Volker Gerdts
Professor
Department of Veterinary Microbiology
University of Saskatchewan
Canada
Biography
Dr. Gerdts received a DVM in 1994 from Hanover Veterinary School and a German PhD equivalent from the Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Island of Riems and Hanover Veterinary School, Germany in 1997. A postdoctoral fellowship, funded by the German Research Council, was spent from 1998 to 2000 at VIDO in the area of vaccine discovery and mucosal immunology. Dr. Gerdts is the Associate Director Research of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) at the University of Saskatchewan. In 2002, he became a research scientist at VIDO and is currently the program leader of the Neonatal Immunization Program at VIDO and the scientific manager of an international project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Gerdts' expertise is in the area of human and livestock vaccines, mucosal immunology, and vaccine delivery and formulation.
Research Interest
Development of neonatal vaccines; innate immunity at the respiratory surfaces (antimicrobial peptides); basic mechanisms of intestinal immunity; lymphocyte trafficking; mucosal immunology; chemokines; enteric infections; and knowledge transfer of basic research into applied clinical research and producers.
Publications
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Garlapati S, Facci M, Polewicz M, Strom S, Babiuk LA, Mutwiri G, Hancock RE, Elliott MR, Gerdts V. Strategies to link innate and adaptive immunity when designing vaccine adjuvants. Veterinary immunology and immunopathology. 2009 Mar 15;128(1):184-91.
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Meurens F, Berri M, Auray G, Melo S, Levast B, Virlogeux-Payant I, Chevaleyre C, Gerdts V, Salmon H. Early immune response following Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Typhimurium infection in porcine jejunal gut loops. Veterinary research. 2009 Jan 1;40(1):1.
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Salmon H, Berri M, Gerdts V, Meurens F. Humoral and cellular factors of maternal immunity in swine. Developmental & Comparative Immunology. 2009 Mar 31;33(3):384-93.
