Dr. Patrick Mills is a clinical veterinarian in the Department of Comparative Medicine at the School of Medicine. He is from Raleigh, North Carolina, and attended North Carolina A&T State University, where he received his bachelor’s degree in animal science, and then Tuskegee University for his doctorate in veterinary medicine. Thereafter, he completed a two-year residency and assistant clinical veterinarian position at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

John Sabo is a professor in the Department of Coastal and River Science and Engineering in the School of Science and Engineering. He also directs Tulane’s ByWater Institute. As a river food web ecologist, Sabo has designed and implemented large-scale field experiments to understand the role of aquatic-terrestrial energy flow on terrestrial food web dynamics as well as the dynamic effects of groundwater on surface water food webs.