Richard Bird, Ph.D. profile and information

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Richard Curtis Bird, Ph.D., holds a B.S. in Honors Biology from McMaster University and a PhD in Zoology focused on Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry from the University of Toronto. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Medical Research Council Scholar at the Memorial University School of Medicine and at the University of Guelph in Molecular Biology and Genetics. He is currently a Molecular and Cancer Genetics professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Pathobiology at Auburn. His lab investigates the biology and genetics of intermediate canine models of breast cancer and malignant melanoma, including the development of translational therapeutic strategies for the treatment of spontaneous diseases in dogs. Bird is also a professor and founding member of the Brewing Science Program. In this capacity, he serves as an adjunct professor in the Horst Schulze School of Hospitality Management. He has trained numerous students and post-doctoral fellows and published more than 80 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 270 scientific presentations. Bird has been a brewer since 1975 and has taught brewing science and practice to hundreds of students. He currently specializes in Belgian and British brewing styles with an emphasis on historic styles and new creative brewing designs. He is skilled in cellular biology and genetics with a focus on cell proliferation mechanisms focusing on brewing yeast proliferation and phenotype analysis.