College of Agriculture & Natural Resources

Dr. Joan Burnside
Professor, Avian Genomics

Keywords: chicken genomics, chicken ESTs, DNA microarrays, vaccine efficiency, growth hormone regulation

Dr. Larry Cogburn
Professor, Avian Physiology

Keywords: functional mapping of growth regulating genes, broiler chickens

Dr. John Dohms
Professor, Microbiology of Infectious Disease

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

Dr. Robert Dyer
Associate Professor, Veterinary Medicine, Production Medicine, and 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. Jack Gelb
Chair, 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. Serguei Golovan
Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology

Keywords: avian microbiology, molecular biology, genomics

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. 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. Kali Kniel
Assistant Professor, Food Parasitology & Virology

Keywords: food and waterborne protozoa and viruses and use of non-thermal methods to inactivate these organisms on fresh produce

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 of Avian Molecular Virology

Keywords: Marek’s disease virus, evolution of virulence

Dr. Carl Schmidt
Associate Professor, Genomics

Keywords: herpesviruses in chickens, lytic and latent infections, Marek’s disease virus, Herpesvirus of turkey, DNA sequencing , DNA array analysis, examination of host cell response to infection

Dr. Harsh Bais
Assistant Professor, Plant/Soil Interface

Keywords: Rhizosphere biology, root exudation, plant biology and chemistry

Dr. Nicole Donofrio
Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology

Keywords: interactions between plants and fungal plant pathogens, gene regulation and interactions between pathogens and their hosts

Dr. Jeffry Fuhrmann
Professor, Soil and Environmental Microbiology

Keywords: microbial community responses to environmental perturbations; effects of soil-borne viruses on microbial communities; symbiotic nitrogen fixation

Dr. Pamela Green
Crawford H. Greenewalt Chair, Plant Molecular Biology

Keywords: gene expression in higher plants, fate of mRNA molecules

Dr. Jung-Youn Lee
Associate Professor, Plant Molecular Biology

Keywords: plant cell communication through plasmodesmata, plant growth and development

Dr. Blake Meyers
Professor, Plant Molecular Biology

Keywords: bioinformatcs, plant functional genomics, small RNA, DNA methylation, genomes of rice

Dr. Janine Sherrier
Associate Professor, Plant Biochemistry and Plant Microbe Interactions

Keywords: symbiosis between legumes and soil microbes, nitrogen fixation, plant pathogen interactions, plant development, proteomics

Dr. Randall Wisser
Assistant Professor, Plant Genetics

Keywords:Analysis natural variation, quantitative genetics, artificial selection, disease resistance

Dr. Eric Wommack
Associate Professor, Environmental Microbiology

Keywords: viruses and viral infection in microbial communities, population level processes in microbial communities