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The Faculty and Their Research
- Milton J. Allison, Animal Science;
- Bacteriology of the rumen and large intestine, particularly the anaerobic bacteria involved in degrading naturally occurring toxic substances.
- Lyric Bartholomay, Entomology;
- Principal investigator in the Medical Entomology Laboratory at Iowa State University. The study of the interactions between vectors (insects and other arthopods) and disease agents (including viruses, bacteria, single-celled and multi-cellular parasites).
- Gwyn A. Beattie, Plant Pathology;
- Pathogenesis and ecology of bacterial plant pathogens; genetics and physiology of bacterial stress tolerance and bacterial-plant interactions.
- Sam Beattie, Food Science and Human Nutrition;
- Food and agricultural mycology with an emphasis on mycotoxigenic molds; food safety and security issues for food processors and consumers.
- Jeffrey K. Beetham, Veterinary Pathology and Entomology;
- Molecular and cellular pathology of human and animal pathogens, parasitology, oxidative stress, and gene regulation.
- Donald C. Beitz, Animal Science;
- Biochemistry and physiology of nutrition, including the role of
microbes in cholesterol homeostasis in animals and humans.
- Bryan H. Bellaire, Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine;
- Host pathogen interactions that take place during bacterial infections, specifically how different Brucella species causes chronic infections in various mammalian species.
- Julie A. Blanchong, Natural Resource Ecology & Management;
- The causes and consequences of disease in wildlife populations with a focus on characterizing relationships between host ecology and the transmission and distribution of disease, identifying ecological and environmental factors associated with disease outbreaks, and evaluating impacts of disease to wildlife populations.
- Bradley Blitvich, Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine;
- Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) and their mosquito vectors. Primary research foclus is to define the vector, host and viral determinants of the epidemic potential of West Nile virus in Mexico.
- Thomas Bobik, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology;
- Genetics and biochemistry of vitamin B12. Conversion of inactive cobalamins to coenzyme B12.
- Adam J. Bogdanove, Plant Pathology;
- Bacterial plant pathogenesis and plant disease resistance mechanisms, especially bacterial type III secretion and plant resistance gene function.
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Bryony C. Bonning, Entomology;
- Virus-based strategies for management of insect pests and plant disease.
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Terri Boylston, Food Science and Human Nutrition;
- The effects of processing and storage on the lipid and flavor composition of foods.
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Byron Brehm-Stecher, Food Science and Human Nutrition;
- Food safety and biosecurity. Rapid molecular detection of foodborne pathogens and food spoilage organisms. Microbial flow cytometry, molecular detection of pathogens.
- Nancy A. Cornick, Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine;
- Mechanisms of bacterial colonization of the gastrointestinal tract; microbial ecology of gastrointestinal systems; zoonotic transmission of bacterial pathogens.
- Joan E. Cunnick, Animal Science;
- Immune regulation by stress (psychoneuroimmunology), neutraceuticals, and edible vaccines.
- James S. Dickson, Animal Science;
- Food microbiology, with emphasis on microbiological safety of foods of animal origins.
- Timothy G. Ellis, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering;
- Development of anaerobic biotechnology applications for converting agricultural byproducts to commercial products and for improving the treatment of waste streams.
- Jiasong Fang, Geological and Atmospheric Sciences;
- Marine biogeochemical cycles; biochemistry of extremophiles; microbial degradation of toxic organics.
- Mark L. Gleason, Plant Pathology;
- Control and etiology of horticultural diseases; diversity, persistence, and
ecology of pathogens of horticultural crops.
- Ronald W. Griffith, Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine;
- Pre-harvest food safety of swine; bovine respiratory disease and hypersensitivity associated with infection and vaccination.
- Larry J. Halverson, Plant Pathology;
- Ecology, physiology and genetics of soil bacteria, with emphasis on stress
tolerance and growth in biofilms.
- Thomas C. Harrington, Plant Pathology;
- Mycology and forest pathology, especially the genetics, evolution and
ecology of fungi associated with insects and tree diseases.
- D.L. Harris, Animal Science;
- Infectious diseases of swine and humans, with emphasis on foodborne pathogens; xenotransplantation, probiotics, and prebiotics.
- John H. Hill, Plant Pathology;
- Plant virology, including applied and basic aspects of controlling virus
diseases of soybean.
- Thomas E. Loynachan, Agronomy;
- Soil microbial ecology; field ecology of mycorrhizae and Bradyrhizobium on
soybean.
- Aubrey F. Mendonca, Food Science and Human Nutrition;
- Food microbiology, with emphasis on stress adaptation, survival, injury, and destruction of food-borne pathogens.
- Cathy Miller, Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine;
- The interface between viruses and the cells they infect, with a strong emphasis on the ways in which segmented double-stranded RNA viruses of the Reoviridae family commandeer cellular space and proteins to replicate their genomes, translate their proteins, and assemble into progeny virions.
