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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 Biodiversity and Connectivity of Insular Bats in the South Pacific
item BSL-4 Suit Development and Production
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 Combating Zoonotic Agriculture Threats
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 and Analysis of the Paramyxovirus-host Exposure Landscape in American Samoa
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 Detection and Modeling Tools for the Geospatial and Environmental Epidemiology of Animal Disease
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 and Implementation of Genomic and Analytical Technologies to Support the Defense of America's Agriculture
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 Tool for Processing of Ticks
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 Development of the USDA Agricultural Biocontainment Compendium (CRDF)
item Development of Veterinary Immunological Reagents Hybridoma Master Cell Bank
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 Environmental Temperature on Arbovirus Vector Competence of Various Mosquito Species
item Endemic Ecology and Molecular Epidemiology of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Asia and Africa
item Enhancing Biodefense Through Geospatial and Epidemiological Approaches
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 Exploring Next Generation Modeling Solutions to Enhance Preparedness for FMD Outbreaks in USA
item Expression and Purification of Proteins of Interest for Risk Group 4 Pathogen Reagent Development
item Expression of Rift Valley Fever Virus Proteins for Diagnostic Assay Development
item Foundational Tools and Methods for Geosaptial and Environmental Epidemiology
item Headquarters Cooperative Programs - Animal Production and Protection (APP)
item Headquarters Cooperative Programs - Nutrition, Food Safety, and Quality (NFSQ)
item Hybridoma Sequencing and Reagent Production
item Immersive Internship Experiences for Federal Agency Careers
item Immersive Internship Experiences for Federal Agency Careers
item Impact of Specialized Lipid Mediators Derived from EPA and DHA On Gut Microbiota
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 Investigating the Epidemiology of CCHFV in an Endemic Setting: Uganda
item Investigating the Risk of Zoonotic Threats to U.S. Agriculture
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 Joint Research Symposium Between NBAF and Kansas State University
item MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry as an Additional Tool for Vector-borne Disease Surveillance
item Modeling Economic Impacts of Animal Agriculture Research
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 Orthonairovirus Minigenome and Plasmid Launch Virus Rescue Systems
item Potential Introduction to the United States of High Consequence Agriculture Pathogens
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 Modeling of Virus Like Particle Adjuvants
item Rational Development of Recombinant Vaccines for African Swine Virus and Classical Swine Fever
item Research Training for the Geospatial and Environmental Epidemiology of Plant and Animal Disease
item Research, Development, Testing, and Technical Services to Advance the Technology Transfer of Veterinary Medical Countermeasures at the NBAF
item Storage and Maintenance of Cryopreserved Coral Samples
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 Symposium on Biomanufacturing for Mitigating Global Infectious Animal Disease Threat
item The Bat Cave: Viral Diversity and the Factors Driving Cross-species Transmission
item The Development of Software to Design and Validate Multiplex PCR primer sets for Sensitive and Low-Cost Viral Genome Sequencing
item The Soil Health Nexus: Biochar Use for Improving Soil Health and Limiting PFAS Movement in Soils
item Tick, Host, and Pathogen Surveillance in the Great Plains
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 Drivers of Endemic Foot-and-Mouth Disease Through Modeling of Viral Evolution and Persistence
item Understanding Pathogenesis and Epidemiology for Controlling Foreign Animal Diseases
item Use of Gene Knockout Pigs to Understand Reproductive Development in Swine
item Utilizing a Multi-Modal Precision Livestock Management System to Maximize Lifetime Productivity in Swine
item Viral Ecology of Henipaviruses in Endemic Settings and Intervention Strategies to Prevent their Spread to Domestic Animals
item Viral Surveillance in Bats, eCtoparasites, and Animals in the United States
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