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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

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

Gunn, Teresa

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

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

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

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

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