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Field of Comparative Biomedical Sciences

The Field of Comparative Biomedical Sciences is made up of the following research concentrations:

An alphabetical list of the faculty in the Field is also a available.

Developmental & Reproductive Biology: study of mammalian reproduction and development, including basic studies of animal growth and differentiation as well as applied and clinical studies of reproduction
Antczak, Douglas F. V.M.D., Ph.D. | Immunogenetics and infectious diseases
Cohen, Paula Ph.D. | Mammalian meiosis; germ cell development; DNA repair mechanisms in recominbation; genetic basis for nondisjunction i oocytes; transgenic and knockout mouse models for studying meiosis and recombination
Farnum, Cornelia E. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Functional anatomy of cartilage and bone
Fortune, Joanne E. Ph.D. | Reproductive physiology and endocrinology
Garcia-Garcia, Maria Ph.D. | Developmental biology in mice and flies; genetics of developmental mechanisms that influece embryonic morphology
Gilbert, Robert O. B.V.Sc., M.Med.Vet. | Reproductive physiology and endocrinology; Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences: Theriogenology; bovine health and reproduction; canine genetics
Gunn, Teresa Ph.D. | In vivo and in vitro approaches to mouse developmental and physiological genetics; role of the Attractin-Mahogunin pathway in pigmentation and neurodegeneration; embryonic patterning; body weight regulation; collaborating with Cornell veterinary cardiology group to dissect the genetic basis of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death in dogs
Houpt, Katherine A. V.M.D., Ph.D. | Food intake controls, domestic-animal behavior
Levine, Roy A. M.A., Ph.D. | Developmental biology, growth control, and cancer
Lin, David M. Ph.D. | Mouse, olfaction, genetics, neurobiology, development, microarrays, genomics
Meyers-Wallen, Vicki N. V.M.D., Ph.D. | Inherited canine diseases; reproductive tract disorders
Nikitin, Alexander Y. M.D., Ph.D. | Modeling and targeting cancer in genetically modified mice
Noden, Drew M. Ph.D. | Developmental biology, craniofacial development
Parthsarathy, Mandayam V. Ph.D. | Cell biology function of actin-binding proteins and intercellular communication using cytological ultrastructural and molecular techniques
Place, Ned Ph.D., M.D. | Reproductive aging, physiology and endocrinology
Roberson, Mark Ph.D. | Molecular endocrinology in reproductive tissues
Schlafer, Donald H. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Reproductive pathology, infectious diseases
Suarez, Susan S. M.S., Ph.D. | Sperm motility regulation and transport in the female reproductive tract
Travis, Alexander V.M.D., Ph.D. | 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
van Nydam, Daryl DVM, Ph.D. | 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
Yen, Andrew M.S., Ph.D. | Leukemia, cell growth and differentiation, oncogenes/genetics

Developmental & Reproductive Biology | Structural & Functional Biology | Cellular & Molecular Medicine |
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Structural & Functional Biology: research in anatomy and the analysis of the structure and functions of tissues and tissue matrices, as well as related applied subjects such as surgery
Ainsworth, Dorothy Ph.D. | Limitations of the respiratory system in health and in disease to equine athletic performance, pulmonary biology, immunology and inflammation
deLisa, Matthew Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: molecular biotechnology; protein biogfenesis and folding pathways; protein engineering
Ducharme, Normand G. D.M.V., M.Sc. | Equine sport medicine, upper respiratory tract
Erb, Hollis N. Ph.D. | Epidemiology and dairy herd health
Farnum, Cornelia E. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Functional anatomy of cartilage and bone
Gilbert, Robert O. B.V.Sc.,M.Med.Vet. | Theriogenology; bovine health and reproduction; canine genetics
Gleed, Robin D. B.V.Sc. | Anesthesiology; Respiration; hypoxea and pulmonary circulation
Gröhn, Yrjö T. D.V.M., M.P.V.M., Ph.D. | Epidemiology, dairy herd health, ruminant metabolism
Guard, Charles L. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Clinical pharmacology, comparative gastroenterology
Horne, William D.V.M., Ph.D.| Structure, function and pharmacology of voltage-gated calcium channels; molecular mechanisms of pain and analgesia
Houpt, Katherine A. V.M.D., Ph.D. | Food intake controls, domestic-animal behavior
Maylin, George A. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Toxicology, drug testing

McDonough, Sean

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Use of contemporary methods to explore lymphocyte function in spontaneous veterinary diseases.

