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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 printed below. Faculty are also listed by research concentration.

Ainsworth, Dorothy

Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Structural & Functional Biology: Limitations of the respiratory system in health and in disease to equine athletic performance, pulmonary biology, immunology and inflammation

Altier, Craig

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases: 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. | Developmental & Reproductive Biology; Infectious Diseases: Immunogenetics and infectious diseases

Appleton, Judith A.

Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases: Nematode parasites, parasitism, Trichinella spiralis, Parelaphostrongylus tenuis mucosal immunity

Bailey, Michele

Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases: animal medicine-- CARE Residency Program

Baines, Joel D.

V.M.D., Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Molecular virology of Herpesviruses

Barr, Stephen C.

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Pathogenesis of protozoal disease, platelet function

Batt, Carl A.

Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases: Rapid diagnostic methods, molecular epidemiology

Beyenbach, Klaus W.

Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Mechanism and regulation of electrolyte transport across epithelia, from genotype to phenotype

Blissard, Gary W.

Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: viral entry into insect host cells and viral gene expression

Bowman, Dwight D.

M.S., Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Parasitology

Bowser, Paul R.

Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: 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. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Infectious Diseases: molecular basis of antigen induced immune suppression and the modulation of innate immune system response in immunity against cancer

Casey, James W.

Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Molecular virology; retrovirology

Center, Sharon A.

D.V.M. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Liver and kidney diseases of small animals

Cerione, Richard A.

Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Biochemical and molecular pharmacology

Chang, Yung-Fu

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis, recombinant subunit and DNA vaccines, canine model of Lyme disease

Clark, Theodore G.

Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases: Cutaneous immunity, host-parasite interactions, DNA vaccines, genetic factors underlying resistance to infectious disease

Cohen, Paula

Ph.D. | Developmental & Reproductive Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: 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. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine: 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. | Infectious Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Cellular and molecular basis of immunity to intracellular parasites; cytokine control of infection

Dubovi, Edward J.

Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases: Virology, viral pathogenesis, BVD virus, EAV virus

Ducharme, Normand G.

D.M.V., M.Sc. | Structural & Functional Biology: Equine sport medicine, upper respiratory tract

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. | Population Medicine & Epidemiology; Structural & Functional Biology; Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and dairy herd health

Farnum, Cornelia E.

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Structural & Functional Biology; Developmental & Reproductive Biology: Functional anatomy of cartilage and bone

Fewtrell, Clare M.S.

D.Phil. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Cellular pharmacology, immediate hypersensitivity, immunopharmacology

Flaminio, M. Julia

D.V.M., M.S., Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine: B cell response; neonatal and clinical immunology

Fortier, Lisa

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Osteoarthritis and the link between insulin-like growth factor -- I and the small G-proteins, Cdc42, Rac and Rho

Fortune, Joanne E.

Ph.D. | Developmental & Reproductive Biology: Reproductive physiology and endocrinology

Garcia-Garcia, Maria

Ph.D. | Developmental & Reproductive Biology: developmental biology in mice and flies; genetics of developmental mechanisms that influece embryonic morphology

Gilbert, Robert O.

B.V.Sc., M.Med.Vet. | Developmental & Reproductive Biology; Structural and Functional Biology: Reproductive physiology and endocrinology; Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences: Theriogenology; bovine health and reproduction; canine genetics

Gleed, Robin D.

B.V.Sc. | Structural & Functional Biology; Population Medicine & Epidemiology: Anesthesiology; Respiration; hypoxea and pulmonary circulation

Gröhn, Yrjö T.

D.V.M., M.P.V.M., Ph.D. | Population Medicine & Epidemiology; Infectious Diseases; Structural & Functional Biology: Epidemiology, dairy herd health, ruminant metabolism

Guard, Charles L.

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Population Medicine & Epidemiology; Structural & Functional Biology: Clinical pharmacology, comparative gastroenterology

Horne, William

D.V.M., Ph.D.| Structural & Functional Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Structure, function and pharmacology of voltage-gated calcium channels; molecular mechanisms of pain and analgesia

Houpt, Katherine A.

