Below is a list of current mentors. Click on their name to see their mentor profiles (those without links are pending).
Dr. Mostafa F.N. Ateya Abushahba, BVSc, MVSc, PhD
Antimicrobial Resistance; Intracellular Pathogens; Bacterial Genomics; Bacterial-Host Interactions; Vaccine Development; Antimicrobials
Dr. Pam Adkins, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Research area(s): Bovine mastitis, Beef calf health, Bacteriology, Molecular epidemiology, Impacts of antimicrobial usage
Dr. Yuksel Agca, DVM, PhD
Research area(s): Cellular and molecular reproduction, reproductive cryobiology and transgenics
Dr. Jim Amos-Landgraf, PhD
Research area(s): Animal models of disease, Colon cancer, COVID, genetics of susceptibility to disease, impact of defined (gnotobiotic) microbiomes on disease, humanized microbiomes in mice.
Dr. Deb Anderson, PhD
Research area(s): Emerging infectious diseases, host response to infection
Dr. Julia Baldrighi, DVM, PhD, DACT
Research area: Applied animal reproduction
Dr. Shawn Bender, PhD
Research area(s): Cardiovascular dysfunction in obesity and co-morbid conditions, with a focus on cardiac and coronary vascular function
Dr. Doug Bowles, PhD
Research area(s): Atherosclerosis, smooth muscle proliferation, migration, ion channels
Research Area: Autonomic neuroscience
Dr. Charlie Brown, PhD
Research area(s): Innate immunity and inflammation
Dr. Elizabeth Bryda, PhD
Research area(s): Animal modeling, Molecular genetics, Genetic engineering, Comparative medicine
Dr. Lane Clarke, DVM, PhD
Research area(s): Gastrointestinal physiology, Cystic fibrosis
Dr. Kevin Cummings, PhDResearch area(s): Neural control of cardiorespiratory and autonomic function
Dr. Daniel Davis, PhD
Research area(s): Animal modeling, molecular genetics, genetic engineering, CRISPR-Cas technology, rare disease research
Dr. Aaron Ericsson, DVM, PhD
Research area(s): Microbiomes, Gut/brain axis, Fetal programming of behavior and metabolism, Neurodevelopment
Dr. Roman Ganta, PhD
Research area(s): Basic and translational research of tick-borne diseases; canine and human ehrlichiosis, bovine anaplasmosis, human and canine anaplasmosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF)
Dr. Laurel Grisanti, PhD
Research area(s): Heart Failure, Inflammation, G Protein-Coupled Receptors
Dr. Sarah Hooper, DVM, PhD
Research area(s): Ecophysiology, Ecosystem health, Ecotoxicology, Disease ecology, Non-invasive biomarkers
Dr. Rosalie Ierardi, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Research area(s): Epidemiology of tick-borne diseases in cattle; Epidemiology of infectious diseases in livestock
Dr. David Kline, PhD
Research area(s): Control of breathing, blood pressure control, Mechanisms of cardiorespiratory disease, hypoxia
Katrina K. Knott, MS, PhD, Environmental Health Unit, Missouri Department of Conservation; Katrina.Knott@mdc.mo.gov
Research area(s): Ecotoxicology, Nutritional Ecology, Animal Behavior, Wildlife Disease, Physiological Ecology, OneHealth
Dr. Teresa Lever, PhD (projects in collaboration with Dr. Nicole Nichols, PhD)
Research area(s): Laryngeal function
Dr. Wenjun Ma, MVSc, PhD
Research area(s): Viral diseases of animals with an emphasis on emerging zoonotic viral infections (e.g., Influenza virus, Rift Valley Fever virus)
Dr. Charles Maitz, DVM, PhD
Research area(s): Radiation biology, DNA damage repair, Radiopharmaceuticals
Dr. F.A. (Tony) Mann, DVM, MS, DACVS, DACVECC
Research area(s): Emergency/Critical Care and Soft tissue surgery
Dr. Allison Meyer, PhD
Research area(s): Developmental programming in beef cattle, or how nutrition and management of pregnant cows and heifers impacts their calves. We are especially interested in health and metabolism of neonatal beef calves
Dr. Jess McCarthy, BVSc, MRCVS, DECVS
Research area(s): Humeral fractures in French Bulldogs, Finite Element Analysis, 3D printing and its application to complex orthopedic cases, canine patella luxation, total hip replacement, elbow dysplasia
Dr. Rajiv Mohan, PhD, FARVO
Research area(s): Ocular gene therapy, Corneal nanomedicine, Corneal wound healing, Refractive laser surgery, Keratoconus, Ocular CounterACT research, Glaucoma bleb fibrosis, Corneal neovascularization
Dr. Celeste Morris, DVM, MBA, MPVM
Research area(s): Livestock theriogenology, herd health, and preventive medicine
Dr. Morgan Murphy, DVM, DACVAA
Dr. Nicole Nichols, PhD (some projects in collaboration with Dr. Teresa Lever)
Research area(s): Breathing and swallowing function and their coordination in rodent models of motor neuron death
Dr. Rachel Olson, PhD
Research area(s): Emerging and vector borne-infectious disease
Dr. Rachel Oman, DVM, MS, DACVIM
Research area: Clinical retrospectives, urolithiasis
Dr. Satyanarayana Rachagani, PhDResearch area(s): Pancreatic, lung and colorectal cancers
Dr. Ram Raghavan, MPH, PhDResearch area(s): Spatially-enabled computational epidemiology of vector-borne and infectious diseases
Dr. Cheryl Rosenfeld, DVM, PhD
Research area(s): Endocrine disruptors. Placenta, Brain, Microbiome, Epigenetics
Dr. Darla Tharp, PhD
Research area(s): Cardiovascular disease
Dr. Kile Townsend, DVM, MS, DACVIM (LAIM)
Research area(s): Equine internal medicine – endocrine disease, microbiome, neuromuscular disease; Veterinary Education – use of simulators for learning, evaluating teaching and learning
Dr. Bret Ulery, PhD
Research area(s): Biomaterials, Immunoengineering, Regenerative medicine