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Endemic Ecology and Molecular Epidemiology of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Asia and Africa
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Enhancement of Lumpy Skin Disease Diagnostic: Antigen Generation for an Indirect ELISA Kit and Development of New Monoclonal Antibodies
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Epidemiological Fitness Assessment of Segmented RNA Viruses
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Epidemiological Modeling of Vector-borne Diseases
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Epidemiology of FMD in Small Ruminants and Domestic Pigs in Uganda
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Evaluating a Self-Boosting Vaccine Delivery Platform Using Ad5-FMD
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Evaluation of the Modification of Virulence in Recombinant ASFV with Specific Gene Deletions
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Evaluation of Transboundary Disease Mitigation Strategies in Kenya
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Exosomes as Mediators of Arbovirus Transmission by Insects
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Exploration of Novel repRNA Vaccine Candidates for Japanese Encephalitis Virus
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Exploration of Novel repRNA Vaccine Candidates for Rift Valley Fever Virus
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Exploration of Novel Virus-like Particle Vaccine Candidates for Japanese Encephalitis Virus
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Exploring Next Generation Modeling Solutions to Enhance Preparedness for FMD Outbreaks in USA
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Surveillance in Kenyan Livestock by Sampling at Animal Concentration Points
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Functional Genomics of African Swine Fever Virus Infections - An Effective System to Identify Pro-Tolerance and Resilience Pathways in Pigs
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Generation of Replication Competent Adenovirus Type 5 Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccine with Increased Efficacy
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Host and Vector Transcriptional Responses for Transboundary Arboviral Disease of Livestock
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Host Cellular Immune Responses to Arboviruses
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Identifying Flavivirus Determinants of Entry and Replication and Design of Potential Vaccine Candidates
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Improved Vector-Borne Disease Response in South Asia
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Insecticidal Nanoparticles
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Integrating Vesicular Stomatitis Surveillance, Phylogenetic Analysis and Remote Sensing Toward an Early Warning System for Vector-borne Diseases
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Investigating Arbovirus Dissemination and Transmission
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Investigating Risk Factors of Rift Valley Fever Virus Direct Transmission in Kenya
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Investigating the Dynamics of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus in Endemic and Incursion Ecological Zones
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Investigating the Ecology, Evolution, and Spatio-temporal Patterns of Arbovirus Spread in the United States
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Investigation of Arboviral Infection Rates and Blood Meal Sources of Various Mosquito Species in Rift Valley Fever Endemic Areas in Kenya
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Investigation of Henipaviruses and Other Viral Spillover Events
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Investigation of Nipah Virus Pathogenesis
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Investigation of the Risk of Zoonotic Spillovers
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Investigation of the Spillover of High Consequence Agriculture Pathogens from Periodomestic Mammals in Latin America
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry as an Additional Tool for Vector-borne Disease Surveillance
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Mid-infrared Spectra (MIRS) Paired with Visual Spectrum Images for Deep Learning Based Classification of Surveillance Variables
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Molecular Characterization and Epidemiological Surveillance of Arboviruses in Kenya’s Livestock
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Molecular Characterization and Epidemiological Surveillance of Arboviruses in Kenya’s Wildlife
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Molecular Characterization of Arbovirus-Mosquito-Vertebrate Host Interactions
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Molecular Characterization of Arboviruses in South African Livestock
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Mosquito Cis-regulatory Elements Associated with Arbovirus Infection
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Mosquito Dome Particles
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Mosquito Vector Predictive Modeling in a Changing Climate
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Multi-Country Ecological Surveillance of High-Consequence Zoonotic Pathogens
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Natural History Studies of Henipaviruses and Emerging Bat Borne Viruses
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
New Tools for Vector-pathogen-host Investigations
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Nipah VLP Vaccine for Pandemic Preparedness
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Nipah VLP Vaccine for Pandemic Preparedness
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Novel Partnerships for an Early-career Pipeline to Enhance the Biodefense Veterinary Workforce
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Pathogenesis and Wildlife Host Range of Japanese Encephalitis Virus
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Population Genetics of Potential Rift Valley Fever Virus Vectors in South Africa
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Predicting Insect Contact and Transmission Using Historical Epidemiological Data
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Prediction of Viral Zoonoses and Reverse Zoonoses Using Next Generation Serodiagnostics (NGSeroDx)
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Proteomic Analysis and Species-Specific Immune Responses in Livestock Vaccination Strategies
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Quantifying Feral Swine Behavioral Ecology for Improved FMD Modeling of USA Outbreaks
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Quantitative Analysis of the Fomite Transport Risk Reduction Provided by Shower Out Practices in Various Containment Settings
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Rational Development of Recombinant Vaccines for African Swine Virus and Classical Swine Fever
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
RAV3N Phase II: Network of University and Federal BSL-3/4 Large Animal and Laboratory Agricultural Research Facilities
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
RAV3N Phase III: Network of University and Federal BSL-3/4 Large Animal and Laboratory Agricultural Research Facilities
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Reversion to Virulene Studies for African Swine Fever Vaccines
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Southeastern USA Arbovirus Landscape
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Southwestern USA Arbovirus Landscape
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Strategic Safety Climate Management Initiatives for National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF)
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Structural Characterization of African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) Membrane Interacting Proteins
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Supporting and Enhancing the Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Grand Challenge Project
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
The Bat Cave: Viral Diversity and the Factors Driving Cross-species Transmission
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
The Impact of Insects as Animal Food
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
The Impact of Viral Recombination on the Epidemiology of Viruses
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Transmission Dynamics of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Uncovering Zoonotic Viral Threats: A Bioinformatic Approach to Pathogen Monitoring in Kenyan Environments
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Uncovering Zoonotic Viral Threats: A Bioinformatic Approach to Pathogen Monitoring in Kenyan Environments
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Understanding Molecular Bases in the Production of Genetic Diversity of African Swine Fever Virus
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Understanding Pathogenesis and Epidemiology for Controlling Foreign Animal Diseases
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
UTMB-USDA Collaboration on Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ticks and Animals
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Vector Surveillance at an Active Cache Valley Virus Focus
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Waste Water Surveillance for the Detection of Zoonotic Spillover Event
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Xenosurveillance Using Arthropod Vectors to Characterize Vector-borne Disease Epidemiology
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Zoonotic Biosurveillance: Novel Approaches to Pathogen Monitoring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
General National Program (NP #990)
Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats (MZT)
(Interagency Reimbursable Agreement)
Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats (MZT)
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)