Declan Schroeder

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First Name

Declan

Last Name

Schroeder

Country

United States

Institute

University of Minnesota

Highest Degree

Doctoral

Job

Professor

Website

http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=isJrudYAAAAJandhl=en

About

Declan Schroeder (PhD) was appointed 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. He also holds an honorary Chair in Viral Metagenomics in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading, United Kingdom. He was the former Director of the Marine Biological Association of the UK Culture Collection where he was also a Senior Research Fellow in Viral and Molecular Ecology (2001-2018).

He has over 20 years of research experience as a molecular biologist in the areas of virology, biodiversity, pathology, and genomics – in particular, the use of genomic tools to study key biological processes. His research focuses on a diverse array of host-virus systems, however, more recently he has been focusing on a new virus resistance mechanism in honey bees.

Interests

APITOX, B-RAP, BEEBOOK, Monitoring, Nutrition, Small Hive Beetle, Sustainable Bee Breeding, Varroa control, Vespid, Viruses, World Honey Bee Health