Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
Mark Lyte is a Full Professor with board certification in clinical laboratory medicine in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University where he holds the Lloyd Chair in Toxicology. Prof. Lyte obtained his undergraduate BS degree in Medical Technology including a one year clinical laboratory internship from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1976. Following employment in clinical hospital laboratories over the next year, he entered into the Master’s degree program at the Feinberg Graduate School of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel in 1977 and obtained his MS degree in 1979 and was awarded his PhD degree in 1983 in the combined fields of Biophysics and Cellular Immunology. From 1983-1987 he completed two postdoctoral fellowships, the first in immunotoxicology at the Medical College and Virginia and the second in clinical immunopathology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. In addition to having served on scientific review panels for the National Institutes of Health and other worldwide agencies, Professor Lyte has been awarded the Joseph Susman Memorial Award for Surgical Infectious Disease Research by the Surgical Infection Society and was named a finalist for the NIH Director's Pioneer Award.
Work from Prof. Lyte’s laboratory has provided the initial and continuing results demonstrating the ability of microorganisms to produce neurochemicals that are capable of influencing host health, behavior and disease pathogenesis. This has resulted in the creation of a new translational scientific discipline uniting the fields of neurobiology and microbiology that has been termed microbial endocrinology.
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Monday, July 17, 2023
9:10 AM – 9:45 AM MT