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Taranjit Kaur

Taranjit Kaur, VMD, MPH, Diplomate, ACLAM

Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences & Pathobiology
 
e-mail: taranjit@vt.edu


Education

1998 M.P.H., Public Health/International Health
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
1985 V.M.D., Veterinary Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
1980 B.S., Biology
Pennsylvania State University
State College, PA

Board Certification

1992 Diplomate, American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM)

Research Interests

  • Public Health and Conservation Medicine
  • Wild and Captive Chimpanzee Health and Well-being
  • Information Technology and GIS
  • Medicinal Plants

For more information about Dr. Kaur's research, please visit http://www.bush2base.vt.edu.

Professional Experience

2001-present Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA
2001-2007 University Veterinarian and Director of Laboratory Animal Resources
Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA
1998-2001 Assistant Professor and Director of Animal Resources
Primary Appointment at the School of Veterinary Medicine
Secondary Appointment at the School of Medicine
Tufts University
1990-1996 Attending Veterinarian and Director
Animal Resources Department
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
1988-1990 Attending Veterinarian and Director
Animal Resource Center
University of California at Los Angeles
1985-1988 Director, Veterinary Surgical Services
Department of Comparative Medicine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professional Memberships

  • American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine
  • American Association for Laboratory Animal Science
  • Association of Primate Veterinarians

Selected Publications

View a comprehensive listing of Dr. Kaur's publications (PDF) or browse the selected publications below.

  1. Taranjit Kaur, Jatinder Singh, Suxiang Tong, Charles Humphrey, Donna Clevenger, Wendy Tan, Brian Szekely, Yuhuan Wang, Yan Li, Epaphras Alex Muse, Mieko Kiyono, Shunkichi Hanamura, Eiji Inoue, Michio Nakamura, Michael A. Huffman, Baoming Jiang and Toshisada Nishida. Descriptive epidemiology of fatal respiratory outbreaks and detection of a humanrelated metapneumovirus in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at Mahale Mountains National Park, western Tanzania. American Journal of Primatology 70 (8): 755-765.
  2. Taranjit Kaur and Jatinder Singh. Commentary: Up close and personal with Mahale chimpanzees – A Path Forward. American Journal of Primatology 70 (8): 729-733.
  3. Taranjit Kaur and Matt Lutz. Newsmakers, Pioneers, Pack ‘n Play, Science 315; 9 March 2007, p. 1347.
  4. Swenson, J., Olgun, S., Radjavi, A., Kaur, T. and Reilly, C.M. 2007. Clinical efficacy of Buprenorphine to minimize distress in MRL/lpr Mice. European Journal of Pharmacology 567: 67-76.
  5. Fayer, R., Santin, M., Koenen, Trout, J. M., DeStefano, S., Koenen, K. and Kaur, T. 2006. Prevalence of Microsporidia, Cryptosporidium, and Giardia in beavers (Castor canadensis) in Massachusetts. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 37(4) 492-497.
  6. Keay, J. M.., Singh, J., Gaunt, M. C. and Kaur, T. 2006. Fecal Glucocorticoids and their metabolites as indicators of stress in various mammalian species: a literature review. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 37(3):234-244.
  7. Petrželková, K. J., Hasegawa, H., Moscovice, L. R., Kaur, T., Issa, M. and Huffman, M. A. 2006. Parasitic nematodes for chimpanzees found from the introduced population on Rubondo Island, Tanzania. International Journal of Primatology 27 (3): 767-777.
  8. Lindsay, D.S., Kaur, T., Mitchell, S., Goodwin, D., Strobl, J., and Dubey, J.P. 2005. Buprenorphine does not have activity against acute toxoplasmosis in mice and can be used as an analgesic in Toxoplasma gondii studies. Journal of Parasitology 91:1488-1490.
  9. Jordan, C. N., Kaur, T., Koenen, K., Destefano, S. Zajac, A. M. and Lindsay, D. S. 2005. Prevalence of Agglutinating Antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii and Sacrocystis neurona in Beavers (Castor canadensis) from Massachusetts. Journal of Parasitology 91: 1228-1229.
  10. Hasegawa, H., Ikeda1, Y., Fujisaki1, A. Moscovice, L. R., Petrzelkova, K. J., Kaur, T. and Huffman, M.A. 2005. Morphology of chimpanzee pinworms, Enterobius (Enterobius) anthropopitheci (Gedoelst, 1916) (Nematoda: Oxyuridae), collected from chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, on Rubondo Island, Tanzania. Journal of Parasitology 91: 1314-1317.