Dr. Dave Ussery, a leading bioinformatician with more than three decades of experience in microbial genomics, joined the Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2025. Ussery serves as a professor in the Department of Physiological Sciences and as director of the Interdisciplinary Network for Tracking Emerging Risks, Analytics, and Comparative Translational genomics (INTERACT). In this role, he helps advance OSU’s One Health mission by connecting clinicians, scientists and industry partners to address complex biological and medical challenges.