Faculty

Thomas E. Adams - Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Stress, reproduction; neuroendocrinology; environmental estrogens; immunocastration.

E-mail: teadams@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/adams

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Barry A. Ball - Professor, Department of Population Health and Reproduction - School of Veterinary Medicine

Research Interests: Equine reproduction, gamete physiology, semen preservation.

E-mail: baball@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/baball/

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Danika L. Bannasch - Associate Professor, Department of Population Health and Reproduction - School of Veterinary Medicine

Research Interests: Molecular basis of inherited diseases in companion animals; developing polymorphic markers for the canine Y chromosomes to understand the relationship between different dog breeds.

E-mail: dlbannasch@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/dlbannasch

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Trish Berger - Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Fertilization and fertility; sperm-oocyte membrane protein interactions, species variation and the effect of toxicants.

E-mail: tberger@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/berger

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Steven L. Berry - Extension Specialist:  Dairy Management & Health, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Hoof health and lameness in dairy cattle, infectious and non-infectious diseases, management factors, cow comfort, periparturitent diseases and their relationship to productivity and culling.

E-mail: slberry@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/berry

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Chris C. Calvert - Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Protein metabolism; energy metabolism; homeorhesis; systems analysis.

E-mail: cccalvert@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/calvert

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Ernie S. Chang - Professor, Department of Animal Science - located at Bodega Marine Lab

Research Interests: Comparative biochemistry, physiology, and larval development of invertebrates.

E-mail: eschang@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/chang

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Alan J. Conley - Professor, Department of Population Health and Reproduction - School of Veterinary Medicine

Research Interests: Biochemistry of sex steroid synthesis, conceptus development, sexual differentiation, comparative reproduction and adrenal function.

E-mail: ajconley@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/ajconley

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Mary E. Delany - Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Avian developmental genetics, embryology, cytogenetics, and genomics.

E-mail: medelany@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/delany

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Ed J. DePeters - Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Ruminant nutrition of dairy cattle; mammary gland synthesis of milk protein and fat; nutrient digestion, absorption, and metabolism; evaluation of by-product feedstuffs and forage quality.

E-mail: ejdepeters@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/depeters

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Serge I. Doroshov - Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Reproductive and developmental biology of fish; sturgeon aquaculture.

E-mail: sidoroshov@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/doroshov

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Holly B. Ernest - Assistant Professor in Residence, Wildlife Genetics, Department of Population Health and Reproduction - School of Veterinary Medicine

Research Interests: Conservation genetics, population genetics, immunogenetics, disease susceptibility genomics, disease ecology, forensic genetics. Free-ranging species of management concern in California. Threatened and endangered species. Carnivores, wild pigs, raptors (birds of prey) and corvids (magpies, crows, and relatives). Special interests in Yellow-billed Magpies, Swainson's Hawks, Mountain Lions.

E-mail: hbernest@ucdavis.edu

Website: https://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/wildlife/ernest.html

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James G. Fadel - Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Quantitative applications; biological and production systems modeling; feed and fiber evaluations.

E-mail: jgfadel@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/fadel

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Thomas R. Famula - Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Quantitative genetics and statistics; inheritance of disease in the dog.

E-mail: trfamula@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/famula

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Russ C. Hovey - Associate Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Endocrine regulation of mammary gland development, lactation and breast cancer, gene expression and cell-cell interactions.

E-mail: rchovey@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/HoveyLab/index.html

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Silas S. O. Hung - Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Fish feeding, nutrition, biochemistry, and physiology.

E-mail: sshung@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/hung

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Michael Johnson - Associate Research Scientist, Director of the Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis Laboratory

Research Interests: Effects of stressors on aquatic organisms; temperature stress on salmonids; immunogenetics; gene-environment interactions that shape immune function; metabolomics; and genomics.

E-mail: mbjohnson@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://johnmuir.ucdavis.edu/aeal/people.johnson.html

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Ermias Kebreab - Professor & Sesnon Endowed Chair, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Modeling sustainable agricultural production. Energy and nutrient requirements of cattle, swine, and poultry. Empirical, mechanistic, and simulation models of nutrient utilization. Modeling of nutrient dynamics in manure; and greenhouse gas emissions of animals, manure and soil.

E-mail: ekebreab@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu

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Kirk C. Klasing - Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Impact of nutrition on immunochemistry and disease resistance; immunologic basis of stress; nutrition and metabolic adaptation required by carnivorous, granivorous, and nectivorous birds.

E-mail: kcklasing@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/klasing

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Dietmar Kueltz - Associate Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Cellular osmoregulation, intracellular stress signaling, comparative genomics and proteomics of environmental adaptation in fish and mammals.

E-mail: dkueltz@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/kueltz and http://dkkw.net

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Leslie A. Lyons - Associate Professor, Department of Population Health and Reproduction - School of Veterinary Medicine

Research Interests: Development of genetic tools for companion animals and analyzing inherited diseases in cats, dogs, horses and primates

E-mail: lalyons@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/lalyons/Sites/LyonsDenHomepage.htm 

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Elizabeth A. Maga - Associate Research Biologist, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Transgenic animals; targeted transgene insertion; efficiency of producing transgenic animals; modifying milk; molecular biology.

