College of Veterinary Medicine - Cornell University

Infection & Immunity

A detailed understanding of how infectious agents invade and propagate within host organisms and how in turn hosts defend themselves against such infection is crucial for development of new vaccines and treatments for infectious disease.  Population studies can tell us much about how diseases are transmitted and flourish or vanish in a community or a niche.

Faculty are grouped into the following research areas below: Immunity/Host, Infection/Agent, and Population & Clinical Studies.

IMMUNITY/HOST

Faculty	Research area	Graduate Field Membership (follow links to Biological & Biomedical Sciences Fields)
Doug Antczak	immunity/host; pregnancy immunology; immunogenetics; equine immunology	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease; Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Avery August	immunity/host; regulation of T-cell activation, development and function; T-cell differentiation; mast cell function and eosinophil function	Immunology & Infectious Disease; Pharmacology
Margaret Bynoe	immunity/host; cellular and molecular medicine; infectious diseases; molecular basis of antigen-induced immune suppression; modulation of innate immune system response in immunity against cancer	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease
Rodney R. Dietert	immunity/host; genetic regulation of macrophage	Immunology & Infectious Disease; Environmental Toxicology; Risk Analysis, Communication & Policy
Maria Julia Bevilaqua Felippe	immunity/host; cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in B cell response; neonatal immunology and response to vaccination; immunomodulation using biologic response modifiers; cancer immunotherapy; characterization of primary and secondary immunodeficiencies	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease
David Holowka	immunity/host; IgE and T-cell antigen receptors; fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy	Immunology & Infectious Disease; Biophysics
Toshi Kawate	structures and mechanisms of membrane proteins that regulate extracellular signaling	Pharmacology
Cynthia Leifer	immunity/host; understanding innate immunity from the inside out; toll-like receptors; signaling; dendritic cells; controlling microbial infection	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease
Brian Rudd	developmental immunology; host response to infection	Immunology & Infectious Disease
Donald H. Schlafer	immunity/host; reproductive pathology; infectious diseases	Comparative Biomedical Sciences
Bettina Wagner	immunity/host; anitbody mediated immune mechanisms in infectious disease and vaccination; allergic diseases; neonatal tolerance and allergy predisposition; strategies to develop allergy treatments	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease

INFECTION/AGENT

Faculty	Research area	Graduate Field Membership (follow links to Biological & Biomedical Sciences Fields)
Craig Altier	infection/agent; molecular basis of Salmonella pathogenesis; the genetic and environmental control of epithelial cell invasion	Comparative Biomedical Sciences
Judy Appleton	infection/agent; nematode parasites; parasitism; Trichinella spiralis; Paralaphostrongylus tenuis; mucosal immunity	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease
Joel D. Baines	infection/agent; molecular virology of herpes virus	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease; Microbiology
Gary Blissard	infection/agent; regulation of cell death in development and cancer	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Entomology
Kathryn Boor	infection/agent; bacterial responses to environmental challenges; food microbiology; food safety; differentiation and characterization of virulence determinants in E coli 0157: H7 and Listeria monocytogenes	Microbiology; Environmental Toxicology; Food Science & Technology
Dwight Bowman	infection/agent; nematode and protozoan biology; taxonomy; systemic biology	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Zoology & Wildlife Conservation
Paul R. Bowser	infection/agent; diseases and retroviruses in fish	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Environmental Toxicology
Elizabeth Buckles	infection/agent; virology; population medicine; infectious diseases; disease diagnosis; wildlife disease; conservation biology; pathology; avian diseases	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Zoology & Wildlife Conservation
James W. Casey	infection/agent; molecular virology; retrovirology	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Microbiology; Environmental Toxicology
Yung-Fu Chang	infection/agent; mechanisms of infection, particularly leptospira and salmonella	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease; Zoology & Wildlife Conservation
Ted Clark	infection/agent; cutaneous immunity; host-parasite interaction; DNA vaccines; genetic factors underlying resistance to infectious disease	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease
Ruth Collins	infection/agent; pharmacology; cancer cell biology; small GTPase regulation of intracellular traffic and cellular growth control	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Pharmacology; Microbiology; Biochemistry Molecular & Cell Biology; Genomics; Neurobiology & Behavior
Mathew DeLisa	infection/agent; molecular biotechnology; protein biogenesis and folding pathways; protein engineering	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Microbiology; Biomedical Engineering; Chemical Engineering
Eric Y. Denkers	infection/agent; cellular and molecular basis of immunity to intracellular parasites; ctyokine control of infection	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease
Gerald E. Duhamel	infection/agent; mechanisms of infectious diseases with particular emphasis on molecular mechanisms of bacterial infections in animal models of human diseases; host-pathogen relationships	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease
C. Drew Harvell	infection/agent; invertebrate zoology; evolution of invertebrate life histories; colonial invertebrates	Zoology & Wildlife Conservation; Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
John March	signal and metabolic engineering; synthetic biology; food engineering; novel drug delivery systems; intestinal ecology; bioprocessing; environmental biotechnology; MEMS	Immunology & Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Biological and Environmental Engineering; Food Science & Technology
Hélène Marquis	infection/agent; pathogenesis of Listeria monocytogenes; mechanisms of regulation of specific virulence factors; signaling during bacterial cell-to-cell spread	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Food Science & Technology
Patrick L. McDonough	infection/agent; enteric bacterial infections; antimicrobial resistance; microbial fingerprinting	Comparative Biomedical Sciences
John Parker	infection/agent; retroviruses; calciviruses; virus structure; virus assembly; virus-host interactions; oncolytic viruses; virology	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease;
Colin Parrish	infection/agent; viral genetics and function	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease; Genetics, Genomics and Development
David Russell	infection/agent; the biology of intracellular infection with emphasis on mycobacteria	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology
Marci Scidmore	infection/agent; biology of intracellular infection by the Chlamydia bacterium	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease; Microbiology
Kenneth Simpson	host pathogen interactions in inflammatory bowel disease and Helicobacter infection of the gastrointestinal	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease
Holger Sondermann	infection/agent; structural biology; cell signaling; biochemistry; biophysics	Immunology & Infectious Disease; Pharmacology; Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology; Biophysics
Gary R. Whittaker	Pathogenesis of influenza viruses, coronaviruses and arenaviruses. Host range and receptors, activation of membrane fusion, macrophage- and neuro-tropism, anti-viral therapeutics, diagnostic tests, virus-bacteria co-infections	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Pharmacology; Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology
Martin Wiedmann	infection/agent; molecular pathogenesis of food-borne and zoonotic bacterial diseases	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Microbiology; Food Science & Technology

