Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry

Prof. Ahmed Sabry S. Abdoon is a distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Animal Reproduction, National Research Centre (NRC), Egypt. He completed his B.V.M. at Cairo University (1982), M.Sc. in Physiology (1987), and Ph.D. in Physiology (1991), all from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University. His academic career spans over three decades, beginning as a Veterinary Research Scholar (1983), advancing through positions as Assistant Researcher, Associate Researcher, Researcher, Associate Professor, and Professor at NRC. He also served as Deputy Dean of the Veterinary Research Institute (2016–2019). Prof. Ahmed Sabry S. Abdoon’s expertise lies in Animal Reproduction, Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology, Cancer Therapy, with significant contributions to veterinary physiology and reproductive biotechnology.

Research: Animal Reproduction, Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology, Cancer Therapy

Research: Biodistribution Toxicity Excretion of xenobiotics

Dr. G. M. Constantinescu is investigating the gross anatomy of domestic and laboratory animals in general, focusing on the locomotor apparatus, the peripheral and autonomic nervous system, as well as on the anatomical nomenclature. The latter work was used to write and illustrate two sections of the "Illustrated Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria." He is one of the five members of the Editorial Committee for the 5th edition of the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, and the only one representing the two Americas. In addition, he maintained his interest in the areas of congenital malformations in mammals and animation in cardiology. Dr. G. Constantinescu is also a medical illustrator; he wrote and illustrated his own books "Clinical Dissection Guide for Large Animals" and "Guide to Regional Ruminant Anatomy Based on the Dissection of the Goat" and "Clinical Anatomy for Small Animal Practitioners", the last one translated into Portuguese, Japanese and French. As co-author he contributed with text, and illustrated several other books in English and in Romanian, some published, others in press.

Research: Functional and clinical anatomy

Research: The overall goal of Dr. Gerrard’s laboratory is to maximize the production of high quality meat. Three distinct yet related approaches have been utilized to attain this goal. Ongoing studies range from understanding the basic biochemistry involved in the transformation of muscle into meat, to applied studies involving technology transfer for monitoring fresh meat quality. In addition, Dr. Gerrard’s research includes fundamental studies focused on understanding muscle growth and development, which directly affects ultimate meat quality. This multidisciplinary approach to meat science spans several domestic and international laboratories.

Research: - Disease modification in epilepsy - Peripheral and Central Pain Sensitizers

Dr. Duran has been a clinical pharmacist at the veterinary college since 1975 and currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences Large Animal Clinic. She has a pharmacy degree from Auburn University, and completed an internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she was the Director of the Intravenous Admixture Department for 3 years. She completed a Master in Pharmacology and Veterinary Pharmacology in 1978 from Auburn and completed board certification of veterinary pharmacy in 2000. She completed her doctorate of pharmacal science in 2003.

Research: Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic studies in veterinary medicine.  Development of novel dosage forms and vaccinations for ease of administration for animals and humans.

Abdelfattah Nour, DVM, MS, Ph.D (Cornell University, USA), is Professor of Basic Medical Sciences at the Department of Basic Medical Sciences and Founding Director of International Programs In Veterinary Medicine (1994-May 1, 2009) at Purdue University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. He has 24 years of experience in teaching medical physiology to veterinary medical students, graduate (MS and Ph.D.) students. He developed a Clinical physiology Course for Veterinary Technology students to provide the physiological basis for clinical functions and medical interventions of the animal Professor Nour is adjunct professor at the Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt. ). Dr. Nour was elected in 2009 as a Purdue Community of Service Learning Faculty fellow and received an award for his contributions to service learning. As a Community of Service Learning Faculty fellow he advises Purdue Faculty and conducted workshops to help faculty design service learning courses or integrate service learning in their exiting courses. Professor Nour earned a Ph.D from Cornell University, USA, in Animal Science with emphasis on livestock production and meat quality attributes and meat composition.  Prof. Nour’s contributions to the development of international programs is uniformly recognized and praised by the external reviewers. These reviewers include persons from the U.S.A. and nations where the programs he has created have had an impact. There is also recognition of his work in educational development.  Because of efforts, SVM received Purdue’s University’s Internationalization Award in 2009.

