It’s all in the genes for Jayme Souza-Neto, assistant professor in Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. His expertise in next-generation sequencing and functional genomics is part of a collaborative research project with researchers at the USDA Agricultural Research Service.
Souza-Neto is working with William Wilson, Dana Mitzel and other USDA researchers through a non-assistance co-operative agreement to look at the transmission of arboviruses that cause diseases in livestock.
“Dr. Wilson and ARS colleagues are interested in studying transboundary animal diseases like…