About Me

Smriti Shringi is an Assistant Professor with 20 years of academic and private sector experience in undertaking infectious disease challenges that impact animal agriculture and wildlife, by developing tools and strategies that aid in pathogen detection, surveillance and disease diagnosis. She grew up in a family of educators in a north-western state of India. She earned professional degrees in Veterinary Medicine and master’s in veterinary microbiology from Rajasthan Agricultural University, India. She worked as Graduate Research Assistant in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Chonbuk National University, South Korea. She earned a PhD in Veterinary Science at Washington State University. During her tenure as a post-doctoral researcher and Assistant Research Professor at WSU, her research focused on molecular detection, surveillance, and viral-vectored vaccine development for bacterial and viral infectious agents that impact animal and public health. In 2019, she moved to the animal health industry and worked as an R&D Scientist in veterinary diagnostics at VMRD Inc in Pullman, Washington. In July 2022, she embraced the opportunity to become founding faculty of the School of Veterinary Medicine at Texas Tech University.

Instruction

DVM and Graduate Instruction: Veterinary Bacteriology, One Health Concepts and Practice, Infectious Disease Detection and Disease Diagnostics

Research

Development of novel point-of-care and high throughput pathogen detection, diagnostic and surveillance tools with a focus on domestic and foreign animal diseases of regional, national, and global significance.

Mechanisms underlying the evolution of Antimicrobial Resistance in gastrointestinal pathogens. Pathogenesis and molecular epidemiology of bacterial and viral infectious diseases.

Service

She is a member of the Global One Health Academy, USDA-NIFA NC1202 multi-state committee on enteric diseases of food animals: enhanced prevention, control, and food safety, the American Society of Microbiology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association for Veterinary Immunologists and Women for One Health. She serves as a reviewer for manuscripts, posters and abstract submitted to scientific journals, conferences, and meetings.