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Research Projects Subjects of Investigation at this Location

Each ARS research project has related subjects of investigation.  Listed below are the subjects of investigation currently conducted at this location.

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Subjects of Investigation
Air
Alfalfa
Almond
Animal research, general
Apple
Atmosphere, general/other
Bacteria
Barley
Beans (dry)
Beans (fresh, fresh-processed)
Beef cattle, general/other
Beef cattle, live animal
Biological Cell Systems
Canola
Citrus, general/other
Climate
Coffee
Cool season perennial grasses (includes bluegrass, bromegrass, fescue)
Corn (for sweetcorn use 1480)
Cotton, other
Cottonseed (for meal, oil, etc.)
Cross-commodity research--multiple animal species
Cross-commodity research--multiple crops
Dairy cattle, live animal
Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery
Durum wheat
Economy, general/other
Egg-type chicken, live animal
Fertilizers
Finfish
Food (not readily associated with specific plant and animal products)
Forage legumes, other
Freshwater shrimp
General Commodity
General technology
Goats, meat and mohair
Grain crops, general/other (includes buckwheat, millet, triticale)
Grain sorghum
Greens and leafy vegetables (includes endive, lettuce, spinach)
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Hard white wheat
Honey bees
Horses, ponies, and mules
Individuals (as workers, consumers, members of society)
Insects
Laboratory animals
Land
Leguminous vegetables, other
Lentil
Long fiber cotton
Machinery and equipment
Marine shrimp
Meat, beef cattle
Meat, dairy cattle
Meat, sheep
Meat, swine
Meat-type chicken, live animal
Microorganisms, general/other
Miscellaneous and new crops, general/other
Noncrop plant research
Oats
Oilseed and oil crops, general/other
Other animals, general
Other bees (non-Apis bees)
Other non-bee pollinators, general
Other swine products
Pasture
Pasture and forage crops, general/other
Peanut
Peas (dry)
Pecan
People and communities, general/other
Perennial grasses, other
Pesticides (includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.)
Plant research, general
Potato
Rangelands and grasslands, general
Rangelands, other
Remote sensing equipment and technology
Rice
River basins
Sheep, live animal
Soft red wheat
Soft white wheat (includes club, western)
Soil
Soil and land, general
Solar radiation
Soybean
Spiders, mites, ticks, and other arthropods
Strawberry
Sugar beet
Summer annual grasses (includes forage sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum)
Sunflower
Swine, general/other
Swine, live animal
The family and its members
The farm as an enterprise
Turkey, live animal
Upland cotton
Vegetables, general/other
Viruses
Warm season perennial grasses (includes dallisgrass, bluestems)
Water resources
Watersheds
Watersheds and river basins, general
Weather
Weeds
Wheat, other
Wild animals
Wildlife and natural fisheries, general/other
Winter annual legumes (includes subterranean clover, arrowleaf clover)
Research Projects within Animal research, general
item Achieving Data Quality and Integrity in Maximum Containment Laboratories Training Course
item Addressing Agricultural Biorisk Evidence Base Gaps with Applied Research
item Addressing Agricultural Biorisk Evidence Base Gaps with Applied Research
item Agricultural Research Service - American Type Culture Collection Biological Repository Partnership
item Antibody Production and Optimization
item Applied Epidemiological Approaches to Evaluate the Progressive Control Pathway for Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Endemic Regions
item Assessment of CCHV in Ugandan Cattle Corridor and Kenyan Arid North Tick Populations
item Assessment of the Immune Response to Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) in Small Ruminant and the Influence of Other Viral Diseases Susceptibility
item Biological Safety Level 3 (BSL-3) Training Program for Research Support Personnel
item Building Foundations for E. Ruminantium Vaccine Development
item CCHFV Prevalence Outside the Ugandan Cattle Corridor
item Characterization of Emerging Zoonotic Threats
item Collaborative Support for NBAF ARU Training and Research Program
item Comprehensive Mapping of Livestock B Cell Receptor Repertoire Using Single-cell Sequencing to Enhance Vaccine Development
item Delivery of FMDV Protein Antigens Using a Programmable Transdermal Microneedle System
item Detection from Relevant Matrices on Sherlock Disposable Molecular Platform
item Determining Immune Cells Draining to Lymph Nodes and the Factors Affecting the Cell Drainage
item Developing Collaborative Research Partnerships with the BSL4 Zoonotic network (BSL4Znet): Responding to Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
item Development and Evaluation of Diagnostic Assay for Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) Virus Like Particles (VLPs)
item Development and Evaluation of Diagnostics for High Consequence Pathogens
item Development and Evaluation of Nipah Virus Diagnostic Assay
item Development and Evaluation of Nipah Virus Vaccine in a Baculovirus Expression System
item Development and Evaluation of Virus Like Particles (VLPs)for Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Expressed in Multiple Expression Systems
item Development of a Biosafety/Biorisk Management Graduate Certificate Program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)
item Development of a High Throughput System for Testing of Adjuvants for Toxicity and Efficacy
item Development of a Novel Epitope-based Vaccine Candidate for FMDV
item Development of a Population Genetics Pipeline for Characterizing Viral and Vector Population Diversity
item Development of Agriculture Model Capabilities for Emerging Disease Threats
item Development of LAMP Based Diagnostics for Emerging Disease Threats
