| Investigator |
Topic |
Involvement |
| Disease Ecology |
| Babafela Awosile |
Microbial ecology at One Health interface |
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 |
Equine musculoskeletal disease; Sport medicine |
Emeritus professor in equine sciences |
| Seth Chapman |
Inflammatory airway disease in horses and use of flow cytometry
in diagnosis and characterization of hematopoietic neoplasia |
American Veterinary Medical Association, American College of
Veterinary Pathologists, and American Society for Veterinary
Clinical Pathology |
| Britt Conklin |
Equine sports medicine, podiatry, endocrinology, and immunology |
American Association of Equine Practitioners; Texas Equine
Veterinary Association; American Veterinary Medical Association;
American Farriers Association |
| John Dascanio |
Equine reproductive procedures, infertility, and breeding |
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 |
Forensic veterinary pathology; Diseases of zoo and
wildlife animal species, and development of new
didactic tools and techniques |
American College of Veterinary Pathologists |
| Jason Fritzler |
Infectious disease ecology of the Texas Panhandle and surrounding areas |
|
| John Gibbons |
Approach to address basic fertilization and early embryonic
development questions; Developing and modifying reproductive techniques |
American Embryo Transfer Association; International Embryo Technologies Society |
| Laszlo Hunyadi |
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 |
AAEP vaccine guidelines chair; ACVIM examiner and writer |
| Jennifer Koziol |
Bull fertility and breeding soundness exams along with bovine respiratory disease |
American Veterinary Medical Association; American College of Theriogenologists;
Society of Theriogenology; American Association of Bovine Practitioners |
| Devendra Shah |
Utilizing comparative pathogenomics and epidemiologic
approaches to study diverse bacterial pathogens such as
Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria, Campylobacter, and
Staphylococcus, with a focus on understanding their
epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics. |
Conference for Research Workers in Animal
Disease (CRWAD), American Society of
Microbiology (ASM), Poultry Science
Association (PSA) |
| Emily Sundman |
Translation of interventions and diagnostics from other species to equine medicine |
American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (Equine Practice) |
| Disease Management |
| Nichole Anderson |
Improvement of livestock production and early
life stress on welfare to increase herd longevity |
American Society of Animal Sciences Animal Welfare Committee; PAACO-certified Swine
Welfare Auditor |
| Carolyn Arnold |
|
American Association of Equine Practitioners; American College of Veterinary Surgeons |
| Prasanth Chelikani |
Nutritional management of dairy cattle |
Texas Veterinary Medical Association |
| Dave Dutton |
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 |
American College of Veterinary Surgeons |
| Arlene Garcia |
Management of compromised livestock and timely euthanasia; Animal welfare |
American Society of Animal Science; Texas Veterinary Medical
Association; ISAE; PAACO Certified Multi-Species Animal Welfare
Auditor/Consultant |
| Laszlo Hunyadi |
Tropical veterinary medicine (fungal & parasitic infestations)
in rural and underserved areas of Hawaii |
AAEP vaccine guidelines chair; ACVIM examiner and writer |
| Sarah Wagner |
Drug therapy in livestock species, prevention and treatment of
lameness in cattle, and the welfare of livestock |
American Association of Bovine Practitioners; President of the American College of
Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology |
| Disease Prevention |
| Laszlo Hunyadi |
Pharmacokinetics of new therapeutics in horses. |
AAEP vaccine guidelines chair; ACVIM examiner and writer |
| Smriti Shringi |
Development of novel point of care (POC) and high
throughput surveillance, detection and diagnostic
tools for bacterial and viral infectious diseases
that impact animal health and public health.;
Unraveling evolutionary mechanisms underlying
emergence, persistence, and loss of Antimicrobial
Resistance (AMR) and its impact on pathogen fitness.;
Study pathogenesis, virulence, and molecular
epidemiology of bacterial and viral infectious
diseases with the focus on identifying molecular
biomarkers for diagnostics and surveillance.
|
American Society for Microbiology (ASM); American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
| Ebenezer Tumban |
Viral infectious diseases, molecular virology, virus-like particles bioengineering,
vaccines & correlates of immune protection, immunizations |
American Society for Virology, Virus-like particle & nano-particle vaccines |
