Dr. Robert Valeris-Chacin
PUBLICATIONS
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
I am an epidemiologist interested in the use of antibiotic alternatives for the prevention and control of infectious diseases in food animal production systems, such as bovine respiratory disease in beef and dairy cattle.
EDUCATION & PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS
- PhD in Veterinary Medicine with a minor in Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 2021
- MSc in Immunology, University of Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 2007
- DVM, University of Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 2001
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY INTERESTS
My research interests include the study of the ecology and epidemiology of respiratory bacterial pathogens affecting food animals and the development and evaluation of antibiotic alternatives that could potentially be used as prevention or control strategies, especially those involving the modulation of the microbiome.
RESEARCH TOPICS
- Food animals (with an emphasis in beef and dairy cattle)
- Bacterial diseases
- Prevention and control strategies
- Antibiotic alternatives
- Microbial communities