Jeffrey J. Adamovicz, PhD
Associate Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-3261
Email: adamoviczj@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Vaccine Development; Animal Model Development; Study of Zoonotic Disease; Biocontainment Experimentation; Host-Pathogen Interactions
Yuksel Agca, DVM, MS, PhD
Associate Professor
Phone Number: 573-884-0311
Email: agcay@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Reproduction; Cryobiology; Comparative Medicine; Transgenic Technology
James M. Amos-Landgraf, PhD
Associate Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-1514
Email: amoslandgrafj@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Comparative Medicine; Gene Expression & Control; Molecular Genetics & Genomic Analysis; Translational Medicine
Deborah Anderson, PhD
Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-7038
Email: andersondeb@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Yersinia pestis; Innate Immunity; Transmission; Biocontainment
Ravi Barabote, PhD
Associate Teaching Professor
Phone Number: 573-884-2203
Email: rdbr7d@missouri.edu
Brenda T. Beerntsen, PhD
Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-5033
Email: BeerntsenB@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Mosquito-Parasite Interactions; Mosquito Immunity; Parasites; Malaria; Lymphatic Filariasis
Charles R. Brown, PhD
Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-1628
Email: brownchar@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Innate Immunity; Lyme disease; Borrelia burgdorferi; Arthritis; Eicosanoids
Elizabeth C. Bryda, MS, PhD
Curators’ Distinguished Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-5504
Email: brydae@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Embryonic stem cells; Kidney Disease; Deafness; Comparative Medicine; Rodent Genetics
*Annabelle Burnum, DVM, DACVP
Assistant Clinical Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-6811
Email: aburnum@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Pathology
Michael Calcutt, PhD
Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-1291
Email: calcuttm@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Mycoplasmas; Animal Pathogens; Mobile Genetic Elements; Surface Antigens; Horizontal Gene Transfer
Lyndon M. Coghill, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-3026
Email: lcoghill@missouri.edu
*Maria Dashek
Assistant Clinical Professor
Daniel J. Davis, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Phone Number: 573-884-1804
Email: davisdaniel@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Genetic engineering; CRISPR-Cas; Animal Modeling; Transgenic technology
*Michelle DeCourcey, DVM, MS, DACVP (Clinical)
Assistant Clinical Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-0052
Email: mdecourcey@missouri.edu
Aaron Ericsson, DVM, PhD
Assistant Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-1019
Email: ericssona@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Gut Microbiota; Metagenomics; Next-generation Sequencing; Mucosal Homeostasis; Colorectal Cancer
Craig L. Franklin, DVM, PhD
Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-6623
Email: franklinc@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Helicobacter; Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Genetically-engineered Mice; Genetically-engineered Rats, Laboratory Animal Medicine
Alexander W.E. Franz, PhD
Associate Professor
Phone Number: 573-884-2635
Email: franza@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Arbovirology; Genetic Manipulation of Mosquitoes; Innate Immunity
Laxman Gangwani, MSc, PhD
Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-2339
Email: laxman.gangwani@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
AD and ADRD, ALS, Genome Integrity, Neuroscience, R-loop Metabolism, SMA
Roman Ganta, PhD
McKee Endowed Professor of Veterinary Pathobiology
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Tick and other vector-borne diseases; Human, canine and ruminant Ehrlichiosis; Human, canine and bovine anaplasmosis; Rocky Mountain spotted fever; Rickettsial genetics (mutagenesis) and molecular biology
*Tamara Gull, DVM, MS, PhD
Associate Clinical Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-0106 (office), 573-884-9245 (bacteriology lab)
Email: tgull@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Bacteriology; Mycoplasma; Respiratory Disease of Large Animals; Disaster Preparedness and Response
*Tamara Hancock, DVM, MS, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-6705
Email: hancockts@missouri.edu
*Rosalie Ierardi, DVM, MS
Clinical Instructor
Phone Number: 573-882-3432
Email: ierardir@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Pathology, Livestock, Food animal, Infectious disease
Gary S. Johnson, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor
Email: JohnsonGS@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Molecular Genetics; Whole Genome Sequencing; Genome-wide Association Mapping; Heritable Canine Diseases; Neurodevelopmental & Neurodegenerative Diseases
*Gayle C. Johnson, DVM, PhD
Professor Emerita
Email: JohnsonGC@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Diagnostic Veterinary Pathology; Veterinary Neuropathology; Rickettsioses; Animal Models; Quantitative Pathology
