Name/E-mail

Dept

Research Topic(s)

Website address

LSU School of Veterinary Medicine

*David Baker

DLAM

Clinical Lab Animal Medicine/Parasitology

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/pbs/baker.html

*Philip Elzer

PBS

Brucellosis Vaccination/Molecular biology/Pathogenesis

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/pbs/elzer.html

*Lane D. Foil

ENT

Transmission of pathogenic agents of animals and man, host-parasite interactions of Rickettsia felis and other flea-borne agents, WNV & BTV

http://entomology.lsu.edu/faculty/foil_files/foil.htm

Stephen Gaunt

PBS

Mechanisms of Ehrlichia spp. thrombocytopenia

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/pbs/gaunt.htm

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/pbs/guerrero-plata.htm

Pulmonary Immunology and Infectious Disease

*Gus Kousoulas

PBS

Molecular Virology and Biotechnology

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/pbs/kousoulas.html
http://www.labiomed.info

*Fang-Ting Liang

PBS

Immunology of Lyme Disease

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/pbs/liang.htm

*Kevin Macaluso

PBS

Rickettsia tick-host interactions

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/pbs/macaluso.htm

John Malone

PBS

Vector Borne Disease: Environmental Risk/Control

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/pbs/malone.html

James Miller

PBS

Genetics of Parasite Resistance; Biological Control

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/pbs/miller.html

Alma Roy

PBS

West Nile Virus, LA Vet Med Diagnostic Laboratory

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/pbs/roy.html

Ronald Thune

PBS

Aquaculture: Bacterial Pathogenesis, vaccines

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/pbs/thune.html

LSU National Hansen’s Disease Program

*Linda Adams

NHDP

Mycobacterial immunity

http://www.hrsa.gov/hansens/research/adams.htm

*Thomas Gillis

NHDP

Immunity/Diagnosis of Mycobacterial Infection

http://www.hrsa.gov/hansens/research/gillis.htm

*David Scollard

NHDP

Pathology Mycobacterial infection

http://www.hrsa.gov/hansens/research/scollard.htm

*Richard Truman

NHDP

Immunobiology of armadillos

http://www.hrsa.gov/hansens/research/truman.htm

Tulane National Primate Research Center

*James Blanchard

Comp Medicine

Primate medicine

http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/faculty.html
http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/disease.html

*Rudolph Bohm

Vet Med

Primate medicine

http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/faculty.html
http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/disease.html 

http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/disease.html

*Elizabeth Didier

Microbiology

Microsporidium biology/molecular genomics

http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/faculty.html
http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/disease.html

http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/disease.html  

http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/disease.html

*Andrew Lackner

Director

Pathogenesis of HIV/SIV

http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/faculty.html
http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/disease.html

http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/disease.html

*Preston Marx

Microbiology

Pathogenesis and immunity of HIV/SIV

http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/faculty.html
http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/disease.html

*Mario Philipp

Bacteriology & Parasitology

Lyme disease: Immunity and vaccination

http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/faculty.html
http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/disease.html

*Ronald Veazey

Comparative Pathology

Immunopathology HIV, SIV

http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/faculty.html
http://www.tnprc.tulane.edu/disease.html

LSU School of Veterinary Medicine

Henrique Cheng

CBS

Regulation of insulin secretion from the endocrine pancreas and its impact on diabetes

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/cbs-update/Cheng.htm

Susan Eades

VCS

Pathophysiology of Equine Intestinal Disease

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/vcs/showfacultybio.asp?facultyID=13

*Joseph Francis

CBS

Molecular Pathogenesis of Sudden Heart Failure

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/cbs-update/Francis.htm

*Mandi Lopez

VCS

Canine/Equine Orthopedics

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/vcs/showfacultybio.asp?facultyID=60

*Shisheng Li

CBS

Mechanics of DNA repair

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/cbs-update/Shisheng%20Li.htm

Rebecca McConnico

VCS

Pathophysiology of Equine Intestinal Disease

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/vcs/showfacultybio.asp?facultyID=58

Daniel Paulsen

PBS

Pathophysiology of Respiratory Disease

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/pbs/paulsen.htm

Ashley Stokes

George Strain

CBS

Deafness, auditory function, other neurologic disorders

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/cbs-update/Strain.htm

*C. Venugopal

VCS

Primary area is COPD in horses. General area is "inflammatory mediators of airway hyperactivity" in models of human asthma

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/vcs/showfacultybio.asp?facultyID=80

*Gary Wise

CBS

Molecular and cellular studies of tooth eruption

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/cbs-update/Wise.htm

*Masami Yoshimura

CBS

Molecular pharmacology of the effects of alcohol on cyclic AMP signal transduction

http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/cbs-update/Yoshimura.htm

LSU Biological Sciences

*Evanna Gleason

 BIOLS

Signaling properties of the amacrine cell, a retinal interneuron

http://www.biology.lsu.edu/faculty_listings/fac_pages/egleason.html

BIOLS

Protein-DNA interactions: the role of architectural DNA-binding proteins in regulation of DNA-dependent activities

*Jacqueline Stephens

 BIOLS

Gene regulation and/or signal transduction in obesity & type II diabetes

http://www.biology.lsu.edu/faculty_listings/fac_pages/jstephens.html

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

*George Bray

Molecular basis of obesity

http://www.pbrc.edu/About_Us/The_Explorers/Faculty_Bio.asp?EmployeeID=23

Annadora Bruce-Keller

Neurodegeneration 

 & inflammation

*Elizabeth Floyd

Ubiquitin-proteasome pathway effects

http://www.pbrc.edu/The_Research/The_Explorers/Faculty_Bio.asp?EmployeeID=2209

*Donald Ingram

Mechanisms of age-related decline in motor and memory performance

http://www.pbrc.edu/The_Research/The_Explorers/Faculty_Bio.asp?EmployeeID=3220

*Claudia Kappen

Intrauterine environment influences and risk factors

http://www.pbrc.edu/The_Research/The_Explorers/Faculty_Bio.asp?EmployeeID=3299

Jeffrey Keller

Aging & neurodegeneration

http://www.pbrc.edu/About_Us/The_Explorers/Faculty_Bio.asp?EmployeeID=3554

*Roy Martin

Signaling mechanisms of nutrients

http://www.pbrc.edu/The_Research/The_Explorers/Faculty_Bio.asp?EmployeeID=790

*Richard Rogers

Modulation of the brain-gut axis by cytokines, hormones and CNS pathways

http://www.pbrc.edu/About_Us/The_Explorers/Faculty_Bio.asp?EmployeeID=1550

*Alberto Travagli

Cellular mechanisms underlying the central control of gastrointestinal functions

http://www.pbrc.edu/About_Us/The_Explorers/Faculty_Bio.asp?EmployeeID=2248