Medical Biology
Research at the College of Veterinary Medicine meets the clinical and research demands of human and animal health. Consistently ranked among the top veterinary colleges in the country, the College leads in scientific discovery. Faculty expertise focuses on the interface between scientific research and clinical practice as well as a commitment to animal and human health.
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Faculty |
Area of Interest |
Exotic and wildlife medicine; anesthesia, elephant medicine |
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Canine hereditary eye disorders; genetic testing and medicine; Ophthalmology |
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Limitations of the canine and equine respiratory system in health and disease; control of breathing in cursorial mammals; pulmonary immunology in equids; respiratory system biology in equids |
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Environmental cues of the intestinal tract that induce virulence
gene expression in Salmonella; Defining the genetic pathways by which
environmental signals are communicated in Salmonella to cause changes in
virulence gene expression; genetic and genomic approaches to characterize this
regulon |
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Biological interactions that take place between a mother and
fetus during pregnancy genes & development; Equine medicine with emphasis on
immunology, genetics, and reproduction |
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Parasitic diseases; Mucosal immunity in the intestinal tract, specifically
intestinal immunity expressed against parasitic nematodes |
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Immune cell activation and signaling in development, response
to infection and respiratory inflammation
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Clinical oncology; efficacy of radiation therapy |
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Parasitic diseases; internal medicine; small animal medicine |
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Erythrocyte destructive disorders (including immune-mediated hemolytic anemia and hemophagocytic sarcomas/syndromes); vascular biology |
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Shelter medicine; spay/neuter programs; infectious diseases; and outreach programs for accessible veterinary care |
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Anatomy |
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Dairy production medicine; Bacteriology; prevention and treatment of infection; Antibiotic therapies in livestock |
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Analytical and heavy metals Toxicology in livestock and companion animals |
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Soil transmitted parasites, parasites of wildlife, visceral larva migrans, host
response to soil transmitted pathogens, detection of soil transmitted parasites |
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Infectious and non-infectious diseases of fish, pathogenesis
of important bacterial pathogens of cultured and wild fish, evaluation of new
therapeutic compounds for use in cultured food fish |
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Canine genomics; genetics of adaptation and domestication |
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| Comparative hemostasis: canine models of hereditary bleeding disorders, biomarkers of hypercoagulability in animals; role of transmembrane lipid movement in platelet apoptotic vs. activation response |
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Molecular pathogenesis of the infectious bronchitis virus;
Ecology and conservation of disease in birds and wildlife
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Disease prevention, surveillance, and control programs;
Wildlife and Zoo Medicine |
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Anesthesiology; pain management; animal welfare |
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Anatomic pathology, comparative orthopedic pathology, metabolic bone diseases, respiratory pathology |
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Oncogenesis in wild populations, primarily in fish and marine
turtles; Eukaryotic gene regulation; oncogenic transformation; viral replication
and pathogenesis; toxicology, with special emphasis on viral hemorrhagic
septicemia (VHSV) |
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Hepatic and renal biology; Genetics; Protosystemic Vascular anomalies and Microvascular Dysplasia; small animal medicine |
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Neurology; Craniocervical junction abnormalities |
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Molecular biology of infectious disease; DNA and recombinant
subunit vaccine development; molecular basis of bacterial pathogenesis;
immunopathology of infectious disease; molecular diagnosis of infectious
diseases; host defense mechanisms; comparative genomics and proteomics |
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| Biomedical imaging, tissue engineering to restore upper airway function in animals and humans, larynx, pharynx,trachea, muscle,denervation, regeneration, re-innervation |
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| Theriogenology | |
Community Practice Service |
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Clinical oncology; ovarian cancer |
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Infectious Diseases; educational training in infectious diseases
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Congenital brain disorders, neuropharmacology, anticonvulsant therapy |
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Equine and bovine internal medicine and critical care; Equine motor neuron disease, equine lyme disease, equine protozoal
myelitis and any advances in internal medicine and critical care for large animals |
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Viral diseases of cattle; Bovine viral diarrhea virus; Viral
diseases of dogs; Canine influenza virus; Viral diseases of domestic animals
that impact endangered wildlife; Herd health program; Biosecurity; effective use
of veterinary biologicals |
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Biomedical mechanics; Equine sports medicine with emphasis on
upper respiratory function during exercise, and its influence on pulmonary
hemodynamics
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Molecular mechanisms of host-parasite
interactions and their relationship to susceptibility or resistance against
enteric bacterial diseases, particularly within the framework of animal models
of colitis |
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| Radiology and nuclear medicine; diagnostic radiology and ultrasound medicine |
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Veterinary Medical Biology and educational instruction |
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Descriptive epidemiology, risk-factor analysis, study design
and analysis |
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Equine immune system with specific
interest in
immunodeficiencies and
developmental immunity of the foal; immunomodulatory
therapies and response to vaccines; comparative animal model for human disease
research; Mechanisms of regulation of B cell differentiation using equine bone