Research: Abdelfattah Nour research areas include education research, food security, and biomarkers for kidney and other diseases. His educational research focuses on information literacy, team-based learning, social networking and learning. Small ruminants for food security in poor households in Africa: The role of women's cooperatives and entrepreneurship; effects of drug-induced renal damage on CBC, biochemical profile of the serum, kidneys histopathological changes in experimental rats; study of the possible association between some of the uremic toxins and allergic factors in hemodialysis patients suffering from pruritus; histological and ultra-structural studies of the major endocrine glands of in relation to Age and W bneight.

Research: Biosafety/Biocontainment Biosecurity Regulatory Medicine Immunohistochemistry Veterinary Pathology

Research: - Pathogenesis - Diagnosis - Prevention of infectious diseases of domestic animals and humans

Research: - Application of molecular biology and proteomics analyses - Molecular Pharmacology

Uganda with a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine, 1982, University of Edinburgh, UK (Msc. Tropical Veterinary Medicine, 1987), The Ohio State University (Ph. Dr. Margaret Khaitsa graduated from Makerere University, Kampala D Veterinary Preventive Medicine, 1999) and University of Nebraska at Lincoln (Postdoctoral Research Associate (2000-2002). She joined North Dakota State University (NDSU) as Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Veterinary and Microbiological Sciences in 2003 & in 2009 was promoted to Associate Professor. Her duties include teaching epidemiology courses and conducting research in infectious disease epidemiology and food safety. Dr. Khaitsa is board certified by the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine. She is also an active member of professional associations including Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases; Association for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine; and American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges-AAVMC. She served as President Elect – Public Health Committee of AAVMC (July 2011-June 2012). Currently she is a member of the “One Health” Committee (newly formed committee from a merger of Public Health & International Committees) of AAVMC (since January 2013). Dr. Khaitsa has served as a member of NDSU Global Council and as a Host family for International students at NDSU. She was the 1st mentor of African Students Union (ASU) at NDSU (2009 – to date). She also served as Member of the Multicultural Student Services Faculty Advisory Committee and contributed to her Department winning The Advance FORWARD Award (2011). This is an award given annually by the Commission on the Status of Women Faculty to an academic department at NDSU with a record of outstanding effort to support and advance gender equity in one or more of the five areas/goals established in the National Science Foundation Advance Grant.

Research: Pre-harvest food safety especially in beef production systems, Infectious Disease

Dr. Brayton is an Associate Professor of Microbial Genomics at Washington State University. After obtaining a Ph.D. in biochemistry at Purdue University, Dr. Brayton did postdoctoral work at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute in South Africa where she became involved with Rickettsial pathogens of veterinary importance. In her current position she studies the infection biology of tick-borne hemoparasites.

Research: Infectious diseases, tick-borne diseases, microbial genomics, hemoparasites, rickettsial pathogens, and apicomplexan pathogens.

Research: Dr. Renukaradhya J. Gourapura interests include understanding mucosal immunology in the respiratory tract of pigs and other species of food animals, host-pathogen interactions and pathogenesis, identification of viral immune evasion mechanisms and development of mucosal vaccines. Elucidate mucosal immune evasion mechanisms of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus and influenza virus. He is involved in identification of potential mucosal candidate adjuvants of bacterial origin and other delivery methods to develop novel mucosal vaccines against infectious diseases of food animals. To develop a suitable mucosal killed viral vaccine delivery system, he is evaluating the biodegradable and biocompatible nanotechnology based approach in the respiratory tract of pigs. In addition, recently he discovered invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells in pigs and in particular in their lungs. iNKT cell has been identified as a potent immune potentiator capable of inducing heterologous protection to influenza virus in murine models. Currently, he is evaluating the methods to induce NKT cell-mediated cross-protective immunity to a killed swine influenza virus vaccine in pigs.

Dr. Jing Yang completed his PhD in Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, China. In 2004, he joined the faculty at the Ohio State University, Department of Pediatrics. In 2011, he moved his laboratory to the Department of Comparative Biosciences at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Research: Vertebrate embryonic development, reversible protein phosphorylation, signaling transduction, maternal genes.

