Department of Animal Science

Faculty

	Susan J. Lamont Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor Iowa State University 2255 Kildee Hall Ames, IA 50011-3150 Phone: 515-294-4100 Fax: 515-294-2401 Email: sjlamont@iastate.edu
Education Trinity Christian College, BS: 1975 University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago PhD: 1980
Awards 2007: Merck Award for Acheivement (Poultry Science Assoication) 2007: Rossmann Manatt Faculty Development Award (College of Agriculture) 2005: Outstanding Service Award (Midwest Poultry Association) 2004: Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture (ISU Administration) 2004: Mission Award for Research (Gamma Sigma Delta) 2003: Helene Cecil Leadership Award (Poultry Science Association) 2001: Regents Award for Faculty Excellence (Regents, State of Iowa) 1999: Outstanding Achievement in Research Award (ISU Foundation)
Instruction Dr. Lamont instructs courses in genetic regulation of livestock immunology and applied poultry and swine breeding and genetics. She also serves as a graduate faculty member in the graduate major programs of animal breeding and genetics, bioinformatics and computational biology, genetics, and immunobiology.
Research Dr. Lamont's area of research is molecular genetics and immunogenetics of poultry, including the identification of molecular markers and genes controlling bacterial resistance, antibody kinetics, growth, body composition, skeletal integrity and other biological traits; physiological genetics; gene expression; and the major histocompatibility complex genes.
Professional Affiliations Poultry Science Association Associate Editor, Poultry Science American Association of Immunologists World's Poultry Science Association Editorial Board, Animal Biotechnology Associate Editor, Journal of Heredity Editorial Advisory Board, Poultry and Avian Biology Reviews International Society for Animal Genetics
Selected Publications Refereed journal papers: Abasht, B., Beach, E., Arango, J., Settar, P., Fulton, J.E., O’Sullivan, N.P., Hassen, A., Habier, D., Fernando, R. L., Dekkers, J.C.M., and Lamont, S.J. 2009. Extent and consistency of linkage disequilibrium and identification of DNA markers for production and egg quality traits in commercial layer chicken populations. BMC Genomics. In press. Abasht, B., Kaiser, M.G., van der Poel, J., Lamont, S.J. 2009. Genetic lines differ in Toll-like receptor gene expression in spleen of chicks inoculated with Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis. Poultry Sci. In press. Hassen, A., Avendano, S., Hill, W. G., Fernando, R. L., Lamont, S.J., and Dekkers, J. C. M. 2009. The effect of heritability estimates on high-density SNP analyses with related animals. J. Anim. Sci. In press. Phongsakorn, C., Ostojić, J., Andreasen, C.B., Redmond, S.B., Lamont, S.J.. and Palić, D. 2009. Chicken heterophil extracellular traps (HETs): novel defense mechanism of chicken heterophils. Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol. In press. Abasht, B., Kaiser, M.G., and Lamont, S.J. 2008. Toll-like receptor gene expression in cecum and spleen of advanced intercross line chicks infected with Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis, Vet. Immuno. Immunopathol. 123: 314-323. Cheeseman, J.H., Levy, N.A., Kaiser, P., Lillehoj, H.S. and Lamont, S.J. 2008. Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis induced alteration of inflammatory CXCL chemokines mRNA expression and histological changes in the cecum of infected chicks. Avian Diseases 52:229-234. Cheeseman, J.H., Lillehoj, H.S. and Lamont, S.J. 2008. Reduced nitric oxide production and iNOS mRNA expression in IFN-g-stimulated chicken macrophages transfected with iNOS siRNAs. Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol. 125: 375-380. Ghebremichael, S.B., J. R. Hasenstein, J.R., and Lamont, S.J.. 2008. Association of interleukin-10 cluster genes and Salmonella response in the chicken. Poultry Sci. 87: 22-26. Kim, D.K., Lillehoj, H.S., Hong, Y.H., Park, D.W., Lamont, S.J., Han, J.Y., and Lillehoj, E.P. 2008. Immune-related gene expression in two B-complex disparate genetically inbred Fayoumi chicken lines following Eimeria maxima infection. Poultry Sci. 87:433–443 Abasht, B., and Lamont, S.J. 2007. Genome-wide association analysis reveals cryptic alleles as an important factor in heterosis for fatness in chicken F2 population. Animal Genetics 38: 491-498 Andreescu, C., Avendano, S., Brown, S., Hassen, A., Lamont, S.J., and Dekkers, J.C.M. 2007. Linkage disequilibrium in related breeding lines of chickens. Genetics 177: 2161–2169 