Mauricio Seguel, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Associate Professor Pathobiology Department, School of Veterinary Medicine
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Dr. Seguel is a wildlife pathologist and immunologist who studies how environmental variation shapes immune ontogeny and infection dynamics in wild mammals. He earned his veterinary degree from the Universidad Austral de Chile in 2010 and completed a residency in veterinary anatomic pathology at the University of Georgia in 2015, becoming a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists. From 2014 to 2017 he conducted field experiments on Guafo Island, Chile, for his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Georgia, investigating environmental and immune drivers of hookworm disease in fur seals.
In 2018 Dr. Seguel joined Dr. Vanessa Ezenwa’s lab in the Odum School of Ecology, developing immunological tools to study tuberculosis and helminth dynamics in African buffalo. In 2020 he moved to the Department of Pathobiology at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, as an assistant professor. There, he mentored pathology residents and undergraduate and graduate students. In 2025 Dr Seguel joined the faculty of St. George’s University School of Veterinary Medicine as an associate professor. At SGU, Dr. Seguel directs the Wild Immunology Lab, which focuses on environmental drivers of immunotypes in wild mammals and their consequences for infectious-disease transmission.
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