Dr. Mark Ackermann

Office Personnel:

Our classrooms, laboratories, instructional web-sites, and other learning environments provide rich opportunities for research and inquiry. Our staff are happy to help you articulate research plans and identify potentially promising areas of research. We also welcome the opportunity to collaborate with you on sponsored research projects, papers, and presentations, and we might approach you to collaborate with us.

A collaboration between the Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine and the Department of Animal Science

Mission

Two postdoctoral positions are currently open in Dr. Zhang’s laboratory. These NIH and USDA funded positions are on functional genomics, antimicrobial resistance, and molecular mechanisms of pathogen-host interaction in Campylobacter jejuni. Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications. Send curriculum vitae with names of three references to Dr.

• Environmental neurotoxicant exposures and their links to Neurodegenerative Disorders 

• Prion Diseases  (emphasis on Mad Cow disease) 

• Characterize neurotoxins of parasitic worms for application as parasiticides 

Research Seed Funding Available from the Iowa Center for Advanced Neurotoxicology