Research: Cell cycle regulation, skin carcinogenesis, mouse model, tumor biology

Research: - The putative therapeutic effects of type I IFN on treating human endometrial cancers - Maternal diet has on offspring sex ratio

Dr. Diana L. Eubanks is a Diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners and a Fellow of the Academy of Veterinary Dentistry. She is an Associate Clinical Professor and Chief of Community Veterinary Services at Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Her appointment includes research in various aspects of veterinary dentistry and instruction of students in the areas of small animal clinical dentistry, gross anatomy and physiology. She enjoys outdoor activities, gardening, rescuing animals and spending time at “the farm”.

Benson T. AKINGBEMI had his initial education in Nigeria where he received the D.V.M. (1980), M.Sc. (1988) and Ph.D. (1997) degrees from the University of Ibadan. With a Research Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Akingbemi came to theUnited States in 1997 for postdoctoral training. Between 1997 and 2004, he worked on environmental toxicology and Leydig cells with Dr. Matthew Hardy, Center for Biomedical Research of the Population Council, Rockefeller University, New York.

Research: The male sex steroid hormone, testosterone, which maintains the male phenotype, is produced primarily by Leydig cells in the testis. Data from transgenic mice lacking one or both ER subtypes support the hypothesis that estrogen has a regulatory role in male reproduction. Moreover, there is growing public concern that chemicals in the environment (food, air, water), which have estrogenic properties, may have adverse effects on reproductive health. These compounds alter the endocrine profile by acting through steroid hormone receptors and are designated endocrine disruptors.

Hisao Kurazono was educated at Nihon Veterinary and Zoo Technical University (BVS) and Osaka Prefecture University (MS & PhD: Veterinary Public Health). After a postdoc in Germany and the U.S.A., he successively held positions at Colleges of Medicine in Tokyo University, Kyoto University and Tsukuba University. He joined the faculty of Okayama University College of Medicine in 1999, having achieved the rank of full professor. Thereafter, he was promoted as a professor of Osaka Prefecture University (Veterinary Public Health) and, later Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine (Animal and Food Hygiene). Currently, he is the vice president of the University. He is also involved in teaching veterinary students (Microbiology and Veterinary Public Health) and graduate students (Microbiology and Food Hygiene).

Research: Bacterial Protein Toxins Food-borne diseases Urinary Tract Infections

 Dr Younes Chorfi received his doctorate in veterinary medicine in 1994 from the Agronomic and veterinary Institute, Rabat, Morocco. He went on to complete a master degree (1999) and a PhD (2005) at the Faculty of veterinary medicine University of Montreal where he is associate professor of “nutrition, feeding and animal production”.  Dr Chorfi has special interests in mycotoxins, their effects in animals and biomarker analysis.

Research: ▪ Biomarkers of exposure to mycotoxins pets. ▪ Master of the effect of mycotoxins on the health and performance of domestic animals, the immune system and susceptibility to infections. ▪ Improvement of animal health through nutrition / targeted feeding.

Dr. Jianguo Zhao is presently working as a Professor “100 talent” at the Institute of Zoology at Institute of Zoology in Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.  He also worked as Research Assistant Professor from 2008 to 2010 in Animal Science Research Center/National Swine Resource & Research Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, and Columbia, MO, USA. He did his Postdoctoral Research Follow in Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans, and New Orleans, LA USA.  He has almost 30 publications under his name. He is also acting as a reviewer for International Journals.

Research: His research focuses on making genetic modifications in pigs by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) or gene mutagenesis. His lab conducts researches in three main areas: Making genetic modifications in pigs. Reprogramming mechanism in SCNT and epigenetic regulations in the development of early stage embryos. Large- scale pig mutagenesis.

Andrzej Wernicki an academic teacher (the position of the full professor) employed at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Faculty of Food Science and Biotechnology. He is involved in teaching students with subject: Veterinary Prevention, Immunology and Biotechnology in the diagnosis and treatment of animals. Head of the Department of Veterinary Preventive and Director of the Institute of Biological Bases of Animal Diseases, University of Life Sciences in Lublin. Supervisor of seven academic dissertations and many master thesis He is member of Polish Society of Veterinary Sciences and The Committee of Veterinary Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Polish Journal of Veterinary Science.

Research: The etiology and pathogenesis of calf respiratory syndrome, immunoprophylaxis of shipping fever in cattle, effect of humoral immunological response of calves induced by Mannheimia haemolytica leukotoxin, effect of transport stress on the degree of sensitivity of leukocytes to the leukotoxin, the influence of transport stress on selected indicators of cellular immunity, the effect of chosen antioxidants on selected immunological parameters in bovine leukocytes, characterization of bovine conglutinin, bacteriophages as an alternative to antibiotics in the prophylaxis and therapy of animal diseases.

