IID Graduate Training Faculty
Troy Bankhead
Associate Professor
Lyme disease and relapsing fever Borrelia species; antigenic variation and persistence mechanisms
Timothy Baszler
Exec Director, Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory; Assoc Director Disease Surveillance, Paul G. Allen School for Global 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, Assistant Professor; Assistant Director, WADDL
Clinical microbiology diagnostics, investigation of novel pathogens, antimicrobial susceptibiliy
Douglas Call
Regents Professor Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, Molecular Epidemiology, Associate Director for Research and Graduate Education.
Antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, alternatives, and epidemiology
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, 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, 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 Health; Professor; Director of Graduate Education
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
Shanthi Manian
Assistant Professor
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
Associate Professor, WADDL Necropsy Section Head
Infectious diseases of ruminants and fish
Anthony V. Nicola
Professor
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
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; 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
Stephanie Seifert
Assistant Professor
Molecular ecology, population genetics, field-based ecology, infectious diseases, virology, high containment pathogens
Devendra H. Shah
Associate Professor; Engle Distinguished Professor of Infectious Diseases
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, Professor
Diagnostic pathology; diseases of fish and other aquatic animals; comparative immunology
Carlos Suarez
Research Molecular Biologist
Naomi Taus
Veterinary Medical Officer
Kyle R. Taylor
Pathologist, 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