POPULATION & CLINICAL STUDIES

Faculty	Research area	Graduate Field Membership (follow links to Biological & Biomedical Sciences Fields)
Dorothy Ainsworth	population & clinical studies; limitations of the respiratory system in health and in disease to equine athletic performance; pulmonary biology; immunology and inflammation	Comparative Biomedical Sciences;Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Stephen C. Barr	population & clinical studies; pathogenesis of protozoal disease (Typanosoma cruzi, Leishmania giardia): platelet function	Comparative Biomedical Sciences
Edward J. Dubovi	population & clinical studies; virology; viral pathogenesis; BVD virus; EAV virus	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Microbiology
Hollis N. Erb	population & clinical studies; herd health management; epidemiology; general, veterinary, and clinical epidemiology	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Animal Science; Epidemiology
Yrjö T. Gröhn	population & clinical studies; veterinary epidemiology; production medicine; public health; epidemiological and economic methods; risk analysis, communication and policy	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Animal Science; Epidemiology; Risk Analysis, Communication & Policy
George V. Kollias	population & clinical studies; infectious diseases of free-ranging and captive wildlife; avian pharmacokinetics	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Zoology & Wildlife Conservation
Hussni Mohammed	population & clinical studies; epidemiology of infectious diseases; quantitative and analytical epidemiology; epidemiological risk assessment and analysis; veterinary public health and food safety; production medicine	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Zoology & Wildlife Conservation; Epidemiology; Risk Analysis, Communication & Policy
Daryl V. Nydam	population & clinical studies; epidemiology of food security/safety issues related to dairy production medicine; study of economically important infectious diseases, particularly zoonoses, subclinical diseases of perapaturient cattle and reproductive efficacy	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease; Animal Science; Epidemiology
Janet Scarlett	population & clinical studies; epidemiology of companion animal diseases; occupation epidemiology	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Epidemiology
Ynte Hein Schukken	population & clinical studies; udder health in well-managed dairy herds based on epidemiology and pathobiology	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Immunology & Infectious Disease; Animal Science; Epidemiology; Food Science & Technology
Lorin Dean Warnick	population & clinical studies; dairy cattle epidemiologyl preharvest food safety; Salmonellosis in cattle; infectious disease	Comparative Biomedical Sciences; Epidemiology; Food Science & Technology
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	Comparative Biomedical Sciences;