Meyers-Wallen, Vicki N. V.M.D., Ph.D. | Inherited canine diseases; reproductive tract disorders
Moise, N. Sydney D.V.M., M.S. | Arrhythmias, Sudden Death cardiology
Nikitin, Alexander Y. M.D., Ph.D. | Modeling and targeting cancer in genetically modified mice
Nixon, Alan J. B.V.Sc., M.S. | Joint pathobiology and cartilage resurfacing
Noden, Drew M. Ph.D. | Developmental biology, craniofacial development
Parthsarathy, Mandayam V. Ph.D. | Cell biology function of actin-binding proteins and inercellular communication using cytological ultrastructural and molecular techniques
Schlafer, Donald H. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Reproductive pathology, infectious diseases
Smith, Donald F. D.V.M. | Metabolic changes associated with gastrointestinal obstruction
Todhunter, Rory J. B.V.Sc., Ph.D. | Canine hip dysplasia, genetic linkage analysis, osteoarthritis
Trotter, Eric J. M.S., D.V.M. | Small-animal orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery
Wagner, Bettina D.V.M. | antibody mediated immune mechanisms in infectious disease and vaccination, allergic diseases, neo-natal tolerance and allergy predisposition, strategies to develop allergy treatments
Weiland, Gregory A. Ph.D. | Neuropharmacology, receptor mechanisms

Developmental & Reproductive Biology | Structural & Functional Biology | Cellular & Molecular Medicine |
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Cellular & Molecular Medicine: basic analysis of cell functions, including studies of signal transduction, vesicular transport and genetic and geomic analysis of cellular and organismal function
Ainsworth, Dorothy Ph.D. | Limitations of the respiratory system in health and in disease to equine athletic performance, pulmonary biology, immunology and inflammation
Baines, Joel D. V.M.D., Ph.D. | Molecular virology of Herpesviruses
Barr, Stephen C. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Pathogenesis of protozoal disease, platelet function
Beyenbach, Klaus W. Ph.D. | Mechanism and regulation of electrolyte transport across epithelia, from genotype to phenotype
Blissard, Gary W. Ph.D. | viral entry into insect host cells and viral gene expression
Bowman, Dwight D. M.S., Ph.D. | Parasitology
Bowser, Paul R. Ph.D. | Diseases of finfish, fish health management
Bynoe, Margaret Ph.D. | molecular basis of antigen induced immune suppression and the modulation of innate immune system response in immunity against cancer
Casey, James W. Ph.D. | Molecular virology; retrovirology
Center, Sharon A. D.V.M. | Liver and kidney diseases of small animals
Cerione, Richard A. Ph.D. | Biochemical and molecular pharmacology
Chang, Yung-Fu D.V.M., Ph.D. | Molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis, recombinant subunit and DNA vaccines, canine model of Lyme disease
Cohen, Paula Ph.D. | Mammalian meiosis; germ cell development; DNA repair mechanisms in recominbation; genetic basis for nondisjunction i oocytes; transgenic and knockout mouse models for studying meiosis and recombination
Collins, Ruth N. Ph.D. | Regulation of membrane traffic by small GTPases
deLisa, Matthew Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: molecular biotechnology; protein biogfenesis and folding pathways; protein engineering
Denkers, Eric Y. Ph.D. | Cellular and molecular basis of immunity to intracellular parasites; cytokine control of infection
Duhamel, Gerald A. DVM, PhD | Cellular & Molecular med; Infectious Diseases: molecular mechanisms of intestinal bacterial infections in animal models of human diseases
Fewtrell, Clare M.S. D.Phil. | Cellular pharmacology, immediate hypersensitivity, immunopharmacology
Flaminio, M. Julia D.V.M., M.S., Ph.D. | B cell response; neonatal and clinical immunology
Fortier, Lisa D.V.M., Ph.D. | Osteoarthritis and the link between insulin-like growth factor -- I and the small G-proteins, Cdc42, Rac and Rho
Gunn, Teresa Ph.D. | In vivo and in vitro approaches to mouse developmental and physiological genetics; role of the Attractin-Mahogunin pathway in pigmentation and neurodegeneration; embryonic patterning; body weight regulation; collaborating with Cornell veterinary cardiology group to dissect the genetic basis of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death in dogs
Horne, William D.V.M., Ph.D.| Structure, function and pharmacology of voltage-gated calcium channels; molecular mechanisms of pain and analgesia
Kollias, Jr., George V. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Infectious diseases of free-ranging and captive wildlife; avian pharmacokinetics
Kotlikoff, Michael I. V.M.D., Ph.D. | Molecular and cellular physiology, physiological genomics
Levine, Roy A. M.A., Ph.D. | Developmental biology, growth control, and cancer
Lin, David M. Ph.D. | Mouse, olfaction, genetics, neurobiology, development, microarrays, genomics
Lust, George Ph.D. | Biochemistry, canine hip dysplasia, osteoarthritis

