Shaan Mooyottu, DVM, PhD, DACVP
- Associate Professor

Shaan Mooyottu Photo
Contact
 

shaan@auburn.edu

Department of Pathobiology

Auburn University
College of Veterinary Medicine
1130 Wire Road
Auburn, AL 36849

Education

 

Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Pathologists (Anatomic Pathology), 2018
MS (Pathobiology - Veterinary Anatomic Pathology), University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2017
PhD (Animal Science – Microbiology), University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2016
MVSc (Veterinary Pathology), Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, UP, India, 2010
BVSc (DVM), Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur, Kerala, India, 2008

Research Interests

 

Gut Pathogens-Microbiome Laboratory (Shaan’s Lab)

Focus areas:

  • Microbiome-targeted non-antibiotic strategies against important enteric diseases such as C. difficile infection in humans and animals.
  • Effect of dysbiosis-associated clostridial metabolites on the gut-brain and gut-liver axes.
  • Molecular epidemiology and zoonotic transmission of community-associated C. difficile infection.
  • In situ animal models for the human gut-microbiome-pathogen interface.

Publications and Links

 

ORCID: Dr. Mooyottu