Andrés is a lecturer in production animal health and researcher in veterinary virology in the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences at The University of Melbourne.
Andrés earned his veterinary degree from the Universidad de La Salle in Bogotá, Colombia in 1998, where he then worked as a poultry veterinarian. After moving to Canada in 1999, 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.After graduation, Andrés worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Firestone Equine Respiratory Research Laboratory at the University of Guelph. Since his relocation to Melbourne, Australia in 2014, his research has focused on avian and equine virology including work on infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV), infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) and equine herpesviruses (EHV).
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Latency characteristics in specific pathogen-free chickens 21 and 35 days after intra-tracheal inoculation with vaccine or field strains of infectious laryngotracheitis virus.
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
The Advancement in Equine Research Award
Col. K.L. Campbell Graduate Research Award in Equine Studies
Malcolm Scholarship
Credentials
Positions
Lecturer (Production Animal Health)
Veterinary Biosciences
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Guelph
Masters of Science
University of Guelph
Medico Veterinario
Universidad de La Salle