McDonough, Sean

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Use of contemporary methods to explore lymphocyte function in spontaneous veterinary diseases.

Meyers-Wallen, Vicki N. V.M.D., Ph.D. | Inherited canine diseases; reproductive tract disorders
Mohammed, Hussni O. B.V.Sc., Ph.D. | Epidemiology of infectious diseases and production medicine
Moise, N. Sydney D.V.M., M.S. | Arrhythmias, Sudden Death cardiology
Nikitin, Alexander Y. M.D., Ph.D. | Modeling and targeting cancer in genetically modified mice
Nixon, Alan J. B.V.Sc., M.S. | Joint pathobiology and cartilage resurfacing
Nowak, Linda M. Ph.D. | Neurosciences, cellular physiology, receptor pharmacology, membrane biophysics
Oswald, Robert E. Ph.D. | Ion channels, acetylcholine receptors
Pauli, Bendicht U. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Cancer cell biology, mechanisms of invasiveness and metastasis
Roberson, Mark Ph.D. | Molecular endocrinology in reproductive tissues
Russell, David G. Ph.D. | biology of intracellular infection, with emphasis on Mycobacteria
Schat, Karel A. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Avian virology and immunology
Schlafer, Donald H. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Reproductive pathology, infectious diseases
Schukken, Ynte H. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Udder health in well managed dairy herds based on epidemiology and pathobiology of the disease
Schwark, Wayne S. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Neuropharmacology, veterinary clinical pharmacology
Sharp, Geoffrey W.G. Ph.D., D.Sc. | Mechanisms of control of insulin secretion and epithelial electrolyte transport
Simpson, Kenneth W. BVMS, MRCVS, Ph.D.| Gastroenterology
Stokol, Tracy B.V.Sc., Ph.D. | Hematopoietic and hemostatic disorders in animals and mechanisms of cancer metatasis
Tennant, Bud C. D.V.M. | Comparative gastroenterology
Todhunter, Rory J. B.V.Sc., Ph.D. | Canine hip dysplasia, genetic linkage analysis, osteoarthritis
Travis, Alexander V.M.D., Ph.D. | 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
Vogt, Volker M. Ph.D. | Structure and assembly of viruses; Retroviruses
Wagner, Bettina D.V.M. | antibody mediated immune mechanisms in infectious disease and vaccination, allergic diseases, neo-natal tolerance and allergy predisposition, strategies to develop allergy treatments
Weiland, Gregory A. Ph.D. | Neuropharmacology, receptor mechanisms
Weiss, Robert Ph.D. | Molecular mechanisms for the maintenance of genomic stability
Yen, Andrew M.S., Ph.D. | Leukemia, cell growth and differentiation, oncogenes/genetics