E-mail: eamaga@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/maga

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Brenda McCowan - Associate Researcher, Veterinary Medicine Teaching Research Center - School of Veterinary Medicine

Research Interests: Applied ethiology, behavioral management, animal well-being, wildlife conservation, behavioral ecology.

E-mail: bmccowan@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bjmccowan

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Juan F. Medrano - Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Animal Genomics; molecular genetics; animal growth; milk composition.

E-mail: jfmedrano@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/medrano

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Joy A. Mench - Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Animal welfare and stress; environmental enrichment for intensively managed animals; social behaviors in domestic birds.

E-mail: jamench@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/mench

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Deanne Meyer - Extension Specialist: Livestock Waste Management, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Animal waste management.

E-mail: dmeyer@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/LivestockwasteMgt/

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Stuart A. Meyers - Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology - School of Veterinary Medicine

Research Interests: Reproduction, male reproduction, sperm cell biology, gamete cyropreservation biology, spermatogonial stem cells and transplantation.

E-mail: smeyers@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/smeyers

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James R. Millam - Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Avian neuroendocrinology; biology of parrots; captive psittacine biology; avian environmental toxicology.

E-mail: jrmillam@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/millam

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Frank M. Mitloehner - Associate Extension Specialist: Air Quality, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Air quality research related to livestock production, especially quantification of ammonia, dust, and odor emissions in dairies, beef feedlots, and poultry operations.  Environmental physiology research, focusing on effects of air emissions on animal health and welfare.

E-mail: fmmitloehner@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/mitloehner

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James D. Murray - Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Transgenic animals; growth and differentiation, molecular genetics; cytogenetics, equine genetics.

E-mail: jdmurray@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/murray

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Anita M. Oberbauer - Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Cell and molecular biology, animal growth and development of genetic markers.

E-mail: amoberbauer@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/oberbauer

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James W. Oltjen - Extension Specialist: Animal Management Systems, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Computer decision support software; beef quality assurance; standardized performance analysis for cattle and sheep ranches.  Animal management systems; resource use in animal agriculture; beef cattle growth.

E-mail: jwoltjen@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/oltjen

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Peter H. Robinson - Extension Specialist: Dairy Cattle Nutritional Management , Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Protein and amino acid nutrition of dairy cows; evaluation and development of methods to predict forage energy content; nutritional strategies to reduce the environmental impact of dairy cows; development and evaluation of predictive whole cow biological models.

E-mail: phrobinson@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/robinson

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Roberto D. Sainz - Associate Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Ruminant nutrition; growth and body composition; nutritional energetics; modeling.

E-mail: rdsainz@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/sainz

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M. Cecilia Torres-Penedo - Associate Research Geneticist, Veterinary Genetics Laboratory - School of Veterinary Medicine

Research Interests: Study of genetic markers in domestic animals.  Equine genomics; development of a genome-scan microsattellite panel for linkage analysis and chromosomal location of traits of interest.

E-mail: mctorrespenedo@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu

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Cassandra Tucker - Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Animal welfare, animal behavior, effect of environmental conditions (housing, weather) and management decisions.

E-mail: cbtucker@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/tucker

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Catherine A. VandeVoort - Adjunct Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Staff Scientist, California National Primate Research Center

Research Interests: Primate reproduction, oocyte in vitro maturation, gamete cyropreservation, in vitro models for reproductive toxicology, initiation of embryonic stem cell lines.

E-mail: vavandevoort@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/cavandevoort

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Alison L. VanEenennaam - Extension Specialist: Animal Biotechnology & Genomics, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Transgenic modification of biochemical pathways to improve the quality of animal products for consumers; application of biotechnology to solve applied problems of animal agriculture.

E-mail: alvaneenennaam@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/VanEenennaam

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Barry W. Wilson - Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Nuero-toxicology; aquatic and terrestrial ecotoxicology; biomarkers of stress and pesticide exposure.  Growth and development with focus on muscle and nerve interactions.

E-mail: bwwilson@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/wilson

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Richard A. Zinn - Professor, Department of Animal Science - located at Desert Research and Extension Center

Research Interests: Ruminant nutrition; feedlot cattle nutrition and management; factors associated with digestive function.

E-mail: razinn@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/zinn

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Emeritus

Gary B. Anderson - Distinguished Professor, Department of Animal Science

Research Interests: Reproduction; embryo development; in vitro embryo culture, manipulation and transfer; gene transfer.

E-mail: gbanderson@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/faculty/anderson

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Bill Lasley - Professor, Department of Population Health and Reproduction - School of Veterinary Medicine; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology - School of Medicine; and Associate Director of The Institute for Toxicology and Environmental Health

Research Interests: Reproductive endocrinology, reproductive toxicology and reproductive epidemiology, early pregnancy failure, biomarkers for reproductive health and comparative reproductive physiology.

E-mail: bllasley@ucdavis.edu

Website: http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bllasley

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