The journal Vaccine has accepted an article co-authored by Blanca Lupiani, a FAZD Center principal investigator at Texas A&M University.
Principal investigators Tim Carpenter (UC-Davis), Amy Hagerman (Texas A&M) and Bruce McCarl (Texas A&M) have coauthored an article published in the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation.
L. Garry Adams, a FAZD Center principal investigator at Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, and H.R. “Skip” Garner, a FAZD Center PI at Virginia Tech University. co-authored an article published June 8 in BMC Microbiology.
The ZADD Consortium Career Development Program plans to award a number of graduate fellowships in mission critical areas related to the Homeland Security Biodefense sector.
As part of a new National Needs Career Development Grant, the FAZD Center plans to award a number of graduate fellowships related to agricultural biosecurity.
Through a peer-review process, the FAZD Center is considering white papers for competitively funding research and development (R&D) and education projects that can be completed in a 24 month period or less.
Associate Director Melissa Berquist presented the FAZD Center perspective on agroterrorism at a FBI InfraGard Houston Chapter meeting focused on the health care sector.
FAZD Center principal investigator Renata Ivanek-Miojevic presented results from their project to use geospatial analysis to assess factors for avian influenza viruses in wild birds.
The FAZD Center will collaborate with five partners on a project to use reverse vaccinology to identify and develop vaccine candidates for African Swine Fever.