Andres Diaz, PhD
University of Melbourne
Andrés Diaz, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in production animal health and researcher in veterinary virology in the Melbourne Veterinary School, Faculty of Science at The University of Melbourne. Andrés earned his veterinary degree from the Universidad de La Salle in Bogotá, Colombia, where he worked as a poultry veterinarian. After moving to Canada, he pursued his postgraduate education at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, where he earned his MSc in clinical studies in 2006 working on equine respiratory viruses and a PhD in veterinary virology in 2012 focused on the picornavirus equine rhinitis A virus. Following this, Andrés worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Firestone Equine Respiratory Research Laboratory at the University of Guelph (2012-2014), and as a Research Fellow in Virology (2014-2019) at the University of Melbourne. Since his relocation to Melbourne, Australia, his research has focused on avian and equine virology including work on infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV), infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), equine gammaherpesviruses (EHV2 and EHV5) and equine picornaviruses (ERAV and ERBV).
Andrés Diaz, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in production animal health and researcher in veterinary virology in the Melbourne Veterinary School, Faculty of Science at The University of Melbourne. Andrés earned his veterinary degree from the Universidad de La Salle in Bogotá, Colombia, where he worked as a poultry veterinarian. After moving to Canada, he pursued his postgraduate education at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, where he earned his MSc in clinical studies in 2006 working on equine respiratory viruses and a PhD in veterinary virology in 2012 focused on the picornavirus equine rhinitis A virus. Following this, Andrés worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Firestone Equine Respiratory Research Laboratory at the University of Guelph (2012-2014), and as a Research Fellow in Virology (2014-2019) at the University of Melbourne. Since his relocation to Melbourne, Australia, his research has focused on avian and equine virology including work on infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV), infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), equine gammaherpesviruses (EHV2 and EHV5) and equine picornaviruses (ERAV and ERBV).