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    • Chemogenomic Profiling of Plasmodium Falciparum Drug Responses and Resistance (PI) NIH/NIAID/R01AI117017
    • Discovering the essential genome of Plasmodium Falciparum (PI) NIH/NIAID/R01AI130171
    • Accelerating discovery of an efficacious Plasmodium vivax multivalent multi-stage vaccine (PI) NIH/NIAID/R01AI130171
    • Structural vaccinology and design of novel immunogens for malaria vaccine development (Co-investigator)NIH/NIAID/R01AI137162
    • Evaluation of ivermectin as an antimalarial therapy against P. falciparum liver stage (PI) NIH/NIAID/R21AI149730
    • Exploiting cross-reactive, conserved epitopes in Plasmodium vivax to develop a vaccine against falciparum placental malaria (Co-investigator) NIH/NIAID/R01AI150944
    • Plasmodium ovale hypnozoite development and relapse: a coordinated in vivo in vitro study (MPI) NIH/NIAID/R21AI152260
    • The Oral Microbiome in Type 1 Diabetes and Sub-Clinical Cardiovascular Disease (PI) NIDRC/NIH/R01DE026480
    • Ecology and Evolution of Seagrass Viruses (PI) University of South Florida (Internal Funding)
    • New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Enhance Red Tide Tracking and Forecasting on the West Florida Shelf (PI) Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
    • Spawning Habitat and Early-Life Linkages to Fisheries (SHELF) (PI) Florida RESTORE Act Centers of Excellence Program
    • Coastal SEES Collaborative Research: Integration of human behavior and perception into a risk-based microbial water quality management approach (PI) NSF/OCE/1566562
    • Deciphering the ecology of aquatic single-stranded DNA phages (Microviridae/Gokushovirinae) (PI) ENSF/DEB/1555854
    • Identification of Potential Drug-drug Interactions in Alzheimer's Disease Patients (PI) NIH/NIA/1R03AG070536-01
    • Identification of Drug-disease interaction in AD patients from GAAIN (PI) Alzheimer's Association/GEENA-Q-19-596192
    • Renal hemodynamics and hypertension during pregnancy (Co-investigator) NIH/NHLBI/R01HL137987
    • The Oral Microbiome in Type 1 Diabetes and Sub-Clinical Cardiovascular Disease (Co-Investigator) NIDRC/NIH/R01DE026480
    • Investigations of an Invertebrate Secreted Immune Effector that Influences Microbial Communities of the Gut (PI) NSF/MCB1817308
    • Chronic Toxoplasma Gondii, Pregnancy Reactivation, and Perinatal Depression (PI)NICHD/NIH/R01HD086805
    • Characteristics of Stool and Skin Breakdown in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (PI) Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    • Exploring the Gut Microbiome in SARS-CoV-2 Infection Across Pregnancy (PI) University of South Florida (Internal Funding)
    • Enteral Iron Supplementation and Intestinal Health in Preterm Infants (PI) NIH/NHLBI/K23HL150300-01A1
    • An AI-based Multimodal Approach to Predict Pain in Postnatal Care
    • Preterm vitamin A intake: from maternal diet to gut microbiome and postnatal growth (PI) USF Women's Health Collaborative Foundation
    • Chemogenomic Profiling of Plasmodium Falciparum Drug Responses and Resistance (Co-investigator)NIH/NIAID/R01AI117017
    • Targeting Mutant KRas for Cancer Therapy (Co-investigator) NIH/NCI/R35CA1977313D
    • Targeting heme dependency in leukemia (PI) Florida Department of Health, Bankhead – Coley Cancer Award
    • Constraints of biomass on innate immunity across terrestrial mammals. USF share $517,695 from This project reveals that innate immune defenses scale allometrically in terrestrial mammals. (Co-investigator) NSF/IOS-1656618
    • IMAGINE: Epigenetic potential and range expansion in the house sparrow. (Co-investigator) NSF/IOS-2027040
    • Deciphering the cryptic language of ribose incorporation in human DNA (Co-investigator) W.M. Keck Foundation
    • Collaborative Research: Discrete and Topological Models for Template-Guided Genome Rearrangements (PI) NSF/DMS1800443
    • Collaborative Research FTE-Medium: Three Dimensional Algorithmic Assembly and Information Storage (PI) NSF/CCF-2107267
    • Collaborative Research: Modeling R-loop formation and topology using braids and graphs coupled with single-molecule footprinting (PI) NSF/DMS-2054321
    • NSF-Simons Research Center: Southeast Center for Mathematics (Co-investigator) Georgia Institute of Technology/NSF/594594
    • Composition and Formation of the Cyst Wall (PI) Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    • Accurately inferring demographic histories of human populations using large whole genome sequence data (PI) NHGRI/NIH/R01HG009524
    • Extend and improve the functional annotation tools dbNSFP and WGSA (PI) NHGRI/NIH/R03HG011075
    • IMAGINE: Epigenetic potential and range expansion in the house sparrow. (PI) NSF/IOS-2027040
    • RCN: Integrating Organismal Biology into NEON (Co-investigator) NSF/IOS-2110233
    • IMAGINE Collaborative Research: Linking individual variation in immunity and behavior to landscape patterns in disease risk using the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) (PI) NSF/IOS-2110070
    • Large-scale functional phenotyping of ion channel arrhythmia genomic variants (PI) NHLBI/NIH/R33HL12078
    • Collaborative Research: Effects of Genetic Diversity, Epigentic Change and Root-associated Fungal Colonization on Trait variation in the Foundation Plant Spartina Alterniflora (PI) NSF/1556820
    • Multi-Trait Plasticity in Response to a Changing Climate (PI) Australian Research Council
    • Genomics and epigenetics of plant invasion (PI) Make Our Planet Great Again - German Research Initiative
    • The tumor-host evolutionary arms race (co-investigator) Supplement to Parent Grant: Cancer as a Complex Adaptive System U54CA193489
    • Enigmatic carboxysomes from the marine and hypersaline chemolithoautotrophic bacteria of genus Thiomicrospira (PI) NSF/MCB1952676
    • Multivalent Vaccines Against Clostridium Difficile Infection (PI) NIAID/NIH/R01AI132711
    • Novel polymer biomaterials combating C. difficile infection (mPI) NIH/R01AI149852
    • Support for Clostridium difficile infection related research (PI) Anthony Gagliardi Foundation
    • Bile acid salt inhibitors and Clostridioides difficile infection (Co-investigator) NIH/R21AI59745
    • The role of Alzheimer's disease GWAS risk factor BIN1 in tau neuropathology and propagation in vivo NIH/1RF1AG077610-01
    • Microglial function of GWAS risk factor BIN1 in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis and inflammatory signaling NIH/1RF1AG079141-01
    • Community-Directed Vector Control to Enhance Mass Drug Administration for Onchocerciasis Elimination in Africa (PI) NIH/NIAID/R01AI123245
    • Southeastern Regional CoE in Vector-Borne Diseases: The Gateway Program (Co-investigator) University of Florida/CDC/U01CK000510
    • Development of a Tool Kit for Human Fillarial Transfection (PI) NIAID/NIH/R21AI135172
    • Onchocerciasis Elimination Program (PI) The Carter Center, Inc.
    • Laboratory strengthening through technical support and training (PI) The Task Force for Global Health/USAID/NTD-USAID
    • Collaborative research: Role of DNA sequence and deformability on lesion recognition and excision in the base excision repair pathway (PI) NSF/MCB1919096
    • Design and Application of Robust and Efficient QM/MM Free Energy Simulation Methods for Biomolecular Systems NIH/NIGMSR01GM129519