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ARS Animal Health Research Laboratories

The USDA's Agricultural Research Service has more than 100 laboratories nationwide and several overseas. The index below lists specific research topics at laboratories with at least part of their research program dedicated to health issues of agricultural animals. Complete contact information for each laboratory is provided after the index. Healthy Animals home	Index by Animal Index by Topic Laboratory Listing ARS Animal Health-related Programs ARS Animal Health-related Research Administrators

Index by Animal
Cattle Ames-BDL Ames-FSED Ames-PDC Ames-RDL Ames-VPDL Balboa Beltsville-GBL Beltsville-IDRL Beltsville-PBESL Booneville Brooksville Clay Center - AHS Clay Center - GBR Gainesville Kerrville-CBRU Kerrville-LIRL Laramie Lincoln Logan Lubbock Madison Miles City Orient Pt./Plum Island-FMD Pullman West Lafayette Fish Auburn Beltsville-PBESL Pine Bluff Stoneville Stuttgart Poultry Ames-FSED Ames-RDL Athens Beltsville-GBL Beltsville-IDRL Beltsville-PBESL East Lansing Fayetteville Mississippi State Sheep Ames-VPDL Beltsville-PBESL Clay Center - GBR Dubois Logan Orient Pt./Plum Island-FMD Pullman Swine Ames-BDL Ames-FSED Ames-RDL Ames-VPDL Beltsville-IDRL Beltsville-PBESL Clay Center - BER Clay Center - GBR Clay Center - NR Columbia Lubbock Orient Pt./Plum Island-ASF Wildlife/Other Ames-BDL Ames-VPDL Beltsville-PBESL Kerrville-LIRL Laramie Logan Orient Pt./Plum Island-FMD Pullman
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Index by Topic
African swine fever Orient Pt./Plum Island-ASF Anaplasmosis Pullman Ascariasis Beltsville-IDRL Ascites Fayetteville Mississippi State Aquaculture Auburn Pine Bluff Stoneville Stuttgart Aujeszky's disease Ames-VPDL Avian leukosis East Lansing Avian influenza Athens Avian leukosis East Lansing Babesiosis Pullman Behavior Dubois West Lafayette Bluetongue Laramie Bone problems Ames-PDC Fayetteville Bortdetella Ames-RDL Bovine spongiform encephalopathy Ames-VPDL Brucellosis Ames-BDL Cattle fever Kerrville-CFTRL Chlamydiosis Ames-RDL Chronic wasting disease Ames-VPDL Coccidiosis Beltsville-IDRL Beltsville-PBESL Colibacillosis Ames-FSED Cryptosporidium Beltsville-IDRL Diagnostic test development Ames-BDL Ames-FSED Ames-RDL Ames-VPDL Athens Auburn Beltsville-IDRL Pullman Diarrhea Ames-FSED Clay Center - AHS Dysentery Ames-FSED Endocrinology Ames-PDC Columbia Fly Gainesville Kerrville-LIRL Laramie Foot and mouth disease Orient Pt./Plum Island-FMD Forage Brooksville Madison Miles City Fowlpox East Lansing Fungal diseases Ames-RDL Lubbock Genetic disease resistance Beltsville-IDRL Clay Center - GBR Herpesvirus Ames-VPDL Pullman Immunology Ames-FSED Ames-PDC Ames-RDL Beltsville-GBL Beltsville-IDRL Columbia Fayetteville Lubbock Insect vector Balboa Gainesville Kerrville-LIRL Laramie Lincoln Pullman Intestinal strength Fayetteville Johne's disease Ames-BDL Leptospirosis Ames-BDL Lyme disease Beltsville-PBESL Malignant catarrhal fever Pullman Marek's disease East Lansing Mastitis Ames-PDC Beltsville-IDRL Metabolism Ames-PDC Microbial genome Beltsville-IDRL Milk fever Ames-PDC Mosquito Gainesville Mucosal immunity Ames-PDC Ames-RDL Beltsville-IDRL Mycoplasma Ames-BDL Ames-RDL Mississippi State Nematode Beltsville-PBESL Beltsville-IDRL Neosporosis Beltsville-IDRL Beltsville-PBESL Newscastle disease Athens Nutrition Ames-PDC Auburn Beltsville-GBL Booneville Brooksville Clay Center - NR Columbia Dubois Madison Miles City Mississippi State Pine Bluff Stuttgart Parasite Athens Auburn Beltsville-IDRL Beltsville-PBESL Kerrville-LIRL Lincoln Pullman Paratuberculosis Ames-BDL Pasteurellosis Ames-RDL Ames-VPDL Piroplasmosis Pullman Pneumonia Ames-RDL Lubbock Poisonous plants and effects Ames-PDC Booneville Logan Miles City Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome Ames-VPDL Poultry enteritis Athens Pseudorabies Ames-VPDL Quarantine facilities Laramie Orient Pt./Plum Island-FMD Reproductive ailment Ames-PDC Brooksville Clay Center - GBR Dubois Stoneville Salmonella enteritidis Ames-FSED Athens Scrapie Ames-VPDL Pullman Screwworm Balboa Lincoln Silage Madison Streptococcus Auburn Stress, environmental Brooksville Clay Center - BER Columbia Lubbock West Lafayette Swine influenza Ames-VPDL Systematics Beltsville-PBESL Tick Beltsville-PBESL Kerrville-CFTRL Kerrville-LIRL Pullman Toxoplasmosis Beltsville-IDRL Beltsville-PBESL Trichinella Beltsville-IDRL Beltsville-PBESL Tuberculosis Ames-BDL Vaccine development Ames-FSED Ames-BDL Ames-RDL Ames-VPDL Athens Auburn Beltsville-IDRL Vesicular stomatitis Laramie Orient Pt./Plum Island-FMD Virology Ames-VPDL Clay Center - AHS Fayetteville Orient Pt./Plum Island-ASF Orient Pt./Plum Island-FMD Pullman
