Topic: Infectious Disease
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Barry Beaty
A University Distinguished Professor, Beaty researches diseases spread by insects, such as malaria and dengue, West Nile and yellow fever.
John Belisle
Belisle focuses on the physiology of bacterial pathogens that cause tuberculosis, leprosy and tularemia, and how products of these bacteria interact with the hosts.
Richard Bowen
Dr. Bowen researches viral diseases that affect domestic and wild animals and spill over into human populations, including COVID-19.
Gregg Dean
Dr. Gregg Dean, head of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, is currently investigating a possible vaccine against the COVID-19 based on the probiotic Lactobacillus acidophilus.
Michael Lappin
Dr. Lappin researches prevention of upper respiratory and infectious diseases, vaccine-associated side effects and zoonoses of cats.
Erica Suchman
Suchman’s research focuses on using active learning to augment undergraduate learning in large lecture microbiology courses. She has also studied parvo viruses that infect mosquitoes.