Ewald, S.J., Ye, X., Avendano, S., McLeod, S., Lamont, S.J. and Dekkers, J.C.M. 2007. Associations of BF2 Alleles with antibody titers and production traits in commercial pure line broiler chickens. Animal Genetics 38: 174-176 Hasenstein. J.R., and Lamont, S.J. 2007. Chicken Gallinacin gene cluster associated with Salmonella response in advanced intercross line. Avian Dis. 51:561-567. Livant, E.J., Avendano S., McLeod S., Ye X., Lamont, S.J., Dekkers J.C.M. & Ewald S.J. 2007. Mx gene exon 13 polymorphisms in broiler breeder chickens and associations with commercial traits. Animal Genetics 38:177-179 van den Berg, B.H.J., Harris, T., McCarthy, F.M., Lamont, S.J., Burgess, S.C. 2007. Non-electrophoretic differential detergent fractionation proteomics using frozen whole organs. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 21: 3905-3909. Ye, X., Brown, S.R., Nones, K., Coutinho, L.L., Dekkers, J.C.M. and Lamont, S.J. 2007. Associations of myostatin gene polymorphisms with performance and mortality traits in broiler chickens. Genet. Sel. Evol. 39: 73-89. Zhou, H. and Lamont, S.J. 2007. Global gene expression profile after Salmonella enterica Serovar enteritidis challenge in two F8 advanced intercross chicken lines. Cytogenet. Genome Res. 117:131-138. Zhou, H., Deeb, N., Evock-Clover, C., Mitchell, A., Ashwell, C. and Lamont, S.J. 2007. Genome-wide linkage analysis to identify chromosomal regions affecting phenotypic traits in the chicken. III. Skeletal integrity. Poultry Sci. 86:255-266. Zhou, H., Evock-Clover, C., McMurtry, J.P., Ashwell, C. and Lamont, S.J. 2007. Genome-wide linkage analysis to identify chromosomal regions affecting phenotypic traits in the chicken. IV. Metabolic traits. Poultry Sci. 86:267-276. Zhou, H., Gu, J., Lamont, S.J. and Gu, X. 2007. Evolutionary analysis for functional divergence of Toll-like receptor gene family and altered functional constraints. J. Molec. Evol. 65:119-123. Presentations Published in Symposium Proceedings: Lamont, S.J. 2008. Integrated genomics to enhance host resistance to bacterial colonization in poultry. Proc World’s Poultry Congress, June 29 – July 4, 2008, Brisbane, Australia, published on CD. Cheng, H., Niikura, M., Kim, T., Mao, W., MacLea K.S., Hunt, H., Dodgson, J., Burnside, J., Morgan, R., Ouyang, M., Lamont, S.J., Dekkers, J., Fulton, J., Soller, M., and Muir, W. 2008. Using integrative genomics to elucidate genetic resistance to Marek’s disease in chicken. In : Pinard M-H, Gay C, Pastoret P-P, Dodet B (eds): Animal Genomics for Animal Health. Dev Biol (Basel). Basel, Karger, 2008, vol 132, p 365-372. Hasenstein, J.R., Hassen, A.T., Dekkers, J.C.M., and Lamont, S.J. 2008. High resolution, advanced intercross mapping of host resistance to Salmonella colonization. In : Pinard M-H, Gay C, Pastoret P-P, Dodet B (eds): Animal Genomics for Animal Health. Dev Biol (Basel). Basel, Karger, 2008, vol 132, p 213-218. Kim, D.K., Hong, Y.H., D.W Park, D.W., Lamont, S.J., and Lillehoj, H.S. 2008. Differential immune-related gene expression in two genetically disparate chicken lines during infection with Eimeria maxima. . In : Pinard M-H, Gay C, Pastoret P-P, Dodet B (eds): Animal Genomics for Animal Health. Dev Biol (Basel). Basel, Karger, 2008, vol 132, p 131-140. Koren, E., H. Zhou, A. Cahaner, E.D. Heller, J. Pitcovski, S.J. Lamont. 2008. Unique co-expression of immune cell-related genes in IBDV resistant chickens indicates the activation of specific cellular host-response mechanisms. In : Pinard M-H, Gay C, Pastoret P-P, Dodet B (eds): Animal Genomics for Animal Health. Dev Biol (Basel). Basel, Karger, 2008, vol 132, p 153-159. Lamont, S.J. 2007. A Bird’s-Eye View of the QTL Landscape. Proc. National Breeders Roundtable, May 2007, St. Louis, MO. Books and Chapters in Books: Lamont, S.J., Dekkers, J.C.M., and Burnside, J. 2008. Immunogenetics and mapping immunological functions. Pp. 223-240. In: Avian Immunology. F. Davison, B. Kaspars, K.A. Schat, Eds., Elsevier, London, San Diego (ISBN 978-0-12-370634-3) Cheng, H.H. and Lamont, S.J. 2008. Genetics of disease resistance. Pp. 59-72. In: Diseases of Poultry. 12th ed. Y.M. Saif, A. Fadly, J. Glisson, I. McDonald, L. Nolan, and D. Swayne, Eds., Blackwell Publ. Lamont, S.J. 2008. Variation in chicken gene structure and expression associated with food-safety pathogen resistance: integrated approaches to Salmonella resistance. Pp. 57-66. In: Genomics of Disease. J. P. Gustafson, G. Stacey, and J. Taylor, Eds., Springer, New York.
Other Links Genetics of Animal Health 2005 Symposium Portrait unveiling in Kildee Hall, October 2004 Lamont Lab Group Photo Gallery