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New Faculty in the College of Veterinary Medicine

Small Animal Clinical Sciences (top)

Dr. Mary A. Crist	Title: Lecturer Appointment Type: Anesthesia Date of Arrival: May 16, 2005 Research Interests:
Dr. Johnathan Dodd	Title: Clinical Assoicate Professor Appointment Type: Date of Arrival: March 1, 2006 Research Interests:
Dr. Bianca F. Hettlich	Title: Clinical Assistant Professor Appointment Type: Surgery/Neurosurgery Date of Arrival: July 16, 2004 Research Interests: CV
Dr. Sharman Hoppes	Title: Lecturer in Zoological Medicine Appointment Type: Date of Arrival: January 6, 2006 Research Interests:
Dr. Jonathan M. Levine	Title: Clinical Assistant Professor Appointment Type: Neurology Date of Arrival: January 24, 2005 Research Interests: spinal cord diseases, neuroanatomy, and neuromuscular disease CV
Dr. Laura E. Peycke	Title: Clinical Assistant Professor Appointment Type: Soft Tissue Surgeon Date of Arrival: September 1, 2004 Research Interests: CV
Dr. Ashley B. Saunders	Title: Clinical Assistant Professor Appointment Type: Reinvestment hire - Cardiology Date of Arrival: September 5, 2005 Research Interests:

Veterinary Integrated Biomedical Sciences (top)

Dr. Gladys Yi-Ping Lee Ko	Title: Assistant Professor Appointment Type: Signature Program - Neuroscience Date of Arrival: August 1, 2004 Research Interests: neuroscience; circadian regulation of ion channels in retina; cellular signal transduction; synaptic plasticity in hippocampus; electrophysiology including patch-clamp, intracellular and extracellular recordings; neuroanatomy. CV
Dr. Jianrong Li	Title: Assistant Professor Appointment Type: Signature Program - Neuroscience Date of Arrival: March 1, 2006 Research Interests: Mechanisms underlying the effects of neuroimmune molecules in the mammalian central nervous system on oligodendrocyte development, myelination, demyelination and/or remyelination. Interactions among oligodendrocytes, microglia, neurons and astrocytes under physiological and pathophysiological conditions, and identification of key targets for therapeutic approaches. CV
Dr. William Joseph Murphy	Title: Associate Professor Appointment Type: Signature Program - Genomics Date of Arrival: September 1, 2004 Research Interests: comparative genomics; feline gene/genome mapping; genome rearrangements and evolution; sex chromosome evolution; genetics of hybrid sterility; phylogenetics; mammalian evolution; molecular evolution CV
Dr. Michael P. Ward	Title: Professor Appointment Type: Signature Program - Epidemiology Date of Arrival: September 1, 2004 Research Interests: analytical epidemiology; infectious disease epidemiology; simulation modeling; spatial analysis; geographical information systems; surveillance systems; vector-borne diseases; West Nile virus; bluetongue virus; foreign animal diseases; foot-and-mouth disease CV

Veterinary Pathobiology (top)

