Erika Ganda
Assistant Professor of Food Animal Microbiomes

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311 Forest Resources Laboratory
University Park, PA 16802 - ganda@psu.edu
- 814-865-4084
Research Summary
Developing practical ways to leverage the microbiome to improve food safety and improve food production animals' production efficiency.
Huck Graduate Students
Huck Affiliations
- Microbiome Center
- Center for Reproductive Biology and Health
- Bioinformatics and Genomics
- Integrative and Biomedical Physiology
- Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
- Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences
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Publication Tags
Milk Mastitis Cattle Microbiota Cows Farms Escherichia Coli Microbiome Dairies Colostrum Endometritis Dairy Cows Cephalosporins Sampling Milk Production Vaccines Metagenomics Immunization Pathogens Health Anti Bacterial Agents Animals Holstein Staphylococcus FusobacteriumMost Recent Papers
A Cross-Sectional Study of Dairy Cattle Metagenomes Reveals Increased Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals Farmed in a Heavy Metal Contaminated Environment
Natalia Gaeta, Emily Bean, Asha Miles, Daniel Carvalho, Mario Alemán, Jeferson Carvalho, Lilian Gregory, Erika Ganda, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
Maternal influences on oral and faecal microbiota maturation in neonatal calves in beef and dairy production systems
Matthew Barden, Peter Richards-Rios, Erika Ganda, Luca Lenzi, Richard Eccles, Joseph Neary, Joanne Oultram, Georgios Oikonomou, 2020, Animal Microbiome
Complex interactions between weather, and microbial and physicochemical water quality impact the likelihood of detecting foodborne pathogens in agricultural water
Daniel Weller, Natalie Brassill, Channah Rock, Renata Ivanek, Erika Mudrak, Sherry Roof, Erika Ganda, Martin Wiedmann, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
The microbiome of Escherichia coli and culture-negative nonsevere clinical mastitis: characterization and associations with linear score and milk production
A. K. Vasquez, E. K. Ganda, M. B. Capel, S. Eicker, P. D. Virkler, R. C. Bicalho, D. V. Nydam, 2019, Journal of Dairy Science on p. 578-594
Effects of pegbovigrastim administration on periparturient diseases, milk production, and reproductive performance of Holstein cows
M. Zinicola, H. Korzec, A. G.V. Teixeira, E. K. Ganda, L. Bringhenti, A. C.C.H. Tomazi, R. O. Gilbert, R. C. Bicalho, 2018, Journal of Dairy Science on p. 11199-11217
Normal milk microbiome is reestablished following experimental infection with Escherichia coli independent of intramammary antibiotic treatment with a third-generation cephalosporin in bovines
Erika K. Ganda, Natalia Gaeta, Anja Sipka, Brianna Pomeroy, Georgios Oikonomou, Ynte H. Schukken, Rodrigo C. Bicalho, 2017, Microbiome
The bovine colostrum microbiome and its association with clinical mastitis
Svetlana F. Lima, Andre G.V. Teixeira, Fabio S. Lima, Erika Ganda, Catherine H. Higgins, Georgios Oikonomou, Rodrigo C. Bicalho, 2017, Journal of Dairy Science on p. 3031-3042
A metataxonomic approach could be considered for cattle clinical mastitis diagnostics
Joanne W.H. Oultram, Erika K. Ganda, Sarah C. Boulding, Rodrigo C. Bicalho, Georgios Oikonomou, 2017, Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Deciphering upper respiratory tract microbiota complexity in healthy calves and calves that develop respiratory disease using shotgun metagenomics
Natália C. Gaeta, Svetlana F. Lima, Andre G. Teixeira, Erika Ganda, Georgios Oikonomou, Lilian Gregory, Rodrigo C. Bicalho, 2017, Journal of Dairy Science on p. 1445-1458
