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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)
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)
Development of Diagnostic Tools for Japanese Encephalitis Virus
(Memorandum of Understanding)
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)
Assessing the Risk of Emergence, Transmission and Establishment of the Japanese Encephalitis Virus in the United States
(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 Environmental Effects on Mosquito Saliva Composition Using Mass Spectrometry
(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 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)
Development of Diagnostic Reagents and Assays for Arbovirus Surveillance
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Development of Lateral Flow Assays for Rift Valley Fever Virus Antigen and Antibody Detection
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Development of Novel Strategies to Investigate Arthropod Feeding and Arbovirus Transmission
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Effects of Environmental Temperature on Arbovirus Vector Competence of Various Mosquito Species
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Epidemiological Modeling of Vector-borne Diseases
(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)
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)
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)
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 Vector Predictive Modeling in a Changing Climate
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
New Tools for Vector-pathogen-host Investigations
(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)
Southeastern USA Arbovirus Landscape
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Southwestern USA Arbovirus Landscape
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
Supporting and Enhancing the Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Grand Challenge Project
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)
The Impact of Insects as Animal Food
(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)
Xenosurveillance Using Arthropod Vectors to Characterize Vector-borne Disease Epidemiology
(Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement)