Johannes Storz
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Professor, Veterinary Microbiology
D.V.M. Veterinary College, Hannover, Germany Dr. med. vet., University of Munich, Germany Ph.D. University of California, Davis
Dr. honoris causae, 1994, University of Zurich, Switzerland Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Microbiologists |
Dr. Storz served as head of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology from 1982 - 2000. Prior to serving in the position of department head, Dr. Storz served as a faculty member at Utah State University and Colorado State University. He received special training in virology at the Federal Research Institute for Viral Diseases of Animals, Tubingen, Germany in 1957 and spent sabbatical leaves of study and research at the Institute of Virology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany in 1971, 1978-79, and 1990. He leads the faculty, staff and graduate students of the department and maintains active research programs in the areas of virology and chlamydiology. Dr. Storz has guided the training of 35 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the areas of his research interests. His graduate teaching involvement is in courses on mechanisms in viral infections, and viral pathogenesis. He participates in teaching clinical virology in the veterinary curriculum. He serves on the editorial board of the "Journal of Veterinary Medicine" and "Archives of Virology". He was recognized through the following awards: Andrew G. Clark Award for Excellence in Research, Colorado State University Faculty, 1975; Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Excellence in Research and Teaching, 1978; Professor of the Year, 1973, 1975; Norden Distinguished Teacher Award, 1978; American Veterinary Medical Association Research Award, 1983; the Distinguished Scholar Award of the SVM, 1989; and the Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award of the Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society, and Distinguished Research Master Award of LSU in 1996. He served as consultant for the World Health Organization on chlamydial infections of man and animals. Dr. Storz participates in the Multidisciplinary Program in Infectious Disease.
Research Interests
Dr. Storz maintains active research programs in the areas of virology and chlamydiology. The emphasis in his chlamydial research program is directed towards the nature of chlamydiae, their cultivation, evolution and pathogenic mechanisms in causing disease in animals. His virological research efforts focus on cytocidal mechanisms relative to the pathogenesis of intestinal and respiratory coronavirus infections of cattle. Current investigation explore newly emerging coronaviruses as a factor in shipping fever pneumonia of cattle.
Lin, X.Q., O'Reilly, K.L., Storz, J. 1997. Infection of polarized epithelial cells with enteric and respiratory tract bovine coronaviruses and release of virus progeny. Am J Vet Res. 58:1120-1124.
Storz, J. 1999. Respiratory Diseases of cattle associated with coronavirus infections. Current Veterinary Therapy. Food Animal Practice 4. Edition by Jimmy L. Howard and Robert Smith, W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, PA. pp. 291-293.
Storz, J., X.Q. Lin, C.W. Purdy, and R.W. Loan. 1999. Novel diagnostics for defining virus infections in shipping fever pneumonia: emergency of respiratory bovine coronaviruses. Proceedings, IX International Symposium of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. pp. 54-60.
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