Faculty

Venugopal Gangur, Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Manitoba, Canada, 1996
M.V.S., Veterinary Research Institute, India, 1990
D.V.M., Bangalore Veterinary College, India, 1988

302B G.M. Trout FSHN Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1224
Phone: (517) 355-8474, Ext. 134
Lab: (517) 355-8474, Ext. 168
Fax: (517) 353-8963
E-mail: gangur@msu.edu

Research Interests: 

Food allergens, food allergy, anaphylaxis, asthma, immunology, breast milk immunology, assessment of allergenicity of food using mouse model of food allergy, and dietary modification to prevent/treat food allergy.

Instructional Activities:

FSC 823 – Diet and Immune function (nutritional immunology)
FSC 423 – Functional Foods & Human Health
VM 812 – Food Safety & Toxicology (online): Modules on hypersensitivity, immunology and safety of GE foods.

Outreach Focus:

Food Allergy

Recent Publications:

Navuluri L, Parvataneni S, Ahmed H, ,Birmingham N, Samineni S, Kelly J, and Gangur V. "Allergic and anaphylactic response to sesame seeds in mice: identification of Ses i 3 and basic subunit of 11s globulins as allergens." Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 2006;140(3):270-6. Epub 2006 May 11.

Samineni S, Gangur V, Parvataneni S, Karmaus W, Brooks K and James C. "Optimization, comparison, and application of colorimetric vs. chemiluminescence based indirect sandwich ELISA for measurement of human IL-23." J Immunoassay Immunochem. 2006;27(2):183-93.

Wilfried K and Gangur V. "Does allo-immune reactivity play a role in the prenatal programming of childhood allergy?" Clin. Exp. Allergy. 35(4):405-7, 2005.

Gangur V, James CL and Navuluri L. "Sesame Allergy: A growing food allergy of global proportions?" Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. 95(1):4-11, 2005.

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