Developmental & Reproductive Biology | Structural & Functional Biology | Cellular & Molecular Medicine |
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Infectious Diseases: research on microbial pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. These studies include basic studies of the microorganisms themselves, as well as the pathogenesis in the host and immune responses).
Altier, Craig D.V.M., Ph.D. | Our research focuses on the molecular basis of Salmonella pathogenesis, studying the genetic and environmental control of epithelial cell invasion
Antczak, Douglas F. V.M.D., Ph.D. | Immunogenetics and infectious diseases
Appleton, Judith A. Ph.D. | Nematode parasites, parasitism, Trichinella spiralis, Parelaphostrongylus tenuis mucosal immunity
Baines, Joel D. V.M.D., Ph.D. | Molecular virology of Herpesviruses
Barr, Stephen C. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Pathogenesis of protozoal disease, platelet function
Batt, Carl A. Ph.D. | Rapid diagnostic methods, molecular epidemiology
Blissard, Gary W. Ph.D. | viral entry into insect host cells and viral gene expression
Bowman, Dwight D. M.S., Ph.D. | Parasitology
Bowser, Paul R. Ph.D. | Diseases of finfish, fish health management
Buckles, Elizabeth DVM, Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Pop med & Epi: Virology, population medicine, infectious diseases, disease diagnosis, wildlife diseases, conservation biology, pathology, avian diseases
Bynoe, Margaret Ph.D. | molecular basis of antigen induced immune suppression and the modulation of innate immune system response in immunity against cancer
Casey, James W. Ph.D. | Molecular virology; retrovirology
Chang, Yung-Fu D.V.M., Ph.D. | Molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis, recombinant subunit and DNA vaccines, canine model of Lyme disease
Clark, Theodore G. Ph.D. | Cutaneous immunity, host-parasite interactions, DNA vaccines, genetic factors underlying resistance to infectious disease
deLisa, Matthew Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: molecular biotechnology; protein biogfenesis and folding pathways; protein engineering
Denkers, Eric Y. Ph.D. | Cellular and molecular basis of immunity to intracellular parasites; cytokine control of infection
Dubovi, Edward J. Ph.D. | Virology, viral pathogenesis, BVD virus, EAV virus
Duhamel, Gerald A. DVM, PhD | Cellular & Molecular med; Infectious Diseases: molecular mechanisms of intestinal bacterial infections in animal models of human diseases
Erb, Hollis N. Ph.D. | Epidemiology and dairy herd health
Gröhn, Yrjö T. D.V.M., M.P.V.M., Ph.D. | Epidemiology, dairy herd health, ruminant metabolism
Kollias, Jr., George V. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Infectious diseases of free-ranging and captive wildlife; avian pharmacokinetics
Leifer, Cynthia Ph.D. | Understanding innate immunity from the inside out: toll-like receptors, signaling, dendritic cells and controlling micrbial infection
Marquis, Helene DVM, Ph.D. | Pathogenesis of Listeria monocytogenes, mechanisms of regulation of specific virulence factors, signaling during bacterial cell-to-cell spread
McDonough, Patrick M.S., Ph.D. | Enteric bacterial infections, antimicrobial resistance, and microbial fingerprinting

McDonough, Sean

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Use of contemporary methods to explore lymphocyte function in spontaneous veterinary diseases.

Mendez, Susana D.V.M., Ph.D. | immunity to parasites and vaccine development; genetic and immunological components of resistance/susceptibility to protozoan diseases
Mohammed, Hussni B.V.Sc., Ph.D. | Epidemiology of infectious diseases and production medicine
Osterrieder, Nikolaus Dr. Med.Vet., Ph.D. | Pathobiology and control of equine herpesvirus Type 1 and Marek's disease virus infections

Page, Rodney.

