Biological and Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
Research Areas
See Also
Comparative Biomedical Sciences Faculty
 Gregory Acland |
Candid comparative and medical genetics genomics |
 Dorothy Ainsworth |
Limitations of the respiratory system in health and in disease to equine athletic performance; pulmonary biology; immunology and inflamation |
 Craig Altier |
Molecular basis of Salmonella pathogenesis; the genetic and environmental control of epithelial cell invasion |
 Douglas Antczak |
Immunogenetics and infectious diseases |
 Judith Appleton |
Nematode parasites; parasitism; Trichinella spiralis; Paralaphostrongylus tenuis; mucosal immunity |
| Molecular virology of herpes viruses | |
 Stephen Barr |
Pathogenesis of protozoal disease (Trypanosoma cruzi, Leishmania giardia); platelet function |
 Carl Batt |
Rapid diagnostic methods; molecular epidemiology |
 Klaus Beyenbach |
Mechanism and regulation of electrolyte transport across epithelia, from genotype to phenotype |
 Rodrigo Bicalho |
Postpartum uterine diseases of cows, specifically puerperal metritis, clinical and subclinical endometritis; bovine metritis as a model to study female urinary tract infection; epidemiology of lameness in dairy cattle (assessment of risk factors, prevalence, biomechanics of bovine digits and preventive/treatment strategies); factors affecting reproductive efficiency in dairy cows; development and implementation of analytical tools that will aid data driven decision making in dairy farms; discovery and development of novel antimicrobials |
 Gary Blissard |
Viral entry into insect host cells; viral gene expression |
 Dwight Bowman |
Parasitology |
 Paul Bowser |
Diseases of finfish; fish health management |
 Adam Boyko |
Genomic investigation of dogs as a model of genetic disease and evolutionary genetics |
 Elizabeth Buckles |
Virology; population medicine; infectious diseases; disease diagnosis; wildlife disease; conservation biology; pathology; avian diseases |
 Margaret Bynoe |
Cellular and molecular medicine; infectious diseases; molecular basis of antigen-induced immune suppression; the modulation of innate immune system response in immunity against cancer |
 James Casey |
Molecular virology; retrovirology |
 Sharon Center |
Liver and kidney diseases of small animals |
 Richard Cerione |
Biochemical and molecular pharmacology |
 Yung-Fu Chang |
Molecular genetics in the study of pathogenesis of bacterial disease |
 Theodore Clark |
Cutaneous immunity; host-parasite interaction; DNA vaccines; genetic factors underlying resistance to infectious disease |
 Paula Cohen |
Mammalion meiosis; germ cell development; DNA repair mechanisms in recombination; genetic basis for nondisjunction in oocytes; transgenic and knocko-t mouse models for studying meiosis and recombination |
 Ruth Collins |
Regulation of membrane traffic by small GTP-ases |
 Scott Coonrod |
Developmental and reproductive biology; structural and functional biology |
 Matthew DeLisa |
Molecular biotechnology; protein biogenesis and folding pathways; protein engineering |
 Eric Denkers |
Cellular and molecular basis of immunity to intracellular parasites; cytokine control of infection |
| Virology; viral pathogenesis; BVD virus; EAV virus | |
 Normand Ducharme |
Equine sports medicine; upper respiratory tract |
 Gerald Duhamel |
Molecular mechanisms of intestinal bacterial infections in animal models of human diseases, primarily polymicrobial associations in colitis and understanding host-pathogen interactions in the context of gut ecology |
 Hollis Erb |
Epidemiology; dairy herd health |
 Maria Julia Bevilaqua Felippe |
B cell response; neonatal and clinical immunology |
 Clare Fewtrell |
Cellular pharmacology; immediate hypersensitivity; immunopharmacology |
 Lisa Fortier |
Osteoarthritis and the link between insulin-like growth factor-I and the small G-proteins, Cdc42, Rac, and Rho |
 Joanne Fortune |
Reproductive physiology and endocrinology |
 Marcia Garcia-Garcia |
Development biology in mice and flies; genetics of developmental mechanisms that influence embryonic morphology |
 Robert Gilbert |
Theriogenology; bovine health and reproduction; canine genetics |
 Robin Gleed |
Respiration; hypoxea and pulmonary circulation |
 Yrjo Grohn |
Epidemiology; dairy herd health; ruminant metabolism |
 Charles Guard |
Clinical pharmacology; comparative gastroenterology |
 Laura Harrington |
Vector borne diseases; epidemiology; vector biology physiology; mosquito-parasite interactions |
 Moonsoo Jin |
Protein-protein interactions that occur at virus entry into host cells and escape from endosome into cytosol between cellular adhesion molecules in the immune system and tumor development |
 George Kollias |
Infectious diseases of free-ranging and captive wildlife; avian pharmacokinetics |
 Michael Kotlikoff |
Molecular and cellular physiology; physiological genomics |
 Sylvia Lee |
Molecular genetics of aging; signaling pathways of nutrient sensing; molecular basis of stress response |
 Cynthia Leifer |
Understanding innate immunity from the inside out; toll-like receptors; signaling; dendritic cells; controlling microbial infection |
 Roy Levine |
Developmental biology; growth control and cancer |
 David Lin |
Mice; olfaction; genetics; neurobiology; development; microarrays; genomics |
