Research

BoHV-1.1 genomic elements and gene expression.

• Jefferson VA, Barber KA, El-Mayet FS, Jones C, Nanduri B, Meyer F (2018) Proteogenomic Identification of a Novel Protein-Encoding Gene in Bovine Herpesvirus 1 That Is Expressed during Productive Infection. Viruses. 2018 Sep 14;10(9)  https://doi.org/10.3390/v10090499  

• Moldován N, Maróti Z, Torma G, Gulyás G, Hornyák Á, Zádori Z, Jefferson VA, Csabai Z, Boldogkői M, Kalmár T, Tombácz D, Meyer F, Boldogkői Z (2020) Time-course profiling of bovine alphaherpesvirus 1.1 transcriptome using multiplatform sequencing. Sci Rep 10, 20496. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77520-1

• Tombácz D, Kakuk B, Torma G, Csabai Z, Gulyás G, Tamás V, Zádori Z, Jefferson VA, Meyer F, Boldogkői Z (2022) In-Depth Temporal Transcriptome Profiling of an Alphaherpesvirus Using Nanopore Sequencing. Viruses 14, 1289. https://doi.org/10.3390/v14061289

• Jefferson VA, Bostick H, Olderburgh DG, Meyer F (2023) Evidence of a protein coding gene antisense to the UL5 gene in by Bovine Herpesvirus type I. Viruses 5(10), 1977; https://doi.org/10.3390/v15101977 

BRD pathogens co-infection

This line of research examines the influence that various BRD microbes have on each other as they co-infect the same host.  

• Cowick CA, Russ BP, Bales A, Nanduri B and Meyer F (2022) Replication of Mannheimia haemolytica negatively affects that of Bovine Herpesvirus type 1.1 in co-infection in vitro. Microorganisms, Microorganisms 10(11), 2158; https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10112158 

Diagnostics of BRD

We are using near infrared spectroscopy to identify a global biochemical profile associated with cattle at risk of developing BRD. 

• Santos-Rivera M, Woolums, Thoresen M, Blair E, Jefferson VA, Meyer F and Vance CK (2021). Profiling Mannheimia haemolytica infection in dairy calves using Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) and Multivariate Analysis (MVA). Scientific Reports 11:1392, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81032-x.
• Santos-Rivera MG, Woolums AR, Thoresen M, Meyer F, Vance CK (2022) Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus (BRSV) Infection Detected in Exhaled Breath Condensate of Dairy Calves by Near-Infrared Aquaphotomics. Molecules 27, 549. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27020549
• Santos-Rivera MG, Fitzkee NC, Hill RA, Baird RE, Blair E, Thoresen M, Woolums AR, Meyer F, Vance CK (2023) NMR-based metabolomics of plasma from dairy calves infected with two primary causal agents of Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD). Scientific Reports, 13:2671. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29234-3    

Forensics

We are interested in understanding the role that fire ants (Solenopsis invicta x richteri) play in flesh decomposition, and in post-mortem events in general.

Related Publications

• DeJong G, Meyer F, Goddard J (2021) Relative Roles of Blow Flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) and Invasive Fire Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Solenopsis spp.) in Carrion Decomposition. Journal of Medical Entomology. Feb 25:tjab014. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjab014. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33629721.

• Meyer F, Monroe MD, Williams HN, Goddard J (2020) Solenopsis invicta x richteri (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) necrophagous behavior causes post-mortem lesions in pigs which serve as oviposition sites for Diptera. Forensic Science International: Reports 2 (2020) 100067. DOI http://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsir.2020.100067

• Goddard J, De Jong G and Meyer F (2020) – Unidirectional en masse larval dispersal of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae). FoodWebs 23 (2020) e00137

• Goddard J, Seltzer JL and Meyer F (2015) New State Record for the Hairy Maggot Blow Fly, Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in Mississippi. Journal of Entomological Science 50:67-68.