Sid Thakur
Department of Population Health and Pathobiology
Executive Director, Global One Health Academy
Professor
College of Veterinary Medicine
CVM Research Building 490
Bio
Dr. Siddhartha “Sid” Thakur is the Executive Director of Global One Health Academy and Professor of Molecular Epidemiology at the College of Veterinary Medicine at NC State. He is responsible for expanding NC State’s One Health research, education and engagement efforts and developing evidence-based recommendations for tackling current and future global threats. He is an NC State Chancellor faculty scholar. He received his Degree in Veterinary Medicine and Master of Veterinary Public Health from India and his Ph.D. from NC State.
His research focus is to fill critical knowledge gaps in the complex chain of events leading to the development, dissemination, and persistence of antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) bacterial foodborne pathogens at the interface of humans, animals, plants, and the environment. He has won numerous awards, including the Larry Beuchat Young Researcher Award by the International Association for Food Protection and the Outstanding Global Engagement award by NC State. Dr. Thakur has authored or co-authored 80 peer-reviewed publications and edited two books on Food Safety.
Education
Ph.D. Population Medicine North Carolina State University 2005
M.V.S. Veterinary Public Health Indian Veterinary Research Institute 2000
B.S. Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Gobind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, India 1998
Publications
- Antimicrobial resistance in food-borne pathogens at the human-animal interface: Results from a large surveillance study in India , ONE HEALTH (2024)
- Characteristics of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli isolated from retail meat products in North Carolina , PLOS ONE (2024)
- Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterizations of Antimicrobial-Resistant Escherichia coli Isolates from Diverse Retail Meat Samples in North Carolina During 2018-2019 , FOODBORNE PATHOGENS AND DISEASE (2024)
- Serovar-level identification of bacterial foodborne pathogens from full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing , MSYSTEMS (2024)
- Detection of resistance and virulence plasmids in Campylobacter coli and Campylobacter jejuni isolated from North Carolina food animal production, 2018-2019 , FOOD MICROBIOLOGY (2023)
- Draft Genome Sequences of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecalis Coisolated from Polymicrobial Extraintestinal Infections of Chickens and Turkeys , MICROBIOLOGY RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENTS (2023)
- Draft genome sequences of 12 Escherichia coli co-isolated with Enterococcus spp. from dogs with polybacterial bacteriuria at a veterinary hospital , MICROBIOLOGY RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENTS (2023)
- Uncovering changes in microbiome profiles across commercial and backyard poultry farming systems , MICROBIOLOGY SPECTRUM (2023)
- Characterization of Salmonella enterica Contamination in Pork and Poultry Meat from Sao Paulo/Brazil: Serotypes, Genotypes and Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles , PATHOGENS (2022)
- Evidence of sheep and abattoir environment as important reservoirs of multidrug-resistant Salmonella and extended-spectrum beta-lactamase Escherichia coli , International Journal of Food Microbiology (2022)