Babafela Awosile

Topic: Microbial ecology at One Health interface

Involvement: American Society for Microbiology; Surveillance and epi of drug resistant infections consortium; Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases; Association of Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

Jerry Black

Topic: Equine musculo-skeletal disease and injury; Sport medicine

Involvement: Emeritus professor in equine sciences

Seth Chapman

Topic: Inflammatory airway disease in horses and use of flow cytometry in diagnosis and characterization of hematopoietic neoplasia

Involvement: American Veterinary Medical Association, American College of Veterinary Pathologists, and American Society for Veterinary Clinical Pathology

Britt Conklin

Topic: Equine sports medicine, podiatry, endocrinology, and immunology

Involvement: American Association of Equine Practitioners; Texas Equine Veterinary Association; American Veterinary Medical Association; American Farriers Association

Chad Cross

Topic: Understanding impacts of zoonotic diseases in a One Health context using the tools of quantitative ecology, applied biostatistics and epidemiology; Exploring the ecology and impact of parasitism in human and animal medicine, with a focus on companion-animal parasites and wildlife diseases; Ecology and management of vector-borne diseases utilizing the disciplines of medical and veterinary entomology; forensic investigations and forensic entomology.

Involvement: American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists; American Society for Microbiology; Entomological Society of America; American Society of Parasitologists; American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; American Statistical Association; International Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners; Nevada Chapter of the American Statistical Association; North American Forensic Entomology Association; Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society; Texas Veterinary Medical Association; Wildlife Disease Association.

John Dascanio

Topic: Equine reproductive procedures, infertility, and breeding

Involvement: American College of Theriogenologists; American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (Equine); Co-editor text “Equine Reproductive Procedures”; Distinguished Expert Academy of Veterinary Educators

Michael Cruz Penn

Topic: Forensic veterinary pathology; Diseases of zoo and wildlife animal species, and development of new didactic tools and techniques

Involvement: American College of Veterinary Pathologists

Laszlo Hunyadi

Topic: How a low air quality index relates to pulmonary inflammation in the horse. Allergic airway and dermatitis in the horse and evaluating environmental triggers and allergens; Design of new molecular diagnostics and pharmacological evaluation of novel therapeutics

Involvement: AAEP vaccine guidelines chair; ACVIM examiner and writer

Jennifer Koziol

Topic: Bull fertility and breeding soundness exams along with bovine respiratory disease

Involvement: American Veterinary Medical Association; American College of Theriogenologists; Society of Theriogenology; American Association of Bovine Practitioners

Devendra Shah

Topic: Pathogenesis of infections utilizing microbiome, genomics, population dynamics, and source tracing of food- and vector-borne agents, pathogen discovery, and antimicrobial resistance.

Involvement: Conference for Research Workers in Animal Disease (CRWAD), American Society of Microbiology (ASM), Poultry Science Association (PSA)

Nichole Anderson

Topic: Improvement of livestock production and early life stress on welfare to increase herd longevity

Involvement: American Society of Animal Sciences Animal Welfare Committee; PAACO-certified Swine Welfare Auditor

Carolyn Arnold

Topic: Hind gut microbiome of the horse, effect of gastrointestinal diseases such as colitis and colic, as well as the effect of antimicrobials.

Involvement: American Association of Equine Practitioners; American College of Veterinary Surgeons

Prasanth Chelikani

Topic: Metabolic diseases in cattle and cats

Involvement: Texas Veterinary Medical Association

Dave Dutton

Topic: Orthopedic disease in foals such as angular limb deformities, incomplete ossification of tarsal bones, and suprascapular nerve injuries in horses; Regenerative therapy in the horse: equine amniotic allografts, stem cells, and exosomes for equine therapeutics

Involvement: American College of Veterinary Surgeons

Laszlo Hunyadi

Topic: Tropical veterinary medicine (fungal & parasitic infestations) in rural and underserved areas of Hawaii

Involvement: AAEP vaccine guidelines chair; ACVIM examiner and writer

Howard Rodriguez Mori

Topic: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of anti-microbial resistant bacteria and genes; Systematic review of social determinants of health.

Involvement: American Society for Microbiology; Association of Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine; The Thomas Jay Harris Institute for Hispanic and International Communication; MLA's Clinical Librarians and Evidence-Based Practice Caucus

Sarah Wagner

Topic: Drug therapy in livestock species, prevention and treatment of lameness in cattle, and the welfare of livestock

Involvement: American Association of Bovine Practitioners; American College of Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology

Olufemi Akinkuotu

Topic: Evaluation of susceptibility of parasitic helminths and protozoa to existing and novel prophylactic and therapeutic agents. Identification and validation of novel therapeutic target sites using genome editing tools in parasitic helminths and zoonotic protozoan parasites

Involvement: American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists; Texas Veterinary Medical Association; American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology; Association of Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and Genetics Society of America

Laszlo Hunyadi

Topic: Pharmacokinetics of new therapeutics in horses.

Involvement: AAEP vaccine guidelines chair; ACVIM examiner and writer

Smriti Shringi

Topic: Development of novel point of care and high throughput pathogen detection and diagnostic discovery with a focus on domestic and foreign animal diseases.

Involvement: 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

Ebenezer Tumban

Topic: Viral infectious diseases, molecular virology, virus-like particles bioengineering, vaccines & correlates of immune protection, immunizations

Involvement: American Society for Virology, Virus-like particle & nano-particle vaccines