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Tod McCauley
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Tod McCauley, Ph.D.
Assistant Director of Licensing
College of Agriculture, Life & Environmental Sciences
TodM@tla.arizona.edu
520-626-7916
Aquaculture
- UA21-095 Therapeutic and Prophylactic Measures of Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease (AHPND) in Shrimp
- UA20-075 Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease (AHPND) Control Using Plant-Derived Natural Extracts, and Thereof
- UA19-195 Genetic Markers For Resistance Against Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease (AHPND) In Shrimp
- UA18-228 Detection of EMS and EHP
- UA18-221 Methods for the Detection of Enterocytozoon Hepatopenaei (EHP)
- UA18-219 New PCR and qPCR Methods for NHP Detection
- UA17-258 Portable, Rapid Tests for Shrimp Diseases for use in Novel Testing System
- UA15-095 Optical Device for In-line and Real-time Monitoring of Microalgae
Crop Improvement & Protection / Food Safety
- UA21-147 Mutation Impacting Locule Number in Brassica Rapa
- UA21-143 Elimination of Aflatoxin via Aflatoxin-Degrading Enzyme Expression in Crops
- UA21-007 Vip3-Resistant Helicoverpa Zea
- UA19-266 Nematicidal Activity of Three Secondary Metabolites Produced by the Entomopatogenic Bacteium Photorhabdus l. sonorensis
- UA19-026 Automated Drone Date Pollination System
- UA18-056 Transgenic Resistance to Cotton Leaf Curl Disease in Cotton
- UA18-103 Increasing Salt Tolerance in Arabidopsis Thaliana
- UA17-246 Nematicidal and Antimicrobial Activities of Secondary Metabolites from Photorhabdus Bacteria with Applications in Agriculture
- UA16-186 Engineering High Protein Content Soybeans
- UA15-211 Electrostatic Application of Antimicrobials
- UA15-198 Aflatoxin-Free Crops
- UA14-148 Controlled Transfer of Endohyphal Symbionts among Fungal Strains
- UA14-047 Enhancing the Sugar, Starch, and Cellulose Content in Plants
Vertical Farming
- UA23-015 The BORING (BurrOwing & Regenerative IN-Ground) Vertical Farm for the Moon, Mars and Beyond
- UA22-124 Carbon Capture Using Microalgae Cultivated in Scalable Photobioreactors Paired with a Particle Filtration System
- UA20-011 Phyto-Mediated Wastewater Treatment Bioreactor (PWBR)
- UA19-226 The Mobile Vertical Farm (Go-Vertical Farm) for Automation of Vertical Farming Operations
- UA19-029 The i-Abacus Green Box
- UA19-028 The i-Sprout Green Box
- UA19-027 The i-Incline Green Box
- UA17-250 The V-Hive Green Box
Infectious Disease
- UA21-003 A Microbiome Sparing, Organism-Specific Therapy for C. difficile Infection
- UA19-147 A Molecular Diagnostic Tool for Detecting Clostridium Difficile Infection, Carriage and Outbreaks
- UA18-253 A Novel DNA-Based Antimicrobial Compound for Treating Infections Caused by Neisseria Gonorrhoeae and Neisseria Meningitidis
- UA18-039 A Safe, Tolerable, Non-Antibiotic Agent to Prevent or Treat Clostridium Difficile Infection
- UA17-169 An Essential and Unique Virulence Molecule in Pathogenic Escherichia coli
- UA17-056 A Novel Anti-Polysaccharide Antiserum for Detection of Clostridium difficile Bacteria, and Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile Colonization in Complex Clinical Specimens
- UA15-131 Probiotic Treatment for Clostridium Difficile Infection
Diagnostics
- UA21-238 Direct Capture and Smartphone Quantification of Airborne SARS-CoV-2 on a Paper Microfluidic Chip
- UA21-090 Handheld, Rapid, Extremely Sensitive Assay of SARS-CoV-2 Infections
- UA20-057 Single Copy Level Detection of Virus through Particle Counting on Paper Microfluidics Using Smartphone Based Fluorescence Microscope
- UA18-008 Antibody Test for Coccidioidomycosis
- UA16-179 Rapid, Accurate Diagnosis of a Wound Infection with a Smartphone
- UA15-071 Interfacial Effects Enable Droplet Actuation, Inhibition Relief, and Early Sensing of Polymerase Chain Reaction
- UA12-003 Extremely Rapid and Fully Reprogrammable Total PCR Assays Using Wire-Guided Droplet Microfluidics
Therapeutics
- UA22-217 Use of DNA Containing Specific Sequences to Prevent Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Infection
- UA22-056 Genes and Polypeptides of Neisseria Musculi that can be used to Evaluate Vaccines and Anti-Bacterial Compounds against Infection by Pathogenic Neisseria Species
- UA18-253 A Novel DNA-Based Antimicrobial Compound for Treating Infections Caused by Neisseria Gonorrhoeae and Neisseria Meningitidis
- UA18-244 A Natural Mouse Model that Enables the Discovery and Characterization of Bacterial and Host Factors that Mediate Neisseria Colonization and Persistence, and Targets for Vaccines and Antimicrobials
- UA17-238 Plant-Based Production of Protein Therapeutics, with Constructs, Method and System for Animal Delivery
- UA17-206 Soybean as a Protein Biofactory Platform to Produce Epidermal Growth Hormone
- UA15-042 Treatment of Gonorrhea
- UA09-006 A Water-Soluble Prodrug for the Heat Shock-Inducing Compound Withaferin A
Cancer Therapeutics
- UA19-023 Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Activation to Increase the Potency and Safety of Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Grafts
- UA18-130 Semi-Synthetic 17beta-Hydroxywithanolides (17-Bhws) Promote Caspase-8-Dependent Apoptosis in Renal Carcinoma and Melanoma and Specifically Inhibit Human Prostate Cancer Cell Proliferation
- UA16-001 Specific 17-Beta-Hydroxywithanolides Sensitize Cancer Cells to Apoptosis in Response to Toll-like Receptor (TLR)
- UA15-036 Novel Inhibitors of GAB1
- UA13-105 Targeting the PH/DH Domain of Tiam1 for the Treatment and/or Prevention of Bone Metastases
Life Science / Research Tools
- UA23-295 A Mitochondria-Focused Mouse Model (DRP-1-/- mouse) to Accelerate Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology Research
- UA23-293 A Mitochondria-Focused Mouse Model (OPA-1-/- mouse) to Accelerate Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology Research
- UA23-082 TROVE: A Translational Resource for Omics-Based Validation of Expression Datasets
- UA21-197 A New Mouse Strain (Zip14flox/flox (Slc39a14flox/flox)
- UA21-104 Variable-Pressure Head-Out Plethysmography Chamber with Data Acquisition and Analysis Software
- UA13-093 A Vector System for Direct Cloning of Eukaryotic Gene Constructs
Other
- UA24-010 Solid Set Flood Irrigation
- UA21-203 Device for Collecting Volumetric Measurements of Objects with Complex Shapes
- UA21-152 Small Diffusive in Situ Soil Gas Probes and Sampling System for Online Soil Gas Measurements
- UA21-150 Design of Intelligent Aeroponic Microgravity & Earth Nutrient Delivery System (I-AMENDS) for Bioregenerative Space Life Support and Earth Applications
- UA20-011 Phyto-Mediated Wastewater Treatment Bioreactor (PWBR)