IID Graduate Training Faculty

Troy Bankhead
Associate Professor
Lyme disease and relapsing fever Borrelia species; antigenic variation and persistence mechanisms

Timothy Baszler
Executive Director, Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory
Associate Director Disease Surveillance, Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health


Kelly A. Brayton
Chair of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology; Professor
Tick-borne pathogens: genomics, transmission biology and microbiome analyses

Shira Broschat
Professor
Bioinformatics, machine learning, data analysis, data mining for microbiology applications

Claire Burbick
Bacteriology & Parasitology Section Head, Clinical Assistant Professor
Clinical microbiology diagnostics, investigation of novel pathogens, antimicrobial susceptibiliy

Douglas Call
Regents Professor of Molecular Epidemiology,
Associate Director for Research and Graduate Education, Allen School.
Antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, alternatives, and epidemiology with people and animals

Jean Celli
Professor
Host-pathogen interactions; bacterial effector proteins; type IV secretion; Brucella abortus

Lauren Charles
Senior Data Scientist, PNNL. Research Professor, Allen School
Biosurveillance; Epidemiology; Data science; Data fusion (text/laboratory/spatial/imagery), One Health

Cristina Cunha
Affiliate Faculty
Herpesvirus pathogenesis; malignant catarrhal fever vaccine development


Chrissy Eckstrand
Pathologist, Clinical Assistant Professor
anatomic pathology, infectious diseases of domestic animals, feline retrovirology, viral pathogenesis

Pilar Fernandez
Assistant Professor
eco-epidemiology of zoonotic diseases, and in particular, vector-borne diseases

Lindsay Fry
Veterinary Medical Officer
Immunopathogenesis of tick-transmitted diseases of cattle and horses; Theileriosis; Vaccinology

Bonnie Gunn
Assistant Professor
Antibody-mediated immunity; viruses; antibody effector functions; innate immunity

Gary Haldorson
Pathologist, Clinical Associate Professor
Teaching, diagnostic duties within the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory

Mohammad Aminul (Amin) Islam
Assistant Professor
Antimicrobial resistance; One Health; Molecular epidemiology

Tom Kawula
Director Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health; Professor
Pathogenesis mechanisms and host immunity to intracellular bacterial pathogens

Leigh Knodler
Associate Professor
Host-pathogen interactions; Salmonella enterica; type III secretion; gastrointestinal infections

Donald P. Knowles
Professor
Infectious Disease Biologist, current emphasis on Theileriosis in cattle and horses

Felix Lankester
Associate Professor & Director of Rabies Free Tanzania
Epidemiology and economic impact of infectious diseases in East Africa

Michael Letko
Assistant Professor
Functional viromics and molecular virology; cross-species transmission of coronaviruses and other novel pathogens

Eric Lofgren
Assistant Professor
Computational epidemiology; healthcare-associated infections; emerging pathogens; mathematical modeling

Robert H. Mealey
Chair of Veterinary Clinical Sciences
Director, Animal Health Research Center
Immune control of viral and vector-borne apicomplexan parasitic infections

Michelle R. Mousel
Adjunct Faculty

Thumbi Mwangi
Associate Professor & Director of Rabies Free Kenya

Holly Neibergs
Professor
Identification of genomic regions associated with disease susceptibility and fertility

Danielle D. Nelson
Clinical Associate Professor, WADDL Necropsy Section Head
Infectious diseases of ruminants and fish

Anthony V. Nicola
Engle Distinguished Professor of Infectious Diseases
Virus entry, virus-cell interactions, herpesviruses, herpes simplex virus, membrane fusion

M. Kariuki Njenga
Professor of Epidemiology and Virology

Susan M Noh
Research Molecular Biologist
Vector-borne disease; tick-pathogen-host interaction; vaccine development
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Anders Omsland
Associate Professor
Bacterial obligate intracellular parasites; Bacterial physiology; Bacterial developmental biology


Jason Park
Research Assistant Professor
Intracellular pathogens; Host-pathogen interactions; Host range adaptations


Josh Ramsay
Pathologist; Clinical Associate Professor; Histo/Immunohisto Section Head
Diagnostic pathology, pathogen discovery, immunology, and infectious disease pathogenesis

Macarena Sanz
Assistant Professor, Diplomate ACVIM (Large Animal Internal Medicine)
Equine immunology and infectious diseases; innate immunity; Rhodococcus equi infection

David Schneider
Research Veterinary Medical Officer & Adjunct Professor
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies; Infectious disease immunopathology

Elissa Schwartz
Associate Professor
Infectious disease dynamics; Computational and mathematical models of virus infection

Devendra H. Shah
Associate Professor
Diagnostic pathology, pathogen discovery, immunology, and infectious disease pathogenesis

Dana K. Shaw
Assistant Professor
Tick-borne pathogens; innate immunity; vector competence; molecular microbiology

Kevin Snekvik
Director of Operations, Pathologist & Aquatic Health Section Head, Clinical Professor
Diagnostic pathology; diseases of fish and other aquatic animals; comparative immunology

Carlos Suarez
Research Molecular Biologist

Naomi Taus
Veterinary Medical Officer
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Kyle R. Taylor
Pathologist, Clinical Assistant Professor
Veterinary anatomic pathology, wildlife diseases, zoonoses, non-traditional models of human disease

Massaro Ueti
Research Veterinary Medical Officer
Persistent infectious diseases of livestock; anaplasmosis, babesiosis and piroplasmosis


Stephen N. White
Research Geneticist & Adjunct Faculty
Coxiella burnetti; vaccines; host genomics of infectious disease susceptibility