MS, DVM | Infectious Diseases:

Parker, John Ph.D. | Reoviruses, Caliciviruses, Virus-host interactions, Virus
Parrish, Colin R. Ph.D. | Viral genetics and function
Russell, David G. Ph.D. | biology of intracellular infection, with emphasis on Mycobacteria
Schat, Karel A. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Avian virology and immunology
Schukken, Ynte H. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Udder health in well managed dairy herds based on epidemiology and pathobiology of the disease
Schwark, Wayne S. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Neuropharmacology, veterinary clinical pharmacology
Scidmore, Marci A. Ph.D. | biology of intracellula infection by the Chlamydia bacterium
Simpson, Kenneth W. BVMS, MRCVS, Ph.D.| Gastroenterology
Stanhope, Michael BSc, Ph.D. | Molecular evolution and comparative genomics of infectious disease organisms
Tennant, Bud C. D.V.M. | Comparative gastroenterology
Torres, Alfonso D.V.M., Ph.D. | Virology and enteric infectious diseases
van Nydam, Daryl DVM, Ph.D. | 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
Wade, Susan Ph.D. | Pathogenesis, epidemiology and diagnosis of parasitic diseases in domestic and wild animals, food- and waterborne parasites, zoonoses, laboratory systems for rearing arthropods, development/modification of tests for parasite diagnosis
Wagner, Bettina D.V.M. | antibody mediated immune mechanisms in infectious disease and vaccination, allergic diseases, neo-natal tolerance and allergy predisposition, strategies to develop allergy treatments
Whittaker, Gary R. Ph.D. | Influenza virus, nuclear transport, cell biology of virus-host interactions
Wiedmann, Martin D.V.M., Ph.D. | Molecular pathogenesis of foodborne and zoonotic bacterial diseases

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Population Medicine & Epidemiology: studies of the epidemiology of infectious diseases, as well as of other research on the health and productivity of herds and flocks
Buckles, Elizabeth DVM, Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Pop med & Epi: Virology, population medicine, infectious diseases, disease diagnosis, wildlife diseases, conservation biology, pathology, avian diseases
Erb, Hollis N. Ph.D. | Epidemiology and dairy herd health
Gilbert, Robert O. B.V.Sc.,M.Med.Vet. | Theriogenology; bovine health and reproduction; canine genetics
Gleed, Robin D. B.V.Sc. | Anesthesiology; Respiration; hypoxea and pulmonary circulation
Gröhn, Yrjö T. D.V.M., M.P.V.M., Ph.D. | Epidemiology, dairy herd health, ruminant metabolism
Guard, Charles L. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Clinical pharmacology, comparative gastroenterology
Kollias, Jr., George V. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Infectious diseases of free-ranging and captive wildlife; avian pharmacokinetics
Mohammed, Hussni O. B.V.Sc., Ph.D. | Epidemiology of infectious diseases and production medicine
Scarlett, Janet M. D.V.M., M.P.H., Ph.D. | Epidemiology of companion-animal diseases, occupational epidemiology
Schukken, Ynte H. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Udder health in well managed dairy herds based on epidemiology and pathobiology of the disease
Stanhope, Michael BSc, Ph.D. | Molecular evolution and comparative genomics of infectious disease organisms
Tennant, Bud C. D.V.M. | Comparative gastroenterology
Torres, Alfonso D.V.M., Ph.D. | Virology and enteric infectious diseases
van Nydam, Daryl DVM, Ph.D. | 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
Wade, Susan Ph.D. | Pathogenesis, epidemiology and diagnosis of parasitic diseases in domestic and wild animals, food- and waterborne parasites, zoonoses, laboratory systems for rearing arthropods, development/modification of tests for parasite diagnosis
Warnick, Lorin D. D.V.M., Ph.D. | Dairy cattle epidemiology, pre-harvest food safety, salmonellosis in cattle
White, Maurice E. D.V.M. | Internal medicine, epidemiology of primary care

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