Dongyan Xu Niu, PhD MSc

Associate Professor, University of Calgary

I am an Associate Professor, who joined Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary in September 2017. I am also adjunct Associate Professor at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and University of Alberta, as well as leading the Microbiology Laboratory of the Advancing Canadian Water Assets, Calgary. I have extensive expertise in zoonotic pathogens, bacteriophages, food safety, antimicrobial resistance and animal infectious disease. I received training in bacteriology, virology, animal science and biotechnology, molecular biology, biochemical engineering as well as food science and technology. Before joining the faculty, I worked in Alberta Agriculture Government as a Beef Virologist. I gained doctoral degree from Dalian University of Technology, China and received training of bacteriology, virology, biochemistry and biotechnology in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada where I conducted a joint PhD program and postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Tim McAllister and Dr. Kim Stanford. I have led/co-led on 25 externally funded research grants (total value ~$8.6M) from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Tri-Council (NSERC, CIHR) and the provincial government (Alberta Funding Consortium, Results Driven Agriculture Research, Alberta Research Capacity Program, Alberta Innovates, Major Innovation Funds); industry (Swine Innovation Proc, Egg Farmers of Canada and Alberta, Beef Cattle Research Council, Alberta Beef Producers, Saskatchewan Cattle Association, and Mitacs).