Systems Approaches to Livestock Diseases

Explore our research in livestock disease

The Grey lab has developed CRIPSR/Cas9 knock-out (KO) libraries for the pig and chicken genomes in order to interrogate the role of specific genes in influenza virus infection as well as infection with other important pathogens.

The Grey lab has developed libraries of interferon (IFN) stimulated genes (ISGs) from pigs and chickens to examine the factors involved in the cross-species transmission of influenza A virus (IAV).

The Grey lab and our collaborators in the Morrison lab have identified a parasite specific 7SL-derived small RNA for the diagnosis of active trypanosomiasis infection