Faculty

Stephen W. Barthold, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Director, Center for Comparative Medicine
Professor of Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Professor of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of California, Davis
County Rd. 98 & Hutchison Dr.
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 752-7913
Email:swbarthold@ucdavis.edu

Dr. Stephen W. Barthold serves as the director of the Center for Comparative Medicine and a professor of pathology with the joint appointment in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and School of Medicine.

Dr. Barthold is a veterinary pathologist with expertise in experimental pathology of infectious disease, and pathology of laboratory mice. His laboratory is engaged in research on host-agent interactions during the course of persistent infections with Borrelia burgdorferi (the agent of Lyme disease), Bartonella henselae (the agent of cat scratch fever), and enteric Helicobacters. His group utilizes mouse models and a multidisciplinary approach to these complex problems, including molecular biology, microbiology, immunology and pathology.

Alexander Borowsky, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Pathology
University of California, Davis
County Rd. 98 & Hutchison Dr.
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 754-8182
Email:adborowsky@ucdavis.edu

Dr. Borowsky is a Surgical Pathologist with expertise in Diagnostic Breast Pathology. His research training includes characterization of transgenic mouse models of prostate cancer and the molecular analysis of a fusion oncogene central to the pathogenesis of MALT lymphoma.

Robert D. Cardiff, M.D., Ph.D., Director

Distinguished Professor of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
The Center for Comparative Medicine
University of California, Davis
County Rd. 98 and Hutchison Dr.
Davis CA, 95616
Phone: (530) 752-2726
Email:rdcardiff@ucdavis.edu

http://ctrgenpath.net

Dr. Cardiff is a medical and experimental pathologist with expertise in tumor biology and the comparative pathology of genetically engineered mice. He is the Director of the UC Davis Mouse Biology Program’s Mutant Mouse Pathology Laboratory, which is located in the CCM. Dr. Cardiff’s research involves the comparative pathology of genetically engineered mice that are used as models for human disease, particularly human cancer with an emphasis on human breast cancer.

Mari S. Golub, Ph.D., DABT

Adjunct Professor
Department of Environmental Toxicology
University of California, Davis
One Shields Ave
Davis CA, 95616
Phone: (530) 757-3333
Email: msgolub@ucdavis.edu

Mari Golub has conducted biomedical research with NIH support at UCDavis for nearly 25 years and was founding director of the Mouse Behavior Assessment Laboratory in 2001. Her graduate training in psychology, pharmacology and toxicology served as a basis for her specialization in neurobehavioral assessment in animal models. She has published over 30 research reports using mice as a biomedical model, including 5 since 2004 using transgenic mice. Dr. Golub is also director of the Behavior Assessment Core laboratory at the California National Primate Research Center where she conducts research in rhesus monkeys. She is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Environmental Toxicology.

Kevin C. Kent Lloyd, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education Programs
Director, Mouse Biology Program
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of California
2795 Second Street, Suite 400
Davis, CA  95618
Phone: (530) 752-6865
Email: kclloyd@ucdavis.edu

Dr. Lloyd is a clinical veteriarian and research physiologist with expertise in targeted conditional
mutagenesis of the laboratory mouse and physiology of the mammalian gastrointestinal tract with special
emphasis on mechanisms of enterogastric reflexes. As Director of the UCD Mouse Biology Program, Dr. Lloyd
oversees the operations of a major campus academic resource that engages in research, teaching, and services
related to the use of genetically altered mice for biomedical research on disease, developmental disorders, and
behavioral abnormalities. Dr. Lloyd is also an instructor in the veterinary and graduate curriculums, teaching
renal and gastrointestinal physiology of monogastrics and ruminants to professional medical and veterinary medical
and graduate students, and genetic manipulation of the mouse embryo to undergraduate and graduate students.

Katherine Wasson, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Diplomate, ACLAM
Associate Director, Mouse Biology Program
University of California, Davis
2795 2^nd Street, Suite 400
Davis, CA  95618
Phone: 530-757-3333
Fax: 530-757-3277
E-mail: kwasson@ucdavis.edu

Dr. Wasson is a board certified laboratory animal medicine veterinarian with scientific training in infectious diseases.  She oversees the day-to-day operation of the UC Davis Mouse Biology Program and also serves as Attending Veterinarian at UC Merced.  She is a guest lecturer in the veterinary medicine professional curriculum covering biology, diseases and treatment of small rodents and rabbits.