Shaan Mooyottu, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Associate Professor
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Contact
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
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.