Faculty and Staff

This page provides a full list of faculty and staff for the Department of Comparative Biosciences.

Faculty


Andrea Aguiar

Research Associate Professor

Indrani Bagchi – MS, PhD

Professor, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Biomedical & Translational Sciences

Professor, Institute for Genomic Biology

Field Chairperson in Reproductive Biology

Professor

Paul Bonthuis – PhD

Assistant Professor

Ero Capistrano Da Silva – DVM, MSc, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

Juanmahel Davila – PhD

Assistant Professor

Assistant Director Graduate Program

Section Head, Anatomy

Jodi Flaws – MS, PhD

Affiliate, Center for Social and Behavioral Science, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute

Professor, Institute for Genomic Biology

Professor, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Biomedical & Translational Sciences

Professor, Nutritional Sciences

Professor, Animal Sciences

Professor

Howard Gritton – MS, PhD

Assistant Professor, Bioengineering

Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute

Assistant Professor

Makoto Inoue – MS, PhD

Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Institute for Genomic Biology

Associate Professor, Beckman Institute

Associate Professor

CheMyong Ko – PhD

Affiliate, Institute for Genomic Biology

Professor, Pathobiology

Professor, Nutritional Sciences

Professor

Thomas Lowery – DVM

Director, Clinical Skills Learning Center

Lecturer, Comparative Biosciences

Lecturer, Veterinary Clinical Medicine

Megan Mahoney – PhD

Affiliate, Center of Social & Behavioral Science, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute

Director, Graduate Programs

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Psychology

Wenyan Mei – PhD

Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences

Assistant Professor

Huanyu Qiao – PhD

Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences

Associate Professor

Uwe Rudolph – DrMed

Head

Affiliate, Institute for Genomic Biology

Professor

Ratnakar Singh

Research Assistant Professor

Michael Spinella – PhD

Professor, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Biomedical & Translational Sciences

Professor

Ian Sprandel – DVM

Senior Lecturer

Bo Wang – MS, PhD

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences

Affiliate, Personalized Nutritrition Initiative, Institute for Genomic Biology

Jing Yang – PhD

Department Affiliate, Cellular & Developmental Biology

Professor, Institute for Genomic Biology

Professor, Nutritional Sciences

Professor

Ayelet Ziv-Gal – MBA, PhD

Assistant Professor

Adjunct Faculty


Igor Canisso – DVM, MSc, PhD, DACT, DECAR

Andrew Dahlem

Aditi Das – MSc, PhD

Carol Davis – PhD

Eric Dunayer

Timothy Fan – DVM, PhD, DACVIM (Oncology, Small Animal Internal Medicine)

Robin Guy

Sharon Gwaltney-Brant

Steven Hansen

Jason Herrick – MS, PhD

Quanxi Li – MS, PhD

Annette McCoy – DVM, MS, PhD, DACVS-LA

Chan Jin Park

Matthew Stewart – BVSc, MVetClinStud, PhD, FACVSc-LA (Equine Surgery), DACVSMR-Equine

Rita Strakovsky

Tina Wismer

Emeritus Faculty


Val Beasley – DVM, PhD, DABVT

Michael Biehl – DVM, PhD, MBA, DABT

Duncan Ferguson – VMD, PhD

Rex Hess – MS, PhD

Gerald Pijanowski – DVM, MS, PhD

Susan Schantz – PhD

Staff


Shehata Anwar

Kannan Athilakshmi

Rachael Bell

Karen Doty

Regina Duncan

Rachel Eggleston

Salwa Gharieb

Maltesh Kambali

Mehwish Wahid Khan

Stephanie Krumholz

Mary Laws – PhD

Colin Lee

Jie Li

Po Ching Lin

Ashley Lynch

Behrokh Marzbanabbasabadi

Daryl Meling

Rajasekar Nagarajan

Alison Neff

Reza Rajabi Toustani

Debu Roy

Ramses Santacruz Marquez

Kevin Sun

Frank Tian