College of Agriculture & Natural Resources

Dr. Eric Benson
Associate Professor, Bioresources Engineering

Keywords: emergency depopulation of poultry, decontamination of avian diseases, modeling and development of poultry environment control systems

Dr. Robert Dyer
Associate Professor, Veterinary Medicine, Production Medicine, Large Animal Immunology

Keywords: respiratory diseases of cattle and swine, dairy cattle health, large animal lameness

Dr. Marlene Emara
Associate Professor, Avian Immunology

Keywords: mechanisms that regulate the immune response of broiler chickens to avian pathogens

Dr. Serguei Golovan
Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology

Keywords: avian microbiology, molecular biology, genomics

Dr. Calvin Keeler, Jr.
Professor, Molecular Virology

Keywords: genomic factors influencing pathogenicity of avian herpes viruses and mycoplasmas and host immune response to these and other pathogens

Dr. Robin Morgan
Dean, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Professor, Molecular Biology

Keywords: molecular biology of Marek's disease virus, vaccine development, microarray technology

Dr. Mark Parcells
Associate Professor, Avian Molecular Virology

Keywords: Marek’s disease virus, evolution of virulence

Dr. Larry A. Cogburn
Professor, Avian Physiology

Keywords: comparative physiology of domestic animals, avian physiology

Dr. John Dohms
Professor, Microbiology of Infectious Disease

Keywords: avian mycoplasmas, respiratory infections in chickens, urinogenital infections in chickens,  immunoglobins

Dr. Jack Gelb
Chairperson, Animal and Food Sciences
Professor, Avian Virology

Keywords: surveillance, epidemiology, pathogenesis and control of respiratory and immunosuppressive viral diseases of poultry, development and evaluation of vaccines

Dr. Tanya Gressley
Assistant Professor, Dairy Nutrition and Health

Keywords: dairy nutrition and dairy health, focusing on how cow management and feeding practices impact cow health.

Dr. Limin Kung, Jr.
Professor, Dairy (Ruminant) Nutrition

Keywords: ruminant nutrition and microbiology with the goal of improving the productive efficiency of ruminants

Dr. William Saylor
Professor, Monogastric Nutrition

Keywords: poultry nutrition, nutritional strategies for reducing nutrient emissions, especially phosphorus, to the environment through improved nutrient utilization in broilers

Dr. Carl Schmidt
Associate Professor, Genomics

Keywords: Herpesviruses in chickens & turkeys, Marek’s disease virus, DNA sequencing & array analysis, host cell response to infection, fusion of proteins, confocal microscopy