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Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center



Associate Professor

Poultry Diagnostic Research Center
953 College Station Road
Athens, Georgia 30602-4875
706.542.5647
e-mail: hsellers@uga.edu

Education:
B.S. Biology, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, 1990
M.S. Medical Microbiology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1993
Ph.D. Medical Microbiology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1998


Professional Memberships:
American Association of Avian Pathologists (AAAP) 1995-present
American Society for Virology (ASV) 1998-present
American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians 2000-present


Areas of Interest:
Clinical and molecular virology
Identification and characterization of avian viruses
Epidemiology of avian viruses
Development of molecular tools for identification of avian viruses
Enteric viral diseases of poultry


Honors and Awards:
Bayer-Snoeyenbos New Investigator Award, American Association of Avian Pathologist, 2004

Peer-reviewed publications:

Petkov, Daniel I., Erich Linnemann, Darrell R. Kapczynski, and Holly S. Sellers. Full length sequence analysis of four Infectious Bursal Disease Virus isolates with different pathogenicities. Accepted to Virus Genes, 2/2006.

Jackwood, M., D.A. Hilt, C.W.Lee, H.M. Kwon, S.A. Callison, K.M. Moore, H. Moscoso, H.S. Sellers, S. Thayer. Data from Eleven years of Molecular Typing Infectious Bronchitis Virus Field Isolates. Avian Diseases, 49: 614-618. 2005.

Spackman, Erica, Mary Pantin-Jackwood, J. Michael Day, and Holly S. Sellers. The Pathogenesis of turkey origin reoviruses in turkeys and chickens. Avian Pathology, 34: 291-296. 2005.

Spackman, E., D. Kapczynski, and H. Sellers. Multiplex Real-time RT-PCR for the Detection of Three Viruses Associated with Poult Enteritis Complex: Turkey Astrovirus, Turkey Coronavirus, and Turkey Reovirus. Avian Dis. 49: 86-91. 2004.

Sellers, H.S., L.Pereira, E. Linnemann, and D.R. Kapczynski. Phylogenetic analysis of the sigma 2 protein gene of turkey reoviruses. Avian Dis. 48: 651-657.2004.

Sellers, H.S., M.D. Koci, L.A. Kelley, and S. Schultz-Cherry. Development of a multiplex RT-PCR diagnostic test specific for turkey astrovirus and coronavirus. Avian Dis. 48: 531-539. 2004.

Wise, M.G., H.S. Sellers, R.Alvarez, and B.S. Seal. RNA-dependent RNA polymerase Gene Analysis of Worldwide Newcastle Disease Virus Isolates Representing Different Virulence Types and their Phylogenetic Relationship with Other Members of the Paramyxoviridae. Virus Research. 104:71-80. 2004

Sellers, H.S., M. García, J.R. Glisson, T.P. Brown, J.S. Sander, and J.S. Guy. Mild Infectious Laryngotracheitis in broilers in the Southeast. Avian Diseases. 48:430-436. 2004.

Kapczynski, D.R. and H.S. Sellers. Immunization of turkeys with a DNA vaccine expressing either the F or N gene of avian metapneumovirus. Avian Dis. 47:1376-1383, 2003.

Kapczynski, D.R., D.A. Hilt, D. Shapiro, H.S. Sellers, and M.W. Jackwood. Protection of Chickens from Infectious bronchitis by in ovo and intramuscular vaccination with a DNA vaccine expressing the S1 glycoprotein. Avian Dis. 47:272-285, 2003.

Seal, B.S., J.M. Crawford, H.S. Sellers, D.P. Locke, and D.J. King. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the Newcastle disease virus nucleocapsid protein gene and phylogenetic relationships among the Paramyxoviridae. Virus Res. 83: 119-129, 2002.

Kapczynski, D.R., H.S. Sellers, G.N. Rowland, and M.W. Jackwood. Detection of in ovo inoculated infectious bronchitis virus by in situ hybridization with a riboprobe in epithelial cells of the lung and bursa. Avian Dis. 46:679-685. 2002.

Kapczynski, D.R., H.S. Sellers, V. Simmons, S. Schultz-Cherry. Sequence analysis of the S3 gene from a turkey reovirus. Virus Genes. 25:95-100. 2002.

Berinstein, A., H.S. Sellers, D.J. King, and B.S. Seal. Use of the Heteroduplex Mobility Assay to Detect Differences in the Fusion Protein Cleavage Site Coding Sequence Among Newcastle Disease Virus Isolates. J Clin Micro. 39:3171-3178. 2001.

Sellers, H.S., J. El-Attrache, D. Kapczynski, P. Villegas, and C.C. Brown. Detection of infectious bursal disease virus in experimentally infected chickens using in situ hybridization with a riboprobe. Avian Dis. 45: 26-33. 2001.

Locke, D.P., J.M. Crawford, H.S. Sellers, S. Schultz-Cherry, D.J. King, R.J. Meinersmann, and B.S. Seal. Newcastle disease virus phosphoprotein gene analysis and transcriptional editing in avian cells. Virus Res. 69: 55-68. 2000.

Seal, B.S., H.S. Sellers, and R.J. Meinersmann. Fusion protein predicted amino acid sequence of the first US avian pneumovirus isolate and lack of heterogeneity among other US isolates. Virus Res. 66: 139-147. 2000.

Seal, B.S., D.J. King, and H.S. Sellers. The avian response to Newcastle disease virus. Dev. Comp. Immunol. 24: 257-268. 2000.

Sellers, H.S., P. Villegas, B.S. Seal, and D.J. Jackwood. Antigenic and molecular characterization of three infectious bursal disease virus field isolates. Avian Dis. 43:198-206. 1999.

 

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