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Dr. Garry Adams, FAZD Center Theme Leader: Biological Systems, Texas A&M University. Professor of Veterinary Pathology and Associate Dean for Homeland Security for the College of Veterinary Medicine. Research areas include studies of the genetic basis of natural disease resistance, molecular pathogenesis of intracellular bacterial pathogens, and the development of vaccines and diagnostic tests against zoonotic diseases. Published research.
Dr. Carol Cardona, University of California, Davis. Associate Veterinarian and Associate Extension Specialist. Research focus is in the pathogenesis of poultry viruses, how they cause disease, how they are transmitted and how infections and diseases caused by these viruses can be prevented. Published research.
Dr. D. Mark Estes, University of Texas Medical Branch. Director of Immunology, Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Senior Scientist Sealy Center for Vaccine Development is a molecular and cellular immunologist with interests in immunoregulation in infection and cancer. Published research.
Dr. Blanca Lupiani, Texas A&M University. Assistant Professor in the Departments of Veterinary Pathobiology and Poultry Science. Research focus is in three poultry diseases: avian influenza, Marek’s disease and avian leukosis. Published research.
Dr. Peter Mason, University of Texas Medical Branch. Professor in the Department of Pathology and the Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology. Research is focused on development of new methods to control acute viral diseases of man and domestic animals, targeting foot and mouth disease. Published research.
Dr. Harold ‘Skip’ Garner, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Professor of Biochemistry. The Philip O’Bryan Montgomery Jr., M.D., Distinguished Chair in Developmental Biology.
Dr. C.J. Peters, University of Texas Medical Branch. John Sealy Distinguished University Chair in Tropical Emerging Virology and the Director for Biodefense in the Center for Biodefense and Emerging infectious Disease at UTMB. Research focus is on Rift Valley fever vaccines and SARS pathogenesis. Published research.
Dr. Sanjay Reddy, Texas A&M University. Associate Professor in the Departments of Veterinary Pathobiology and Poultry Science. Focused research interests are in understanding the molecular basis of viral pathogenesis for Marek’s disease and avian influenza. Published research.
Dr. James Womack, Texas A&M University. Distinguished Professor and the W.P. Luse Professor of Pathobiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences USA. His research interests are comparative genomics, mapping the bovine genome, and the genetic basis of disease resistance in mammals. Published research.
Dr. Tilahun Yilma, University of California, Davis. Director, International Laborator of molecular Biology for Tropical Disease Agents and Professor of Virology. Research interests in Rift Valley fever and foot and mouth disease. Published research.