Merial Summer Research Faculty Mentors

Specific information about the faculty listed is available on the faculty directory.

Aquatic Animal Health and Wildlife Medicine

  • Ruth Frances-Floyd: aquatic animal health
  • Darryl Heard: zoological medicine
  • Ramiro Isaza: zoonotic diseases
  • Iske Larkin: marine mammal reproduction
  • Craig Pelton: sea turtle medicine and rehabilitation
  • Don Samuelson: aquatic ophthalmology
  • Nicole Stacy: clinical pathology of aquatic and wildlife species
  • Mike Walsh: aquatic animal health
  • Tom Waltzek: infectious diseases of aquatic organisms
  • Jim Wellehan: virology, bacteriology, mycology
  • Roy Yanong: fish disease and aquaculture

Comparative Hemostasis

  • Roger Clemmons: comparative hemostasis

Immunology and Infectious Diseases

  • Jeffrey Abbott: immunology and vaccine development
  • David Allred: mechanisms of persistence in parasites
  • Tony Barbet: emerging infectious diseases
  • Dan Brown: bacterial pathogens
  • Mary Brown: biology of Mycoplasma spp.
  • William Castleman: virus-induced lung disease
  • John Dame: malaria, emerging pathogens
  • Maureen Long: equine infectious diseases
  • Mansour Mohamadzadeh: inflammatory bowel disease, colon cancer & therapeutic/oral vaccine against microbial challenge
  • David Pascual: mucosal immunology and vaccines for autoimmune and infectious diseases
  • Carlos Romero: viruses of livestock, poultry & marine mammals
  • Heather Stockdale Walden: parasitology
  • Janet Yamamoto: immunodeficiency viruses

Large Animal Epidemiology

  • Jorge Hernandez: epidemiology

Large Animal Medicine

  • Rob MacKay: inflammation, endotoxemia
  • Owen Rae: beef cattle health and reproduction
  • Chris Sanchez: equine gastric ulcers, neonatology, and pain management

Large Animal Reproduction

  • Art Donovan: dairy herd health
  • Klibs Galvao: dairy herd health, management, and reproduction
  • Margo MacPherson: equine reproduction
  • Malgorzata Pozor: equine reproduction
  • Carlos Risco: reproductive management in cattle

Large Animal Surgery and Sports Medicine

  • Murray Brown: equine osteoarthritis
  • Pat Colohan: sports medicine, drug elimination
  • David Freeman: equine colic
  • Ali Morton: sports medicine, imaging, and lameness research

Neuroscience and Physiology

  • David Baekey: neural coordination of respiratory and cardiovascular networks
  • Don Bolser: neural mechanisms of cough
  • Paul Davenport: respiratory neurophysiology
  • Linda Hayward: neural control of cardiovascular physiology
  • Rick Johnson: spinal cord neurophysiology
  • Roger Reep: cortical circuitry; brain evolution
  • Floyd Thompson: spinal cord injury and recovery
  • Tom Vickroy: pharmacology of food animal species and pharmacokinetics

Ophthalmology

  • Dennis Brooks: glaucoma
  • Caryn Plummer: ophthalmology

Radiology

  • Kip Berry: thoracic radiology of congenital heart defects and the vertebral heart scale in right and left sided cardiac diseases
  • Natasha Werpy: equine musculoskeletal imaging with emphasis in MRI and ultrasound

Shelter Medicine

  • Cynda Crawford: canine and feline infectious disease and diagnostic test development
  • Brian A. DiGangi: shelter medicine
  • Julie Levy: feline infectious diseases
  • Natalie Isaza: shelter medicine

Small Animal Behavior

  • Terry Curtis:  behavior medicine

Small Animal Cardiology

  • Amara Estrada:  cardiology, electrophysiology

Small Animal Dermatology

  • Rosanna Marsella:  dermatology

Small Animal Oncology

  • Sarah Boston:  surgical oncology
  • Lindsey Kubecik:  radiation oncology
  • Rowan Milner:  medical oncology

Small Animal Surgery

  • Brad Case: soft tissue surgery, minimally invasive surgical techniques
  • Stanley Kim: biomechanics of joints and implants
  • Dan Lewis: orthopedics
  • Antonio Pozzi: biomechanics of joints and implants

Toxicology

  • Nancy Denslow: biomarkers
  • Steve Roberts: drug and chemical toxicity

 

Specific information about the faculty listed is available on the faculty directory.

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