Exercise and physiology faculty use strong collaboration at MU to learn more about body systems.

Theme: “Demystifying Perennial Crop Improvement and Integration”

• Do the PI and others have the ability to actually accomplish the aims? Do they have expertise in the appropriate area?
• How is prior experience related to the proposed research
• Evidence of independent contributions to science
• Has there been collaboration between the Co-PIs?
• Has there been a reasonable progression in their career as shown by publications and job positions?
• Are there recent publications in the area of the work proposed?

CAFNR faculty members have received the following recent grants (listed by Principal Investigator):

Lindsey Saunders, 2022 IAEFP in Puebla, Mexico, Foreign Ag Service, 12/1/22-11/30/25, $500,000

Gavin Power, ADAM17 mediated cleavage of CD44 impairs mechanotransduction of shear stress, American Heart Association, 1/1/23-12/31/24, $65,106

Kerry Clark, Al Karkh and Koya Training Programs, IREX, 10/1/22-6/30/23, $149,920

Felix Fritschi, Root architecture and nitrogen fixation phenotyping in soybean, Pioneer Hibred Intl. Inc., 12/16/22-12/15/24, $104,570

Andrew Scaboo, Increasing the Value of U.S. Soybean by Combining High Meal Protein, High Yield and Other Valuable Traits Utilizing Genetic Diversity, Breeding, and Genomic Tools, USDA-ARS, 10/1/22-9/30/23, $90,000

Henry Nguyen, Increasing the Value of U.S. Soybean by Combining High Meal Protein, High Yield and Other Valuable Traits Utilizing Genetic Diversity, Breeding, and Genomic Tools, USDA-ARS, 10/1/22-9/30/23, $85,503

Lisa Webb, Development of a nationally scalable monitoring and assessment program to improve the ACEP-WRE program, University of Arkansas, 10/1/22-1/28/26, $116,291

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KBIA