Medical Genetics & Genomics Researchers
Research at the College of Veterinary Medicine meets the clinical and research demands of human and animal health. Consistently ranked among the top veterinary colleges in the country, the College leads in scientific discovery. Faculty expertise focuses on the interface between scientific research and clinical practice as well as a commitment to animal and human health.
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Canine hereditary eye disorders; genetic testing and medicine; Ophthalmology |
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| Environmental cues of the intestinal tract that induce virulence gene expression in Salmonella; Defining the genetic pathways by which environmental signals are communicated in Salmonella to cause changes in virulence gene expression; genetic and genomic approaches to characterize this regulon
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Biological interactions that take place between a mother and fetus during pregnancy genes & development;
Equine medicine with emphasis on immunology, genetics, and reproduction
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Canine genomics; genetics of adaptation and domestication |
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Comparative hemostasis: canine models of hereditary bleeding
disorders, biomarkers of hypercoagulability in animals; role of transmembrane
lipid movement in platelet apoptotic vs. activation response |
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Hepatic and renal biology; Genetics; Protosystemic Vascular anomalies and Microvascular Dysplasia; small animal medicine |
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Neurology; Craniocervical junction abnormalities |
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Molecular biology of infectious disease; DNA and recombinant subunit vaccine
development; molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis; immunopathology of
infectious disease; molecular diagnosis of infectious diseases; host defense
mechanisms; comparative genomics and proteomics |
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| Examination of how the chemical eactions of biology are organized in time and space, and how this organization is harnessed by cells to generate distinct outcomes; Molecular basis of cell growth and differentiation; Biochemical and genetic studies of Rab GTPases; Role of Yip family members in membrane traffic |
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| Identification and characterization of genes that are mutated in breast tumors; Reproductive biology; investigation of the role that novel, highly-abundant, and egg-restricted molecules play in reprogramming process; Epigenetic regulation of preimplantation development and embryonic fate decisions |
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| Equine immune system with specific
interest in immunodeficiencies and
developmental immunity of the foal; immunomodulatory therapies and response to vaccines; comparative animal model for human disease research |
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| Biomedical imaging; cellular excitation and relaxation; sarcoplasmic reticular calcium release channels; molecular processes underlying excitation-contraction coupling; sarcolemnal ion channels; molecular processes underlying cardiac stem cell and smooth muscle cell development and function |
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| Transcriptional and cellular control of tissue morphogenesis; molecular and cellular events that direct the formation of tissues and organs during vertebrate embryogenesis; cell signaling; cellular behaviors and cell shape during development |
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Biomedical imaging; cellular excitation and relaxation;
sarcoplasmic reticular calcium release channels; molecular processes underlying
excitation-contraction coupling; sarcolemnal ion channels;
molecular processes underlying cardiac stem cell and smooth
muscle cell development and function
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| Developmental biology; axon guidance and target formation during the development of the mouse olfactory system, using genetic, in vitro, and genomic approaches |
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| Animal models of inherited human disorders as a means to understand sex determination and differentiation at the molecular level; inherited disorders of the reproductive tract |
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| Clinical cardiology; heart disease; canine cardiac arrhythmias |
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| Genetic modeling of human cancer in the mouse; early detection and monitoring of carcinogenesis; neoplasms of reproductive and endocrine systems; Role of stem cell compartment in carcinogenesis, mouse models, stem cell pathology |
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| Mouse genetics and functional genomics; genomic instability; genetic recombination; genetics of gametogenesis and development; use of ES cells to mutagenize the mouse genome |
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| Internal Medicine and gastroenterology; role of Helicobacter in gastrointestinal disease; Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
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| Molecular evolution and comparative genomics of infectious disease organisms |
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| Genetic regulation of growth in the canine; identification of genes related to risk of specific cancers in particular canine breeds; study of genes that contribute to body size in the dog |
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Biomedical mechanics; canine hip dysplasia; osteoarthritis; genetics linkage analysis |
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Simple Mendelian Traits |
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Cell cycle regulation; cell differentiation; myeloblastic hematological tumor cell line, HL-60; Cancer chemoprevention; biomaterials & drug delivery; oncogenes; genetic |
