Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) Faculty Research
Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) Faculty Research
At the School of Veterinary Medicine, there are several faculty with Agricultural Experiment Station appointments.
AES Faculty are eligible to receive internal seed grants through Center for Food Animal Health (CFAH). These funds are federal capacity funds allocated annually by the National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA). The following funding has been given out in recent years:
NOTE: 2023-2024 is the most recent final allocation received.
Additionally, AES Faculty obtain contracts and grants from outside agencies. In fiscal year 24–25, AES faculty were awarded $18,676,728.
24–25 List of Contracts and Grants
| Month | Name | Sponsor | Project Title | Total |
| July 2024 | Gallardo, Rodrigo | California Department of Food and Agriculture | UC Davis Poultry Position | $91,785 |
| Aug 2024 | Finno, Carrie | Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation, Inc. | Validation of Biomarkers for Equine Neurodegeneration | $42,619 |
| Aug 2024 | Coffey, Lark | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | Collaborative cross mice as a new model for diverse human outcomes of St. Louis encephalitis virus disease | $199,187 |
| Aug 2024 | Gallardo, Rodrigo | USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) | FY24 D3 CA UCDavis Avian | $315,000 |
| Sept 2024 | Soares de Lima, Fabio | USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) | Integrating host and microbial genomics and machine learning to predict metritis cure and reduce antimicrobial use in dairy cows | $900,000 |
| Oct 2024 | Rumbeiha, Wilson | NIH National Institute of General Medical Science (NIGMS) | ToxMSDT: An Innovative Toxicology Pathway mentoring program targeting underrepresented STEM students | $478,676 |
| Oct 2024 | Martinez Lopez, Beatriz | UC San Francisco | University of California Launching Future Leaders in Global Health Research Training Program | $21,450 |
| Oct 2024 | Coffey, Lark | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | Adaptation of Mayaro virus to urban mosquitoes | $20,115 |
| Oct 2024 | Atwill, Edward | PHS Food and Drug Administration (FDA) | Cooperative Agreement to Support the Western Center for Food Safety | $1,800,001 |
| Oct 2024 | Shapiro, Karen | NIH National Institute of General Medical Science (NIGMS) | Environmental forces shape the ecology of virulent parasites in coastal ecosystems | $663,306 |
| Oct 2024 | Soto Martinez, Esteban | Phycovax LLC | Multivalent Oral Vaccine Development against Lactococcosis Disease in Rainbow Trout Using Diatom-Based Technology | $239,419 |
| Oct 2024 | Soto Martinez, Esteban | USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) | Multi-strategic approach for the management of piscine lactococcosis in U.S. aquaculture using experimental studies and modeling tools | $306,292 |
| Oct 2024 | Tell, Lisa | USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) | Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD) 2024-2026 | $758,000 |
| Nov 2024 | Smith, Woutrina | United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | One Health Workforce: Next Generation | $5,858,001 |
| Dec 2024 | Martinez Lopez, Beatriz | UC San Francisco | University of California Launching Future Leaders in Global Health Research Training Program | $33,205 |
| Dec 2024 | Pandit, Pranav | Wildlife Conservation Society | Pandemic Prevention Leadership Initiative | $193,166 |
| Dec 2024 | Martinez Lopez, Beatriz | University of Minnesota | Prioritizing measures to mitigate the risk for African Swine Fever incursions into the US from hypothetical epidemics in selected countries of Latin America and the Caribbean | $100,000 |
| Dec 2024 | Pandit, Pranav | Epiecos LLC | Promoting early detection of wildlife morbidity and mortality events in Arizona through WildAlert | $17,703 |
| Jan 2025 | Aly, Sharif | University of Missouri - Kansas City | Collaborative Research: Enhancing Mathematical Models to Investigate the Influences of Climate Change on Zoonotic Spillover | $31,863 |
| Jan 2025 | Pereira, Richard | California Dairy Research Foundation | Evaluation of acidifying milk under California environmental conditions for use as an option for pair/group housing feeding management | $4,290 |
| Feb 2025 | Rumbeiha, Wilson | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | Deciphering mechanisms of hydrogen sulfide-induced susceptibility to influenza A virus infection | $192,757 |
| Feb 2025 | Tell, Lisa | Kansas State University | Bridging Critical Data Gaps in Veterinary Medicine Via Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Large Language Models to Procure Real-Time Antibiotic Use Data in Livestock, Poultry and Companion Animals | $163,961 |
| Feb 2025 | Pereira, Richard | California Department of Food and Agriculture | A Holistic Approach Characterizing and Controlling H5N1 on California Dairy Farms: Evaluation and development of an on-farm ready-to-use protocol for inactivation of HPAI H5N1 through milk acidification | $447,593 |
| March 2025 | Pandey, Pramod | California Parks and Recreation, Department of | Contract C1670803 | $994,500 |
| March 2025 | Urbano, Rodolfo | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Actin-Based Host Defenses Against Microbial Pathogens | $320,000 |
| March 2025 | Brostoff, Terza | Morris Animal Foundation | Characterization of immune responses to feline coronavirus nucleocapsid after mRNA vaccination or natural infection | $99,996 |
| March 2025 | Aly, Sharif | USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) | HPAI Dairy Cattle Rapid Response | $1,415,434 |
| March 2025 | Soto Martinez, Esteban | California Department of Fish and Wildlife | Statewide Fish Health Research Contract 2025-2028 | $479,863 |
| April 2025 | Finno, Carrie | Case Western Reserve University | Functions of vitamin E and the tocopherol transfer protein | ($2,355) |
| April 2025 | Coffey, Lark | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | Adaptation of Mayaro virus to urban mosquitoes | $241,500 |
| May 2025 | Aly, Sharif | University of Missouri - Kansas City | Midwest Virtual Laboratory of Pathogen Transmission in Healthcare Settings (MVL-PATHS) | ($16,053) |
| May 2025 | Coffey, Lark | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | Transmission dynamics and fitness of reemerging St. Louis encephalitis virus | $0 |
| May 2025 | Brostoff, Terza | Morris Animal Foundation | D23FE-302: Foundational steps towards a novel feline infectious peritonitis mRNA vaccine: in vitro kinetics, expression, and lipid nanoparticle packaging of feline coronavirus nucleocapsid mRNA | $21,092 |
| May 2025 | Weimer, Bart | Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC | Microbial Nitrogen Fixation in Maize | $606,660 |
| May 2025 | Finno, Carrie | Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation, Inc. | Genetics of cervical spine malformations in the horse | $143,702 |
| May 2025 | Soto Martinez, Esteban | Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research | Probiotics Lactococcus garvieae and L. formosensis conferring cross-protection against highlypathogenic L. petauri infection in Rainbow trout (Onchorhyncus mykiss) | $16,000 |
| May 2025 | Gallardo, Rodrigo | USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) | Gamefowl quality assurance and vaccination to protect against Newcastle disease and FADs | $315,000 |
| May 2025 | Shapiro, Karen | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | AccelNet Design: Integrating global networks to advance parasite ecology and transmission research at the human-animal-environment interface | $56,110 |
| June 2025 | Pandey, Pramod | California Parks and Recreation, Department of | Contract C1670803 | $1,106,889 |
