Faculty Alphabetically
Hector Aguilar-Carreno, PhD , Associate Professor of Virology
Research Interest: Interactions between enveloped viruses and their host cells, with emphasis on emerging viruses
Douglas Antczak, VMD, PhD, Professor of Equine Medicine at Baker Institute for Animal Health
Research Interest: Pregnancy immunology and placental development; equine genetics and genomic imprinting; equine immunology and infection
Judith A. Appleton, PhD, Vice Provost and Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Immunology
Research Interest: Exploring parasitic diseases of animals, including the ways in which the body fights (or fails to fight) infection with the worm Trichinella spiralis; the immune response to the worm Parelaphostrongylus tenuis; and ways to turn a parasite’s own chemical signals against itself.
Avery August, PhD, Professor of Immunology and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Research Interest: Immune cell activation and signaling in development, response to infection and respiratory inflammation
Dwight Bowman, PhD, Professor of Parasitology
Research Interest: Soil transmitted parasites, parasites of wildlife, biosurveillance
Margaret Bynoe, PhD, Professor of Immunology
Research Interest: The molecular basis of antigen induced immune suppression and the modulation of the innate immune system response in immunity against cancer; the role of adenosine in immune and central nervous system barrier regulation
James Casey, PhD, Associate Professor of Virology
Research Interest: Eukaryotic gene regulation, oncogenic transformation, viral replication, viral pathogenesis, toxicology
Donna Cassidy-Hanley, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate
Research Interest: Infectious and non-infectious diseases of fish; emerging pathogens of fish
P
amela Chang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Immunology
Research Interest: Identification of metabolites produced by the gut microbiota that regulate the host immune system and the development of chemical tools to modulate the immune response
Theodore Clark, PhD, Professor of Parasitology & Immunology and Interim Department Chair
Research Interest: Vaccine Development; Mitochondrial Dynamics; Evolution of Antigen Presentation in teleost fish; Biology of the ciliated protozoa Tetrahymena and Ichthyophthirius
R
odman Getchell, PhD, Assistant Research Professor
Research Interest: Molecular diagnostics and emerging diseases of fish; Target animal safety studies for new aquaculture therapeutants and chemicals
Cynthia Leifer, PhD, Associate Professor of Immunology
Research Interest: Understanding innate immunity from the inside out: Toll-like receptors, signaling, dendritic cells, and controlling microbial infection
H
élène Marquis, DMV, PhD, Professor of Microbiology
Research Interest: Pathogenesis of bacterial diseases affecting mammalian and aquatic animals.
J
ohn Parker, BVMS, PhD, Associate Professor of Virology at Baker Institute for Animal Health
Research Interest: Cell biology, biochemistry and molecular biology of mammalian orthoreovirus-host cell interactions. Use of reoviruses as oncotherapeutic agents. Role of virus-receptor interactions and entry on virulence of feline calicivirus
C
olin Parrish, PhD, John M. Olin Professor of Virology at Baker Institute for Animal Health
Research Interest: Structure and function of canine parvovirus, crystallography, virus assembly, mechanism of host cell invasion
Brian Rudd, MPH, PhD, Associate Professor of Immunology
Research Interest: Developmental immunology; host response to infection
D
avid Russell, PhD, William Kaplan Professor of Infection Biology
Research Interest: The biology of intracellular infection, with emphasis on Mycobacteria
Luis Schang, PhD, Professor of Virology and Director of Baker Institute
Research Interest: Chemical virology to study viral entry, gene expression, epigenetics, replication, and pathogenesis while discovering new opportunities for antiviral development
Jeongmin Song, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bacteriology
Research Interest: Pathogenesis of Salmonella Typhi; The role of Typhoid toxin in the development of Typhoid fever
E
lia Tait Wojno, PhD, Assistant Professor of Immunology at Baker Institute for Animal Health
Research Interest: Innate immune responses at mucosal surfaces during helminth infection and allergic disease; regulation of type 2 inflammation by cytokines and prostaglandins
G
erlinde Van de Walle, DVM, PhD, Associate Professor of Viral Pathogenesis at Baker Institute for Animal Health
Research Interest: Virus-natural host models to study herpes virus pathogenesis with an emphasis on epigenetic dysregulation mechanisms in infected cells; adult stem cell biology
B
rian VanderVen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bacteriology
Research Interest: Physiology of the intracellular pathogen M. tuberculosis
G
ary Whittaker, PhD, Professor of Virology
Research Interest: Endocytosis of influenza virus, structure-function studies on influenza HA, entry of coronaviruses and arenaviruses into host cells, viral pathogenesis, viral-bacterial co-infections
Lecturers
Dorothy Debbie, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
Courses: Veterinary Foundation Course Block IV; veterinary, graduate and undergraduate courses on microbiology and bacteriology
Araceli Lucio-Forster, PhD, Lecturer
Courses: Teaches Clinical Diagnostic Parasitology to 3rd and 4th year vet. students; co-instructor in Wildlife Parasitology and Parasites as Literary Protagonists
Donna Muscarella, Ph.D., Lecturer
Courses: Veterinary Foundation Course Block IV; graduate and undergraduate courses on toxicology
Adjunct & Courtesy Faculty
Gary Blissard, PhD, Adjunct Professor and Scientist, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
Research Interest: Biology and pathology of viral infections, particularly baculoviruses
Christian Epe, DMV, DipEVPC, Head Parasitology Research
Elanco R & D
Aarberg, Switzerland
Mary E. Martin, DVM, DACLAM, MPH, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Chief and Veterinarian,, Veterinary and Educational Services
Center for Animal Resources & Education
Klaus Osterrieder, DVM., PhD, Adjunct Professor
Director, Institut fuer Virologie
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Research Interest: Replication and pathogenesis of animal herpesviruses
Donald W. Stremme, VMD, Aquavet® Director
Relief Veterinarian at Aquariums and Zoos
Eugene T. Won, PhD, Senior Research Associate and Joint Appt/Animal Science
Research Interest: Research and teaching focus on fish biology and sustainable aquaculture
Emeritus
Dr. Stephen Bloom, Emeritus Professor of Immunotoxicology and Cancer Genetics / Graduate School Professor
Dr. Paul Bowser, Emeritus Professor of Aquatic Animal Medicine / Graduate School Professor
Dr. Rodney Dietert, Emeritus Professor of Immunotoxicology / Graduate School Professor
Dr. Karel (Ton) Schat, Emeritus Professor of Avian Virology and Immunology / Graduate School Professor