Dr. Bruce S. Seal completed his undergraduate and graduate education at the University of Nevada-Reno, followed by post-doctoral studies at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and the Zoological Society of San Diego. The bulk of Dr. Seal’s research was in the animal health programs of the Agricultural Research Service of USDA at the National Animal Disease Center in Ames, IA, and the high containment facility for avian viral diseases in Athens, GA. In 2004 Dr. Seal took the position of Research Leader for the Poultry Microbiological Safety Research Unit, joining the food safety research programs for ARS, USDA. Dr. Seal retired from the ARS-USDA in 2014 and now is an Instructor and Adjunct in the Biology Program at Oregon State University Cascades campus in Bend, OR, USA.
Scientific accomplishments include basic research and diagnostics development for a variety of animal pathogens, including bovine herpesviruses, swine and feline caliciviruses, avian paramyxoviruses, metapneumoviruses, and orthomyxoviruses. Ongoing research includes genomics-proteomics analyses of food-borne bacterial pathogens and examining bacteriophage gene products along with other alternative antimicrobials as potentials to combat bacterial disease. Discovery of potential probiotics and other useful spore-forming bacteria from free-ranging animals and the environment is being conducted as part of ongoing undergraduate research at OSU Cascades.
