- Associate Professor of Bacterial Pathogenesis
- Email soeren.abel@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-1227
- Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising
- Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Undergraduate Advisor
- Instructor
Areas of Expertise
- Poultry Nutrition
- Bio-Statistics
- Assistant Research Professor
- Extension Veterinarian
Areas of Expertise
- Transition cow management
- Dairy cattle reproduction
- Farm personnel training and performance
- Dairy production medicine
- Cow comfort
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Studies, Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
- Email jdb56@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-4883
- Distinguished Professor of Molecular Immunology
Areas of Expertise
- Host resistance to infection
- Immune-mediated diseases: multiple sclerosis, and inflammatory bowel disease
- T cells
- Gastrointestinal microbiota; Gnotobiotics
- Vitamins A & D regulation of immune function
- Edible mushrooms
- Selenium
- Animal Resource Program & IACUC Veterinarian
- Instructor
- Undergraduate Advisor
Areas of Expertise
- Laboratory Animal Medicine
- Email jwd12@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-7813
- Associate Clinical Professor
- Avian Pathologist and Field Investigator
Areas of Expertise
- Emphasis on diagnosis and control of infectious diseases of poultry, waterfowl, gamebirds.
- Board certification in the American College of Poultry Veterinarians.
- Professor of Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis
- Associate Chair, Molecular Cellular and Integrative Biosciences Graduate Program
- Email abg11@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-7170
- Professor Emeritus
- Assistant Professor
- Dr. Frances Keesler Graham Early Career Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Genomics
- Human Genetics
- Exposome
- Genetic Interactions (Epistasis)
- Gene-Environment Interactions
- Complex Disease
- Precision Medicine
- Biomedical Informatics
- Metabolomics
- Email mah546@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0794
- Professor of Immunology
- Immunology and Infectious Disease Undergraduate Advisor
Areas of Expertise
- Regulation of innate immunity, hematopoiesis and cellular transformation by receptor tyrosine kinases.
- Associate Research Professor
- Extension Veterinarian
Areas of Expertise
- Mastitis and Milk Quality
- Milking Equipment Performance
- Bovine Hoof Health
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- On-farm Food Safety
- Johne's Disease
- Biosecurity and Infectious Disease Management
- Epidemiology
- Director of the Animal Resource Program
- Research Professor - Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Director, Animal Diagnostic Laboratory
- Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Coordinator, One Health Minor
Areas of Expertise
- Diagnostic Microbiology
- Veterinary Public Health
- Food Safety
- Epidemiology
- New and Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Metabolomics
- Natural Product Chemistry
- Bioinformatics
- Antimicrobial Drug Discovery
- Ethnobotany and Indigenous Knowledge
- Plant-associated Microbiomes
- Botanical Dietary Supplements
- Toxicology
- Email jjk6146@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-2887
- Professor Emeritus
- Director, Animal Resource Program
Areas of Expertise
- comparative medicine
- animal models
- infectious disease and biocontainment
- rodent pathology
- animal behavior
- laboratory animal resource management
- veterinary medicine
- Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Immunologic mechanisms of Bordetella
- Pathogenesis of Francisella tularensis
- Host-pathogen interactions
- Development of BSL-3 research programs
- Clinical Professor and Head of Microbiology Section
- Associate Director, Animal Diagnostic Lab
Areas of Expertise
- Infectious diseases
- Pathogen-host interactions
- Zoonotic and Emerging Viruses
- Vaccines and therapeutic development
- Immune responses to viruses
- Viral pathogenesis
- Diagnostic assay development
- Associate Clinical Professor
- Avian Diagnostic and Outreach Veterinarian
Areas of Expertise
- Diagnostic pathology – avian species
- Field diagnostic investigations – chickens, turkeys, upland gamebirds, waterfowl, hatchery, and processing
- Emphasis on diagnosis, prevention, and control of infectious diseases of commercial poultry
- Turkey production medicine, including clostridial diseases and reoviral hepatitis
- Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Molecular parasitology and structural biology of malaria (Plasmodium spp.).
