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: 573-884-2082
Email: rdbr7d@missouri.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Molecular biology of bacteria, bacterial physiology, bacterial genetics and genomics, and bioinformatics.

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

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

Associate Professor

Phone Number: 573-882-1019
Email: ericssona@missouri.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Gut Microbiota; Metagenomics; Next-generation Sequencing; Mucosal Homeostasis; Colorectal Cancer

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

*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

Email: hlnmb@missouri.edu

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 Clinical 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

Srinand Sreevatsan, BVSC, MVSC, MPH, PhD

Professor
Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine

Email: CVMDean@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