Nikki Shariat, Ph.D.

(she/her/hers)
Principal Investigator
nikki.shariat at uga.edu

Associate Professor, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine 

Courtesy faculty: Department of Microbiology and The UGA Center for Food Safety

Nikki earned her PhD in Biological Sciences from Vanderbilt University and started working in food safety during her postdoc at Penn State. She held a faculty position at Gettysburg College for three years before joining the Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center in the Department of Population Health at the University of Georgia in 2019.

Fun fact: “I have two kitties whose names are Sam and Ella”

Education and Training

BSc: Molecular Biology and Genetics. University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
PhD: Biological Sciences. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Postdoc fellow: Department of immunology, University of California, San Francisco, CA
Postdoc fellow: Food Science Department, Penn State University, College Park, PA

Classes taught

  • POPH 7960: Avian Diagnostic Microbiology Lab