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: 2021–2022 is the most recent final allocation received.
Additionally, AES Faculty obtain contracts and grants from outside agencies. In fiscal year 22–23, AES faculty were awarded $17,907,472.
22–23 List of Contracts and Grants
| Month | PI Name | Sponsor | Project Title | Total |
| July 2022 | Smith, Woutrina | United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | One Health Workforce: Next Generation | $200,000 |
| August 2022 | Smith, Woutrina | United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | One Health Workforce: Next Generation | $314,599 |
| August 2022 | Rumbeiha, Wilson | NIH National Institute of General Medical Science (NIGMS) | ToxMSDT: An Innovative Toxicology Pathway mentoring program targeting underrepresented STEM students | $248,786 |
| August 2022 | Martinez Lopez, Beatriz | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Ecology to Economics and Health: Health and agriculture sustainability through interdisciplinary risk mapping and assessment platform of important zoonotic diseases (Eco2Health) | $39,514 |
| August 2022 | Martinez Lopez, Beatriz | Texas A&M University - College Station | User-friendly online dashboard for the assessment of the risk of African swine fever virus introduction, exposure and potential spread into the United States | $250,000 |
| August 2022 | Tell, Lisa | USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) | Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD) | $842,000 |
| September 2022 | Atwill, Edward | PHS Food and Drug Administration (FDA) | Western Center for Food Safety | $2,099,000 |
| September 2022 | Aly, Sharif | National Academy of Sciences | Reducing antibiotic resistance using a novel machine learning algorithm for selective dry-cow treatment in dairy cows | $94,699 |
| September 2022 | Kol, Amir | NIH National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) | Multi-pronged therapy for immune system regeneration and recovery in a FIP model of MIS-C | $196,510 |
| September 2022 | Martinez Lopez, Beatriz | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Track-D: Data-driven Disease Prevention and Control in Animal Health | $1,996,711 |
| September 2022 | Martinez Lopez, Beatriz | UC San Francisco | University of California Launching Future Leaders in Global Health Research Training Program | $99,200 |
| October 2022 | Smith, Woutrina | United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | One Health Workforce: Next Generation | $5,173,000 |
| October 2022 | Tell, Lisa | California Department of Food and Agriculture | Qualified Individual Online Training | $704 |
| October 2022 | Martinez Lopez, Beatriz | UC San Francisco | University of California Launching Future Leaders in Global Health Research Training Program | $37,514 |
| October 2022 | Lehenbauer, Terry | Iowa State University | Integration of a multi-pronged standardized methodology to identify key diseases and prioritized antimicrobial alternatives in production animals: Dairy cattle group | $65,000 |
| December 2022 | Kol, Amir | NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs | Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells to enhance cytotoxic T cell immunity during HIV infection | $287,475 |
| December 2022 | Atwill, Edward | Auburn University | Empowering growers while growing capacity: Research, testing, and training to address microbiological impediments on shellfish aquaculture | $27,313 |
| December 2022 | Soto Martinez, Esteban | Mississippi State University | Identification of novel Flavobacterium columnare vaccine candidates for catfish and other aquaculture fish species in the Southern region | $37,825 |
| December 2022 | Martinez Lopez, Beatriz | UC San Francisco | University of California Launching Future Leaders in Global Health Research Training Program | $21,450 |
| December 2022 | Rossow, Heidi | California Dairy Research Foundation (Independent) | Feed industry fellowship with a focus on dairy feeding systems | $87,158 |
| January 2023 | Smith, Fauna | Johns Hopkins University | B-1 cells, IgM and Protective Humoral Immunity to Influenza | $180,000 |
| January 2023 | Coffey, Lark | Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District | Evaluating metagenomic arbovirus detection using nanopore sequencing: a field-forward sequencing approach | $29,364 |
| January 2023 | Atwill, Edward | Giner, Inc. | Giner E. coli O157 Project | $3,150 |
| January 2023 | Lima, Fabio | Kemin Industries | Effects of Extending Rumen-Protected Choline Regimen on Health, Lactation, and Reproductive Performance in Dairy Cows | $113,486 |
| February 2023 | Kol, Amir | NIH Office of Research Infrastructure Programs | Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells to enhance cytotoxic T cell immunity during HIV infection | $31,942 |
| February 2023 | Soto Martinez, Esteban | California Department of Fish and Wildlife | Statewide Fish Health Research Contract 2022-2025 | $100,000 |
| March 2023 | Martinez Lopez, Beatriz | Cornell University | Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance Infrastructure for North America | $16,655 |
| March 2023 | Weimer, Bart | USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) | Virulence of non-culturable and persistent food borne pathogens | $610,766 |
| April 2023 | Smith, Woutrina | United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | One Health Workforce: Next Generation | $548,654 |
| May 2023 | Pandey, Pramod | California Parks and Recreation, Department of | Contract C1670803 | $499,999 |
| May 2023 | Smith, Woutrina | United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | One Health Workforce: Next Generation | $1,000,000 |
| June 2023 | Smith, Woutrina | United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | One Health Workforce: Next Generation | $400,000 |
| June 2023 | Smith, Woutrina | United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | One Health Workforce: Next Generation | $1,605,000 |
| June 2023 | Lima, Fabio | USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) | Unraveling the role of nerve growth factor-? in the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis in cattle | $650,000 |