Anaplasma marginale Genome Sequencing Project
Babesia bovis Genome Sequencing Project
MicroArray Laboratory
Monoclonal Antibody Center
Program in Genomics
Zoonoses Research Unit (ZRU)

Faculty Areas of Research

Timothy V. Baszler, Professor, DVM, Ph.D.; Diplomate American College of Veterinary Pathologists. Immunology of neosporosis; improved diagnosis of infectious diseases in domestic animals spongiform encephalopathies.

Thomas E. Besser, Professor, DVM, Ph.D.; Diplomate American College of Veterinary Microbiologists. Food Safety microbiology; E. coli O157:H7; neonatal enteric disease.

Kelly A. Brayton, Assistant Professor, PhD. Microbial genomics and mechanisms of antigenic variation of vector-borne pathogens.

Wendy C. Brown, Professor, MPH, Ph.D. Cellular and molecular mechanisms of immunity to infectious diseases; strategies to develop vaccines that induce protective T-cell dependent immunity; comparative analysis of cellular immune responses and immunomodulatory cytokines of domestic animals.

Douglas R. Call, Associate Professor, Caroline Engle Faculty Fellow, Ph.D. Evolutionary ecology of antibiotic resistance, detection and characterization of food-borne pathogens, and development and application of microarrays for genotyping and expression analyses.

Susan Carpenter, Professor, Ph.D.  Virology, lentivirus interactions with their hosts.

William C. Davis, Professor, Ph.D. Comparative analysis of the immune systems in food and companion animals; the role of cytokines in regulation of the immune response to pathogens and derived subunit vaccines; genetic basis of disease susceptibility.

A. Singh Dhillon, Professor, DVM, Ph.D. Salmonella; avian diseases; infectious laryngotracheitis virus; Newcastle disease virus.

William J. Foreyt, Professor, Ph.D. Veterinary and wildlife parasitology; epizootiology; parasitic and disease interactions among domestic livestock, wildlife, and humans.

Stephen A. Hines, Professor, Berger Keatts Distinguished Professor, DVM, Ph.D.; Diplomate American College of Veterinary Pathologists. Immunology and molecular pathogenesis of intracellular pathogens; molecular approaches to prevention and diagnosis of hemoparasitic diseases of domestic animals; equine pulmonary immunology.

Douglas P. Jasmer, Professor, Ph.D. Molecular parasitology; host-parasite interactions; nematode parasites.

Donald P. Knowles, Professor, DVM, Ph.D.; Diplomate American College of Veterinary Pathologists. Virology; immunology and host-parasite interactions.

Charles W. Leathers, Professor, DVM, Ph.D.; Diplomate American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine. Laboratory animal pathology; diagnostic applications of electron microscopy.

Kevin K. Lahmers, Assistant Professor, DVM, Ph.D.  Molecular and cellular mechanisms of immunity and infectious diseases.

Terry F. McElwain, Professor, DVM, Ph.D.; Diplomate American College of Veterinary Pathologists. Molecular basis of host parasite interaction and development of protective immunity in vector-borne diseases.

Robert H. Mealey, Assistant Professor, DVM, Ph.D. Protective cellular immune responses to infectious diseases of the horse, with emphasis on the cytotoxic T lymphocyte response to equine infectious anemia virus.

J. Lindsay Oaks, Assistant Professor, DVM, Ph.D. Diplomate American College of Veterinary Microbiologists, Pathogenesis of viral infections and mechanisms of viral persistence. Current focus is on subclinical equine infectious anemia virus infection and the in vivo and cellular mechanisms that down regulate viral replication and allow avoidance of immunologic detection. Secondary interest in infectious diseases of raptors.

Guy H. Palmer, Professor, DVM, Ph.D.; Diplomate American College of Veterinary Pathologists. Molecular basis of transmission and development of protective immunity in vector-borne diseases.

Kathleen A. Potter, Associate Professor, DVM, Ph.D.; Diplomate American College of Veterinary Pathologists. Eosinophil biology and function. Bovine Marfan syndrome.

David J. Prieur, Professor and Chair, DVM, Ph.D. Animal models of human genetic diseases; inherited diseases of animals.

Fred R. Rurangirwa, Associate Professor, BVSc, MS, Ph.D. Molecular basis of immunity, diagnosis and vaccine development against infectious diseases of domestic ruminants. Rickettsia-vector interaction.

Ashish Sawant, Assistant Professor, BVSc, Ph.D. Veterinary Public Health.

Kevin R. Snekvik, Clinical Assistant Professor, DVM, Ph.D. Diplomate American College of Veterinary Pathologists. Infectious diseases of fish.

Sri Srikumaran, Professor, Rocky Crate-FNAWS Endowed Chair, BVSc, PhD. Infectious diseases of wildlife: etiology, mechanisms of pathogenesis, protective immune responses, and development of control measures.

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