Research
Agricultural Animal Health Program (AAHP)
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
Troy Bankhead, Assistant
Professor, PhD; Mechanisms of persistence and
virulence associated with the Lyme disease
spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi.
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, Associate
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.
Evolution and persistence of antibiotic resistance;
molecular epidemiology; comparative genomics,
transcriptomics, and proteomics of pathogens;
detection pathogens in complex matrices; and
aquaculture health.
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.
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.
Audrey O.T. Lau, Assistant
Professor, MPH, PhD; Comparative genomics and
proteomics, apicomplexan biology and evolution of
organelles.
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, Associate
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, Associate
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.
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.
Devendra H. Shah, Assistant
Professor, BVSc, PhD. Food and water-borne bacterial
diseases; avian infectious diseases.
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.
James
Stanton, D.V.M., Ph.D. Clinical Assistant
Professor. Animal transmissible spongiform
encephalopathies
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