David W. Ussery, Ph.D.

McCasland Foundation Professor and INTERACT Director

Department of Physiological Sciences | Oklahoma State University

Currently teaching (spring 2026)

       CBSC 5110: Special Topics: High-throughput Comparative Genomics Link to PDF of syllabus


       Bioinformatics Journal club Link to schedule

Recent Publications at OSU

"Lost in taxonomy: Why bacterial type strains are the anchor we need" David Ussery and Ake Vastermark.
Open Access Government, January, 2026. [Link]
"A Tracts of Homozygosity Approach Identifies Methylation-Regulated CSMD1 Expression Targets" Jing Jin, Yasir Rahmatallah, Horacio Gomez-Acevedo, Yong-Moon Mark Park, David W. Ussery, Ebrahim Jakoet, and Mohammed S. Orloff.
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 34(12):2247-2258. Dec 2025 [DOI]; [PubMed]
"Using machine learning to predict the severity of Salmonella infection" David Ussery and Aakash Bhattacharyya.
Open Access Government, July 2025. [Link]
"Rapid assessment of clinical severity for salmonellosis cases via protein family domain analysis and machine learning" Aakash Bhattacharyya, Sudip Panday, David Ussery.
Academia Molecular Biology and Genomics, 34(12):2247-2258. June 2025 [DOI]; [PubMed]

Previous Work

Link to a full list of publications; also see my Google Scholar profile.