Dr. Jarosinski started at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August of 2016 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associated Professor in 2021. He grew up in Upstate/Western NY raising ornamental avian species. He received his BS in Biotechnology from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in 1995 and his PhD in Microbiology from the State University of NY (SUNY) Health Science Center in Syracuse, NY (now Upstate Medical University) in 1999. After completing his PhD, he spent 12 years at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in Dr. Karel A. Schat’s laboratory as a USDA-funded post-doctoral fellow (1999-2003) and Research Associate (2003-2008). He then was a Senior Research Associate (2008-2011) in Dr. Nikolaus Osterrieder’s laboratory.  Before coming to UIUC, he spent 5 years (2011-2016) at the University of Iowa as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the Carver College of Medicine.  His research has focused mainly on Marek’s disease (MD) pathogenesis and development of vaccines to block infection.