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Ben Sacks (a resource quoted in this article) serves as an adjunct professor and director of the Mammalian Ecology and Conservation Unit, a research unit in the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory at the UC Davis Weill School of Veterinary Medicine.

Dr. Antonio Maria Tardo has joined the Department of Medicine and Epidemiology as Assistant Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine effective May 1, 2026.

Dr. Tardo received his DVM (2018) from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.  He continued to complete a one-year rotating small animal internal medicine internship (2019), post-graduate researcher (2020) before starting a small animal internal medicine residency (2021-2024).  Concurrently, he completed a PhD program (2021-2024) on canine and feline endocrinology at the University of Bologna.

Dr. Allan Gunn has joined the Department of Population Health and Reproduction as Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor of Livestock Herd Health and Reproduction, effective May 2026.

Dr. Gunn received his BSc.Agric degree (1984) from the University of Natal, South Africa and his BVM&S (1993) from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Dr. Karyn Bischoff joined CAHFS-Davis as faculty toxicologist and Toxicology Section Lead in May 2025.   

She received her DVM from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, followed by a residency in Veterinary Toxicology and MS in Veterinary Pathology at Oklahoma State, and an MS in Public Health from Cornell University.  She is board certified in Veterinary Toxicology and previously served as the Director of Analytical Toxicology at the New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory from 2004-2025 prior to joining CAHFS.  

Climate change is likely to drive rodent-borne arenaviruses into parts of South America that have never faced these diseases, putting new communities of people at risk, finds a study from the University of California, Davis. 

Gathering fresh eggs laid by chickens in your backyard may sound idyllic, but keeping the birds healthy requires some special knowledge. Avian influenza, salmonella, predators, food safety, choosing the correct feed, what’s snake oil and what’s not, and how to pick the right breed for you are just some of the common chicken conundrums people want practical science-based information about.

Professor Pamela Lein co-authored two new research papers that help explain how biological systems respond to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) exposure, including key differences between males and females.

An inherited form of blindness directly comparable to a common inherited optic nerve disease in humans has been discovered in rhesus macaques at the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California, Davis. The work, published April 15 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could lead to a better understanding of autosomal dominant optic atrophy, or ADOA, and potentially to new treatments. 

As a world-class veterinary and research institution, UC Davis has many spaces that serve not only humans, but also horses and raptors and cats (oh my). Long before a beloved furry friend can get a state-of-the-art CT scan or a peregrine falcon can fly through an obstacle course to inform flight research, Design and Construction Management, or DCM, project managers work diligently and collaboratively to ensure each project is able to accommodate every creature that uses it. 

The California Wool Growers Association recently held its 106th Annual California Ram Sale in Tulare, and UC Davis livestock veterinarians and students were on hand to help facilitate the event. As they have done for more than 50 years, the school’s livestock team provided health checks on all 500 rams up for sale.