EMIDA1_PathoFishEMIDA1_IPUDEMIDA1_CombatColiBacillosisEMIDA1_BRS_DIVAOutcome of Second EMIDA Call – 2011
Activity Line A – Ecology and animal health – diseases transmitted by arthropods
Project title: RiftVectors – Vector competence of European mosquitoes to Rift Valley fever virus
Coordinator: University of Glasgow (UK)
Partners:
– Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana (IZSLT) (IT)
– University of Oxford (UK)
– Institut Pasteur (FR)
Project title: VICE – Vector-borne Infections: risk based and cost efficient surveillance systems
Coordinator: DTU – National Veterinary Institute (DK)
Partners:
– Central Veterinary Institute, institute within the legal entity Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek (NL)
– Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NO)
– FLI (DE)
– Uni-Oldenburg (DE)
– CODA-CERVA (BE)
– Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Berne (CH)
– ONIRIS-INRA (FR)
– SVA (SE)
– INRA EpiA (FR)
Activity Line B – Ecology and animal health – wildlife reservoirs
Project title: EMIRO – The significance of rodent communities for the distribution of Echinococcus multilocularis: ecological and experimental investigations
Coordinator: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE)
Partners:
– University of Zurich (CH)
– Lithuanian University of Health Science, Veterinary Academy (LT)
– Finnish Forest Research Institute (FI)
– National Veterinary Institute (SE)
– University of Copenhagen (DK)
Project title: APHAEA – Harmonised approaches in monitoring wildlife population health and ecology and abundance
Coordinator: IREC Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha (ES)
Partners:
– Istituto Zooprofilactico Sperimentale del Piemonte Liguria e Valle d”Aosta (IT)
– Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) (DE)
– VetAgro Sup, Campus Veterinaire de Lyon (FR)
– National Veterinary Institute (SVA) (SE)
– Centre for Fish and Wildlife Health (CH)
– Technical University of Denmark/ National Veterinary Institute (DK)
Activity Line C – Zoonoses
Project title: CamChain – Campylobacter in chicken production: survival, virulence and control
Coordinator: University of Liverpool (UK)
Partners:
– Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Veterinary Academy (LT)
– University of Cambridge (UK)
– University of Helsinki (FI)
– Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) (AT)
– Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise ‘G. Caporale’ (ICT) (IT)
– Anses (FR)
– DTU National Food Institute (DK)
– University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (AT)
Activity Line D – Antimicrobials and anthelmintics: resistance and alternatives for use
Project title: CARES – Coping with anthelmintic resistance in ruminants
Coordinator: University of Copenhagen (DK)
Partners:
– INRA/ToxAlim (FR)
– INRA umr IHAP (FR)
– Technical University of Denmark, National Veterinary Institute (DTU-VET) (DK)
– McGill University (CA)
– National Agricultural Research Foundation (NAGREF) (GR)
– Central Veterinary Research Laboratory (IE)
– Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE)
– INRA/UR 143 (URZ)/INRA Antilles-Guyane (GP)
Project title: MINAPIG – Evaluation of alternative strategies for raising pigs with minimal antimicrobial usage: Opportunities and constraints
Coordinator: SAFOSO (CH)
Partners:
– National Veterinary Institute (SVA) (SE)
– Ghent University (BE)
– Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health GmbH (DE)
– ONIRIS (FR)
– Danish Agriculture and Food Council (DK)
– GIQS c/o University Bonn (DE)
– ETH Zurich (CH)
– University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (DE)
– Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE)
Activity Line E – Production diseases – disease susceptibility
Project title: GOAT-TSE-FREE – Towards breeding of goats for genetically determined TSEs resistance
Coordinator: Central Veterinary Institute of Wageningen UR (NL)
Partners:
– Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta (IT)
– UMR INRA ENVT 1225 (FR)
– Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA) (ES)
– Universidad de Zaragoza (UNIZAR) (ES)
– Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratory Agencies (AHVLA) (UK)
– National Agricultural Research Foundation – NAGREF (GR)
– Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (DE)
Project title: DIFAGH – Development of immune function and avian gut health
Coordinator: University of Oxford (UK)
Partners:
– Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
– University Of Hannover (DE)
– INRA (FR)
– University of Jerusalem (IL)
– Statens Serum Institut (DK)
– Lohmann Animal Health (DE)
Activity Line F – Production diseases – epidemiology, diagnostics and vaccination
Project title: MYCOBACTDIAGNOSIS – Development of novel diagnostic strategies for the ante-mortem immunodiagnosis of bovine tuberculosis and Johne’s Disease
Coordinator: Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (UK)
Partners:
– Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA-1282) (FR)
– Central Veterinary Institute-WUR (NL)
– Enfer Scientific (IE)
– Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) (DE)
– Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute Stormont (UK)
– Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia ed Emilia-Romagna (IT)
– Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IT)
– Moredun Research Institute (UK)
– Univ. College Dublin-Central Veterinary Research Laboratory (IE)
Project title: Brucmel – Brucella melitensis: biotyping and differential diagnostic
Coordinator: Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise ‘G. Caporale’ (ICT) (IT)
Partners:
– National Agricultural Research Foundation – NAGREF (GR)
– Kimron Veterinary Institute (IL)
– Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sicilia (IT)
Project title: Farmers WTP – Farmers’ willingness to prevent and control disease
Coordinator: Wageningen University (NL)
Partners:
– Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) (UK)
– ONIRIS-INRA (FR)
Activity Line G – Diseases in aquaculture
Project title: MOLTRAQ – Molecular tracing of viral pathogens in aquaculture
Coordinator: Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NO)
Partners:
– Technical University of Denmark, National Veterinary Institute (DK)
– Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire (FR)
– Friedrich-Loeffler Institut (DE)
– Institut francais de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer (FR)
– Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) (FR)
– Norwegian Computing Center (NR) (NO)
Activity Line H – Epizootic diseases
Project title: Epi-SEQ – Molecular epidemiology of epizootic diseases using next generation sequencing technology
Coordinator: Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Center (CODA-CERVA) (BE)
Partners:
– Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit (FLI) (DE)
– Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) (SE)
– Institute for Animal Health (IAH) (UK)
– Instituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe) (IT)
– University of Glasgow (UK)
Outcome of First EMIDA Call – 2010
The following twelve projects were successful:
Topic 1 – Vector borne diseases
Project title: OrbiNet – Molecular and reverse genetics studies of orbivirus transmission, host responses, epidemiology and diagnostic systems.
Coordinator: Pirbright Laboratory, Institute for Animal Health (UK)
Partners:
– Technical University of Denmark, National Veterinary Institute (DK)
– Qiagen (DE)
– Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (DE)
– University of Glasgow Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UK)
– Institute of Virology and Immunoprophylaxis (CH)
– Kimron Veterinary Institute (IL)
– Central Veterinary Institute of Wageningen UR (CVI) (NL)
– Agence Francaise de Securite Sanitaire des Aliments (AFSSA) (FR)
– Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre (BE)
– Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise ‘G. Caporale’ (IZS A&M) (IT)
Project title: Early detection data – Improving early detection of emerging vector borne diseases by using existing production and diagnostic data.
Coordinator: Animal Health Service Deventer (NL)
Partners:
– Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre (VAR) (BE)
– ONIRIS – INRA (FR)
Topic 2 – Zoonoses & antimicrobial resistance, excluding microbial safety of products
Project title: LA-MRSA – Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineages in primary productions: multi-host pathogen, spill-over and spill-back between animals and humans?