- W. Allen Miller, Plant Pathology;
- Plant RNA virus replication, novel translation mechanisms, RNA structure and function.
- F. Chris Minion, Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine;
- Bacterial molecular pathogenesis and pathogenomics of Mycoplasmas and the food safety pathogens Listeria and Escherichia coli O157:H7.
- Thomas B. Moorman, National Soil Tilth Laboratory;
- Biodegradation of organic chemicals in terrestrial and aquatic systems; ecology and function of soil microorganisms; microbiological aspects of water quality.
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- Lisa K. Nolan, Executive Chair, College of Veterinary Medicine; Chair, Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine;
- Research focus is on bacterial diseases of production animals, including their effects on animal health, public health and food safety with the long-term goal to establish the molecular basis of virulence and antimicrobial resistance of Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC), the causative agent of colibacillosis, an economically devastating problem for the poultry industry.
- Forrest W. Nutter, Plant Pathology;
- Quantitative epidemiology and plant disease management; risk assessment of new agricultural biotechnologies.
- Evelyn A. Nystrom, National Animal Disease Center; Collaborator;
- Mechanisms of microbial pathogenesis; intestinal colonization
by Escherichia coli; vaccines against toxigenic E. coli.
- Say-Kee Ong, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering;
- Microbial degradation of toxic compounds, bioremediation, and innovative bioreactors.
- Timothy B. Parkin, National Soil Tilth Laboratory;
- Environmental microbiology, with focus on carbon and sulfur cycling in natural aquatic systems and nitrogen transformations and pesticide degradation in soil systems.
- Gregory J. Phillips, Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine;
- Bacterial genetics and molecular biology of membrane protein localization in Escherichia coli; development of genetic tools for microbial genome analysis and functional genomics.
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- Anthony Pometto III, Food Science and Human Nutrition;
- Industrial microbiology, including microbial degradation of plastics, bioconversion of agricultural commodities into alternative products, and bioremediation.
- Donald L. Reynolds, Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine;
- Pathogenesis of viral enteric diseases and respiratory diseases of poultry; food safety.
- Juergen A. Richt, NADC/Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine;
- Research interest is in the Emerging Zoonoses, expecially in understanding the molecular pathogenesis and epidemiology of emerging zoonotic pathogens like Prions, Influenza Virus and Borna Disease Virus.
- Ricardo F. Rosenbusch, Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine;
- Molecular events in mycoplasmal and bacterial infection of ruminants, emphasizing bovine respiratory disease and pinkeye.
- Alexandra Scupham, National Animal Disease Center;
- Collaborator
- Joseph G. Sebranek, Animal Science;
- Control of pathogens during food processing.
- Vijay Sharma, Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine;
- Bacterial Detection; Mechanisms of bacterial colonization, and development of strategies to control bacterial colonization in host animals.
- Brett Sponseller, Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine;
- Equine immunology and equine viral pathogens, with an emphasis on equine infectious anemia virus. Clinical interests include neurology.
- Thaddeus B. Stanton, National Animal Disease Center;
- Genetics and transmission of antibiotic resistance in enteric pathogens; physiology, phage biology, and genetics of spirochete enteric pathogens of swine.
- Eileen L. Thacker, Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine;
- Pathogenesis and immune response of the swine respiratory tract to viral and bacterial diseases.
- Eric M. Vaughn, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc., Principal Scientist;
- Research interests are focused mainly on swine virology (Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrom Virus, Porcine Circovirus, and Influenza) and Lawsonia intracellularis.
- Daniel F. Voytas, Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology;
- Retrotransposable elements, genome structure and evolution.
- Michael Wannemuehler, Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine;
- Interactions among bacterial pathogens, animal hosts, and the microflora regarding mucosal immunity and inflammatory diseases of the bowel.
- Irene V. Wesley, National Animal Disease Center;
- Detection techniques for improving food safety; ecology, epidemiology and
control of foodborne pathogens in livestock and foods of animal origin.
- Steven A. Whitham, Plant Pathology;
- Molecular biology, genetic and genomic approaches to plant-virus interactions, with emphasis on the host responses to virus infection.
- Bing Yang, Genetics, Development and Cell Biology;
- Long term goal is to better understand plant disease by using rice as a model system to aid the design of more intelligent breeding strategies for disease control by blocking the host disease susceptibility pathway in addition to deploying genetic disease resistance genes in crop plants.
- Qijing Zhang, Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine;
- Antibiotic resistance, ecology and molecular basis of pathogen-host interaction of the foodborne human pathogenCampylobacter jejuni.
- Jeffrey J. Zimmerman, Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine;
- Infectious diseases of livestock, particularly their epidemiology, transmission, prevention, and control.
- Richard L. Zuerner, National Animal Disease Center;
- Genetics of spirochete enteric pathogens and vaccine development.
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