Meet the MycoLab Team

Maria Pieters, DVM, PhD
Principal Investigator
Dr. Pieters grew up in Venezuela, where she obtained her DVM degree in 2003 at Universidad Central de Venezuela. She then completed a PhD at the University of Minnesota, College of Veterinary Medicine in 2008. After her PhD she completed a post-doctorate degree in 2010 at the University of Illinois's Institute for Genomic Biology. Dr. Pieters currently works in the Department of Veterinary Population Medicine and the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Minnesota, as well as being an assistant professor and currently leading the Swine Diseases Eradication Center (SDEC) . Her research interests include: Mycoplasma infections in pigs: diagnosis, epidemiology and control; infectious diseases of swine; pig neonatal immunity.
Academic Collaborators

Albert Rovira
rove0010@umn.edu

Carles Vilalta
cvilalta@umn.edu

Cheryl Dvorak
dvora013@umn.edu

Chi Chen
chichen@umn.edu

Fabio Vannucci
vannu008@umn.edu

Julio Alvarez
jalvarez@umn.edu

Jerry Torrison
torri001@umn.edu

Montserrat Torremorell
torr0033@umn.edu

Noelle Noyes
nnoyes@umn.edu

Sagar Goyal
goyal001@umn.edu

Srinand Sreevatsan
sreevats@msu.edu

Ryan Hunter
rchunter@umn.edu

Randy Singer
rsinger@umn.edu

Tom Molitor
molit001@umn.edu
Alumni & Past Members
Alicia Butler
Maria Jose Clavijo
Jason Daniels
Chris Deegan
Jon Ertl
Cesar Toshio Facimoto
Marissa Garry
Laura Garza-Moreno
Jeong-Hoon Han
Sam Holst
Taylor Homann
Fernanda Munhoz dos Anjos Leal
Katie Loppnow
Nubia Macedo
Bob Morrison
Mike Murtaugh
Meera Surendran Nair
Andres Perez
David Pillman
Cesar Prado
Luiza Roos
Lucas Dos Santos
Marjorie Schleper
Jake Schwartz
Ang Su
Karine Takeuti
Matteo Tonni
Jonathan Tubbs
Jenny Zhang