Kapil Vashisht
Graduate student, PhD program / Research Assistant
Sr. Resident, Vet. Anat. Pathology / Teaching Assistant
Educational background
- Residency in Veterinary Anatomic Pathology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
- MS, University of Minnesota
- BVSc & AH, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University
Research and professional interests
Under the guidance of Dr. Tony Goldberg, I am working on certain disease related aspects of the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus. These include viral genetics, its effects on disease, epidemiology and cross protective immunity.
Teaching
Occasionally teach students in the Veterinary Diagnostic rotation (PATH 669)
Presentations
Effect of differences in route and time of exposure to PRRSV on the reproductive outcome of sows. K Vashisht*, R Husmann, LD Firkins, FA Zuckermann, TL Goldberg; Dept of Pathobiology, College of Vet Medicine, University of Illinois. International PRRS symposium, 2006 (Section 5: Ecology, Epidemiology and Elimination: Poster number 60)
Publications
Vashisht K, Husmann RJ, Zuckermann FA, Goldberg TL.
T cell epitopes of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus glycoprotein-5.
Vaccine (in preparation)
Vashisht K, Schnitzlein WM, Husmann RJ, Zuckermann FA, Goldberg TL.
Cell mediated immune response to challenge with homologous and heterologous PRRS virus strains.
Vet Immunol Immunopathol (in preparation)
Vashisht K, Erlandson KR, Firkins LD, Zuckermann FA, Goldberg TL. Acclimatization strategies for porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus. J Am Vet Med Assoc (in preparation)
Vashisht K, Rock RW, Summers BA Multiple masses in a horse’s tongue resulting from an atypical perineurial cell proliferative disorder. Vet Pathol. 2007 May; 44(3): 398-402.
Vashisht K, Lichtensteiger CA, Miller LA, Gondim LF, McAllister MM. Naturally occurring Sarcocystis neurona-like infection in a dog with myositis. Vet Parasitol. 2005 Oct 10; 133(1): 19-25.
Swanson KS, Mazur MJ, Vashisht K, Rund LA, Beever JE, Counter CM, Schook LB. Genomics and clinical medicine: rationale for creating and effectively evaluating animal models. Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 2004 Oct; 229(9): 866-75.
Vashisht K, Faaberg KS, Aber AL, Brown KE, O'Sullivan MG. Splice junction map of simian parvovirus transcripts. J Virol. 2004 Oct; 78(20): 10911-9.
