Collaborators

Microarrays

• Erin Strait (Iowa State University) Transcriptional analysis of swine cells to mycolasma infection
• Tracy Nicholson (National Animal Disease Center) - development of swine microarrays for transcriptional gene profiling during infections

Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae

• Steve Djordjevic (Institute of Technology, Sydney) Role of surface proteins in pathogenesis, proteomics
• Shane Burgess and Ken Pendarvis (University of Arizona) Proteomics
• Ian Paulsen and Liam Elbourne (Macquarie University, Sydney) Analysis of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae genome sequences

Food Safety

• Nancy Cornick (Iowa State University) - E. coli 0157:H7 persistence in ruminants

Molecular Vaccines

• Mike Wannemuehler (Iowa State University) - Development of enhanced vaccines, development of single dose vaccine against Yersinia pestis
• Balajii Narasimhan (Iowa State University) - Use of polyanhydrides in microspheres for single dose vaccines, development of single dose vaccine against Yersinia pestis
• Dennis Metzger (Albany Medical College) - Animal challenge studies for Yersinia pestis

Quorum Sensing

• Alex Horswill (University of Iowa) and Matt Parsek (University of Washington) - Identification of the quorum sensing regulon in Yersinia pestis, AI-2 and AHL pathways
• Greg Phillips (Iowa State University) - Genetic systems for use in Yersinia pestis