Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

Faculty Publications

Emily J. Brinker: A retrospective study of benign epithelial salivary gland neoplasia in 11 dogs and 5 cats.. (Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation. September 2025)

Francisco O. Conrado: The Shapes of Yolk (Veterinary Clinical Pathology. September 2025)

Cornelia Peterson: Correction: Lee et al. Establishment and Characterization of Three Human Ocular Adnexal Sebaceous Carcinoma Cell Lines (International Journal of Molecular Sciences. September 2025)

Fair M. Vassoler: Predator odor stress produces sex- and subpopulation-specific increases in alcohol drinking, anxiety-like behavior, and lateral hypothalamic Crh expression (Neuropharmacology. September 2025)

Jillian M. Richmond: Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Gene Expression Signatures Predict Long-term Survivorship in Canine DLBCL (Research Square. August 2025)

Fair M. Vassoler: Inhibition of the nucleus accumbens core with DREADDs after acute and repeated exposure to oxycodone reduces locomotor activity in female but not male Rattus norvegicus. ( Neuroscience Letters. August 2025)

Emily J. Brinker: Inter-evaluator bias and applicability of feline body condition score from visual assessment. (Frontiers in Veterinary Science. August 2025)

Emily J. Brinker: Beak neoplasia in avian species: description of nine cases (Journal of Comparative Pathobiology. August 2025)

Eleanor Kharasch, Rachael Gately and Meera Gatlin: Efficacy of fenbendazole in small ruminants on Southern New England farms (Vet Parasitol Reg Stud Reports. August 2025)

Jonathan Runstadler: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Response to Influenza in Grey Seals (Halichoerus grypus), a Potential Wild Reservoir (Mol Ecol. August 2025)

Meera Gatlin: Physician perceptions and understanding of pet ownership in healthcare compliance and patient well-being: a one health investigation (Front. Health Serv., July 2025)

Amanda Martinot: Macrophage-T cell interactions promote SLAMF1 expression for enhanced TB defense (Nat Commun. July 2025)

Jonathan Runstadler: Range-Wide Genomic Analysis Reveals Regional and Meta-Population Dynamics of Decline and Recovery in the Grey Seal (Mol Ecol. July 2025)

Sam Telford III: Age structure of cohorts of mosquitoes from the field using shortwave infrared spectroscopy before and after ULV adulticide treatment (Parasit Vectors. July 2025)

Sam Telford III: Differentiating Peromyscus leucopus bone marrow-derived macrophages for characterization of responses to Borrelia burgdorferi and lipopolysaccharide (Infect Immun. July 2025)

Sam Telford III: Hygromycin A treatment of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected Peromyscus leucopus suggests potential as a reservoir-targeted antibiotic (J Infect Dis. July 2025)

Felicia Nutter: Protein Electrophoresis in the Atlantic Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus): Agarose Gel Electrophoresis Reference Intervals, Method Comparison With Capillary Zone Electrophoresis, and Initial Assessment of the Effects of Spawning Season on Protein Fractions (Vet Clin Pathol. June 2025)

Jonathan Runstadler: Annual (2024) taxonomic update of RNA-directed RNA polymerase-encoding negative-sense RNA viruses (realm Riboviria: kingdom Orthornavirae: phylum Negarnaviricota) (J Gen Virol. June 2025)

Jonathan Runstadler: Controlling bird flu is urgent-for dairy, wildlife, poultry, pets, and people (J Am Vet Med Assoc. (June 2025)

Patrick Skelly and Akram Da'darah: High-Throughput Screens of Repurposing Hub and DOS Chemical Libraries Reveal Compounds with Novel and Potent Inhibitory Activity Against the Essential Non-Neuronal Acetylcholinesterase of Schistosoma mansoni (SmTAChE) (Int J Mol Sci. June 2025)

Giovanni Widmer: Impact of predicted microbiota tryptophanase activity on Cryptosporidium parvum proliferation (PloS One. June 2025)

Rachel E. Whitman, Francisco O. Conrado: A Stab in the Dark (Veterinary Clinical Pathology. June 2025)

Amanda Martinot: TnSeq identifies genetic requirements of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for survival under vaccine-induced immunity (Npj Vaccines. May 2025)

Charles Shoemaker: In-vivo-targeted gene delivery using adenovirus-antibody site-specific covalent conjugates (Mol Ther Methods Clin Dev. May 2025)

Patrick Skelly and Akram Da'darah: Generation of Immune Modulating Small Metabolites-Metabokines-By Adult Schistosomes (Pathogens. May 2025)

Francisco Conrado: Two human portable glucometers and a veterinary point-of-care glucometer correlate well with a reference laboratory chemistry analyzer for measurement of blood glucose concentrations in dogs (AVMA. April 2025)

Fair Vassoler: Heritable consequences of paternal heroin use: A role for miR-19b in drug-taking behavior. Neuropsychopharmacology (2025. In Press.)

Franciso Conrado & Rachel Whitman: No neutrophils! Now what? A case-based review of indications for bone marrow examination (The MassVet News. February 2025)

Akram Da'Dara & Patrick Skelly: The enigmatic heptalaminate surface membrane of intravascular schistosomes (Trends in parasitology. February 2025)

Yi-Pin Lin: CspZ variant-specific interaction with factor H incorporates a metal site to support Lyme borreliae complement evasion (Journal of Biological Chemistry. Jan 2025)

Giovanni Widmer, Debora Da Silva, & Hannah Creasey: Nebulization of 2% lidocaine has no detectable impact on the healthy equine respiratory microbiota (PloS One. Jan 2025)

Kerri E. Budge, Fair M. Vassoler, Elizabeth Yen & Elizabeth M. Byrnes: Differential Effects of Prenatal Buprenorphine and Methadone on Postnatal Growth and Gene Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens (Dev Psychobiol | Jan 2025)

Andrea Varela-Stokes: Borrelia PeptideAtlas: A proteome resource of common Borrelia burgdorferi isolates for Lyme research (Sci Data. December 2024)

Archive Publications