Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Great Rivers CESU

Post Date

June 29th 2015

Application Due Date

July 17th 2015

Funding Opportunity Number

G15AS00092

CFDA Number(s)

15.808

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESU___s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Great Rivers Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $146875

• Award Range:

  $0 - $0

Grant Description

The US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner to conduct research on ___Transgenerational effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals on fish.___ Environmental chemicals can induce a variety of adverse effects via disruption of normal endocrine function in eukaryotic organisms. These chemically-induced effects are not only observed as immediate organismal responses, but also as a variety of diseases in subsequent generations in organisms not directly exposed to the chemicals. A transgenerational phenotype is an abnormal health outcome which develops in an organism without direct chemical exposure, but rather because prior generations were exposed to a chemical. The transgenerational phenotype has been observed in many organisms, including humans and plants. A variety of diseases in offspring three generations later and a variety of environmental toxicants (plastics, herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, dioxin, and hydrocarbons) have been shown to promote epigenetic transgenerational disease phenotypes in laboratory rats. However, there are limited reports showing such transgenerational effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals in fish and wildlife.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Geological Survey

• Agency Contact:

  Faith Graves, 703-648-7356
  fgraves@usgs.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  fgraves@usgs.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  fgraves@usgs.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.grants.gov/