Dr. Douglas P. Gladue is a senior scientist for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) at the Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit (FADRU), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), at Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC). Starting in 2007 at PIADC, a BSL-3 laboratory, he focused his studies on foreign viral diseases that can affect livestock. Specifically, the molecular mechanisms of viral pathogenesis and virus–host protein interactions and applied these discoveries to the design of rational vaccines for controlling and preventing these diseases. He has a strong multidisciplinary background in agricultural diseases, molecular microbiology, genetics, vaccinology, bioinformatics, disease modelling, and biosafety. Dr. Gladue has experience in reverse-genetic engineering and in genetically introducing genome modifications. He has served on a wide variety of editorial and review boards for scientific journals, government agencies, and multiple advisory committees for livestock diseases, currently working as a journal editor for Scientific Reports, PLOS One and Frontiers Virology. Dr. Gladue has received funding from the National Pork Board and the Department of Homeland Security for livestock vaccine research. He earned a B.Sc. in microbiology from the University of Rhode Island and a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University for molecular genetics and microbiology.
