Declan Schroeder (Ph.D.) was appointed in as an Associate Professor in pathogen detection and surveillance in February 2018 through the Agricultural Research, Education, Extension and Technology Transfer (AGREETT) program. He is an Associate Professor of Virology in the Veterinary Population Medicine Department in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota.
Cecilia Balestreri is a postdoctoral associate at the University of Minnesota. She completed her Ph.D. in molecular microbiology at the University of Oxford in the U.K. For the last couple of years, she has been working on giant viruses, and recently, she started working on the deformed wing virus (DWV) which causes deformed wings and abdomen in adult honeybees in colonies infested with Varroa mites.
Dr. Dean McKeown is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Schroeder Lab at the University of Minnesota, where he is working on the spillover of DWV between honeybees and wild bees. His research interests focus on the ecology and genomics of diverse viruses from various biological systems. The giant viruses of seaweeds were the subject of his Ph.D. and previous postdoctoral position.
