CFAH/GSU Committee

 

2023 CFAH GSU Committee

Kush Yadav

Kush Yadav

PhD Student

Kenney Lab

yadav.94@osu.edu

 

Kush is a doctoral candidate in CFAH working with Dr. Scott Kenney. Kush’s research areas include but are not limited to studying pathology utilizing the human, pig, and avian strains of hepatitis E viruses, and SARS-2. In his graduate career, Kush has been awarded various awards for oral and poster presentations in various international meetings. He has successfully written multiple grants and achieved internal funding from OSU sources, has written three book chapters, and has two peer reviewed journal articles. He also serves as an officer in the Infectious Disease Institute Trainee Association (IDI-TA).

Carolyn Lee

Carolyn Lee

PhD Student

Kenney Lab

lee.8757@osu.edu

 

Carolyn joined Dr. Scott Kenney's lab as a PhD student in the Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine on The Ohio State Wooster campus in the Center for Food Animal Health (CFAH) in 2021. Carolyn's research interests include novel therapeutic development as it applies to emerging and zoonotic infectious diseases. Her research areas include SARS-CoV-2 and, most recently, designing and testing a novel African Swine Fever Virus vaccine candidate.

Raksha

Raksha Suresh

Gourapura Lab

suresh.138@osu.edu

 

Raksha is a Graduate Research Associate in the Center for Food Animal Health in Dr Gourapura’s lab. Being passionate about serving animals, she went on to pursue her Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine from KVAFSU, Bangalore, India. She also has a Master’s in Veterinary Pathology from GADVASU, Ludhiana, India. In her current role, she is mainly involved in studying immunological responses of various nanoparticle-based vaccines, developed in her lab against salmonella and influenza in a Chicken model.

Menuka

Menuka Bhandari

PhD Student

Rajashekara Lab

bhandari.72@osu.edu

 

Menuka is a second year PhD student in Dr. Gireesh Rajashekara lab. She completed her master’s at West Virginia State University in Biotechnology. Her current works focus on identifying probiotics/peptides as an alternative to antibiotics for preventing/treating Salmonella infection in chickens. In addition to it, she is involved in analyzing the whole genome sequences of Salmonella isolated from small specialty crop farms of northeast Ohio to understand the antimicrobial resistance and the virulence genes. Overall, her research objective is to reduce the transmission of Salmonella to humans.