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item Animal and Arthropod Studies in BSL3 Containment at Pat Roberts Hall for Comparative Zoonotic Arbovirus Studies
item Assessing the Risk of Emergence, Transmission and Establishment of the Japanese Encephalitis Virus in the United States
item Behavioral Control for Colorado Potato Beetle
item Bio-based Solutions for Sustainable Insect Pest Management in Urban Agriculture and Landscapes
item Biological Control of Invasive Ventenata Using Plant Pathogens
item Characterization of Environmental Effects on Mosquito Saliva Composition Using Mass Spectrometry
item Cotton Leaf Roll Dwarf Virus Disease Management
item Cotton Leaf Roll Dwarf Virus Disease Management
item Detection and Characterization of Potential Emerging and Emergent Arboviruses in Mosquitoes in the Caribbean
item Development of Biological Control Tools to Manage Insect Vector Borne Plant Pathogens
item Development of Diagnostic Reagents and Assays for Arbovirus Surveillance
item Development of Diagnostic Tools for Japanese Encephalitis Virus
item Development of Lateral Flow Assays for Rift Valley Fever Virus Antigen and Antibody Detection
item Development of Microbial Consortia for Enhanced Mosquito Control
item Development of Novel Disease Control Strategies Based on Virus and Viroid Biology
item Development of Novel Microbial-Based Biological Controls for Insect Pests in the Northeast Area
item Development of Novel Strategies to Investigate Arthropod Feeding and Arbovirus Transmission
item Discovery and Development of Microbial-Based Biological Control Agents for Use Against Invasive Weeds in the United States
item Discovery and Production of Beneficial Microbes for Control of Agricultural Pests through Integration into Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems
item Ecology and Integrated Management of Ambrosia Beetles in Eastern US Orchard and Ornamental Tree Crops
item Ecology of Hemorrhagic Orbiviruses in North America
item Effects of Repellent and Sublethal Insecticide Exposure on Culicoides Biting Midge Behavior and Susceptibility to Bluetongue Virus
item Elucidating Tick-fungal Entomopathogen Interactions for Improved Tick Control
item Evaluation of Symbiont Technology in Florida Citrus Groves
item Exosomes as Mediators of Arbovirus Transmission by Insects
item Exploration of Novel repRNA Vaccine Candidates for Japanese Encephalitis Virus
item Exploration of Novel repRNA Vaccine Candidates for Rift Valley Fever Virus
item Exploration of Novel Virus-like Particle Vaccine Candidates for Japanese Encephalitis Virus
item Exploring Diet, Microbiome, and Health in an Economically Important Cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus)
item Field Release and Evaluation of Ramularia Crupinae for the Management of Noxious Crupina Vulgaris Populations
item Field Release and Evaluation of Ramularia crupinae for the Management of Noxious Crupina vulgaris Populations in Southern Washington
item Field Release and Evaluation of Ramularia crupinae for the Management of Noxious Crupina vulgaris Populations in the Nez Perce Tribal Reservation
item Field Release and Evaluation of Ramularia crupinae for the Management of Noxious Crupina vulgaris Populations in the Umatilla Indian Reservation
item Genomics of Fungi Associated with Invasive Invertebrates
item Grove Evaluation of Symbiont Technology
item Host Cellular Immune Responses to Arboviruses
item Identifying Aphid Gut Proteins that Interact with the Polerovirus N-terminal Readthrough Domain (NRTD) Using Yeast-2-Hybrid Technology
item Identifying Flavivirus Determinants of Entry and Replication and Design of Potential Vaccine Candidates
item Impact of Flower Nectar on Mosquito Longevity and Virus Transmission
item Impact of Timing of Virus Acquisition on Bluetongue Virus Coinfection
item Improved Vector-Borne Disease Response in South Asia
item Improvement of Pheromone Synthesis for Commercialization to Manage Cucurbit Pests
item Innovative Detection and Intervention Technologies Mitigating Shellfish-borne Pathogens
item Integrated Crop Disease Mitigation through Improved Understanding of Relationships between Genetics, Environment, and Management
item Intentional Genomic Alteration of Beef Cattle for Reducing Susceptibility to Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV)
item Investigation of Arboviral Infection Rates and Blood Meal Sources of Various Mosquito Species in Rift Valley Fever Endemic Areas in Kenya
item Japanese Encephalitis Virus Prevention and Mitigation Strategies
item Management and Biology of Insect and Nematode Pests and their Vectored Plant Pathogens
item Methyl Benzoate and Analogs to Control Mosquitoes of Medical Importance
item Microbial Interactions in the Soybean Cyst Nematode Suppressive Soil Microbiome
item Microbial Interactions in the Soybean Cyst Nematode Suppressive Soil Microbiome
item Molecular Characterization and Epidemiological Surveillance of Arboviruses in Kenya’s Wildlife
item Mosquito Distributions and Seasonal Abundance
item New Tools for Vector-pathogen-host Investigations
item Novel Active Ingredients and Methods to Target Disease Vector Insects
item Novel Delivery Strategies of dsRNA for RNAi-Based Control of Wood-Boring Insects
item Novel Delivery Strategies of dsRNA for RNAi-Based Control of Wood-Boring Insects
item Optimizing Predator and Prey Pheromones: Manipulating Tritrophic Interactions to Manage Colorado Potato Beetle
item Pathogenesis and Wildlife Host Range of Japanese Encephalitis Virus
item Predicting and Mitigating Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) in North America
item Protecting American Farmers from Exotic Pests and Emerging Pathogens
item Proteomic, Genomic and Biological Characterization of Emerging Viruses in Cotton
item Relating Traits of Weeds to Invasiveness
item Rift Valley Fever Pathogenesis and Epidemiology
item Risk Analysis of Invasive Weeds as Pathways for the Spread of Foreign Plant Pathogens
item Sampling Midwest Bee Diversity for Genomics
item Strategies to Control Respiratory Diseases of Cattle
item Supporting Foreign Transboundary Arbovirus Research
item Surveillance of Arboviruses in the Southern United States in Support of NBAF’s Mission
item The Impact of Insects as Animal Food
item Unravelling the Role of Structural Variation: A Super-pangenome Analysis of the Genus Osmia
item Xenosurveillance Using Arthropod Vectors to Characterize Vector-borne Disease Epidemiology