marrow- and fetal liver-derived hematopoietic stem cells |
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Veterinary clinical medicine, specializing in feline clinical medicine outreach and neuroanatomy |
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Small animal medicine; clinical oncology; biomedical
imaging |
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Emergency and critical care medicine,
perioperative care, and pain management; internal medicine diagnostics and therapeutics
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Cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the development of arthritis with
the ultimate goal of identifying novel molecular targets for the treatment or
prevention of arthritis; refining the clinical application of stem
cells for treatment of orthopaedic diseases; cartilage and ligament regeneration; induced pluripotent stem cell and bone marrow stem cell research; biomedical mechanics |
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Hormonal regulation of the differentiation
and function of ovarian follicles; effects
of
endocrine disrupting chemicals on |
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| Gastrointestinal biology;
large animal soft tissue surgery |
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Infectious disease and host immune response |
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Theriogenology, with emphasis on production animals; postpartum conditions of
dairy cows; uterine disorders of dairy cows, in particular subclinical
endometritis; interaction of nutrition and fertility; comparative pathogenesis
of trichomoniasis in cattle and in people |
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West Nile Virus; Molecular Diagnostics; Virology; Surveillance Testing |
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Equine Respiratory physiology; development and validation of methods of measuring fluid flow |
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| Small Animal nephrology, urology, and gastroenterology; progression of naturally occurring chronic renal disease; systemic and gastrointestinal effects of uremia in dogs and cats; Nutritional and physiological aspects of uremic anorexia in dogs and cats; Infectious diseases as a cause of renal disease in dogs and cats; Inflammatory bowel disease; Endocrinology Hypercalcemia and the treatment of primary hyperparathyroidism; Percutaneous ethanol injection therapy in small animal medicine |
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Basic metabolism in ruminants and genetics; epidemiological
and mathematical modeling, genetic analysis and economic methods; food safety;
zoonotic infectious diseases; optimizing dairy herd health and management
decisions |
Large Animal Production; Herd health management practices |
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Respiratory sports medicine,
upper airway obstructive disorders and exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage; Large animal equine surger iwht aparticulary abdominal,
urogenital and respiratory surgery. Wound management and reconstructive surgery |
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Small Animal Soft Tissue Surgery, Surgical Oncology |
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Internal medicine, small animal research; animal welfare |
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Clinical and molecular oncology; cancer genetics; signal transduction |
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| Ophthalmology; animal welfare; educational instruction in veterinary medicine |
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Animal Welfare; educational instruction in veterinary medicine; small animal internal medicine |
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Clinical oncology |
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| Keratoconjunctivitis sicca; epidemiology of clinical syndromes; avian and nondomestic animal ophthalmology; ocular effects of exercise; ocular pharmacodynamics | |
Small Animal Surgery |
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Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Reintroduction Medicine
affecting Wildlife Health and Conservation |
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Clinical cardiology; heart and valvular disease |
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| Clinical cardiology; heart disease; canine cardiac arrhythmias |
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Head Farrier, Equine Hospital (Cornell University Hospital for Animals) |
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Small animal medicine; lameless; arthritis; biomedical
mechanics |
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Opthalmology; discovering, identifying, and characterizing ocular infectious diseases |
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Sensory biology, and ecology; retinal physiology and biochemistry; clinical electrophysiology; visual sciences
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Physiology;
educational instruction for undergraduate students
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Anesthesiology medicine; animal welfare; perioperative care,pain management |
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Educational instruction in veterinary medicine; animal welfare; feline and canine anatomy
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Educational instruction in veterinary medicine; animal welfare |
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Comparative and anatomic pathology in a wide variety of disease processes in common animal species; biomedical imaging |
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Clinical oncology; efficacy of radiation therapy |
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Animal models of inherited human disorders as a means to understand sex
determination and differentiation at the molecular level; Inherited disorders of the reproductive tract |
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Diagnosis and management of allergic skin diseases in all species; treatment of
external parasitic and bacterial disorders; hair follicle dysplasias of the dog
and cat; claw and claw bed diseases; spontaneous and viral-induced skin
neoplasia; and inherited disorders of keratinization |
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Disease prevention, surveillance, and control programs; Equine Medicine |
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Anatomic Pathology |
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Diseases of multiple species, defining epidemiology and risk
factors for diseases;
epidemiology of infectious diseases; quantitative and analytical epidemiology;
veterinary public health and food
safety; production medicine
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Clinical cardiology; heart disease; canine cardiac arrhythmias |
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Quality milk production services |
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| Exotic and Wildlife Medicine;
avian
transfusion medicine, coagulation parameters; infectious diseases of rabbits |
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| Molecular mechanisms of endocrine disruption, environmental toxicology, toxicogenomics, seasonal breeders and circadian rhythmicity | |
Biomedical mechanics; joint pathobiology and cartilage repair
