Active Projects
Click on a project below to learn more about our ongoing projects and opportunities to be involved:
- Backyard Chickens and Game Fowl Survey
- Prevalence and Viral Ecology of Avian Influenza in Wetlands
- Waterfowl Alert Network Project
- Poultry Disease Outbreak! High School Lecture Series
International Work
Past Projects
These projects are no longer active, but we encourage you to click on a project below to explore past innovations and results:
- Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program
- Chicken Feed Supplement Study
International Work
Publications
Pitesky articles on ResearchGate
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)/ Antimicrobial Stewardship (AS)
- Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles of Non-typhoidal Salmonella From Retail Meat Products in California, 2018
- Assessing Backyard Poultry Versus Small Animal Knowledge of Veterinary Students Regarding Husbandry, Prescription Drug Use, and Antimicrobial Resistance
- Drug residues in poultry meat
- Overview of Quantitative Methodologies to Understand Antimicrobial Resistance via Minimum Inhibitory Concentration
Avian Influenza
- A comparison of amplification methods to detect Avian Influenza viruses in California wetlands targeted via remote sensing of waterfowl
- Using the California Waterfowl Tracker to Assess Proximity of Waterfowl to Commercial Poultry in the Central Valley of California
Backyard Poultry
- Backyard chickens in the United States- A survey of flock owners
- Biosecurity assessment and seroprevalence of respiratory diseases in backyard poultry flocks located close to and far from commercial premises
- Using social network analysis to characterize the collaboration network of backyard poultry trainers in California
Climate Change
- Regional effects of climate change on California animal agriculture
and options for farmers to respond through husbandry adaptation
and greenhouse gas mitigation
E. coli
- Evaluation of protection induced by Riemerella anatipestifer-E. coli O78 bacterin in white pekin ducks
- Thermal inactivation of E. coli and Salmonella typhimurium in poultry carcass and litter at thermophilic temperatures
Food Safety
- Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles of Non-typhoidal Salmonella From Retail Meat Products in California, 2018
- Data challenges and practical aspects of machine learning-based statistical methods for the analyses of poultry data to improve food safety and production efficiency
- Drug residues in poultry meat
Infectious Bronchitis Virus (IBV)
- Using multinomial and space-time permutation models to understand the epidemiology of Infectious Bronchitis in California between 2008 and 2012
- Variability assessment of CA infectious bronchitis virus variants
Infectious Bursal Disease virus (IBDv)
- A cooperative approach to animal disease response activities
- Historical, spatial, temporal, and time-space epidemiology of very virulent infectious bursal disease in CA
Infectious Laryngotracheitis (ILT)
- Comparison of diagnostics techniques in an outbreak of infectious laryngotracheitis from meat chickens
- Spatial and temporal epidemiology of infectious layngotracheitis in central CA
Marek's
Nutrition
Salmonella
- Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles of Non-typhoidal Salmonella From Retail Meat Products in California, 2018
- Assessing Salmonella typhimurium persistence in poultry carcasses under multiple thermal conditions consistent with composting and wet rendering
- Descriptive survey and salmonella surveillance of pastured poultry layer farms in CA
- Surveillance of Salmonella Enteritidis in Layer Houses
- Susceptibility of Salmonella Biofilm and planktonic bacteria to common disinfectant agents used in poultry processing
- The effectiveness of common disinfectants used in poultry processing against salmonella biofilm and planktonic cultures
- Thermal inactivation of E. coli and Salmonella typhimurium in poultry carcass and litter at thermophilic temperatures
- Transcriptome Analysis of Salmonella Heidelberg after Exposure to Cetylpyridinium Chloride, Acidified Calcium Hypochlorite, and Peroxyacetic Acid
- Validation of single and pooled manure drag swabs for the detection of salmonella serovar enteritidis in commercial poultry houses
Pastured Poultry
- Feeding and lighting practices on small-scale extensive pastured poultry commercial farms in the US
- Gastrointestinal impactions in backyard poultry
- Operational challenges and opportunities in pastured poultry operations in the United States
Wildlife Disease
- A serosurvey of Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Nevada, USA
- Serologic surveillance of wild and pen-reared ring-necked pheasants as a method of understanding disease reservoirs
All Resources:
- A comparison of amplification methods to detect Avian Influenza viruses in California wetlands targeted via remote sensing of waterfowl
- A cooperative approach to animal disease response activities
- A Serosurvey of Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Nevada, USA
- Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles of Non-typhoidal Salmonella From Retail Meat Products in California, 2018
- Assessing Backyard Poultry Versus Small Animal Knowledge of Veterinary Students Regarding Husbandry, Prescription Drug Use, and Antimicrobial Resistance
- Assessing Salmonella typhimurium persistence in poultry carcasses under multiple thermal conditions consistent with composting and wet renderingBackyard chickens in the United States- A survey of flock owners
- Biosecurity assessment and seroprevalence of respiratory diseases in backyard poultry flocks located close to and far from commercial premises
- Comparison of diagnostics techniques in an outbreak of infectious laryngotracheitis from meat chickens
- Cultivation of black soldier fly larvae onalmond byproducts- impacts of aeration and moisture on larvae growth and composition
- Data challenges and practical aspects of machine learning-based statistical methods for the analyses of poultry data to improve food safety and production efficiency
- Descriptive survey and salmonella surveillance of pastured poultry layer farms in CA
- Drug residues in poultry meat
- Evaluation of protection induced by Riemerella anatipestifer-E. coli O78 bacterin in white pekin ducks
- Feeding and lighting practices on small-scale extensive pastured poultry commercial farms in the US
- Historical, spatial, temporal, and time-space epidemiology of very virulent infectious bursal disease in CA
- Marek's Disease in Backyard Chickens
- Operational challenges and opportunities in pastured poultry operations in the United States
- Overview of Quantitative Methodologies to Understand Antimicrobial Resistance via Minimum Inhibitory Concentration
- Serologic surveillance of wild and pen-reared ring-necked pheasants as a method of understanding disease reservoirs
- Spatial and temporal epidemiology of infectious layngotracheitis in central CA
- Surveillance of Salmonella Enteritidis in Layer Houses
- Susceptibility of Salmonella Biofilm and planktonic bacteria to common disinfectant agents used in poultry processing
- The effectiveness of common disinfectants used in poultry processing against salmonella biofilm and planktonic cultures
- Thermal inactivation of E. coli and Salmonella typhimurium in poultry carcass and litter at thermophilic temperatures
- Transcriptome Analysis of Salmonella Heidelberg after Exposure to Cetylpyridinium Chloride, Acidified Calcium Hypochlorite, and Peroxyacetic Acid
- Using Multinomial and Space-Time Permutation Models to Understand the Epidemiology of Infectious Bronchitis in California Between 2008 and 2012
- Using social network analysis to characterize the collaboration network of backyard poultry trainers in California
- Validation of single and pooled manure drag swabs for the detection of salmonella serovar enteritidis in commercial poultry houses
- Variability assessment of CA infectious bronchitis virus variants