OU assistant professor of biology Daniel Becker has received a second year of funding through the Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats initiative sponsored by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Becker’s team, which includes collaborators with Tulane University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is one of seven multidisciplinary teams of early career scientists working on research to address the global threat to human health from animal-borne infectious diseases.
“This funding will allow us to expand our studies of zoonotic pathogens in migratory bats and songbirds here in Oklahoma and to test some important hypotheses,” Becker said.
Their project is entitled, “Metagenomic-guided Tests of Zoonotic Pathogen Diversity in Migratory Wildlife.”
