Bo Norby
Associate Professor of Large Animal Clinical Sciences | Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, UNITED STATES
Bo Norby is an expert in quantitative epidemiology and the control of infectious diseases in food producing animals at the population level.
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Biography
Bo Norby's primary research interests include the control and management of infectious diseases in food producing animals at the population level, as well as understanding how antibiotic resistance develops in animal agriculture operations and developing novel intervention strategies. Norby is currently leading a team to understand the complex interaction between livestock, livestock management and livestock environments in the development of antimicrobial resistance bacteria.
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Veterinary
Areas of Expertise (5)
Bovine Leukemia Virus
Zoonotic Diseases
Epidemiology
Infectious Diseases
Antimicrobial Resistance
Education (3)
Michigan State University: Ph.D., Epidemiology 2003
University of California, Davis: M.P.V.M., Preventive Veterinary Medicine 1998
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark: C.V.M 1995
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Veteran Instincts: Teaching the next generation of scientists
MSU Today online
2015-11-11
Having joined the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine in 2011, Bo Norby, associate professor in the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, has already begun to distinguish himself in his field. In June, Norby was invited to attend the White House One Health Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship, a national effort to combat the development of pathogen resistance to conventional drugs. He attributes such successes, in part, to meeting supportive colleagues and heeding their advice.Bo Norby “You need to have good mentors,” he said. “It doesn’t have to be someone you work closely with, but you need to find people willing to teach you the ins and outs of being a new faculty member.” A good mentor, Norby said, can help a new scientist make connections with leaders in his/her department, college and/or field. Mentors can also be important advocates for new faculty members as they begin their ascent through the ranks of tenure and promotion by helping them find a place within large multidisciplinary projects. “A good mentor can help you appraise the projects you’re becoming involved in and make sure there’s a place in them carved out for you that you can make your own,” Norby said. “Especially when you aren’t the principal investigator on a project, it’s important for your career that you have something at the end of it that’s yours.”
Journal Articles (5)
Analgesic drug administration and attitudes about analgesia in cattle among bovine practitioners in the United States
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association2011 Objective—To determine current attitudes and practices related to pain and analgesia in cattle among US veterinarians in bovine practice and to identify factors associated with these attitudes and practices.
Associations between dietary factors and pancreatitis in dogs
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association2008 Objective—To estimate associations between dietary factors and pancreatitis in dogs.
Changes in antimicrobial susceptibility in a population of Escherichia coli isolated from feedlot cattle administered ceftiofur crystalline-free acid
American Journal of Veterinary Research2007 Objective—To determine effects of administration of ceftiofur crystalline-free acid (CCFA) on antimicrobial susceptibility of Escherichia coli in feedlot cattle. Animals—61 feedlot steers. Procedures—A cohort study was conducted. Steers were housed in pens (5 pens with 10 steers and 1 pen with 11 steers).
Contribution of environmental mycobacteria to false-positive serum ELISA results for paratuberculosis
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association2007 Objective—To evaluate the effect of exposure to environmental mycobacteria on results of 2 commercial ELISAs for paratuberculosis in cattle.
The sensitivity of gross necropsy, caudal fold and comparative cervical tests for the diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis
Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation2004 Bovine tuberculosis (bTb) was diagnosed in 22 cattle herds in the northeast corner of Michigan's lower peninsula. Of these 22 herds, 494 animals in 7 herds were examined by gross necropsy, histopathologic exam, mycobacterial culture, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay performed only on samples that were histologically compatible for bTb.
