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Dr. A. Townsend Peterson and Dr. Folashade Agusto
University of Kansas |
Dr.
A. Townsend Peterson, University of Kansas (KU) Distinguished Professor with the Department of
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) and the
KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum, along with Co-Principal Investigators
Xiangming Xiao (University of Oklahoma),
Folashade Agusto, Assistant Professor of EEB at KU,
Sean Laverty (University of Central Oklahoma), and
Susan Little (Oklahoma State) were awarded an
NSF EPSCoR Track-2 FEC Award. Dr. Folashade Agusto is part of the Synthesis team of the
Kansas NSF EPSCoR RII Track-1 Award OIA-1656006: Microbiomes of Aquatic, Plant, and Soil Systems across Kansas (MAPS) project. The title of this Track-2 FEC project is
Marshalling Diverse Big Data Streams to Understand Risk of Tick-Borne Diseases in the Great Plains. Peterson's team received $1,964,628 with an official start date of August 1, 2019. The research team "will use ecological niche modeling and mathematical population modeling approaches to assess and predict transmission of the major tick-borne pathogens, and create and test the automated identification tools. The project will foster what can be termed 'big data literacy' via a series of workshops and courses, as well as online data resources."