Dr. Godoy has been a lecturer in Equine Medicine and Surgery at University of Chile, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science since 1977. In 1982, under the tuition of Professor John D. Wheat he completed an internship at the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, UC Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine. In 1985, he gets his Master´s degree in Veterinary Science focusing his studies in Animal Pathology. A few years later, between 1992 and 1998, Professor Godoy became the director of the Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Chile. Currently holds the category of Professor in Equine Internal Medicine and Surgery of the University of Chile and Director of the Diplomate Program "Equine Clinical Medicine" of the Postgraduate School, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Chile. Also, he is a lecturer in the Equine Sport Medicine specialization program dictated by the graduate school of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Research: Neuroendocrine changes produced by stress related to exercise on Thoroughbred horses. Lameness examination, ultrasound and radiology diagnosis. Upper airways diseases in Thoroughbred horses.

Research: Regenerative Medicine Large Animal Surgery Animal Welfare Regulations

Research: Swine Diseases and Preventive swine health Comparative surgery in collaboration with Stavanger University Hospital (SUS) European College of Porcine Health Management (ECPHM) residency

Research: - Mastitis Diagnosis - Treatment and Prevention

Research: General Veterinary Pathology, Special Veterinary Pathology and Necropsy in Large , Small , wild and exotic animals.

Robert attained a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVM) at Makerere University Kampala in 1996, following which he worked as a veterinarian as well as a junior academic staff at the same university for 2 years. In 1999 Robert commenced doctoral studies at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Queensland, focusing on the role of cytochrome P450 enzymes in the initiation of autoimmune reactions in anti-epileptic drug–induced hypersensitivity reactions. In 2003, Robert attained a PhD in Pharmacology and took up Postdoctoral studies at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Queen’s University Ontario Canada. In 2008, Robert was appointed to a veterinary pharmacology lectureship position in the School of Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences at James Cook University. Robert has also been a recipient of a prestigious Canadian Institute of Health Research Postdoctoral fellowship through the gaseous transmitter research training program and Canadian Pharmacological Society Boehringer-Ingelheim 2007 Postdoctoral award for significant contribution to pharmacology research. Robert has made tremendous achievements in several aspects of his profession and research areas including the rational design and evaluation of selective inhibitors of heme oxygenase, an enzyme that breaks down senile red blood cells into bile pigments (biliverdin and bilirubin) and carbon monoxide, and the evaluation of the (patho)physiological roles of heme oxygenases in disease processes. In 2012, Robert attained membership and registration by examination, of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientist.

Research: Elucidating of molecular, biochemical and physiological mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases and their pharmacological treatments Evaluation of novel small molecules as therapeutic agents for infectious diseases

Research: • ADVANCE DAIRY HYGIENC • DAIRY HYGIENE • FOOD MICROBIOLOGY • FOOD MICROBIOLOGY (LAB) • MEAT HYGIENE • PRINCIPLES OF DAIRY SCIENCE • ZOONOTIO DISEASES  

Research: Critical Care Nutrition, Cancer Nutrition, Oxidative stress, Obesity  

Dr Monique Mancuso is a Researcher III Professional level of Coastal Marine Environment Institute - National Research Council (CNR) of Messina (Italy). She was Scientific Coordinator of a Project for Young Researchers in 2003.  On 2004 she attended at the Summer School Ph.D. "Environmental issues of marine fish farming in the Mediterranean" (Hellenic Center of Marine Research). On 2006 received a Ph.D. in “Health marine environment, ichthyopathology and hygienic quality of the fish”. Since 2004 she is a member of the Italian Society of Fish Pathology (SIPI). She is reviewer of 3 Scientific Journals. Since July 2010 she is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Aquaculture Research & Development. Since 2012 she is Professor at the School of Specialization in: Breeding, hygiene, pathology of aquatic species and control products (Veterinary Medicine), teaching Laboratory technology and biotechnology for diagnostic purposes. She is author of about 108 papers both international, nationals, reports etc.

Research: Aquaculture, Mariculture, Microbiology, Marine Ecology, Ichthyopathology, bacterial diseases and diagnosis.