Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
863 Texas Tech University (142751)
Principal Investigator: Kingston, Tigga
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 581,244
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 8/1/22 - 7/31/25
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Biological Sciences
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Biological Sciences
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Collaborative Research Integrated mechanisms of environment host virome interactions
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
National Science Foundation
CFDA Link: NSF
47.074
Program Title:
n/a
CFDA Linked: Biological Sciences
Note:
1.1.1: The purpose of this collaborative research project is to investigate free-ranging populations of the Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus across an anthropogenic disturbance gradient in Nigeria. This is as close to a wild “model” system as there is because the species roosts in large aggregations in caves, has a very high–quality, well-annotated genome, has been the focus of diverse virological studies and is intensively hunted and consumed by humans, thus presenting a substantial risk for spillover of emerging viruses. We will collect and integrate individually-referenced datasets of >300 bat viromes, 400 global host transcriptomes, and sex, age, reproductive status and body condition for thousands of bats along gradients of colony size, hunting intensity and landscape degradation in Nigeria.
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