V.M.D., Ph.D. | Developmental & Reproductive Biology; Structural & Functional Biology: Food intake controls, domestic-animal behavior

Jin, Moonsoo

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Structural and Functional Biology: protien-protien interactions that occur at virus entry into host cells and escape from endosome into cytosol, between celluar adhesion molecules in the immune system and tumor development

Kollias, Jr., George V.

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Population Medicine & Epidemiology: Infectious diseases of free-ranging and captive wildlife; avian pharmacokinetics

Kotlikoff, Michael I.

V.M.D., Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Molecular and cellular physiology, physiological genomics

Lee, S. Sylvia

Ph.D. | research interests should be listed as Molecular mechanisms of stress response and longevity determination

Leifer, Cynthia

Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases: Understanding innate immunity from the inside out: toll-like receptors, signaling, dendritic cells and controlling micrbial infection

Levine, Roy A.

M.A., Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Developmental & Reproductive Biology: Developmental biology, growth control, and cancer

Lin, David M.

Ph.D. | Development & Reproductive Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Mouse, olfaction, genetics, neurobiology, development, microarrays, genomics

Lust, George

Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Biochemistry, canine hip dysplasia, osteoarthritis

Marquis, Helene

DVM, Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases: Pathogenesis of Listeria monocytogenes, mechanisms of regulation of specific virulence factors, signaling during bacterial cell-to-cell spread

Maylin, George A.

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Structural & Functional Biology: Toxicology, drug testing

McDonough, Patrick

M.S., Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases: 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. | Infectious Diseases: immunity to parasites and vaccine development; genetic and immunological components of resistance/susceptibility to protozoan diseases

Meyers-Wallen, Vicki N.

V.M.D., Ph.D. | Developmental & Reproductive Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Structural & Functional Biology: Inherited canine diseases; reproductive tract disorders

Mohammed, Hussni O.

B.V.Sc., Ph.D. | Population Medicine & Epidemiology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology of infectious diseases and production medicine

Moise, N. Sydney

D.V.M., M.S. | Structural & Functional Biology: Arrhythmias, Sudden Death cardiology

Nikitin, Alexander Y.

M.D., Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Structural & Functional Biology; Developmental & Reproductive Biology: Modeling and targeting cancer in genetically modified mice

Nixon, Alan J.

B.V.Sc., M.S. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Structural & Functional Biology: Joint pathobiology and cartilage resurfacing

Noden, Drew M.

Ph.D. | Structural & Functional Biology; Developmental & Reproductive Biology: Developmental biology, craniofacial development

Nowak, Linda M.

Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Neurosciences, cellular physiology, receptor pharmacology, membrane biophysics

O'Brien, Timothy

Ph.D. | Mouse Developmental Genetics: Cell signaling and genoc regulatory networks, genome organization and patterning

Osterrieder, Nikolaus

Dr. Med.Vet., Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases: Pathobiology and control of equine herpesvirus Type 1 and Marek's disease virus infections

Oswald, Robert E.

Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Ion channels, acetylcholine receptors

Page, Rodney.

MS, DVM | Infectious Diseases:

Parker, John

DVM, Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases: Reoviruses, Caliciviruses, Virus-host interactions, Virus

Parrish, Colin R.

Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases: Viral genetics and function

Parthsarathy, Mandayam V.

Ph.D. | Structural & Functional Biology: Cell biology function of actin-binding proteins and inercellular communication using cytological ultrastructural and molecular techniques

Pauli, Bendicht U.

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Cancer cell biology, mechanisms of invasiveness and metastasis

Place, Ned

Ph.D., M.D. | Developmental & Reproductive Biology: Reproductive aging, physiology and endocrinology

Qi, Ling

Ph.D. | Endocrinology; Gastrointestinal and Metabolic Physiology; Molecular and Cellular Physiology: transcriptional control of metabolic syndrome; unfolded protein response; obesity and diabetes

Roberson, Mark

Ph.D. | Developmental & Reproductive Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Molecular endocrinology in reproductive tissues

Russell, David G.

Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: biology of intracellular infection, with emphasis on Mycobacteria

Scarlett, Janet M.

D.V.M., M.P.H., Ph.D. | Population Medicine & Epidemiology: Epidemiology of companion-animal diseases, occupational epidemiology

Schat, Karel A.

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Avian virology and immunology

Schimenti, John

Ph.D. | Developmental and Reproductive Biology: Mouse genetics and functional genomics; genomic instability; genetic recombination; genetics of gametogenesis and development; use of ES cells to mutagenize the mouse genome

Schlafer, Donald H.

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Developmental & Reproductive Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Structural & Functional Biology: Reproductive pathology, infectious diseases

Schukken, Ynte H.

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Population Medicine & Epidemiology; Infectious Diseases: Udder health in well managed dairy herds based on epidemiology and pathobiology of the disease

Schwark, Wayne S.

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Infectious Diseases: Neuropharmacology, veterinary clinical pharmacology

Scidmore, Marci A.

Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases: biology of intracellula infection by the Chlamydia bacterium

Sharp, Geoffrey W.G.

Ph.D., D.Sc. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Mechanisms of control of insulin secretion and epithelial electrolyte transport

Simpson, Kenneth W.

BVMS, MRCVS, Ph.D.| Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Infectious Diseases: Gastroenterology

Smith, Donald F.

D.V.M. | Structural & Functional Biology: Metabolic changes associated with gastrointestinal obstruction

Stanhope, Michael

BSc, Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Population Medicine & Epidemiology: Molecular evolution and comparative genomics of infectious disease organisms

Stokol, Tracy

B.V.Sc., Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular: Hematopoietic and hemostatic disorders in animals and mechanisms of cancer metatasis

Suarez, Susan S.

M.S., Ph.D. | Developmental & Reproductive Biology: Sperm motility regulation and transport in the female reproductive tract

Tennant, Bud C.

D.V.M. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Infectious Diseases; Population Medicine & Epidemiology: Comparative gastroenterology

Todhunter, Rory J.

B.V.Sc., Ph.D. | Structural & Functional Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Canine hip dysplasia, genetic linkage analysis, osteoarthritis

Torres, Alfonso

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Population Medicine & Epidemiology; Infectious Diseases: Virology and enteric infectious diseases

Travis, Alexander

V.M.D., Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Developmental & Reproductive Biology: 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

Trotter, Eric J.

M.S., D.V.M. | Structural & Functional Biology: Small-animal orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery

Van Nydam, Daryl

DVM, Ph.D. | Pop Med & Epi; Infecitous Diseases, Devel. & Repro Bio: 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

Vogt, Volker M.

Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Structure and assembly of viruses; Retroviruses

Wade, Susan

Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases; Population Medicine & Epidemiology: 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. | Structural & Functional Biology; Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Infectious Diseases: antibody mediated immune mechanisms in infectious disease and vaccination, allergic diseases, neo-natal tolerance and allergy predisposition, strategies to develop allergy treatments

Warnick, Lorin D.

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Population Medicine & Epidemiology: Dairy cattle epidemiology, pre-harvest food safety, salmonellosis in cattle

Weiland, Gregory A.

Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Structural & Functional Biology: Neuropharmacology, receptor mechanisms

Weiss, Robert

Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine: Molecular mechanisms for the maintenance of genomic stability

White, Maurice E.

D.V.M. | Population Medicine & Epidemiology: Internal medicine, epidemiology of primary care

Whittaker, Gary R.

Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases: Influenza virus, nuclear transport, cell biology of virus-host interactions

Wiedmann, Martin

D.V.M., Ph.D. | Infectious Diseases: Molecular pathogenesis of foodborne and zoonotic bacterial diseases

Yen, Andrew

M.S., Ph.D. | Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Developmental & Reproductive Biology: Leukemia, cell growth and differentiation, oncogenes/genetics