| Investigator |
Topic |
Involvement |
| Prasanth Chelikani |
Pathophysiological mechanisms of obesity, diabetes, and hypertension |
Obesity Society; American Society for Nutrition |
| Klementina Fon Tacer |
Mechanisms of mammalian germ cells adaptation to stress; How and why are
stress protective pathways coopted in cancer; The role of cancer-testis
antigens in stress adaptation; Comparative cancer analysis; The role of
melanoma antigens in neurodevelopmental diseases |
Society for the Study of Reproduction; American Society for Andrology;
American Association for Cancer Research; European Association for
Cancer Research; AAAS; TAVMA |
| Stephanie Myers |
Tumorigenesis and cancer metabolism; Drug repurposing as chemotherapeutics; Comparative
cancer pathology |
American College of Veterinary Pathologists; Society of Toxicologic Pathology; TVMA;
American Association for Cancer Research |
| Annelise Nguyen |
Tumorigenesis; Anticancer drug development |
Society of Toxicology, American Association for Cancer Research |
| Fernanda Rosa |
Explore the relationship between diet and the host-microbiota
using in vitro approaches and animal models; Identify diet-associated
molecular markers such as microRNAs involved in the post-transcriptional
regulation of inflammatory response Evaluate bovine milk oligosaccharides
present in neonatal diet and the impact on the immune cell repertoire and
inflammatory cytokine response |
Conference for Research Workers in Animal Disease, (CRWAD), American Association
of Immunologists (AAI), The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)-USDA |
| Devendra Shah |
Investigating the molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis with a focus on nutritional
virulence and antimicrobial resistance in bacterial pathogens within food-animal systems
through a One Health lens. |
Conference for Research Workers in Animal Disease (CRWAD), American Society of Microbiology
(ASM), Poultry Science Association (PSA) |
| 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 |