Dr. Fred Clubb, Jr.	Title: Professor Appointment Type: Signature Program Cardiovascular Medicine Date of Arrival: March 1, 2005 Research Interests: Comparative cardiovascular and renal electron microscopic pathology; evaluation of implantable cardiovascular devices in GLP laboratory preclinic trials. CV
Dr. Wayne Corapi	Title: Lecturer Appointment Type: Signature Program Replacement Date of Arrival: July 1, 2005 Research Interests: Diagnostic pathology, infectious diseases of domestic animals particularly viral diseases; immune response to viral infections; dermatopathology, problem-based learning in veterinary medical education; animal welfare. CV
Dr. Tracy Cyr	Title: Assistant Professor Appointment Type: Signature Program Replacement Date of Arrival: March 1, 2005 Research Interests: Medical and veterinary entomology which includes both traditional livestock pest management experience and the knowledge of molecular methods to study a variety of human and veterinary arthropod pests and the diseases they may transmit, effects of Lyme disease on dairy cattle and the putative role cattle play in the epizootiology of this disease, the utilization of RNAi technology to achieve post-transcriptional gene silencing in the cattle fever tick, Boophilus microplus, the development of gene silencing technologies in an established B. microplus cell line CV
Dr. Don Hong	Title: Assistant Professor Appointment Type: Signature Program Biomedical Genomics Date of Arrival: March 1, 2005 Research Interests: Genetic basis of retinal degeneration; molecular and cellular basis of pathogenesis caused by mutations in retinal degenerative disease genes ; develop gene therapy through the genetic and cellular understanding of retinal biology and disease pathogenesis. CV
Dr. Elizabeth Jeter	Title: Lecturer Appointment Type: Replacement Date of Arrival: August 1, 2005 Research Interests: Shelter medicine CV
Dr. Melissa C. Libal	Title: Associate Professor Appointment Type: Signature Program - Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases (Infectious Diseases) Date of Arrival: November 8, 2004 Research Interests: Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, Antimicrobic Sensitivity Testing, Bacterial antimicrobic Resistance CV
Dr. Lars Mecklenburg	Title: Assistant Professor Appointment Type: Replacement Date of Arrival: November 1, 2004 Research Interests: Dermatopathology, Vascular pathology, Cutaneous abnormalities in transgenic mice, Toxicologic pathology of the retina CV
Dr. Waithaka Mwangi	Title: Assistant Professor Appointment Type: Signature Program- Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Date of Arrival: July 1, 2005 Research Interests: Methods to improve vaccine effectiveness in outbred species such as cattle; Improving antigen and DNA processing by dendritic cells. Improving vaccine effectiveness by defining the key molecular processes involved in the development and regulation of innate immunity. CV
Dr. Brian F. Porter	Title: Assistant Professor Appointment Type: Signature Program - Neurosciences (neuropathology) Date of Arrival: September 1, 2004 Research Interests: spontaneous neuropathology of domestic animals, especially granulomatous meningoencephalomyelitis and other poorly understood inflammatory nervous system diseases of the dog CV

Veterinary Physiology and Phamacology (top)

Dr. Virginia R. Fajt	Title: Clinical Assistant Professor Date of Arrival: June 1, 2005 Appointment Type: Cardiovascular Sciences - Pharmacology Research Interests: Food Animal Pharmacology, Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics, Antimicrobial Therapy, Antimicrobial Susceptibility and Resistance. CV
Dr. Cristine L. Heaps	Title: Assistant Professor Appointment Type: Reinvestment Hire Date of Arrival: October 1, 2004 Research Interests: Cardiovascular Sciences CV
Dr. Ivan V. Ivanov	Title: Assistant Professor Appointment Type: Toxicology Date of Arrival: June 1, 2005 Research Interests: Genomic Signal Processing and Mathematical Modeling of Genetic Regulatory Networks CV
Dr. Charles R. Long	Title: Assistant Professor Appointment Type: Reinvestment Hire Date of Arrival: August 1, 2004 Research Interests: Reproductive Sciences CV
Dr. Philip E. Mirkes	Title: Professor Appointment Type: Reinvestment Hire Date of Arrival: April 1, 2004 Research Interests: Toxicology CV
Dr. Edmund Rucker	Title: Associate Professor Appointment Type: Reproductive Sciences Date of Arrival: May 16, 2006 Research Interests: molecular and cellular biology of apoptosis and autophagy; animal models of breast cancer and infertility; transgenesis and embryonic stem cells; site-specific recombination systems; large animal models of human disease CV
Dr. Maya M. Scott	Title: Clinical Assistant Professor Appointment Type: Reinvestment Hire Date of Arrival: January 1, 2005 Research Interests: Cardiovascular Sciences - Pharmacology CV
Dr. Cuihua Zhang	Title: Assistant Professor Appointment Type: Cardiovascular Sciences Date of Arrival: May 1, 2006 Research Interests: Endothelium and vascular smooth muscle biology; physiology and pathophysiology of coronary microcirculation. CV