Coordinator: Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana (IT)
Partners:
– Technical University of Denmark, Community Reference Laboratory for antimicrobial resistance (DK)
– CONGEN Biotechnologie GmbH (DE)
– CODA-CERVA VAR (BE)
– Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET), Universidad Complutenes de Madrid (ES)
– Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) (DE)
– Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia ed Emila Romagna (IT)
– Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte Liguria e Valle d’Aosta (IT)
Project title: TB Alpine Wildlife – Tuberculosis in Alpine wildlife – Monitoring, diagnostics and potential control strategies of tuberculosis in wild animals in the Alpine provinces of Austria, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
Coordinator: Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AT)
Partners:
– TUM – Wildtierbiologie- Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Technical University Munich (DE)
– LAZBW – Wildforschungsstelle Aulendorf, Landwirtschaftliches Zentrum für Rinderhaltung, Grünlandwirtschaft,Milchwirtschaft, Wild und Fischerei Baden- Württemberg (DE)
– EMC – EMC microcollections GmbH (DE)
– StMUG Referat Tierseuchen, Bayern (DE)
– IVET IBK / AGES – IVET Innsbruck (AT)
– DSR / AGES (AT)
– IMU – Sektion für Hygiene und Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Dept. für Hygiene, Mikrobiologie und Sozialmedizin (AT)
– LGL Bayerisches Landesamt für Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit Oberschleissheim (DE)
– IZSLER Brescia – Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’ Emilia Romagna (IT)
– FIWI Vienna – Research Institute for Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (AT)
– Centre for Fish and Wildlife Health FIWI (CH)
– IZSVE – Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, IZSVE Bolzano (IT)
– IVPH Vienna – Institute for Veterinary Public Health, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (AT)
– SFVO – Swiss Federal Veterinary Office (CH)
– STUA – Staatliches Tierärztliches Untersuchungsamt Aulendorf, Baden Württemberg (DE)
– MLR – Referat Tiergesundheit, Ministerium für Ernährung und Ländlichen Raum Baden- Württemberg (DE)
Topic 3 – Major infectious diseases affecting production
Project title: ParaTBVaccine – Development of a novel subunit vaccine against Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis that does not interfere with bovine TB diagnostics.
Coordinator: National Veterinary Institute (NO)
Partners:
– Agri-food and Biosciences Institute, Veterinary Scienses Division (UK)
– Technical University of Denmark, National Veterinary Institute (DK)
– Statens Serum Institut (DK)
Project title: CombatColibacillosis – Combatting colibacillosis – a genomics based approach.
Coordinator: University of Würzburg, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (DE)
Partners:
– Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse and Faculté de médecine de Toulouse-Purpan (FR)
– Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics (IT)
– Tel Aviv University, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology (IL)
Project title: BRSV-DIVA – Development and comparative evaluation of three new generation BRSV DIVA vaccines and a corresponding DIVA test.
Coordinator: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences/National Veterinary Institute (SE)
Partners:
– Institute for Animal Health (UK)
– VIM-INRA (FR)
– SVA/SLU (SE)
Project title: iPUD – Integrated systems approach for preventing uterine disease in dairy cattle.
Coordinator: Swansea University, Institute of Life Science, School of Medicine (UK)
Partners:
– INRA (FR)
– Glasgow University (UK)
– Pfizer Animal Health Europe (FR)
– University of Veterinary Medicine / Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover (DE)
– Pfizer GmbH (DE)
Project title: MADISPREAD – Marek’s Disease Virus Spread: In and Out of Chicken.
Coordinator: INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (FR)
Partners:
– Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH (DE)
– Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
– ENS Lyon – Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle – INRA (FR)
– University of Munich, Department for Basic Veterinary Sciences (DE)
– Institute for Animal Health, Avian Oncogenic Virus Group (UK)
Project title: Improvements in the diagnosis and control of bovine mycoplasmosis.
Coordinator: Veterinary Laboratories Agency (UK)
Partners:
– Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (DE)
– Kimron Veterinary Institute (IL)
– Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IT)
– Clondiag GmbH (DE)
Project title: HealthyGut – Multi-focal strategies to improve gut health and reduce enteritis in poultry and pigs.
Coordinator: University of Nottingham (UK)
Partners:
– Veterinary Research Institute (CZ)
– China Agricultural University (CN)
– Istituto Superiore di Sanita (IT)
– Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (DE)
– Lohmann Animal Health (DE)
– Microbial Developments Ltd (UK)
– INRA (FR)
Topic 4 – Aquaculture
Project title: PathoFish – Control Flavobacteriaceae infections in European fish farms.
Coordinator: INRA (FR)
Partners:
– Phylogene (FR)
– Åbo Akademi University, Laboratory of Aquatic Pathobiology (FI)
– National Veterinary Institute of Norway (NO)
– Centre for Fish and Wildlife Health, Institut of Animal Pathology, Vetsuisse Fakulty (CH)
– Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IT)
– National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DK)
– PHARMAQ AS (NO)
