July 3, 2025
Seed funding support has been allocated to three College of Veterinary Medicine research projects from the Office of the President’s Research and Innovation Roundtable (RIR).
The spring RIR focused on the theme of “Risk to Resilience: Combatting Endemic and Zoonotic Microbial Threats.” CVM recipients of the grants include:
- Dr. Silvia Carnaccini, assistant professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine, “Deciphering Genetic Determinants of HPAIV Resistance in Avian Hosts Using Genome-Wide CRISPR-Activation Screening Technologies”
- Dr. Britta Rued, assistant professor of veterinary microbiology and preventive medicine, “A PLUM Job: Protein Language Models for Engineering Antimicrobial Peptides as Feed Additives to Ameliorate Enteric Pathogens In Poultry”
- Dr. Michael Zeller, assistant professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine, “Viral Databases, Algorithms, and Statistical Models for Rapid Pathogen-Agnostic Metagenomic Surveillance and Phylodynamics”