Professional Profile

• B.V.Sc., Microbiology University of Agricultural Sciences, India
• M.V.Sc., Microbiology University of Agricultural Sciences, India
• Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA

Research in my lab is focused on solving animal health and zoonotic disease problems in food-producing animals using One Health approaches. Specifically, our research is focused on the discovery of novel, narrow-spectrum antimicrobials as well as probiotics and antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) to control foodborne and animal pathogens. Further studies are focused on elucidating molecular mechanisms by which malnutrition and associated changes in microbiota contribute to gut integrity and intestinal homeostasis and its impact on pathogenesis of enteric pathogens.

• 2024-present  Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Advanced Studies, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• 2022-2024         Professor, Center for Food Animal Health, Department of Animal Sciences, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio
• 2016-2022         Professor, Food Animal Health Research Program, Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio
• 2012-2016         Associate Professor, Food Animal Health Research Program, Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio
• 2006-2012         Assistant Professor, Food Animal Health Research Program, Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio

View Dr. Rajashekara's publications in PubMed.