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GGCP Faculty

There are approximately 100 faculty members in the Graduate Group in Comparative Pathology representing most departments in the Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.

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Faculty from the School of
Veterinary Medicine

Faculty from the
College of Engineering


Anatomy, Physiology and
Cell Biology


D.M. Hyde - Pulmonary diseases

K.C. Lloyd - Hormonal and neural mechanisms underlying enterogastric reflexes; developmental physiology; modeling; molecular biology and physiology; conditional mutagenesis and transgenics.

S.A. Meyers - Equine and primate sperm biology; subfertility and cryobiology

L.A. Miller - Lung mucosal immunology

K.E. Pinkerton - Pulmonary diseases

C.G. Plopper - Pulmonary diseases

E.S. Schelegle - Pulmonary diseases

S. Stover - Orthopedic diseases

F. Tablin - Platelet physiology, biophysics and biochemistry; strategies for long-term storage of platelets

L.S. Van Winkle - Pulmonary cell biology and toxicology

C. Yellowley - Mechanical control of bone remodeling at the cellular level

Medicine and Epidemiology

J.E. Foley - Microbiology and epidemiology of infectious diseases of veterinary hosts

R.P. Hedrick - Infectious diseases of fish and shellfish

B.R. Hoar - Infectious disease, epidemiology of livestock

L.R. Johnson - Clinical respiratory medicine in dogs and cats; pulmonary vascular disease; vascular biology and cell signaling

M.D. Kittleson - Acquired cardiovascular/myocardial diseases

J.E. Madigan - Equine infectious diseases

N.C. Pedersen - Virology; immunology; immunopathology; animal models for AIDS (FIV)

E.E. Sparger - Viral pathogenesis

J.E. Sykes - Clinical infectious diseases of dogs and cats

J.L. Watson - Cellular and molecular bases of allergic response in horses

Molecular Biosciences

T.W. North - Antiviral drugs and viral resistance using FIV and SIV models

P.R. Vulliet - Cellular mechanisms of signal transduction/biochemistry

Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

S.W. Barthold - Host-agent interactions during persistent infections

Center for Comparative Medicine

N. Baumgarth - Immune response to pathogens

D.L. Borjesson - Clinical pathology, hematopoiesis, cell-pathogen interaction and tick-borne disease

W.M. Boyce - Wildlife health; infectious diseases and parasites affecting wildlife

A.C. Brault - Arboviral pathogenesis and viral evolution

B.A. Byrne - Bacterial pathogenesis and host:pathogen interactions

M.M. Christopher - Oxidative pathology and biochemistry of erythrocytes

P.A. Conrad - Molecular parasitology

L.J. Gershwin - Immunologic mechanisms in respiratory disease - animal models of allergic asthma, pathogenesis of bovine respiratory syncytial virus; vaccinology

L.V. Kendall - Infectious disease and host immune responses to infectious disease

G.C. Lanzaro - Emerging insect-transmitted diseases of humans and animals

R.B. LeFebvre - Molecular biology and biochemistry

L.J. Lowenstine - Diseases of free ranging and captive wild animals; primate models for AIDS

N.J. MacLachlan - Immunopathology and viral pathogenesis

Lab

M.L. Marthas - Molecular virology; viral pathogenesis (also see the Primate Research Center)

C.J. Miller - Viral pathogenesis; mucosal immunology (also see the Primate Research Center)

W.A. Miller - Ecosystem health approaches to characterizing and managing zoonotic disease transmission; molecular epidemiology of protozoal and bacterial pathogens

F.C. Mohr - Cellular pathology

P.F. Moore - Immunopathology

L. Munson - Reproductive pathology and wildlife pathology

B.G. Murphy - Lentiviral molecular biology and pathology

B.I. Osburn -
Immunopathology, fetal disease

P.A. Pesavento - Feline calicivirus and emergent shelter pathogens

W.K. Reisen - Vector-borne disease

J.L. Stott - Immunology; virology

F.A. Uzal - Clostridial diseases of domestic and wild animals

D.W. Wilson - Pulmonary and toxicopathology

Lab

T. Yilma - Molecular virology

J.G. Zinkl - Neutrophil function in domestic animals and clinical pathology associated with environmental pollutants

M.H. Ziccardi - Wildlife and molecular epidemiology; diagnostic test development and validation for wildlife species; effects of petroleum on marine birds and mammals

Population Health and Reproduction

B.A. Ball - Gamete physiology and early embryonic loss in equids

D.L. Bannasch - Canine and equine genetics

R.H. BonDurant - Reproductive diseases in early embryonic life

C.J. Cardona - Pathogenesis of avian viral diseases

B.B. Chomel - Epidemiology of zoonoses (rabies, brucellosis, plague, food-borne)

A.J. Conley - Comparative molecular and biochemical regulation of steroidogenesis

J.S. Cullor - Neonatal immunology and defense mechanisms of the accessory system

T.B. Farver - Epidemiology and statistics

B. Lasley - Comparative reproductive endocrinology

I.K. Liu - Neutrophil and macrophage functions; gamete interactions

L.A. Lyons - Genetics of companion animals and primates

Lab

B.N. Sacks - Veterinary genetics

J.E. Santos - Dairy cattle nutrition and its relationship to lactation and reproduction

P.S. Wakenell - Avian disease research and clinical pathology

Primate Research Center

N.W. Lerche - Epidemiology and pathogenesis of retrovirus infections in nonhuman primates

M.L. Marthas - Molecular virology; viral pathogenesis (see also Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology)

