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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
Animal research, general
Beef cattle, live animal
Dairy cattle, live animal
General Commodity
General technology
Goats, meat and mohair
Horses, ponies, and mules
Insects
Sheep, live animal
Swine, live animal
Viruses
Wild animals
Research Projects within Wild animals
item A Genetic Approach to Assess the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Disease Vectors
item Addressing Agricultural Biorisk Evidence Base Gaps with Applied Research
item Advance Development of FMD Diagnostics and Production of Mosaic FMD Virus-Like Particles to Globally Relevant FMDV Serotypes
item African Swine Fever Collaborative Agreement
item Agricultural Research Service - American Type Culture Collection Biological Repository Partnership
item Applied Epidemiological Approaches to Evaluate the Progressive Control Pathway for Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Endemic Regions
item Assessing the Risk of Arthropod-Borne Disease in the Caribbean and the Americas (RACE Risk of Arthropod-borne diseases in the Caribbean)
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 Bio-hardened Environments: Integrating AI-based Biothreat Detection Networks into Situational Awareness and Rapid Response Systems
item Biologically-inspired Odor Olfactory Detection Guided Machine Learning (BIODOG-ML): Odor Detection from Canines to Instrumentation
item BSL4ZNet Secretariat Support and Maintenance
item BSL4ZNet Support and Maintenance
item CCHFV Prevalence Outside the Ugandan Cattle Corridor
item Center for Tick Surveillance
item Characterization of Emerging Zoonotic Threats
item Characterization of Environmental Effects on Mosquito Saliva Composition Using Mass Spectrometry
item Characterization of Risk for Emerging High-consequence Zoonoses in Liberia
item Communications Best Practices for High-containment Laboratories
item Comprehensive Mapping of Livestock B Cell Receptor Repertoire Using Single-cell Sequencing to Enhance Vaccine Development
item Detection and Characterization of Arboviruses and Environmental Influences on Transmission at the U.S. Wildlife and Livestock Interface
item Detection from Relevant Matrices on Sherlock Disposable Molecular Platform
item Developing Collaborative Research Partnerships with the BSL4 Zoonotic network (BSL4Znet): Responding to Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
item Development and Evaluation of Diagnostics for High Consequence Pathogens
item Development and U.S. Based Production of a Rugged Fully Encapsulating Suit for the ABSL-4 Ag and other BSL-4 Environments (Phase 3)
item Development of a Novel Epitope-based Vaccine Candidate for FMDV
item Development of Agriculture Model Capabilities for Emerging Disease Threats
item Development of Diagnostic Reagents and Assays for Arbovirus Surveillance
item Development of Diagnostic Tools for Japanese Encephalitis Virus
item Development of LAMP Based Diagnostics for Emerging Disease Threats
item Development of Multiplex Species Agnostic Diagnostics
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 Emerging Coronaviruses Gap Analysis Workshop
item Endemic Ecology and Molecular Epidemiology of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Asia and Africa
item Epidemiological Fitness Assessment of Segmented RNA Viruses
item Epidemiology of FMD in Small Ruminants and Domestic Pigs in Uganda
item Evaluating a Self-Boosting Vaccine Delivery Platform Using Ad5-FMD
item Evaluation of Transboundary Disease Mitigation Strategies in Kenya
item Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Surveillance in Kenyan Livestock by Sampling at Animal Concentration Points
item Foreign Animal Disease Spatial Analysis and Mapping Collaborative Agreement
item Host and Vector Transcriptional Responses for Transboundary Arboviral Disease of Livestock
item Host Cellular Immune Responses to Arboviruses
item Improved Vector-Borne Disease Response in South Asia
item Integrating Vesicular Stomatitis Surveillance, Phylogenetic Analysis and Remote Sensing Toward an Early Warning System for Vector-borne Diseases
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 Japanese Encephalitis Virus Prevention and Mitigation Strategies
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 Molecular Characterization of Arboviruses in South African Livestock
item Multi-Country Ecological Surveillance of High-Consequence Zoonotic Pathogens
item Natural History Studies of Henipaviruses and Emerging Bat Borne Viruses
item New Tools for Vector-pathogen-host Investigations
item Nipah VLP Vaccine for Pandemic Preparedness
item Nipah VLP Vaccine for Pandemic Preparedness
item Novel Partnerships for an Early-career Pipeline to Enhance the Biodefense Veterinary Workforce
item Pathogenesis and Wildlife Host Range of Japanese Encephalitis Virus
item Planning and Conducting the 2025 Foot-and-Mouth Disease Symposium
item Prediction of Viral Zoonoses and Reverse Zoonoses Using Next Generation Serodiagnostics (NGSeroDx)
item Proteomic Analysis and Species-Specific Immune Responses in Livestock Vaccination Strategies
item Quantifying Feral Swine Behavioral Ecology for Improved FMD Modeling of USA Outbreaks
item Quantifying the Long-Distance Dispersal Capacity of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD)
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 RAV3N Phase II: Network of University and Federal BSL-3/4 Large Animal and Laboratory Agricultural Research Facilities
item RAV3N Phase III: Network of University and Federal BSL-3/4 Large Animal and Laboratory Agricultural Research Facilities
item Simulation and Epidemiological Parameter Development for Assessing Spread of Foreign Animal Diseases by Feral Swine
item Southwestern USA Arbovirus Landscape
item Strategic Safety Climate Management Initiatives for National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF)
item Subject Matter Expert Support to NBAF Science Transition
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 Agrosecurity Partnerships for Innovative Research (ASPIRE) Project for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF)
item The Bat Cave: Viral Diversity and the Factors Driving Cross-species Transmission
item The Impact of Insects as Animal Food
item The Impact of Viral Recombination on the Epidemiology of Viruses
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 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 Zoonotic Biosurveillance: Novel Approaches to Pathogen Monitoring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo