Founded: 1889
Full Time: 10
Part Time: None
Budget: 1,319,680.00
Head: Fred M. Enright
111 Dalrymple Building--LSU
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Telephone: 504/388-4194 FAX: 504/388-4890 E-Mail:
Research Areas:
The mission of the Department is to assure the continued and or increased productivity of horses and food animals for the benefit of the people of Louisiana and the nation through innovative animal health research and through transfer of contemporary concepts of animal health management to students and the public. Ongoing projects deal with genetic alterations of pathogenic agents to either gain a better understanding of disease mechanisms or to produce potential vaccines ecology and control of internal parasites of horses and cattle, transgenic fish, development and testing of bacterial and antiviral peptides, and the role of stress on immune function and pathogenicity studies of bacterial disease in cattle.
Areas of Expertise:
The faculty have research expertise in the fields of:
Bacteriology
Immunology
Parasitology
Pathology
Molecular biology
Clinical medicine
Special Capabilities and Facilities:
Modern well-equipped molecular genetic laboratories; laboratories to conduct both and humoral and cell mediate immunological studies against viral and bacteria pathogens; and state of the art microscopic image analysis equipment.
Research Equipment:
("s" indicates shared equipment)
Automated DNA sequencer (s)
PCR (s)
Microscopic and imaging systems (s)
Photon counting spectro fluorometer (s)
Keywords:
0201000 Agriculture
0201013 Animal Diseases
0201058 Veterinary Medicine
0201039 Livestock
0201066 Aquaculture
0201101 Agricultural Biotechnology
0201108 Equine Diseases
0710000 Biomedical
0710035 Biotechnology
0715125 Infectious Diseases
0740075 Vaccine
0760060 Peptides
0765015 Gene Regulation
0765046 Gene Expression