 Helene Marquis |
Pathogenesis of Listeria monocytogenes; mechanisms of regulation of specific virulence factors; signaling during bacterial cell-to-cell spread |
 Kirk Maurer |
Complex interaction between inflammation, the immune systems and lipid metabolism and how these pathways contribute to hepatobiliary disease |
| George Maylin | Toxicology; drug testing |
 Pactrick McDonough |
Enteric bacterial infections; antimicrobial resistance; microbial fingerprinting |
 Sean McDonough |
Use of contemporary methods to explore lymphocyte function in spontaneous veterinary deseases |
 Vicki Meyers-Wallen |
Inherited canine diseases; reproductive tract disorders |
 Hussni Mohammed |
Epidemiology of infectious diseases; production medicine |
 N. Sidney Moise |
Arrhythmias; Sudden Death syndrome |
 Alexander Nikitin |
Genetic modeling of human cancer in the mouse; early detection and monitoring of carcinogenesis; neoplasms of reproductive and endocrine systems |
 Alan Nixon |
Joint pathology and cartilage resurfacing |
 Drew Noden |
Developmental biology; craniofacial development |
 Linda Nowak |
Neurosciences; cellular physiology; receptor pharmacology; membrane biophysics |
 Daryl Van Nydam |
Epidemiology of food security/safety issues related to dairy production medicine; study of economically important infectious diseases, particularly zoonoses, subclinical diseases of periparturient cattle and reproductive efficiency |
 Robert Oswald |
Ion channels; acetylcholine receptors |
 John Parker |
Reoviruses; caliciviruses; virus structure; virus assembly; virus-host interactions; oncolytic viruses; virology |
 Colin Parrish |
Viral genetics and function |
 Bendicht Pauli |
Cancer cell biology; mechanisms of invasiveness and metastasis |
 Ned Place |
Reproductive aging; physiology; endocrinology |
 Mark Roberson |
Molecular endocrinology in reproductive tissues |
 Brian Rudd |
Understanding developmental-related mechanisms limiting immunity in early life. |
 David Russell |
The biology of intracellular infection with emphasis on mycobacteria |
 Janet Scarlett |
Epidemiology of companion-animal diseases; occupation epidemiology |
 John Schimenti |
Mouse genetics and functional genomics, genomic instability, genetic recombination, genetics of gametogenesis and development, use of ES cells to mutagenize the mouse genome |
 Donald Schlafer |
Reproductive pathology; infectious diseases |
 Ynte Schukken |
Udder health in well-managed dairy herds based on epidemiology and pathobiology |
 Wayne Schwark |
Neuropharmacology; veterinary clinical pharmacology |
 Marci Scidmore |
Biology of intracellular infection by the Chlamydia bacterium |
 Licia Selleri |
Developmental Genetics; organogenesis; morphogenesis; mouse genetics; congenital disease; models for cleft lip/palate |
 Geoffrey Sharp |
Mechanisms of control of insulin secretion and epithelial electrolyte transport |
 Kenneth Simpson |
Gastroenterology |
 Donald Smith |
Metabolic alkalosis |
 Holger Sondermann |
Structural biology; cell signaling; biochemistry; biophysics |
 Michael Stanhope |
Molecular evolution and comparative genomics of infectious disease organisms |
 Tracy Stokol |
Hematopoietic and hemostatic disorders in animals; mechanisms of cancer metastasis |
 Susan Suarez |
Sperm motility regulation and transport in the female reproductive tract |
 Bud Tennant |
Comparative gastroenterology |
 Rory Todhunter |
Canine hip dysplasia; genetic linkage analysis; osteoarthritis |
 Alexander Travis |
Comparative biology of male germ cells; signaling and metabolism of sperm during capacitation; organization of lipid raft membrane sub-domains in sperm; applications of technologies using reproductive stem cells for wildlife conservation |
| Eric Trotter | Small-animal orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery |
| alphaherpesvirus pathogenesis, basic biology/immunology of mesencymal stem cells for regenerative therapy, Mammary gland stem cell biology and carcinogenesis. | |
 Susan Wade |
Pathogenesis; epidemiology and diagnosis of parasitic diseases in domestic and wild animals; food and waterborne parasites; zoonoses; lab systems for rearing arthropods; development/modification of tests for parasite diagnosis |
 Bettina Wagner |
Antibody mediated immune mechanisms in infectious disease and vaccination; allergic diseases; neonatal tolerance and allergy predisposition; strategies to develop allergy treatments |
 Joseph Wakshlag |
Exercise physiology and obesity metabolism; canine-cancer biology (mast cell and bone neoplasia) and the effects of nutrients and cellular metabolites on cell signaling |
| Dairy cattle epidemiology; preharvest food safety; Salmonellosis in cattle; infectious disease | |
 Gregory Weiland |
Neuropharmacology; receptor mechanisms |
 Robert Weiss |
Genomic maintenance mechanisms; cell cycle checkpoints; molecular responses to genomic stress; mouse models of genomic instability |
 Gary Whittaker |
Virology cell biology; biochemistry |
 Martin Wiedmann |
Molecular pathogenesis of food-borne and zoonotic bacterial diseases |
 Andrew Yen |
Leukemia; cell growth and differentiation; oncogenes/genetics |
 Cornelia Farnum (emeritus) |
Functional anatomy of cartilage and bone |
 Karel Schat (emeritus) |
Avian virology and immunology |
