Rachel Palinski is an Assistant Professor in the Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology/Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine (KSUCVM) in Manhattan, Kansas. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia and her Ph.D. from Kansas State University.
Dr. Palinski is interested in detection and characterization of high consequence pathogens via Next-Generation sequencing which she developed through her training as a post-doctoral Biosecurity Research Institute Fellow. Working at Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC, 2018-2019) provided additional expertise in these areas, particularly bioinformatics analysis techniques.
Dr. Palinski has been a faculty member at the KSUCVM since 2019 leading both the colleges’ core deep sequencing laboratory and the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory’s Next-Generation sequencing section. Her research program encompasses test development, bioinformatic techniques to analyze viral populations and virus-host interactions and novel pathogen identification and characterization.