2025年4月17日，在华东地区第十七届实验动物科学学术交流会上，特别邀请美国The Jackson Laboratory的Prof. John P. Sundberg教授出席大会并作题为“GEMs from the Mouse Room: Discoveries During Routine Diagnostic Workups”的大会报告。

专家介绍

D.V.M., Ph.D., Dipl. A.C.V.P.

Active Emeritus Professor, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA

Adjunct Prof., Dept. Dermatology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

Dr. Sundberg received his B. S. degree in animal science from the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont in 1973. He then received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, West Lafayette, Indiana in 1977. He practiced mixed animal medicine, mostly working with dairy cattle in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Dr. Sundberg then did a combination Ph.D./residency in anatomic pathology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1981 focusing on papillomavirus infections and pathology in deer species. Dr. Sundberg became an assistant professor at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine in the Department of Pathobiology, Urbana, Illinois. There he continued his research on animal papillomaviruses and developed a specialty pathology practice working with the regional zoos in the Midwest of the United States. In 1986 he moved to The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine as an associate professor, later becoming a full professor. He served as the head of the pathology program as well as a principal investigator until 2000 when he transitioned to full time research. His research focused on developing mouse models for many different diseases. While initially focusing on papillomas and squamous cell carcinomas that arose spontaneously or were caused by chemical carcinogenesis in mice, his research changed to genetically based skin diseases in mice. He developed models for alopecia areata, epidermolysis bullosa, cicatricial alopecia, and many others including eventually discovering a laboratory mouse papillomavirus that has become one of the major models for studying this viral disease. While he is now retired, he continues as a volunteer faculty advisor for the Histopathology Scientific Service at The Jackson Laboratory and teaches in MorphoPhen, an annual workshop on phenotyping mice held in Barcelona, Spain; Pathology of Mouse Models of Human Diseases, an annual workshop now held at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA; and other meetings.