STARKVILLE, Miss. — An experienced poultry pathogen specialist is the new head of Mississippi State’s Department of Poultry Science.
Illinois native Dr. Ken Macklin has joined the department after serving as a research professor and extension specialist at Auburn University. He has more than 25 years of experience researching diseases that affect poultry, with special expertise in genetics, immunology and bacteriology. Macklin is a member of the Alabama Poultry and Egg Association, Southern Poultry Science Society, and Poultry Science Association; a board member of the Southern Conference on Avian Diseases; and until his move to MSU, served as treasurer for. . .