item Development of Multiplex Species Agnostic Diagnostics
item Development of Reagents to Risk Group 4 Pathogens for Development of Diagnostic Capacities
item Development of Short-term Opportunities for Experience in High Containment Research Animal Support Careers
item Development of Swine Models for High Consequence-emerging Zoonotic Threats
item Diversity and Cross-species Spillover of High-risk Zoonotic Viruses in Padma River Basin of Bangladesh
item Diversity and Cross-species Spillover of High-risk Zoonotic Viruses in Padma River Basin of Bangladesh
item Ecological and Epidemiological Investigations of High-consequence Zoonotic Pathogens at the Livestock, Wildlife and Human Interface
item Ecological Investigations of Emerging High-consequence Zoonotic Viruses at High-priority Livestock, Wildlife, and Human Interfaces
item Ecological Surveillance of Emerging High-consequence Zoonotic Viruses using Novel Assays
item Ecology of Nipah Virus in Bangladesh
item Effects of Arbovirus Infection on Insect Feeding Behavior
item Effects of Environmental Temperature on Arbovirus Vector Competence of Various Mosquito Species
item Emerging Coronaviruses Gap Analysis Workshop
item Endemic Ecology and Molecular Epidemiology of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Asia and Africa
item Enhancing Boar Fertility in the Face of Climate Change through the Mitigation of In utero Heat Stress
item Enhancing Capacity for Veterinary Pathology
item Establish, Develop and Coordinate a Network of BSL-3 and BSL-4 Large Animal and Laboratory Agricultural Research Facilities
item Exploring Next Generation Modeling Solutions to Enhance Preparedness for FMD Outbreaks in USA
item Expression of Rift Valley Fever Virus Proteins for Diagnostic Assay Development
item Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Surveillance in Kenyan Livestock by Sampling at Animal Concentration Points
item Generation of Replication Competent Adenovirus Type 5 Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccine with Increased Efficacy
item Immersive Internship Experiences for Federal Agency Careers
item Immersive Internship Experiences for Federal Agency Careers
item Improving Lifetime Productivity in Swine using Systems Biology and Precision Management Approaches
item Infectious Disease Research Supporting Workforce Development for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility
item Intervention Strategies to Prevent and Control Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF)
item Intervention Strategies to Respond, Control, and Eradicate Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV)
item Investigation of Henipaviruses and Other Viral Spillover Events
item Investigation of Nipah Virus Pathogenesis
item Investigation of the Risk of Zoonotic Spillovers
item Investigation of the Spillover of High Consequence Agriculture Pathogens from Periodomestic Mammals in Latin America
item MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry as an Additional Tool for Vector-borne Disease Surveillance
item Memorandum of Understanding Between the USDA, Agricultural Research Service and the USDA, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service
item Multi-Country Ecological Surveillance of High-Consequence Zoonotic Pathogens
item Natural History Studies of Henipaviruses and Emerging Bat Borne Viruses
item Nipah VLP Vaccine for Pandemic Preparedness
item Nipah VLP Vaccine for Pandemic Preparedness
item Prediction of Viral Zoonoses and Reverse Zoonoses Using Next Generation Serodiagnostics (NGSeroDx)
item Production of GMP-compliant Master Seed Virus (MSV) for Development of Vaccine Against African Swine Fever (ASF)
item Production of Master Seed Virus for Development of Vaccine Against African Swine Fever
item Quantitative Analysis of the Fomite Transport Risk Reduction Provided by Shower Out Practices in Various Containment Settings
item Rational Development of Recombinant Vaccines for African Swine Virus and Classical Swine Fever
item Research, Development, Testing, and Technical Services to Advance the Technology Transfer of Veterinary Medical Countermeasures at the NBAF
item Support for Phase 3 of the RAV3N Partnership Between NBAF and Texas A&M University
item Support Research Collaboration Efforts Between USDA/ARS and International Scientists Working on Priority Research Projects of Mutual Interest
item Support Research Collaborations, Scientific Trainings, and Conferences for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF)
item The Bat Cave: Viral Diversity and the Factors Driving Cross-species Transmission
item The Soil Health Nexus: Biochar Use for Improving Soil Health and Limiting PFAS Movement in Soils
item Training a New Generation of Epidemiologists in Support of the NBAF Mission
item Training the Biodefense Research Workforce for the National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility (NBAF)
item Training Veterinarians to be Entomologists
item Transmission Dynamics of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus
item Uncovering Zoonotic Viral Threats: A Bioinformatic Approach to Pathogen Monitoring in Kenyan Environments
item Uncovering Zoonotic Viral Threats: A Bioinformatic Approach to Pathogen Monitoring in Kenyan Environments
item Understanding Pathogenesis and Epidemiology for Controlling Foreign Animal Diseases
item Use of Gene Knockout Pigs to Understand Reproductive Development in Swine
item Using Transcriptomics and Proteomics to Understand Arbovirus Effects on Midge Sensory Function
item Viral Ecology of Henipaviruses in Endemic Settings and Intervention Strategies to Prevent their Spread to Domestic Animals
item Waste Water Surveillance for the Detection of Zoonotic Spillover Event
item Whole Slide Imaging Analysis Using AI
item Zoonotic Biosurveillance: Novel Approaches to Pathogen Monitoring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo