Areas of Collaborative Interest

Broadly, my current research focuses on bovine reproductive systems and associated diseases. My research can be broken up into two primary interests: 1) embryo-maternal signaling with intent to reduce early embryo mortality (i.e., miscarriage); and 2) negative consequences of maternal infection with virus during pregnancy to discover how viral infections impair the fetal immune system and development. Most of my work centers on interferon, a protein that signals pregnancy to a cow’s body and helps retain an embryo. My lab found that interferon triggers the creation of another protein, known as ISG15, a marker that could be central to identifying both pregnancy and viral infection.

I am interested in collaborating in the following areas:

• Dynamics of livestock pregnancies
• Treatment and diagnosis of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV)
• Diagnostics for diseases in livestock, specifically related to cattle
• Identification of biomarkers for disease diagnosis and development of viral screenings
• Embryo transfer and cryopreservation of gametes
• licensing our technologies

Innovation Portfolio

Issued Patents

• US10288625B2, US9933437B2, EP3060163B1, WO2015061728A1 : Early determination of pregnancy status in ruminants
• US8435731B2: Markers for viral infections and other inflammatory responses
• US8889845B2, WO2007082259A3:  Surrogate markers for viral infections and other inflammatory responses*
• US7842513B2, NZ536229A:  Pregnancy detection*

Assignee other than Colorado State University Research Foundation

Patent list generated using Google Patents; Last updated on September 23, 2020