MZT Team Awards
Mitigating Zoonotic Threats Team Awards
Goal: to advance fundamental science in the detection and mitigation of existing and emerging animal-borne infectious diseases.
Team Awards 2023
Tavis Anderson, Virus and Prion Research Unit, USDA/ARS
Louise Moncla, Pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania
Nicholas DeFelice, Environmental Medicine & Public Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
When Pigs Fly: Animal Movement Networks to Project Spillovers
Angela Arenas, Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College Station
Nicholas Wu, Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Crystal Reid, Center for Veterinary Biologics – Virology, USDA/APHIS
From Discovery to Field: Improving Diagnostic Assay Accuracy by Protein Engineering
Dan Peach, Savannah River Ecology Lab & Department of Infectious Disease, University of Georgia
Stacey Scroggs, Arthropod Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit, USDA/ARS
Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec, Environmental Sciences, Emory University
Nectar of the Gods: Impact of Flower Nectar on Mosquito Longevity and Virus Transmission
Michael Schulz, Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Louise Moncla, Pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania
To Catch a Virus: Decoy Polymers and Influenza’s Evolutionary Response
Nsa Dada, Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Bethany McGregor, Arthropod Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit, USDA/ARS
Patricia Calvo, Chemistry, Kansas State University
Novel Insecticide Delivery and Formulation for Resistance Management in Zoonotic Disease Vectors
Liliana Salvador, Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona
Catalina Picasso Risso, Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Michigan State University
Timothy Smyser, National Wildlife Research Center, USDA/APHIS
Anni Yang, Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma
Development of an Integrative Approach to Enhance Surveillance Sensitivity Systems for Wildlife Spillover of Bovine Tuberculosis: Wild Pig Case Study
Team Awards 2022
Guillaume Bastille-Rousseau, Cooperative Wildlife Research Lab, Southern Illinois University,
Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec, Environmental Sciences, Emory University
Measuring and Modeling Mosquito Flight and Movement Behavior at High Spatiotemporal Resolution
Gisselle Medina, National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, USDA/ARS
Angad Mehta, Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Identifying and Engineering Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Against African Swine Fever Virus
Nicholas DeFelice, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Kimberly A. Lehman, Diagnostics and Biologics, USDA/APHIS Veterinary Services
Sen Pei, Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University
Impact of Climate Variability on Foreign Animal Disease: Forecasting Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
Pilar Fernandez, Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University,
Silvie Huijben, Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Incorporating Human Behavioral Systems in Insecticide Resistance Management for Mosquito-Borne Diseases
Daniel Becker, Biology, University of Oklahoma
Claudia Herrera, Tropical Medicine, Tulane University
Steven M. Lakin, National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, USDA/APHIS
Metagenomic-guided Tests of Zoonotic Pathogen Diversity in Migratory Wildlife
Kristin Koutmou, Chemistry, University of Michigan
Gisselle Medina, National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, USDA/ARS
Lars Plate, Chemistry and Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
Impact of Synonymous Mutation on Translation Speed and Protein Folding During Host Adaptation
Claudia Herrera, Tropical Medicine, Tulane University
Dana Mitzel, National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, USDA/ARS
Xiaohu Xia, Chemistry, University of Central Florida
A Sensitive Lateral Flow Assay for Point-of-Care Testing of Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
Team Awards 2021
Tavis Anderson, Virus and Prion Research Unit, USDA
Cheryl Andam, Biological Sciences, University at Albany, SUNY
Nicole Eikmeier, Department of Computer Science, Grinnell College
Darwin’s Naturalization Conundrum Predicts Inter-species Pathogen Transmission Potential
Bethany McGregor, Arthropod Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit, USDA
Paola Boggiatto, Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, USDA
Jason Ladner, Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University
Enabling Comprehensive Immunoprofiling in Animals through a Combination of Xenosurveillance and Highly-multiplexed Serology
Laurene Tetard, Department of Physics/Nanoscience Technology Center, University of Central Florida
Bethany McGregor, Arthropod Borne Animal Diseases Research Unit, USDA
Employing Color-Changing Nanomaterials to Improve Vector-borne Disease Surveillance
Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec, Department of Environmental Sciences, Emory University
Tavis Anderson, Virus and Prion Research Unit, USDA
Invasion Ecology and Genomics of Emerging Tick Borne Arboviruses: Predicting Niche Expansion of Heartland Virus Following the Invasion of Asian Longhorned Ticks in the U.S.
Paola Boggiatto, Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research Unit, USDA
Liliana Salvador, Infectious Diseases & Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia
Host Adaptation of Mycobacterium bovis: A Comparative Transcriptomics Study of M. bovis Infection in a Multi-host System
Pilar Fernandez, Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University
Matthew Hopken, National Wildlife Research Center, USDA
Characterizing the Socio-ecological Spillover Interface by Xenosurveillance of Pathogen Metacommunities Using a Novel Insect Group
Crystal Hepp, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University
Silvie Huijben, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University - Tempe Campus
Kezia Manlove, Department of Wildland Resources and Ecology Center, Utah State University
Estimating Aedes aegypti Spillover Potential and Evaluation of Current Mitigation Strategies
Joyce Jose, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University
Kristin Koutmou, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
Discovering How RNA Epigenomic Modifications Impact Flavivirus Replication Speed and Fidelity
Hannah Frank, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University
Daniel Becker, Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma
Jason Ladner, Department of Biology, Northern Arizona University
Efrem Lim, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University - Tempe Campus
Zoonotic Implications of Host Genetics, Immunity, and Virome in Bats
Dana Mitzel, Foreign Arthropod-Borne Animal Disease Unit, USDA’s National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility
Joyce Jose, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University
Understanding Viral Factors Responsible for Vector Adaptation and Spillover for Surveillance and Mitigation of Zoonotic Flaviviruses with Pandemic Potential