Steve Correia headshot from UGA College of Public Health

Steve Correia

Headshot photo of Ricardo Mendes

Ricardo Mendes

Before joining UGA, Dr. Mendes worked as a full professor in a University in Brazil, Instituto Federal Catarinense (IFC), Concórdia, Santa Catarina state, and has been granted several research grants at federal and state levels. He has a strong background in veterinary pathology, starting with a Master’s degree in this […]

Leigh Anne Clark headshot

Leigh Anne Clark

Dr. Leigh Anne Clark earned her doctoral degree in 2004 from the College of VeterinaryvMedicine at Texas A&M University studying exocrine pancreatic insufficiency in Germanvshepherd dogs. After graduation, she remained in the Department of Pathobiology as a Research Assistant Professor, investigating the genetics of dermatomyositis in Collies and Shetland sheepdogs […]

Bryan Torres

Bryan Torres

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Jayshree Samanta

Hui Zhang

Sarah Wheat

Shaolin Liu

Jarrod Call

Michelle Coleman

Michelle Coleman

Binu Velayudhan

Binu Velayudhan is the Director of Athens Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases in the College of Veterinary Medicine. He is a veterinarian and a board-certified virologist. Dr. Velayudhan earned his PhD in infectious diseases from the University of Minnesota, and an MBA from Texas Tech University. […]

Kathryn Diehl

Jo Smith

Jo Smith

Andrew Moorhead

Shannon Hostetter

Shannon Jones Hostetter

Melinda Brindley

Dr. Melinda Brindley is a molecular virologist, with expertise in positive and negative sense RNA viruses. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa studying how Ebola virus and equine infectious anemia virus enters host cells. As a postdoc at Emory University, she characterized how the measles virus glycoprotein […]

Bridget Garner

Bridget Garner

Marcia Ilha

Tamas Nagy

Vincent Starai

Department of Microbiology profile

Stephen Harvey

Kelsey A. Hart

Kelsey A. Hart

María Ferrer

Wendy Watford

Wendy Watford

Inflammation is necessary for efficient pathogen clearance, but inappropriate inflammation contributes to the pathogenesis of infectious and autoimmune diseases. The focus of the Watford lab is to gain a better understanding of immunoregulatory networks, especially at pulmonary and gastrointestinal barriers that represent major sites for pathogen entry. Current efforts are […]

Balazs Rada

My laboratory studies mechanisms of respiratory innate immunity supporting immune responses to pathogens or underlying pathogeneses of lung diseases. The first major project focuses on cystic fibrosis lung disease and studies host-pathogen interactions between neutrophils and respiratory pathogens, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and Mycobacterium abscessus. The second main project investigates […]

Jarrod J. Mousa

Jarrod Mousa received his PhD from the University of Florida where he studied the structure and mechanism of multidrug transporters in pathogenic bacteria. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University in the Vaccine Center where he studied the human antibody response to respiratory syncytial virus. Dr. Mousa joined […]

Kristina Meichner

Brandy Burgess

Janet Grimes

Janet Grimes

Mandy Wallace

Mandy Wallace

Frane Banovic

Frane Banovic

Krzysztof Czaja

Richard Hall

Richard Hall

Odum School of Ecology profile

Nicole Nemeth

Nicole Nemeth

Jesse R. Schank

Koichi Nagata

Jarred M. Williams

Michele Barletta

Brian Jordan

Roberto A. Palomares

Roberto A. Palomares

I was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, a very warm, colorful, coastal city with cultural and geographical importance for the development of the region. With no doubts, one of the most beautiful countries on the planet, not only for the natural and economic resources, but also for our lovely and diverse […]

Brenton Credille

Kate Myrna

Kate Myrna

Maria M. Viveiros

Sherry Sanderson

Sherry Sanderson

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