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    Research Area

    a person in blue gloves holding a syringe above some eggs

    Keeping food safe and animals healthy (link is external)

    A strain of the H5N1 virus—best known for causing avian influenza—was detected in U.S. dairy cattle for the first time in March 2024. It has since spread to more than…

    Answers to microbiome mysteries in the gills of rainbow trout (link is external)

    While many immunologists use mouse models to conduct their research, J. Oriol Sunyer of Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine has made transformational scientific insights using a very different creature: rainbow…