Longitudinal metagenomic profiling of bovine milk to assess the impact of intramammary treatment using a third-generation cephalosporin
Erika K. Ganda, Rafael S. Bisinotto, Svetlana F. Lima, Kristina Kronauer, Dean H. Decter, Georgios Oikonomou, Ynte H. Schukken, Rodrigo C. Bicalho, 2016, Scientific Reports
Most-Cited Papers
Prepartum and postpartum rumen fluid microbiomes: characterization and correlation with production traits in dairy cows
Fabio S. Lima, Georgios Oikonomou, Svetlana F. Lima, Marcela L.S. Bicalho, Erika K. Ganda, Jose C. de Oliveira Filho, Gustavo Lorenzo, Plamen Trojacanec, Rodrigo C. Bicalho, 2015, Applied and Environmental Microbiology on p. 1327-1337
Subcutaneous immunization with inactivated bacterial components and purified protein of Escherichia coli, Fusobacterium necrophorumand Trueperella pyogenes prevents puerperal metritis in holstein dairy cows
Vinícius Silva Machado, Marcela Luccas De Souza Bicalho, Enoch Brandão De Souza Meira, Rodolfo Rossi, Bruno Leonardo Ribeiro, Svetlana Lima, Thiago Santos, Arieli Kussler, Carla Foditsch, Erika Korzune Ganda, Georgios Oikonomou, Soon Hon Cheong, Robert Owen Gilbert, Rodrigo Carvalho Bicalho, 2014, PLoS One
Longitudinal metagenomic profiling of bovine milk to assess the impact of intramammary treatment using a third-generation cephalosporin
Erika K. Ganda, Rafael S. Bisinotto, Svetlana F. Lima, Kristina Kronauer, Dean H. Decter, Georgios Oikonomou, Ynte H. Schukken, Rodrigo C. Bicalho, 2016, Scientific Reports
Oral administration of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii decreased the incidence of severe diarrhea and related mortality rate and increased weight gain in preweaned dairy heifers
Carla Foditsch, Richard Van Vleck Pereira, Erika Korzune Ganda, Marilia Souza Gomez, Eduardo Carvalho Marques, Thiago Santin, Rodrigo Carvalho Bicalho, 2015, PLoS One
The bovine colostrum microbiome and its association with clinical mastitis
Svetlana F. Lima, Andre G.V. Teixeira, Fabio S. Lima, Erika Ganda, Catherine H. Higgins, Georgios Oikonomou, Rodrigo C. Bicalho, 2017, Journal of Dairy Science on p. 3031-3042
Effect of trace mineral supplementation on selected minerals, energy metabolites, oxidative stress, and immune parameters and its association with uterine diseases in dairy cattle
M. L.S. Bicalho, F. S. Lima, Erika Ganda, C. Foditsch, E. B.S. Meira, V. S. Machado, A. G.V. Teixeira, G. Oikonomou, R. O. Gilbert, R. C. Bicalho, 2014, Journal of Dairy Science on p. 4281-4295
Normal milk microbiome is reestablished following experimental infection with Escherichia coli independent of intramammary antibiotic treatment with a third-generation cephalosporin in bovines
Erika K. Ganda, Natalia Gaeta, Anja Sipka, Brianna Pomeroy, Georgios Oikonomou, Ynte H. Schukken, Rodrigo C. Bicalho, 2017, Microbiome
Evaluation of an on-farm culture system (Accumast) for fast identification of milk pathogens associated with clinical mastitis in dairy cows
Erika Korzune Ganda, Rafael Sisconeto Bisinotto, Dean Harrison Decter, Rodrigo Carvalho Bicalho, 2016, PLoS One
Lameness prevalence and risk factors in large dairy farms in upstate New York. Model development for the prediction of claw horn disruption lesions
Carla Foditsch, Georgios Oikonomou, Vinícius Silva Machado, Marcela Luccas Bicalho, Erika Korzune Ganda, Svetlana Ferreira Lima, Rodolfo Rossi, Bruno Leonardo Ribeiro, Arieli Kussler, Rodrigo Carvalho Bicalho, 2016, PLoS One
Associations among Trueperella pyogenes, endometritis diagnosis, and pregnancy outcomes in dairy cows
M. L.S. Bicalho, F. S. Lima, V. S. Machado, E. B. Meira, E. K. Ganda, C. Foditsch, R. C. Bicalho, R. O. Gilbert, 2016, Theriogenology on p. 267-274