Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) Faculty Research
At VetMed, there are several faculty with AES appointments. In addition to their instruction and research responsibilities, these faculty engage various stakeholders groups in order to disseminate science based information to California farmers and other interested parties.
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:
Additionally, AES Faculty obtain contracts and grants from outside agencies. Last year, AES faculty were awarded $30,680,667.23.
External Contracts and Grants
| PI Name | Sponsor | Project Title | Total |
| Aly, Sharif | UC Agriculture and Natural Resources | Demonstration and outreach for control of stable flies and cattle bunching on California dairies | $21,332 |
| Atwill, Edward | PHS Food and Drug Administration (FDA) | Western Center for Food Safety | $1,599,000 |
| Chigerwe, Munashe | Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) | Establishing evidence-based wellness practices for veterinary medical students to decrease burnout, depression, anxiety and improve quality of life: A response to increasing rates of veterinarian suicide | $9,905 |
| Coffey, Lark | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | Engineering High Fidelity Mutations to Increase Safety of Live-Attenuated Alphavirus Vaccines | $538,306 |
| Coffey, Lark | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Influenza Surveillance and Research at the University of California, Davis | $338,197 |
| Conrad, Patricia | UC San Francisco | University of California Global Health Institute Program for Fellows and Scholars | $12,271 |
| de Andrade e Pires, Alda | California Department of Food and Agriculture | Evaluating the food safety impacts of cover-crop grazing in fresh produce systems to improve cover crop adoption, crop-livestock integration, and soil health | $1,999,970 |
| Foley, Janet | DoD Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences | Mapping the virulence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum through transcriptional profiling in horses | $32,910 |
| Foley, Janet | DoI Bureau of Land Management (BLM) | Amargosa vole surveys | $49,350 |
| Foley, Janet | DoI Bureau of Land Management (BLM) | Amargosa vole surveys | $7,500 |
| Kol, Amir | Morris Animal Foundation | Developing induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes for disease modeling of canine dilated cardiomyopathy | $108,000 |
| Lanzaro, Gregory | UC Riverside | Safely engineering various classes of gene drives to control a major invasive disease vector Ae. aegypti | $49,766 |
| Lanzaro, Gregory | Open Philanthropy Project | STAGE ONE: PATHWAY TO WHO PHASE 2 FIELD TRIALS OF A POPULATION MODIFICATION GEM | $1,500,000 |
| Lehenbauer, Terry | USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) | BRD 2019: Challenges and Opportunities for Reducing the Incidence of Bovine Respiratory Disease. | $10,000 |
| Lima, Fabio | Texas Technical University | Predicting Metritis Cure as a Path to Reduce Antimicrobial Use in Dairy Cows | $58,471 |
| Martinez Lopez, Beatriz | USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) | GeoVet 2019: international conference of spatial epidemiology, geostatistics and GIS applied to veterinary medicine | $10,000 |
| Martinez Lopez, Beatriz | Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency | APPLICATION OF SPATIAL MODEL AT THE INTERFACE OF ECOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY TO PREDICT HIGH RISK AREAS AT HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA (HPAI). | $8,500 |
| Murphy, Brian | The Winn Feline Foundation | Developing a safe and effective combined anticoronaviral therapy (CACT) for cats with FIP | $21,500 |
| Pereira, Richard | Cornell University | A systems approach to improve quality and shelf life of organic dairy products for domestic and export markets | $101,696 |
| Rossow, Heidi | California Dairy Research Foundation (Independent) | Feed industry fellowship with a focus on dairy feeding systems | $73,452 |
| Smith, Woutrina | United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | One Health Workforce: Next Generation | $4,651,482 |
| Smith, Woutrina | United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | One Health Workforce: Next Generation | $4,700,001 |
| Smith, Woutrina | United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | One Health Workforce: Next Generation | $300,000 |
| Smith, Woutrina | University of Florida | Addressing Young Stock Mortality in Smallholder Farms and Pastoral Herds in Ethiopia | $53,986 |
| Smith, Woutrina | United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | One Health Workforce: Next Generation | $3,234,500 |
| Smith, Woutrina | United States Agency for International Development (USAID) | One Health Workforce: Next Generation | $9,632,312 |
| Soto Martinez, Esteban | California Department of Fish and Wildlife | Statewide Fish Disease Research Program | $224,999 |
| Soto Martinez, Esteban | UC Mexus | Efficacy of B Glucan as immunostimulant to Pacific white snook Centropomus viridis | $13,850 |
| Soto Martinez, Esteban | USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) | Antigenic profiling of distinct Flavobacterium columnare genetic groups affecting cultured fish species for vaccine development | $300,000 |
| Soto Martinez, Esteban | University of Michigan | Understanding Flavobacterium psychrophilum intraspecific diversity as it pertains to disease management and prevention in aquaculture | $25,347 |
| Soto Martinez, Esteban | University of Washington | Western Regional Aquaculture Center: Emerging and Re-emerging Flavobacterial Pathogens in Aquaculture | $52,065 |
| Soto Martinez, Esteban | St. Georges University | UC Davis - St. George's University Postdoctoral Scholars Program 2019-2021 | $60,000 |
| Soto Martinez, Esteban | Mississippi State University | Investigating the Epidemiology of Edwardsiella piscicida - septicemia in Hybrid Catfish and Other Commercially Important Fish Species in the Southern United States | $7,000 |
| Tell, Lisa | USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) | FARAD, aka Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank | $825,000 |
| Tell, Lisa | California Department of Food and Agriculture | Qualified Individual Training Program | $50,000 |
