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Akito Kawahara

PRG DIR & CURATOR

NH-NATURAL HISTORY

Orcid identifier0000-0002-3724-4610 (opens in a new tab)⁠
  • PRG DIR & CURATOR
    NH-NATURAL HISTORY

GRANTS

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    Phylogenetics of Bagworm Moths: A Model System for Studying the Evolutionary Genetics of Sexual Dimorphism
    National Science Foundation18 Jul 2024 - 31 Jul 2028
    Active
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    CRISPR-based diagnostics
    US Department of Agriculture Aphis31 Jul 2023 - 31 Aug 2025
    Expired
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    IntBIO: Collaborative Research: Silk Protein Innovation and Novelty (SPIN) : integrating across disciplines to decipher silk fiber evolution
    National Science Foundation21 Jul 2022 - 31 Jul 2027
    Active
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    Identification of insect eggs using image analysis
    US Department of Agriculture Aphis2 Sep 2021 - 31 Jul 2023
    Expired
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    CRISPR-based diagnostics
    US Department of Agriculture Aphis13 May 2021 - 31 May 2023
    Expired
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    Validating bulk insect molecular identification for invasive insect pests
    US Department of Agriculture Aphis21 Aug 2020 - 29 Jun 2022
    Expired
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    Collaborative Research: Acoustic deflection in bat-moth interactions: revealing the mechanism and evolution of a sensory illusion
    National Science Foundation22 Aug 2019 - 31 Aug 2025
    Expired
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    OR-DRPD-ROF2019: Developing novel genomic resources and biomaterial characterization methods for the study of wild moth silk
    UF Research16 May 2019 - 31 Dec 2023
    Expired
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    Development of a bulk DNA extraction method
    US Department of Agriculture Aphis19 Sep 2018 - 27 Jun 2020
    Expired
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    The battle of the sexes in the endangered Brazilian Campos: butterfly conservation and unusual mating strategies
    National Geographic Society10 May 2018 - 2 Jan 2019
    Expired
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    DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Characterization of vertebrate host communities through mosquito blood meal-derived DNA for biodiversity conservation and epidemiological applications
    National Science Foundation1 Feb 2017 - 31 May 2019
    Expired
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    Developing a general method for molecular identification of trapped pests
    US Department of Agriculture Aphis28 Sep 2016 - 29 Dec 2017
    Expired
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    Digitization TCN: Collaborative research: Lepidoptera of North America Network: Documenting Diversity in the Largest Clade of Herbivores
    National Science Foundation13 May 2016 - 30 Jun 2021
    Expired
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    NSF DEB-NERC: Phylogenomics and Sensory Systems Evolution in Silkmoths and Relatives
    National Science Foundation29 Feb 2016 - 31 Aug 2022
    Expired
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    COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: BUTTERFLYNET--AN INTEGRATIVEFRAMEWORK FOR COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY
    National Science Foundation18 Sep 2015 - 31 Dec 2021
    Expired
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    Research and Exploration of endangered Hawaiian Leaf Mining Moths and their Threatened Plants: Fieldwork to Discover, Protect, & Conserve a Rare and Endangered Fauna.
    National Geographic Society26 Jun 2015 - 31 Dec 2016
    Expired
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    Houlihan - Darwin's Hawkmoth
    National Geographic Society13 Nov 2014 - 31 Dec 2016
    Expired
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    Mu Alpha Theta : Geometric Morphometrics in Silk moths
    Mu Alpha Theta10 Jul 2014 - 30 Aug 2015
    Expired
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    CSBR: Natural History Collections: Building a central database and curation improvements for The McGuire Center for Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural History (opens in a new tab)⁠
    Directorate for Biological Sciences1 Jul 2014 - 30 Apr 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kawahara A,
    • Miller JY,
    • Soltis PS,
    • Willmott KR
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    CSBR: Natural History Collections: Building a central database and curation improvements for The McGuire Center for Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural History
    National Science Foundation19 May 2014 - 30 Apr 2018
    Expired
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    SG: ARTS: Hawaiian Philodoria green-island leaf mining moths: Revisionary systematics, phylogenetics and biogeography of a threatened fauna (opens in a new tab)⁠
    Directorate for Biological Sciences15 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Kawahara A,
    • Rubinoff D
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    SG:ARTS: Hawaiian Philodoria green-island leaf mining moths:Revisionary systematics, phylogenetics and biogeography of a threatened fauna
    National Science Foundation15 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2017
    Expired
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    Comparative genomics of a leaf-mining moth: detecting bacterial symbionts that delay plant aging.
    UF DSR Opportunity Fund1 May 2013 - 30 Apr 2016
    Expired
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    ARTS: Phylogeny and systematic revision of the diverse and cryptic Euptychiina (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae) (opens in a new tab)⁠
    Directorate for Biological Sciences1 Apr 2013 - 30 Sep 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Willmott K,
    • Miller JY,
    • Kawahara AY
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    Collaborative Research:Alternative strategies & evolutionary routes in the escalation of the bat-moth arms-race: Ultrasonic striduation on hawkmoths.
    National Science Foundation20 Sep 2011 - 30 Nov 2016
    Expired