Museum “crusties” Foster Collaboration Between Geneticists and Smithsonian
Museums are a repository of many artifacts collected in times gone by, and the Smithsonian holds one of the United States’ best collections. Its Division of Mammals at the National Museum of Natural History houses a world-class collection of roughly 590,000 preserved specimens, many of which are available to researchers, including Dr. Bill Murphy, a […]
Dr. H. Morgan Scott: Viewing Epidemiology through a Different Lens
Dr. H. Morgan Scott has ridden his bicycle around the world, but he keeps coming back to College Station. Scott, an epidemiologist and infectious disease expert who taught at Texas A&M University from 2001–2009, has returned to the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Science (CVM) after a stretch as the E.J. Frick […]
Powerful Collaborations Work to Solve Multifactorial Salmonella Challenge
“We’ve made little progress in reducing the incidence of salmonellosis in people over the last 15 years. As a result, salmonella remains one of our predominant threats to food safety,” said Dr. Kevin Cummings, assistant professor of epidemiology in the Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical […]
A Grand Challenge: One Health research proposals funded
The One Health Initiative was formally started at Texas A&M University in 2011 to be a collaborative effort of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain sustainable optimal health. The initiative is dedicated to the discovery, development, communication, and application of knowledge in a wide range of academic and professional fields, providing the […]
Love to the Max: Texas A&M veterinarians help a family through the pain of canine cancer
Upon entering the Bhatia home in Houston, it’s apparent that the family dog, Maxamillion, is as much a thread in the fabric of the household as his human counterparts. With an energetic tail and a doggy smile, Max is the first to greet any guest. In nearly every framed photo in the home, he poses […]
Texas A&M Professor Reveals Evolution Of Darwin’s Finches Through Genome Sequencing
Darwin’s finches, inhabiting the Galápagos archipelago and Cocos Island, constitute an iconic model for studies of speciation and adaptive evolution. An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Leif Andersson of the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and Uppsala University in Sweden, has now shed light on the evolutionary history of […]
Texans help researchers map Lyme disease in Texas
In recent years increasing numbers of Lyme disease cases have been reported in Texas, a state that was once considered free of the disease, and researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) have turned to the public for help. Dr. Maria D. Esteve-Gassent, an assistant professor in the Department […]
Collaboration, Innovation Key to Team’s Success
The Guidewire Group doesn’t believe in hopeless cases. Made up of practitioners from across the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) to evaluate rapidly evolving medical techniques and to collaborate on challenging veterinary cases, the group harnesses the diverse skills of its members to develop and provide new treatments for animals […]
Texas A&M Post-doctoral Researcher Recognized as a Leader in the Field of Toxicological Research
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Society of Toxicology (SOT), the world’s largest and preeminent association representing the field of toxicology, recognized the field’s top researchers and scientists this week through the announcement of recipients of 2015 SOT Awards. The awards honor individuals who are advancing the field of toxicology. One of those honored is Dr. […]
Texas A&M researcher collaborates on work that reveals clues to cat domestication
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Cats and humans have shared the same households for at least 9,000 years, but we still know very little about how our feline friends became domesticated. An analysis of the cat genome led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine, and that included a Texas A&M University professor, reveals some […]
