Nikki Shariat, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Georgia. Nikki earned her PhD in Biological Sciences from Vanderbilt University and started working in food safety during her postdoc at Penn State. She held a faculty position at Gettysburg College for three years before joining the Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center in the Department of Population Health at the University of Georgia in 2019.