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Iowa State University

Iowa State University
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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: 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:

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 (accepted)

Hasenstein. J.R., and Lamont, S.J. 2007. Chicken Gallinacin gene cluster associated with Salmonella response in advanced intercross line. Avian Dis. (accepted)

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 (accepted)

Zhou, J. and Lamont, S.J. 2007. Gene expression profiling of Salmonella enteritidis challenge in two F8 advanced intercross chicken lines. Cytogenet. Genome Res. (accepted)

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. Evolution (accepted)

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., 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.

Abasht, B. Dekkers, J.C.M, and Lamont, S.J. 2006. Review of quantitative trait loci Identified in the chicken. Poultry Sci. 85:2079-2096.

Cheeseman, J.H., Kaiser, M.G., Ciraci, C., Kaiser, P. and Lamont, S.J. 2006. Breed effect on early cytokine mRNA expression in spleen and cecum of chickens with and without Salmonella enteritidis infection. Devel. Comp. Immunol. 31: 52-60.

Hangalapura, B. N., Kaiser, M. G., van der Poel, J.J., Parmentier, H. K., and Lamont, S.J. 2006. Cold stress equally enhances in vivo pro-inflammatory cytokine gene expression in chicken lines divergently selected for antibody responses. Develop. Comp. Immunol. 30:503-511.

Hasenstein, J.R., Zhang, G., and Lamont, S.J. 2006. Analyses of five gallinacin genes and the Salmonella enterica serovar enteritidis response in poultry. Infection & Immunity 74:3375-3380.

Kaiser, M.G., J.H. Cheeseman, Kaiser, P., and Lamont, S.J. 2006. Cytokine expression in chicken peripheral blood mononuclear cells after in vitro exposure to Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis. Poultry Sci 85:1907-1911.

Lamont, S.J. 2006. Perspectives in chicken genetics and genomics. Poultry Sci. 85:2048-2049.

McElroy, J.P., Kim, J.J., Harry, D.E., Brown, S.R., Dekkers, J.C., and Lamont, S.J. 2006. Identification of trait loci affecting white meat percentage and other growth and carcass traits in commercial broiler chickens. Poultry Sci. 85:593-605.

McElroy, J.P., Zhang, W., Koehler, K.J., Lamont, S.J., and Dekkers, J.C.M. 2006. Comparison of methods for analysis of selective genotyping survival data. Genetics Selec. Evol. 38:637-655.

Soller, M., Weigend, S., Romanov, M.N., Dekkers, J.C.M., and Lamont, S.J. 2006. Strategies to assess structural variation in the chicken genome and its associations with biodiversity and biological performance. Poultry Sci. 85:2061-2078.

Ye, X., Avendano, S., Dekkers, J.C.M. and Lamont, S.J. 2006. Association of twelve immune-telated genes with performance of three broiler lines in two different hygiene environments. Poultry Sci. 85:1555-1568.

Ye, X., McLeod, S., Elfick, D., Dekkers, J.C.M., and Lamont, S.J. 2006. Rapid identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms and estimation of allele frequencies using sequence traces from DNA pools. Poultry Science 85: 1165-1168.

Zhou, J., Deeb, N., Ashwell, C.M., and Lamont, S.J. 2006. Genome-wide linkage analysis to identify chromosomal regions affecting phenotypic traits in the chicken. I. Growth and average daily gain. Poultry Sci. 85:1700-1711.

Zhou, J., Deeb, N., Ashwell, C.M., and Lamont, S.J. 2006. Genome-wide linkage analysis to identify chromosomal regions affecting phenotypic traits in the chicken. II. Body composition. Poultry Sci. 85: 1712-1721.

Books and Chapters in Books:

Cheng, H.H. and Lamont, S.J. 2007. Genetics of disease resistance. In: Avian Diseases. M. Saif, Ed., Blackwell Publ. (in press)

Lamont, S.J. 2007. Variation in chicken gene structure and expression associated with food-safety pathogen resistance: integrated approaches to Salmonella resistance. In: Genetics of Disease Resistance. P. Gustafson, Ed. (in press)

Lamont, S.J., Dekkers, J.C.M., and Burnside, J. 2007. Immunogenetics and mapping immunological functions. In: Avian Immunology. F. Davison, B. Kaspars, K.A. Schat, Eds., Elsevier (in press)

Wick, G., Andersson, L., Hala, K., Gershwin, M. E., Selmi, C.F., Erf, G. F., Lamont, S.J., and Sgonc, R. 2006. Avian models with spontaneous autoimmune diseases. Pp. 71-117. In: Advances in Immunology. F.W. Alt, Ed. Elsevier/Academic Press, San Diego, CA


Other Links
Genetics of Animal Health 2005 Symposium
Portrait unveiling in Kildee Hall, October 2004
Lamont Lab Group Photo Gallery