Contact Information

Email: rogovsky@msu.edu

AREA OF EXPERTISE

• Vector-borne diseases: Lyme disease, louse-borne relapsing fever, host-pathogen interaction, bacterial pathogenesis, immune evasion of bacterial pathogens, development of animal models, tick microbiota, surveillance of vector-borne pathogens, development of vaccine, diagnostic assays and therapeutics.
• Clinical veterinary microbiology: identification of novel pathogens, antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, diagnostics of infectious diseases

Education

• DVM, National Agricultural University of Ukraine, 2001
• MS, Louisiana State University, 2006
• PhD, Washington State University, 2014
• Veterinary Microbiology Residency, Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, 2014
• Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Microbiologists, Immunology (2010), Virology (2012), and Bacteriology/Mycology (2015)

CURRENTLY FUNDED INVESTIGATIONS

• Exploring the Collaborative Cross resource to identify different phenotypes of Lyme neuroborreliosis and disease-contributing genetic factors (R21AI168904)
• A murine model of Lyme neuroborreliosis (R21AI180412)
• Characterization of vsp/vlp system of Borrelia recurrentis (R21AI182876)

Funding sources include the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Bay Area Lyme Foundation.

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Vector-borne diseases
• Immunology
• Clinical Microbiology