M.B. McChesney - Viral immunology; cellular immune responses to viral infection; immunopathology of persistent virus infection; measles/rhesus macaque and SIV/rhesus models of human infection and disease; mechanisms of protective immunity for vaccination (see also Medical Pathology, School of Medicine)

C.J. Miller - Viral pathogenesis; mucosal immunology (see also Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology)

A.F. Tarantal - Reproductive physiology and developmental biology of the nonhuman primate

Surgical and Radiological Sciences

R.J. Brosnan - Mechanisms of anesthetic action

X. Chen - Comparative oncology; p53 tumor supressor

P.J. Dickinson - Canine primary brain tumors; molecular genetics

C.R. Gregory - Transplantation immunology

S.C. Haskins - Cardiopulmonary effects of anesthetics

K. Hayashi - Small-animal orthopedic surgery

J.H. Jones - Comparative cardiopulmonary and exercise physiology and pathophysiology; transport stress

R.A. leCouteur - Brain tumor therapy and effects of injury on the nervous system

M.H. MacDonald - Equine musculoskeletal disease

R. Pollard - Quantitative imaging techniques with computed tomography, MRI, and ultrasound; videofluoroscopy of swallowing disorders; interventional imaging techniques

E.P. Steffey - Anesthesia; critical patient care

J.R. Snyder - Comparative gastroenterology

A.P. Théon - Radiation oncology

E.R. Wisner - Contrast targeting mechanisms; contrast media development; computed tomography and magnetic resonance

Wildlife Health Center

J.A.K. Mazet - Effects of petroleum products on wildlife and treatment of exposed animals in disasters

M.H. Ziccardi - Wildlife and molecular epidemiology; diagnostic test development and validation for wildlife species; effects of petroleum on marine birds and mammals

Wildlife Health Center




Biomedical Engineering

S.I. Simon - Blood cell function, specifically neutrophils

 

Faculty from the College of
Ag & Environmental Science

Animal Science

J.F. Roser -
Reproductive physiology and endocrinology

  

Faculty from the
School of Medicine

Anatomy

K.L. Erickson - Macrophage immunobiology

W.B. Deng - Receptor biology and signal transduction. Nervous system development and disease

Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

C. Sweeney - Regulation of the ErbB family of receptor tyrosine kinases in breast tumor development and progression and regulation of bladder tumor progression and invasion by the lipid signaling pathways.

Dermatology

S.A. Grando - Immunopathology with blistering dermatoses

Hematology and Oncology

P. Kumaresan - Cancer and translational research; identification of novel molecular targeting ligands for cancer therapy

K.S. Lam - Application of combinatorial chemistry in basic research, drug development, and cancer proteomics

Internal Medicine

K. Abel - Viral immunology

M.M-J. Chang - Biology of conducting airway epithelium

S. Dandekar - Molecular pathology; animal models for AIDS

J.A. Nolta - Stem-cell-mediated tissue repair

J.S. Powell - Gene therapy of genetic disorders

T.P. Prindiville - Gastrointestinal immunology

M. Vajdy - Immunology; immunopathological disorders; mucosal immunology

J. Wu - Targeting therapy for hepatic injury and fibrosis

R. Wu - Biology of conducting airway epithelium

Medical Microbiology

C.L. Bevins - Innate immune responses, mucosal immunology, biochemistry, molecular biology

J.V. Solnick - Pathogenesis of Helicobacter pylori

J.H. Theis - Arthropod-borne agents; zoonoses; forensic pathology; food-borne parasites

J.V. Torres - Vaccines; virology; AIDS

R.M. Tsolis - Host-pathogen interactions; bacterial pathogenesis

Nephrology

R.H. Weiss - Cell cycle control as it relates to cancer and kidney disease

Neurology

T.Y. Chen - Structure and function of ion channels and transporters of various species, from torpedo fish to mammals

B.G. Lyeth - Investigation of mechanisms of pathology associated with traumatic brain injury

D.E. Pleasure - Mechanisms of neural cell damage in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis; pathophysiology of neuronal and oligodendroglial excitotoxicity; molecular aspects of Wallerian degeneration in the periheral nervous system

Orthopedic Surgery

S.H. Lo - Molecular mechanisms underlying the structure and function of focal adhesions

Otorhinolaryngology

H.A. Brodie - Ear and temporal bone pathology

E.N. Yamoah - Molecular and cellular physiology of hair cells in the inner ear

Pathology

A. Afify - Pathology and laboratory medicine

P.A. Barry - Mechanisms of viral pathogenesis and mechanisms of carcinogenesis

R.D. Cardiff - Experimental pathology and oncology

A.T.W. Cheung - Vascular pathology, hemorheology and microcirculation

W.G. Ellis - Comparative neuropathology

R. Green - Cellular function and metabolism

G.J. Kost - Clinical pathology/chemistry

P.A. Luciw - Molecular pathology; mechanisms of viral diseases and animal models for AIDS

M.B. McChesney - Viral immunology; cellular immune responses to viral infection; immunopathology of persistent virus infection; measles/rhesus macaque and SIV/rhesus models of human infection and disease; mechanisms of protective immunity for vaccination (see also Medical Pathology, School of Medicine)

J.W. Miller - B vitamin deficiencies and vascular disorders; neurodegenerative diseases; immune dysfunction

E.T. Sawai - Role of signal transduction pathways in AIDS and breast cancer

Pediatrics

J.A. Wiedeman - Biology of human cytomegalovirus latency

Human Physiology

F.R.E. Curry - Membrane biology and basic and translational research

J. Widdicombe - Epithelial biology; cystic fibrosis

Rheumatology

M.E. Gershwin - Immunopathology

M.F. Seldin - Human genetics

 
 

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