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

Santanu Bose

Professor

Inflammation and innate immunity; Influenza A virus and RSV pathogenesis

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

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

William C. Davis

Professor

Analysis of the immune response to pathogens in veterinary species

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; Director of Graduate Education, WSU College of Veterinary Medicine

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

Roberta O’Connor

Associate Professor

Marine natural product drug discovery for parasitic diseases

Anders Omsland

Associate Professor

Bacterial obligate intracellular parasites; Bacterial physiology; Bacterial developmental biology

Sylvia Omulo

Assistant Professor

Antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance in humans and animals

Jason Park

Research Assistant Professor

Intracellular pathogens; Host-pathogen interactions; Host range adaptations