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Corrie Brown has a D.V.M. from the University of Guelph in Canada and completed her Ph.D. work at University of California at Davis, conducting her research work in a USAID-sponsored program in Northeastern Brazil. For several years she was Head of Pathology at the Plum Island Foreign Animal Diseases Laboratory, where she did research and diagnostics on numerous foreign animal diseases. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Pathology in the College of Veterinary Medicine. |
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Julie Moore has a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut Health Center. She moved to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a post-doctoral fellow and spent several years developing a program in western Kenya to study the immunology of malaria during pregnancy. Dr. Moore has continued that work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology in the College of Veterinary Medicine. She is also a faculty member in UGA’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases. |
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 Bruce Seal is the Research Leader for the Poultry Microbiological Safety Research Unit at the Russell Research Center for the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and holds an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Parasitology in the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Seal is an internationally recognized expert in veterinary and molecular virology. This has included research with DNA viruses such as herpesviruses and adenoviruses, positive-sense RNA viruses including caliciviruses and astroviruses along with negative-sense RNA viruses such as the avian paramyxoviruses and vesicular stomatitis virus. Dr. Seal has been an active molecular biologist for the past eighteen years primarily involved with veterinary virology. |
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 Fernando J. Torres-Vélez has a DVM. from Tuskegee University. As a veterinary medicine student he worked with dengue fever and canine leptospirosis in Puerto Rico.
Following veterinary medicine training he spent two years as an Emerging Infectious Diseases post-doctoral fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developing novel diagnostic techniques for Babesiosis and Ebola hemorrhagic fever.
Dr. Torres-Vélez finished his residency training in anatomic pathology at UGA and is currently an Assistant Research Scientist in the pathology department. He is also pursuing a PhD degree elucidating the pathogenesis of Nipah virus in a joint project with the CDC.
Above, Dr. Torres-Vélez (on left) restrains a sea turtle while Dr. Moore, a veterinary ophthalmologist, performs an eye exam with the assistance of veterinary medicine student Hanna Minch. |
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