with growth factor gene-enhanced chondrocyte and stem cell transplantation
techniques; genetic characterization of OCD in animals and man using microarray
expression studies; clinical application of growth factor recombinant proteins
and gene therapy for improved joint, tendon, and bone repair
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Production animal agriculture and public health; infectous calf diseases; herd health and performance |
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| Educational instruction in veterinary medicine; animal welfare; anethesiology | |
Retroviruses; calciviruses; virus structure; virus assembly;
virus-host interactions; oncolytic viruses; virology |
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Virology; Adeno-associated viruses; animal viruses; viral
protein structure; mechanisms of binding to different receptors; how differences
in viral structural proteins can control their host ranges; the processes of
cell infection, and how antibody binding can neutralize the virus in some cases
but not others; biomaterials & drug delivery |
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Dentistry |
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Equine animal medicine; virology; herpesvirus; gastrointestinal diseases
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Anatomic pathology; dermatopathology; animal models of skins diseases; wildlife diseases |
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Mammalian reproductive biology with a focus on the life history of trade-offs
associated with timing of hormone secretion and reproductive effort, sexual
differentiation |
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Hematopathology, oncology, immunocytochemistry |
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Orthopedic and soft tissue surgery; laparoscopic surgery |
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Endocrinology; internal medicine |
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Dental and oral surgery |
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Energy metabolisum; Educational instruction in veterinary medicine; animal welfare |
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Identifying strategies for reducing unnecessary
pet euthanasias and enhancing the welfare of companion animals in society using
epidemiologic approaches |
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Clinical Pathology |
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Placental Pathophysiology; Understanding mechanisms through which placental diseases develop and function; comparative reproductive pathology |
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Emergency & critical care; aortic thromboembolic disease and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; immune-mediated hemolytic anemia |
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Epidemiological, statistical and mathematical methods to
animal disease involving well managed dairy herds; udder health in well-managed
dairy herds based on epidemiology and pathobiology |
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Veterinary clinical pharmacology; comparative pharmacokinetic stuides in domestic animals; therapeutic drug monitoring; therapeutic regimes |
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Dermatology and dermatopathology; original recognition
and description of new skin diseases and popularization of
new therapies; clinical trials of veterinary drugs |
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Animal welfare; patient care; medical imaging; neuroimaging |
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Internal Medicine and gastroenterology; role of Helicobacter in gastrointestinal disease; Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
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Public policy; Educational instruction in veterinary medicine; animal wefare |
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Population medicine |
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Laboratory animal pathology and neuropathology |
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Mechanisms of Cancer metastasis and coagulation in thrombosis; Micro and nano-biotechnology; hematopoietic and hemostatic disorders in animals |
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| Duck disease control, good husbandry practices, nutrition, duck production, improvement of diagnostic techniques and the development of new or improved duck biologics. | |
Genetic regulation of growth in the canine; identification of genes related to
risk of specific cancers in particular canine breeds; study of genes that
contribute to body size in the dog |
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Gastrointestinal and liver diseases of domestic animals, viral hepatitis,
mechanisms of hepatic injury and hepatocarcinogenesis |
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Disease prevention, surveillance, and control programs;
Ruminant and Equine Medicine
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Animal welfare; patient care; medical imaging |
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Biomedical mechanics; canine hip dysplasia; osteoarthritis; genetics linkage analysis
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Public health programs; Public policy; Biosafety; international affairs |
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Micro and nano-biotechnology; biomaterials & drug
delivery; Reproductive Physiology; Cell biology of male germ cells; preservation
of genetic diversity; comparative biology of male germ cells; signaling and
metabolism of sperm during capacitation; organization of lipid raft membrane
sub-domains in sperm; applications of technologies using reproductive stem cells
for wildlife conservation |
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Disease prevention, surveillance, and control programs;
Ruminant Medicine
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Biology, diagnosis, and epidemiology of parasitic infections
in domestic and wild animals |
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Antibody mediated immune mechanisms in infectious disease and
vaccination; allergic diseases; neonatal tolerance and allergy predisposition;
strategies to develop allergy treatments |
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| Clinical Nutrition; Clinical Oncology; Neoplastic Diseases |
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Dairy cattle epidemiology; preharvest food safety; Salmonellosis in cattle; infectious disease |
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| Epidemiological, statistical and mathematical methods to animal disease involving well managed dairy herds | |
Population & clinical studies |
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Virology; Endocytosis of influenza virus; structure-function
studies on influenza HA, entry of coronaviruses and rhabdoviruses into host
cell; feline infectious peritonitis |
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Simple Mendelian Traits |
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Herd Health Management; product evaluation (e.g. milking equipment, diagnostic instruments, therapeutic
compounds, teat dips, and bedding additives); epidemiological modeling; molecular strain typing
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