- Email sel27@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-4062
- Clinical Professor
- Avian Virologist
- Section Head, Avian Virology
Areas of Expertise
- Avian Virology- Isolation/Identification of Various Avian Viruses
- Animal Models for Pathogenicity and Vaccine-Challenge Studies
- Avian Influenza Virus Monoclonal Antibodies & Assays Development
- Avian Reovirus Genotyping and Full Genomic Characterizations
- NGS-Next Generation Sequencing in Diagnostic Virology
- Molecular & Monoclonal-based Virology Assays Development
- Biosensor and Nanotechnology Assays in Virus Detection
- Assistant Clinical Professor
- Resident in Pathology
Areas of Expertise
- Veterinary Pathology
- Veterinary Public Health
- Email ehl5008@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-9981
- Instructor
- Immunology and Infectious Disease (IID) Undergraduate Advisor
Areas of Expertise
- Anatomic Pathology
- Clinical Pathology
- Transfusion
- Medicine
- Assistant Research Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Selenium in human Health and Diseases
- Redox Biology
- Experimental cancer chemotherapeutics
- Development of ex vivo organotypic slice cultures of human solid tumors as experimental model systems
- Email spm6456@psu.edu
- Office 814-867-3143
- Assistant Clinical Professor
- Resident in Veterinary Microbiology
- Professor Emeritus of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Academy of Toxicological Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Molecular Toxicology
- Nuclear Receptors
- Gene Regulation
- Email cjo10@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1625
- Tombros Early Career Professor
- Professor of Molecular Toxicology
- Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Areas of Expertise
- Metabolomics
- Microbiome
- Drug Metabolism
- Metabolism
- Environmental Contaminants
- Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Hematology
- Erythropoiesis
- Anemia Research
- Leukemia
- H. Thomas and Dorothy Willits Hallowell Chair in Agricultural Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- microbiome
- aryl hydrocarbon receptor
- dioxin
- drug metabolism
- toxicology
- transcriptional regulation
- Email ghp2@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-0400
- Distinguished Professor of Molecular Toxicology & Carcinogenesis
- Deputy Director, The Penn State Cancer Institute
Areas of Expertise
- Molecular toxicology and carcinogenesis
- Nuclear receptors
- Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors
- Cancer
- Lipid metabolism
- Email jmp21@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1387
- Department Head
- Professor of Immunology and Molecular Toxicology
Areas of Expertise
- Trace element selenium and selenoproteins
- Redox biology
- Macrophage biology- emphasis on inflammation and resolution
- Endogenous bioactive lipid mediators
- Cancer (leukemia) and leukemia stem cells
- Redox control of stress erythropoiesis during inflammation
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- Director Emeritus The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
- Professor of Molecular Virology
- Director, Pathobiology Graduate Program
Areas of Expertise
- Virology
- Infectious Disease
- Viral Budding
- Cellular Trafficking
- Virus-like Particles
- Zoonoses
- Email aps13@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-6781
- Assistant Clinical Professor
- Extension Veterinarian
Areas of Expertise
- Calf Health
- Infectious Diseases of Livestock
- Beef Quality Assurance
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Pre-Harvest Food Safety
- One Health
- Assistant Professor of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- Animal models of influenza
- Airborne transmission of influenza viruses
- Evolution of pandemic influenza viruses
- Highly pathogenic avian influenza
- Development of live-attenuated influenza vaccine platforms
- High containment BSL3+ research
- Email tcs38@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-0693
- Extension Veterinarian
- Professor of Veterinary Science
Areas of Expertise
- Ruminant nutrition
- Dairy herd health
- Metabolic disease
- Reproduction
- Nutrition reproduction interactions
- Small ruminants
- Llamas and Alpacas
- Professor of Molecular Toxicology
- Pharmacology & Toxicology Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Areas of Expertise
- Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Nuclear receptors
- Molecular Nutrition
- Drug Discovery
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Senior Research Associate
- Associate Clinical Professor, Avian Pathologist and Field Investigator
Areas of Expertise
- Biosecurity and disease prevention in backyard and small commercial Flocks
- Poultry diseases and management interactions
- Avian toxicology
- Diseases of game birds,pigeons, exotic and pet birds
- Poultry Handling and Transportation Animal Welfare
