- Professor and Director, Large Animal Clinical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Dr. Morley is an epidemiologist and veterinary internal medicine specialist that studies infectious diseases affecting animals and people. Major emphasis for his professional activities includes using analytical epidemiology to improve our understanding and control of diseases in animals and people, investigating the ecology of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance determinants in animals and food production systems, and using infection control and biosecurity to manage health risks that are important in veterinary medicine, agriculture, and public health. Most recently he has used metagenomic methods to investigate the effects of agriculture production practices on antimicrobial resistance and microbial ecology as these affect human, animal, and ecosystem health. In 2019, he was appointed the Director of Research for VERO - the Veterinary Education, Research & Outreach Program - in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University. In this role, he supports the growth of research programs for all VERO faculty, supervises and provides oversight for research staff and laboratories, and promotes research exposure programs for veterinary and undergraduate students. Previously, Dr. Morley served for 20 years as Professor of Epidemiology and the Director of Infection Control at Colorado State University's Veterinary Teaching Hospital. He is a recognized authority on infection control in animal populations and has consulted on infection control and biosecurity issues at veterinary hospitals, veterinary colleges, and animal production facilities around the world.
Academic Articles36
- Pinnell, L. J., Young, J. D., Thompson, T. W., Wolfe, C. A., Bryant, T. C., Nair, M. N., Richeson, J. T., & Morley, P. S. (2023). Establishing the link between microbial communities in bovine liver abscesses and the gastrointestinal tract.. Animal Microbiome. 5(1), 58.
- Pinnell, L. J., Kuiper, G., Huebner, K. L., Doster, E., Parker, J. K., Alekozai, N., ... Morley, P. S. (2023). More than an anthropogenic phenomenon: Antimicrobial resistance in ungulates from natural and agricultural environments.. Science of the Total Environment. 858(Pt 1), 159789-159789.
- Bonin, N., Doster, E., Worley, H., Pinnell, L. J., Bravo, J. E., Ferm, P., ... Boucher, C. (2023). MEGARes and AMR++, v3.0: an updated comprehensive database of antimicrobial resistance determinants and an improved software pipeline for classification using high-throughput sequencing.. Nucleic Acids Research (NAR). 51(D1), D744-D752.
- Pinnell, L. J., & Morley, P. S. (2022). The Microbial Ecology of Liver Abscesses in Cattle.. Veterinary Clinics of North America - Food Animal Practice. 38(3), 367-381.
- Weinroth, M. D., Thomas, K. M., Doster, E., Vikram, A., Schmidt, J. W., Arthur, T. M., ... Belk, K. E. (2022). Resistomes and microbiome of meat trimmings and colon content from culled cows raised in conventional and organic production systems.. Animal Microbiome. 4(1), 21.
- Crosby, W. B., Pinnell, L. J., Richeson, J. T., Wolfe, C., Castle, J., Loy, J. D., ... Morley, P. S. (2022). Does swab type matter? Comparing methods for Mannheimia haemolytica recovery and upper respiratory microbiome characterization in feedlot cattle.. Animal Microbiome. 4(1), 49.
- Pinnell, L. J., Reyes, A. A., Wolfe, C. A., Weinroth, M. D., Metcalf, J. L., Delmore, R. J., ... Engle, T. E. (2022). Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes Drive Differing Microbial Diversity and Community Composition Among Micro-Environments in the Bovine Rumen.. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 9, 897996.
- Vasquez, A., Nydam, D., Foditsch, C., Warnick, L., Wolfe, C., Doster, E., & Morley, P. S. (2022). Characterization and comparison of the microbiomes and resistomes of colostrum from selectively treated dry cows.. Journal of Dairy Science (JDS). 105(1), 637-653.
- Doster, E., Pinnell, L. J., Noyes, N. R., Parker, J. K., Anderson, C. A., Booker, C. W., ... Morley, P. S. (2022). Evaluating the effects of antimicrobial drug use on the ecology of antimicrobial resistance and microbial community structure in beef feedlot cattle.. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13, 970358.
- Valeris-Chacin, R., Powledge, S., McAtee, T., Morley, P. S., & Richeson, J. (2022). Mycoplasma bovis is associated with Mannheimia haemolytica during acute bovine respiratory disease in feedlot cattle.. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13, 946792.
Conference Papers2
- McAtee, T., Powledge, S., Pinnell, L., Morley, P., & Richeson, J. T. (2022). Modified-Live Virus Respiratory Vaccines and Bovine Respiratory Disease Influence the Respiratory Microbiome of Cattle. Journal of Animal Science. 100, 240-240.
- Morley, P. S. (2020). New insights on liver abscess syndrome in cattle using metagenomic investigations. Journal of Animal Science. 98(Supplement_4), 53-53.
Principal Investigator1
- VLCS685 Directed Studies Instructor
- VLCS691 Research Instructor
- VLCS691 Research: In-ab Instructor
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