Description: The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in understanding interactions between tick-borne pathogens, microbiome, and the environment, which will: 1) use shotgun metatranscriptomic and other omics analyses to evaluate the interactions among all members of tick microbiota from multiple domains (prokaryotes, eukaryotes, viruses) with tick-borne pathogens, and 2) conduct field-based comparative studies addressing effects of environmental factors and potential hosts on microbiome composition and tick-borne pathogen prevalence.
Closing Date for Applications: Jul 28, 2023 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.
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