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Laboratory Listing by City
AMES, IOWA NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER Ames, IA 50010 (515) 663-7200 Director: Keith Murray RESEARCH UNITS NADC - Bacterial Diseases of Livestock Phone: (515) 663-7325 Fax: (515) 663-7458 Research Leader: Diana Whipple (acting) NADC - Periparturient Diseases of Cattle Phone: (515) 663-7312 Fax: (515) 663-7669 Research Leader: Ronald Horst NADC - Pre-Harvest Food Safety and Enteric Diseases Phone: (515) 663-7291 Fax: (515) 663-7458 Research Leader: Irene V. Wesley (Acting) NADC - Respiratory Diseases of Livestock Phone: (515) 663-7534 Fax: (515) 663-7458 Research Leader: Kim A. Brogden NADC - Virus and Prion Diseases of Livestock Phone: (515) 663-7254 Fax: (515) 663-7458 Research Leader: William Mengeling ATHENS, GEORGIA Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory 934 College Station Road Athens, GA 30605 Phone: (706) 546-3434 Fax: (706) 546-3161 Research Leader: David Swayne AUBURN, ALABAMA Aquatic Animal Health Research Unit 990 Wire Road P.O. Box 952 Auburn, AL 36831-0952 Phone: (334) 887-3741 Fax: (334) 887-2983 Research Leader: Phillip Klesius BALBOA, PANAMA Screwworm Research USDA-ARS-SPA/Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Bldg 401, Roosevelt Ave. Balboa, Ancon Republica de Panama Phone: 011 (507) 212-8067 Fax: 011 (507) 212-8129 Research Leader: Danel Haile BELTSVILLE, MARYLAND ANIMAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE INSTITUTE Beltsville Agricultural Research Center - East 10300 Baltimore Blvd Beltsville, MD 20705 Phone: (301) 504-8431 Fax: (301) 504-8553 Director: Thomas Sexton RESEARCH UNITS ANRI - Growth Biology Laboratory Phone: (301) 504-8222 Fax: (301) 504-8623 Research Leader: John McMurtry ANRI - Immunology and Disease Resistance Laboratory Phone: (301) 504-8201 Fax: (301) 504-5306 Research Leader: Joan Lunney ANRI - Parasite Biology, Epidemiology and Systematics Laboratory Phone: (301) 504-8300 Fax: (301) 504-6273 Research Leader: Mark C. Jenkins National Parasite Collection Phone: (301) 504-8588 Fax: (301) 504-8979 Research Leader: Eric Hoberg BOONEVILLE, ARKANSAS Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center 6883 South State Highway 23 Booneville, AR 72927-9214 Phone: (501) 675-3834 Fax: (501) 675-2940 Research Leader: David Brauer BROOKSVILLE, FLORIDA Subtropical Agricultural Research Station Beef Cattle Research Unit 22271 Chinsegut Hill Road Brooksville, FL 34601 Phone: (352) 796-3385 Fax: (352) 796-2930 Research Leader: Samuel Coleman CLAY CENTER, NEBRASKA ROMAN L. HRUSKA U.S. MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER PO Box 166 Clay Center, NE 68933-0166 Phone: (402) 762-4110 Fax: (402) 762-4111 Director: Steven Kappes RESEARCH UNITS MARC - Animal Health Research Unit Phone: (402) 762-4180 Fax: (402) 762-4375 Research Leader: William Laegreid MARC - Biological Engineering Research Phone: (402) 762-4274 Fax: (402) 762-4273 Research Leader: John Nienaber MARC - Nutrition Research Phone: (402) 762-4205 Fax: (402) 762-4209 Research Leader: Calvin Ferrell MARC - Production Systems Phone: (402) 762-4254 Fax: (402) 762-4155 Research Leader: G. L. Bennett MARC - Reproduction Research Phone: (402) 762-4192 Fax: (402) 762-4382 Research Leader: Ronald Christenson COLUMBIA, MISSOURI Animal Physiology Research Unit S-107 Animal Science Research Center University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: (573) 882-6261 Fax: (573) 884-4798 Acting Research Leader: Jeff Carroll DUBOIS, IDAHO U.S. Sheep Experiment Station HC 62, Box 2010 Dubois, ID 83423 Phone: (208) 374-5306 Fax: (208) 374-5582 Research Leader: Gregory S. Lewis EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory 3606 East Mount Hope Road East Lansing, MI 48823-5338 Phone: (517) 337-6828 Fax: (517) 337-6776 Research Leader: Aly Fadly FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS Poultry Production and Product Safety Research O-303 POSC Center University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR 72701 Phone: (501) 575-2654 Fax: (501) 575-4202 Research Leader: Ann Donoghue GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA CENTER FOR MEDICAL, AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY Mosquito and Fly Research PO Box 14565 Gainesville, FL 32604 Phone: (352) 374-5930 Fax: (352) 374-5922 Acting Research Leader: Robert K. Vander Meer KERRVILLE, TEXAS KNIPLING-BUSHLAND U.S. LIVESTOCK INSECTS RESEARCH LABORATORY U.S. Livestock Insects Research Unit 2700 Fredericksburg Road Kerrville, TX 78028-9184 Phone: (830) 792-0303 Fax: (830) 792-0302 Director: John George LARAMIE, WYOMING Arthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Laboratory PO Box 3965, University Station University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071-3965 Phone: (307) 766-3609 Fax: (307) 766-3500 Research Leader: Richard T. Mayer LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Midwest Livestock Insects Research 305 Plant Industry, East Campus University of Nebraska Lincon, NE 68583 Phone: (402) 437-5267 Fax: (402) 437-5260 Research Leader: Philip Scholl LOGAN, UTAH Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory 1150 East 1400 North Logan, UT 84341 Phone: (435) 752-2941 Fax: (435) 753-5861 Research Leader: Lynn James LUBBOCK, TEXAS Livestock Issues Research Unit 123B Animal Science Building Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409-2141 Phone: (806) 742-2826 Fax: (806) 742-2335 Research Leader: Julie Morrow-Tesch MADISON, WISCONSIN U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center 1925 Linden Drive West Madison, WI 53706-1108 Phone: (608) 264-5240 Fax: (608) 264-5147 Center Director: Neal Martin MILES CITY, MONTANA Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory Route 1 Box 2021 Miles City, MT 59301 Phone: (406) 232-4970 Fax: (406)232-8209 Research Leader: Rod Heitschmidt MISSISSIPPI STATE, MISSISSIPPI Poultry Research Unit PO Box 5367 Mississippi State, MS 39762-5367 Phone: (662) 320-7479 Fax: (662) 320-7589 Research Leader: John Simmons ORIENT POINT/PLUM ISLAND, NEW YORK PLUM ISLAND ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER P.O. Box 848 Greenport, LI, NY 11944-0848 Phone: (631) 323-2500 Fax: (631) 323-2507 Interim Director: David Huxsoll RESEARCH UNITS PIADC - African Swine Fever Research Research Leader: Daniel Rock PIADC - Foot and Mouth Disease Research Research Leader: Peter Mason PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS Aquaculture Systems Research Unit Box 4912 1200 N. University Pine Bluff, AR 71611 Phone: (870) 543-8128 Fax: (870) 543-8116 Research Leader: Donald Freeman PULLMAN, WASHINGTON Animal Disease Research Unit PO Box 647030 Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-7030 Phone: (509) 335-6029 Fax: (509) 335-8328 Research Leader: Donald Knowles STONEVILLE, MISSISSIPPI Catfish Genetics Research Unit Experiment Station Road Stoneville, MS 38776 Phone: (662) 686-3597 Fax: (662) 686-3567 Research Leader: William Wolters STUTTGART, ARKANSAS Harry K. Dupree Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research Center P.O. Box 860 Stuttgart, AR 72160-0860 Phone: (870) 673-4483 Fax: (870) 673-7710 Center Director: Donald Freeman WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA Livestock Behavior Research Unit Room 216, Poultry Building Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907 Phone: (765) 494-4604 Fax: (765) 496-1993 Research Leader: Donald C. Lay, Jr.

ARS National Program Staff 5601 Sunnyside Ave. Beltsville, MD 20705
Joseph Spence, acting Associate Deputy Adminstrator Animal Production, Product Value and Safety Phone: (301) 504-7050 Fax: (301) 504-4721 Cyril Gay, National Program Leader Animal Health and Safety Phone: (301) 504-4786 Fax: (301) 504-5467 Robert Heckert, National Program Leader Animal Health Phone: (301) 504-5774 Fax: (301) 504-5467 Robert Rosenberg, National Program Leader Medical and Veterinary Entomology Phone: (301) 504-5771 Fax: (301) 504-5467 Lewis Smith, National Program Leader Aquaculture and Animal Well-being Phone: (301) 504-5925 Fax: (301) 504-5467
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