External networks

05 Nov 2018

GCRF funded neworks

The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) is part of the UK’s official development assistance (ODA). Its aim is to support cutting-edge research and innovation that addresses the global issues affecting developing countries. Here are some other network that also receive GCRF funding.

CONNECTED

The Community Network for African Vector-Borne Plant Viruses (CONNECTED) is a Vector-borne Disease Network awarded to the University of Bristol, UK

Twitter: @CONNECTED_virus

BOVA Network

Building out vector-borne diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: an interdisciplinary network focusing on preventing vector-borne diseases through improving the built environment.

Twitter:@BovaNetwork

ANTI-VeC

ANTI-VeC is a Vector-borne Disease Network awarded to the University of Glasgow, in partnership with Imperial College London and focuses on the development of genetic/symbiont vector control strategies and related fields. This includes both suppression and replacement/transmission blocking approaches, from vector-pathogen/symbiont interactions and line creation to symbiont discovery, relevant aspects of vector biology, ecology and behaviour, and social science.

Twitter:@AntiVec

Other external networks

Infravec 2

Infravec2 is an international and interdisciplinary infrastructure project on insect vectors of human and animal disease, including mosquitoes, sandflies, other flies, and ticks.

Twitter:@infravec2

EVAg

EVAg is a non profit organisation that mobilises a global network with expertise in virology to collectamplifycharacterisestandardiseauthenticatedistributetrackcollect viruses and derived products.

Twitter:@EVAg_EU

Aedes Invasive Mosquito (AIM)

Funded by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), AIM Cost Action will build a gender, age and geographically balanced network from critical stakeholder sectors. The Action will assess and review current surveillance, control and analysis practices, develop best practice guidelines and protocols ensuring consistency across Europe. Lessons learned will be transferrable to other emerging vector borne diseases worldwide.

Twitter:@aedescost

IMAAC

Investigation and Mathematical Analysis of Avant-garde Disease Control via Mosquito Nano-Tech-Repellents (IMAAC) aims at investigation and mathematical analysis of the effect of avant-garde control measures in vector-borne diseases involving day-time active mosquitos transmitting diseases like dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever.

Funded by The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) which provides funding for the creation of research networks, called COST Actions. These networks offer an open space for collaboration among scientists across Europe (and beyond) and thereby give impetus to research advancements and innovation.

Establishing Genetic Control Programmes for Aedes Invasive Mosquitoes

To establish a network among the European countries already affected or at high risk of being affected by invasive disease-transmitting mosquito species where the capacity to manage genetic control methods (Area-wide Sterile Insect Technique) would be established and introduced in pilot suppression programmes.

Detecting Vector Borne Disease: IAEA and FAO Help Enhance Capacity in Europe

Twenty-one specialists working in the field of veterinary diagnostics have met in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, at a meeting organised collaboratively by the IAEA, FAO and Georgia’s National Food Agency of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture. The goal of the meeting, held as part of a regional IAEA technical cooperation project[1], was to develop strategies for enhancing capacities to detect and differentiate vector borne diseases and to identify host vector carriers. The primary focus was on techniques for the early and rapid detection of animal and zoonotic (transmissible from animals to humans) vector borne diseases.

Establishing a National Centre for Research, Training and Services in Medical and Molecular Entomology for Vector-borne Disease Control

To control vector borne diseases at the national level.

Vector Bite

The Vector Behavior in Transmission Ecology Research Coordination Network – VectorBiTE RCN – seeks to build a collaborative network of researchers working on VBDs and to provide them with tools to better understand and explore how variation in vector behavior and life history drive transmission dynamics.

The Global Vector Hub

The Global Vector Hub is an open access, interactive resource that not only has the capacity to transform vector research and vector control programmes, but revolutionise our preparedness and ability to respond quickly and effectively to vector-borne disease outbreaks, around the world.

Twitter: @GlobalVectorHub

European Network for Neglected Vectors and Vector-borne Diseases

The main objective is to establish a powerful transboundary network of partner institutions across Europe that are involved in education and research related to arthropod-transmitted infectious diseases of man and animals, a network addressing the growing importance of vector-borne diseases at a time of Global Change, all integrated under the One Health concept, and reflecting the complexity and demands of current high-end research.

Facebook:www.facebook.com/EURNEGVEC

Ag1000G (MalariaGEN)

Ag1000G is an international collaboration using whole genome deep sequencing to provide a high-resolution view of genetic variation in natural populations of Anopheles gambiae, the principal vector of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Africa.

Twitter:@malariagenomics

Vectopole Sud

The goal is to develop a French and European centre of excellence in the field of disease vectors and crop pests in order to improve early warning systems, monitoring and control and, thus, protect human health, agriculture and livestock production. It is the first time such a ‘One health’ approach, combining plant, veterinary and public human health, has been taken in Europe and is designed to pool infrastructure and expertise, bringing together more than 400 researchers and technicians from five laboratories that belong to the scientific community at Montpellier University of Excellence (MUSE) in southern France and Agropolis International.

The Worldwide Insecticide Resistance Network (WIN)

The Worldwide Insecticide resistance Network proposes to bring together 19 internationally recognized institutions in vector research, providing a unique framework for tracking insecticide resistance in mosquito vectors of arboviruses around the world. The network aims at identifying the particular countries/regions where resistance could challenge vector control interventions and to provide the WHO and member states with key recommendations for improvement of insecticide resistance surveillance and deployment of alternative vector control tools.

VectorNet

VectorNet is a joint initiative of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), which started in May 2014. The Project supports the collection of data on vectors and pathogens in vectors, related to both animal and human health.

Infectious Disease Evolution Across Scales (IDEAS)

Infectious disease agents, like other organisms, can evolve by natural selection. Strong immune responses that kill parasites within hosts, for example, can weed out those parasite strains that are especially vulnerable to immune attack. And any mosquito-borne parasite strains that do not circulate at the right place and time to be picked up by a feeding mosquito will likewise be eliminated. But how do selection pressures operating within hosts and those operating on transmission between hosts jointly shape the evolution of infectious diseases? This apparently straightforward question has proven difficult to answer.

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