DR. GERALDINE HUFF Microbiologist

Dr. Huff has completed three degrees at the University of Arkansas. She graduated in 1983 with a B.S. in Home Economics, majoring in Food and Nutrition. She then completed a Masters degree in Microbiology Followed by a Ph.D. in Animal Science under the direction of Dr. J.K. Skeeles. Her dissertation research involved the characterization of an Arkansas strain of infectious bursal disease virus and was awarded the Aubrey E. Harvey Graduate Research Award presented by the University of Arkansas Chapter of Sigma Xi in 1992.

After graduation, Dr. Huff was hired by the USDA/ARS Poultry Production and Product Safety Research Unit housed in the Center of Excellence for Poultry Science at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She was awarded the Early Career Scientist Award of the ARS Southern Plains Area in 1999 for development of a model for turkey osteomyelitis complex. Her research program is focused on the study of stress-related susceptibility to bacterial infections in poultry, including Esherichia coli airsacculitis and turkey osteomyelitis complex, and the impact of such infections on food safety.

SIGNIFICANT PAPERS

• Bayyari, G.R., W.E. Huff, J.M. Balog, and N.C. Rath. 1995. Experimental reproduction of proventriculitis using homogenates of proventricular tissue. Poultry Sci. 74:1799-1809. 1995.

•Bayyari, G.R., W.E. Huff, J.N. Beasley, J.M. Balog, and N.C. Rath. 1995. The effect of dietary copper sulfate on infectious proventriculitis. Poultry Sci. 74:1961-1969.

• Huff, G.R., W.E. Huff, J.M. Balog, and N.C. Rath. 1998. Effects of dexamethasone immunosuppression on turkey osteomyelitis complex in experimental Escherichia coli respiratory infection. Poultry Sci. 77:654-661.

• Huff, G.R., W.E. Huff, J.M. Balog, and N.C. Rath. 2000. The effect of vitamin D3 on resistance to stress-related infection in an experimental model of turkey osteomyelitis complex. Poultry Sci. 79:672-679.

• Huff, G.R., Huff, W.E., Balog, J.M., Rath, N.C., 2001. Effect of early handling of turkey poults on later responses to a dexamethasone Escherichia coli challenge. 2. Resistance to air sacculitis and turkey osteomyelitis complex. Poultry Sci. 80:1314-1322.

• Huff, G.R., W.E. Huff, J.M. Balog, and N.C. Rath. 2003. The effects of behavior and environmental enrichment on disease resistance of turkeys. Brain, Behav. Immun. 17:339-349.

• Huff, G.R., W. E. Huff, J. M. Balog, N. C. Rath, and R.S. Izard. 2004. The effects of water supplementation with vitamin E and sodium salicylate (Uni-Sol®) on the resistance of turkeys to Escherichia coli respiratory infection. Avian Dis. 48:324-331.

CONTACT INFORMATION

grhuff@uark.edu

Dr. Geraldine Huff
USDA/ARS-Poultry
Center of Excellence for Poultry Science
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701

Telephone: 479-575-7966
FAX: 479-575-4202

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