The udder and its response to infection

Kasey Moyes, Ph.D.
University of Maryland, Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, USA
kmoyes@umd.edu

Kasey received her B.S. at Michigan State University, her M.S. at the University of Connecticut, a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois and completed a post-doctoral research assistantship in Denmark at Aarhus University. She is currently a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Animal and Avian Sciences at the University of Maryland. Kasey current teaching responsibilities include the courses: ‘Principles of Animal Science’ and ‘Physiology of Lactation’. Her research primarily focuses on nutritional immunology and risk of disease in dairy cattle, with an emphasis on bovine mastitis.

Isis Kanevsky-Mullarky, Ph.D.
Virginia Tech, Department of Dairy Science, USA
isisk@vt.edu

Isis obtained both her B.S. (1996) and M.S. (1998) from the University of Vermont, and her Ph.D. in pathobiology and immunology from Pennsylvania State University (2003). She completed her post-doctoral studies in Saranac Lake, NY at the Trudeau Institute, an independent, nonprofit, biomedical research organization where she conducted infectious disease research using mouse models. As a faculty member in the Department of Dairy Science at Virginia Tech, from 2006 - 2016, her research focused on enhancing immunity to prevent infections such as Staph. aureus in both dairy cattle and human populations. Currently, she is an adjunct professor at Virginia Tech and Principal Scientist at Pfizer.

Gina Pighetti, Ph.D.
University of Tennessee, Institute of Agriculture, USA
pighetti@utk.edu

Gina obtained her B.S. in Dairy Production, Business Minor (1991), her M.S. (1994), and her Ph.D. (1998) in Pathobiology at Pennsylvania State University. She is currently an associate professor in Department of Animal Science at the Institute of Agriculture of University of Tennessee. Dr. Pighetti’s research aims to improve dairy cow health, productivity, and milk safety by providing solutions for controlling mastitis. Her research primarily focuses on identifying genetic markers that can be used not only for selection, but also for determining the functional mechanisms that contribute to greater susceptibility. She also collaborates with other members of her department to develop new candidates for vaccines against mastitis, as well as minimize the impacts of stress on immunity and disease resistance.

Dr. Chris Luby, VetMB, MSc, PhD, Dipl ACVIM
University of Saskatchewan, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Canada
chris.luby@usask.ca

Chris is an assistant professor in the Western College of Veterinary Medicine's Department of Large Animal Medicine and a board-certified large animal internal medicine specialist at the WCVM Veterinary Medical Centre. Originally from the south west of England, Dr. Luby received his VetMB degree from the University of Cambridge in 2002 and then finished an MSc degree and a residency in food animal medicine, surgery and production medicine at the University of Missouri in 2006. He completed a PhD in Veterinary Microbiology and joined the WCVM faculty in 2010 and is responsible for teaching food animal production medicine with an emphasis on the dairy industry. His primary research interest is in bovine mastitis with focus on host-pathogen interactions and novel mastitis control measures.