Faculty

Jeffrey J. Adamovicz, PhD, Associate Professor Veterinary Pathobiology
Immunology; Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Molecular Diagnostics; Vector-borne, Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases

Yuksel Agca, DVM, MS, PhD, Associate Professor
Comparative Medicine; Reproductive Biology; Translational Medicine

James M. Amos-Landgraf, PhD, Associate Professor
Comparative Medicine; Gene Expression & ControlMolecular Genetics & Genomic Analysis; Translational Medicine

Deborah Anderson, PhD, Professor
Bacteriology; Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Vector-borne, Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases

Paul Anderson, BA, PhD, Assistant Research Professor
Animal Models of Infectious Disease; Biocontainment; Aerosol Biology

Ravi Barabote, PhD, Associate Teaching Professor

Brenda T. Beerntsen, PhD, Professor
Parasitology; Infectious Disease; Vector-borne, Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases

Charles R. Brown, PhD, Professor
Immunology

Elizabeth C. Bryda, MS, PhD, Professor
Comparative Medicine; Gene Expression & Control; Molecular Genetics & Genomic Analysis; Molecular Diagnostics; Translational Medicine

*Annabella Burnum, DVM, DACVP, Assistant Clinical Professor
Pathology

Michael Calcutt, PhD, Professor,
Bacteriology; Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Molecular Genetics & Genomic Analysis; Vector-borne, Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases

C.A. Carson, VMD, MS, PhD, Professor Emeritus

*Stan W. Casteel, DVM, PhD, Professor Emeritus

Lyndon M. Coghill, PhD, Assistant Research Professor

*Maria Dashek, Assistant Clinical Professor

Daniel J. Davis, PhD, Assistant Research Professor
Comparative Medicine; Gene Expression & Control; Gene Therapy; Molecular Genetics & Genomic Analysis; Reproductive Biology; Translational Medicine

*Michelle DeCourcey, DVM, MS, DACVP (Clinical), Assistant Clinical Professor

Aaron Ericsson, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor
Bacteriology; Comparative Medicine; Immunology; Inflammatory Diseases; Microbiology; Molecular Genetics & Genomic Analysis; Translational Medicine

*William H. Fales, MS, PhD, Professor Emeritus

Craig L. Franklin, DVM, PhD, Professor
Comparative Medicine; Immunology; Inflammatory Diseases; Pathology; Translational Medicine; Bacteriology; Infectious Diseases; Microbiology

Alexander W.E. Franz, PhD, Associate Professor
Infectious disease; Vector-borne, Emerging & Zoonotic diseases; Molecular Genetics & Genomic Analysis

Laxman Gangwani, MSc, PhD, Professor
Cell Biology; Comparative Medicine; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Molecular Genetics & Genomic Analysis; Translational Medicine

Roman Ganta, PhD, McKee Endowed Professor of Veterinary Pathobiology

*Tamara Gull, DVM, MS, PhD, Associate Clinical Professor
Bacteriology; Disaster Preparation; Immunology; Infectious Disease; Microbiology

Tamara Hancock, DVM, MS, PhD, Assistant Teaching Professor

*Rosalie Ierardi, DVM, MS, Clinical Instructor
Infectious Disease; Pathology; Vector-borne, Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases

Gary S. Johnson, DVM, PhD, Associate Professor
Molecular Diagnostics; Molecular Genetics & Genomic Analysis; Comparative Medicine; Neurodegenerative Diseases

*Gayle C. Johnson, DVM, PhD, Professor Emerita
Pathology

*Dae Young Kim, DVM, PhD, Clinical Professor
Pathology

*Kei Kuroki, DVM, PhD, Professor
Pathology; Comparative Medicine

Huitao Liu, PhD, Associate Research Professor

Christian L. Lorson, PhD, Professor, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
Comparative Medicine; Gene Expression & Control; Gene Therapy; Molecular Genetics & Genomic Analysis; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Translational Medicine; Virology

Monique A. Lorson, PhD, Associate Research Professor
Gene Expression & Control; Molecular Genetics & Genomic Analysis; Neurodegenerative Diseases

Wenjun Ma, PhD, Professor
Virology; Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Vector-borne, Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases

Hongsheng Men, PhD, Assistant Research Professor
Comparative Medicine; Reproductive Biology; Translational Medicine

*W. Jefferson Mitchell, Jr., DVM, PhD, Associate Professor
Pathology; Virology

*Susan M. Moore, MS, PhD, Associate Clinical Professor
Immunology; Infectious Disease

Wendy L. Picking, PhD, Professor
Bacteriology; Immunology; Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Translational Medicine

William D. Picking, PhD, Professor, Chair of Veterinary Pathobiology
Bacteriology; Infectious Disease; Inflammatory Diseases; Microbiology

*Solomon “Wole” Odemuyiwa, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor and Molecular Diagnostics Section Head VMDL
Immunology; Molecular Diagnostics; Vector-borne, Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases; Virology

Rachel Olson, PhD, Assistant Research Professor

Ram Raghavan, MS, PhD, Associate Professor
Disaster Preparation; Molecular Diagnostics; Parasitology; Vector-borne, Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases

Bimal K. Ray, MS, PhD, Professor Emeritus

*Angela Royal, DVM, Associate Clinical Professor and Clinical Pathology Section Head, VMDL

Heide Schatten, PhD, Professor Emerita

*Daniel P. Shaw, DVM, PhD, Professor Emeritus

*Zhenyu Shen, BVM, MS, PhD, Assistant Research Professor

Kamlendra Singh, MS, PhD, Assistant Professor
Infectious Disease; Molecular Genetics & Genomic Analysis; Translational Medicine; Virology

Jerod Skyberg, PhD, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies - Veterinary Pathobiology
Immunology; Infectious Disease; Inflammatory Diseases; Microbiology; Vector-borne, Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases

George C. Stewart, PhD, Professor Emeritus

Roger W. (Bill) Stich
, MS, PhD, Professor
Parasitology; Vector-borne, Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases

Catherine Vogelweid, DVM, PhD, Clinical Professor Emerita

*Marlyn S. Whitney, DVM, PhD, Clinical Professor Emerita

*Fred Williams III, DVM, Associate Clinical Professor
Pathology

Sean Whittier, PhD, Assistant Research Professor

*Shuping Zhang, PhD, Professor and Director of VMDL
Bacteriology; Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Molecular Diagnostics

* Members of Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory

 

 

Faculty Spotlight

Alexander W.E. Franz

Alexander Franz, PhD won the 2014 award for best paper in the journal Insect Molecular Biology. Sponsored by the Royal Entomological Society, the award recognizes the best paper over a two-year period. The paper, “Transgene-mediated suppression of the RNA interference pathway in Aedes aegypti interferes with gene silencing and enhances Sindbis virus and dengue virus type 2 replication”. More recently, his laboratory was the first to report the use of CRISPR/Cas9 for genome editing in the mosquito vector, Aedes aegypti (PLoS One. 2015 Mar 27;10(3):e0122353. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122353. eCollection 2015).

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