*Dae Young Kim, DVM, PhD
Clinical Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-4665
Email: kimdy@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dermatopathology; Diagnostic Pathology; Infectious Disease
*Kei Kuroki, DVM, PhD
Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-6811
Email: kurokik@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Osteoarthritis; Comparative Orthopaedic; Joint Pathology
Huitao Liu, PhD
Associate Research Professor
Christian L. Lorson, PhD
Professor, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
Phone Number: 573-884-2219
Email: lorsonc@missouri.ed
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Molecular Genetics; Gene Therapy; Drug Development; RNA Processing; Alternative Splicing; Neurodegeneration; Spinal Muscular Atrophy; Animal Models of Disease
Monique A. Lorson, PhD
Associate Research Professor
Phone Number: 573-356-0343
Email: lorsonm@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Spinal Muscular Atrophy; Neurodegenerative Disease; Animal Models of Human Disease; Swine; Therapeutic Delivery
Wenjun Ma, PhD
Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-2863
Email: wma@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Zoonotic and emerging virus diseases; Virus-host interactions; Vaccine and antiviral development; Animal models; Influenza
Hongsheng Men, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Phone Number: 573-884 9803
Email: menho@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Reproductive Physiology; Stem Cell Biology; Rodent Models
*W. Jefferson Mitchell, Jr., DVM, PhD
Associate Professor
Email: MitchellWJ@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Pathology; Virology
*Susan M. Moore, MS, PhD
Associate Clinical Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-8539
Email: smmoore@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Rabies Control and Prevention, Clinical Laboratory Quality Assurance, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Global Public Health, and One Health
*Solomon “Wole” Odemuyiwa, DVM, PhD
Assistant Professor and Molecular Diagnostics Section Head VMDL
Phone Number: 573-884-9257
Email: odemuyiwas@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Immunomodulation by Toxins & Nutraceuticals; Mechanisms of Mediator Release from Immune Cells; Molecular Diagnostics; Molecular Epidemiology & New Virus Discovery; Viral Immune Escape Mechanisms
Rachel Olson, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-8860
Email: olsonra@missouri.edu
Wendy L. Picking, PhD
Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-0093
Email: wendy.picking@missouri.edu
RESEARCH AREAS
Bacterial Pathogenesis, Vaccine Development, Molecular Biology, Protein Purification, and Antigen Discovery
William D. Picking, PhD
Professor, Chair of Veterinary Pathobiology
Phone Number: 573-882-8537
Email: pickingw@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Bacterial Pathogenesis, Secretion Systems, Protein Structure, Biophysics, Biochemistry
Ram Raghavan, MS, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Email: RaghavanRK@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Epidemiology; Vector-borne, Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases; Parasitology; Molecular Diagnostics; Disaster Preparation
*Angela B. Royal, DVM
Associate Clinical Professor and Clinical Pathology Section Head, VMDL
Phone Number: 573-882-0086
Email: royalab@missouri.edu
*Zhenyu Shen, BVM, MS, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Phone Number: 573-884-4883 / 573-882-7419
Email: ShenZ@missouri.edu
Kamlendra Singh, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-9024
Email: singhka@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
HIV-1 and HIV-2, coronaviruses; Hepatitis B and C; Foot-and-Mouth Disease; Computer Aided Drug Design
Jerod Skyberg, PhD
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies – Veterinary Pathobiology
Interim Director of the Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research
Phone Number: 573-882-2597
Email: skybergj@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Biodefense; Immunotherapy; Innate Immunity
Roger W. (Bill) Stich, MS, PhD
Professor
Phone Number: 573-882-3148
Email:stichrw@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Biology of Ticks & Tick-Borne Pathogens; Immunology & Pathology of Tick-Borne Diseases; Cellular & Molecular Interface of Tick-Pathogen-Host Interactions; Immunology & Cellular Microbiology of Obligate Intracellular Bacterial & Protozoal Parasites
Catherine Vogelweid, DVM, PhD
Clinical Professor Emerita
Phone Number: 573-884-2082
Email: Vogelweidc@missouri.edu
*Marlyn S. Whitney, DVM, PhD
Clinical Professor Emerita
Phone Number: 573-884-7805
Email: whitneym@missouri.edu
*Fred Williams III, DVM
Associate Clinical Professor
Email: williamsfre@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Pathology
Sean Whittier, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
*Shuping Zhang, PhD
Professor and Director of VMDL
Phone Number: 573-882-6811
Email: zhangshup@missouri.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Bacteria; Defensins; Diagnostics; Salmonella; Surveillance
* Members of Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory