Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory Mission Statement:

Our mission is to provide scientific solutions to national and international exotic, emerging and endemic poultry viral diseases through a comprehensive research program emphasizing basic and applied research in diagnostics, prevention, and control strategies, prediction of disease outbreak, molecular epidemiology, and understanding disease pathogenesis.

The goals of our research program are to produce new research knowledge and technology to:

•        Prevent, reduce or eliminate losses from impaired performance, and increased deaths and condemnations

•        Develop more sensitive, specific and faster diagnostic tests

•        Improve vaccines, and vaccine delivery methods

•        Improve our understanding of the ecology and epidemiology of viruses at the wild bird-domestic poultry interface

•        Improve our understanding of the genetic and pathobiological basis of virulence

This research provides government regulatory agencies and the poultry industries with improved intervention strategies against poultry viral diseases.

Exotic and Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Research Unit mission:

Our mission is to conduct basic and applied research on avian influenza, Newcastle disease, West Nile and other exotic and emerging viruses of poultry and other birds. The goal of our research program is to produce new research knowledge and technology to: 1) provide science-based solutions to exotic poultry diseases that inhibit international trade in poultry and poultry products; 2) understand the pathogenesis of these viruses in poultry; 3) determine through molecular epidemiology the source for disease outbreaks; and 4) improve our understanding of the mechanisms for transfer of zoonotic viruses from birds-to-man.