He joined WSU in 2000 as an Assistant Professor and he is currently a Regents’ professor in the Allen School. Dr. Call leads a research program that employs a diversity of lab-to-field activities concerning bacterial antibiotic resistance. This work is primarily focused on development and testing of alternative antimicrobials and sanitation methods, assessing the fate and transport of antibiotic residues in food-animal production, testing ideas about the evolution of antibiotic resistance, and conducting epidemiological/molecular epidemiological studies of antibiotic resistance in Kenya, Tanzania, Guatemala and Brazil. Dr. Call has been or is currently funded by CDC, NIH, NSF, The Wellcome Trust, and USDA for antibiotic-resistance related projects. He has also worked on wound biofilms (DoD) and diseases of aquaculture (USDA). Research Interest Epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance Fate and transport of antibiotic residues in the environment Evolution, regulation, and function of antibiotic-resistance genes Alternatives to medically important antibiotics for use in people or animals