Cellular and Molecular Virology

The department has a broad-reaching program in virology covering viral infections of animals and humans. Research involves basic mechanisms of infection and propagation, the induction of disease, and the biology of viral infections in farm animals, wildlife and humans. Viral infections studied include avian flu, avian and equine herpes viruses, canine, reovirus and the retroviruses of fish.

Related: Cornell Virology Program

	Hector Aguilar-Carreno, PhD Professor of Virology Interactions between enveloped viruses and their host cells, with emphasis on emerging viruses
	Joel Baines, VMD, PhD James Law Professor of Virology Emeritus, Baker Institute for Animal Health
	Sarah Caddy, MA VetMB PhD DACVM FRCVS Associate Professor at Baker Institute for Animal Health
	Andrew Flyak, PhD Assistant Professor
	Rodman Getchell, PhD Assistant Research Professor Molecular diagnostics and emerging diseases of fish; Target animal safety studies for new aquaculture therapeutants and chemicals
	John Parker, BVMS, PhD Associate Professor of Virology at Baker Institute for Animal Health 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
	Colin Parrish, PhD John M. Olin Professor of Virology at Baker Institute for Animal Health Structure and function of canine parvovirus, crystallography, virus assembly, mechanism of host cell invasion
	Luis Schang, PhD Professor of Virology at Baker Institute for Animal Health Chemical virology to study viral entry, gene expression, epigenetics, replication, and pathogenesis while discovering new opportunities for antiviral development
	Gerlinde Van de Walle, DVM, PhD Associate Professor of Viral Pathogenesis at Baker Institute for Animal Health Virus-natural host models to study viral pathogenesis; adult stem cell biology
	Gary Whittaker, PhD Professor of Virology Endocytosis of influenza virus, structure-function studies on influenza HA, entry of coronaviruses and arenaviruses into host cells, viral pathogenesis, viral-bacterial co-infections