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Featured photos: Coon lab investigates role of flies in mastitis

October 29, 2021

The research program of Kerri Coon, assistant professor of bacteriology, focuses on insect-microbe interactions. For one project, the Coon lab is investigating the potential role that Muscidae (Diptera) flies play in the transmission of disease-causing bacteria in dairy cows. Such diseases include mastitis and enteritis.

The photos below were taken for the Dairy Innovation Hub Annual Report by CALS photographer Michael P. King on Thursday, July 29, 2021, prior to changes in indoor face covering guidelines that became effective August 5.

View the full album of photos on the CALS Flickr account.

PhD student Andrew Sommer of the Kerri Coon Lab switches out a baited fly trap in the Dairy Cattle Center at UW–Madison in Madison, Wis., Thursday, July 29, 2021. The lab is studying the potential role that flies play in transmitting mastitis- and enteritis-causing bacteria to dairy cows. Photos by Michael P. King/UW–Madison CALS
PhD student Andrew Sommer of the Kerri Coon Lab switches out a baited fly trap outside of the Dairy Cattle Center.
A blow fly trapped and collected by PhD student Andrew Sommer in the Dairy Cattle Center is processed back at the Kerri Coon Lab in the Microbial Sciences Building.
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