Pathobiological Sciences (Graduate Program)

Administration

Graduate Faculty

Basel Abuaita – Host-pathogen interactions with the human pathogens like Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella enteric species.
William Beavers – Host-pathogen interactions, bacterial infections, mass spectrometry, metabolomics and lipidomics.
Udeni B. R. Balasuriya – Molecular virology, nidoviruses, virus-host interactions, viral pathogenesis
Wesley Burnside – Associate Director of DLAM and Chief Clinical Veterinarian, Assistant Professor
Mariano Carossino – Pathogenesis and immunopathology of RNA viruses combining translational animal models and modern, molecular pathology
Shafiqul Chowdhury – Molecular virology, neurovirology, neuro-pathogenesis and recombinant herpes virus vaccine technology
Rebecca Catherine Christofferson –Infectious disease transmission, quantitative methodologies for surveillance & transmission modeling, & data communication
Fabio Del Piero – Pathology, comparative pathology and infectious diseases with emphasis on viral disease and zoonotic agents
Antonieta Guerrero-Plata – Viral immunology, focused on innate immunity, dendritic cells and respiratory viruses
Samithamby Jeyaseelan – Immunology/Infectious disease, pulmonary inflammation and host defense against bacterial pathogens.
Seetharama D. Jois – Cancer immunology and computation and structural biology. Design of peptides and peptidomimetics targeting EGFR related cancer and immunomodulation. Drug design and discovery.
Weishan Huang – Innate and adaptive immune response to viral infections including influenza and SARS-CoV-2. Molecular sensors for diagnosis of infectious diseases.
Konstantin Gus Kousoulas – Virology and biotechnology, molecular biology and pathogenesis of herpes virus and coronaviruses, application of viral vectors for gene therapy, development of DNA-based methods for diagnosis of infectious disease pathogens and genetic diseases. Oncolytic immune-virotherapy for cancer (breast cancer, melanoma).
Ingeborg Langohr – Inflammatory response in neoplastic and infectious diseases through use of both spontaneous and induced animal models (adjunct faculty)
Jeongha Lee – Diagnostics, anatomic pathology
Juan J. Martinez – Adherence of Rickettsia to host cells: identification of mammalian receptors for rickettsia adherence.
Jose Cesar Menk –Diagnostic anatomic pathology in multiple animal species, with special emphasis on neuropathology and dermatopathology
Christine B. Navarre – Nutrition infectious diseases and husbandry of small ruminants (adjunct faculty)
Emi Sasaki – Veterinary Pathology, major interest is infectious diseases of both domestic and non-domestic animals.
Brent Stanfield  Assistant Professor of Viral Oncology.  Oncogenic viruses and animal models. development of immune-competent small animal models to study gamma herpesviruses (KSHV and EBV) and human papillomavirus (HPV) in the context of viral oncogenesis and immune deficiency
Rhett Stout –Laboratory animal medicine, anesthesiology, medicinal plants, biocontainment/disinfection
Adriano Vatta – Veterinary parasitology; management of gastrointestinal parasites of livestock in the face of anthelmintic resistance
Gianluca Veggiani – Protein engineering, posttranslational regulation in infectious disease and cancer. Developing innovative technologies to understand pathogenic mechanisms in cancer and infections, and develop novel diagnostics, vaccines, antivirals, and immunotherapies. 

Degree Programs

• Biomedical and Veterinary Medical Sciences, M.S.  
• Biomedical and Veterinary Medical Sciences, Ph.D