Students

Students

Liqi An

  • Animal Biology Graduate Group
Molecular genetics, functional genomics, and bioinformatics in poultry. Major Professor: Huaijun Zhou

Sharissa Anderson

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
My research interests include beef cattle nutrition and management, sustainable beef cattle production and enteric mitigation strategies to further reduce GHG production and improve performance and efficiency of beef cattle. Major Professor Frank Mitloehner

Abdul Rehman Bilal

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Viral diseases of poultry specifically avian reovirus (ARV) and infectious bronchitis virus (IBV). I am interested in their molecular diagnosis and characterization studies that may help in understanding the epidemiology of these viruses contributing to their control and prevention strategies. Major Professor: Rodrigo Gallardo

Juliana Candelaria

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
  • Animal Biology Graduate Group Student
Female reproductive physiology - ovarian biology and follicular development. Major Professors: Anna Denicol

Dawn Cayabyab

  • Animal Biology Graduate Group
Mammalian pluripotent stem cells, Embryotic development, CRISPR/Cas9, production of transgenic livestock. Major Professor: Elizabeth Maga

Francine De Castro

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Surveying and monitoring groundfish populations in Marine Protected Areas, my research interests include the long-term bioaccumulation of Persistent Organic Pesticides (POPs) in groundfish and salmon, and the synergistic effect of POPs with factors of climate change in these study species. Major Professor: Christine Pasparakis

Valerie Weizhen Dong

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Research Interests: I am interested in studying how environmental stress affects organisms at the molecular, cellular, and organismal levels using colonial tunicates as a model. Major Professor: Dietmar Kueltz

Toni Duarte

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
  • Animal Biology Graduate Group Student
Research Interests: Meat Quality and Food Safety. Major Professor: Xiang (Crystal) Yang

Rich Duong

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Usage of agricultural byproducts as a feed additive to reduce enteric methane emissions Major Professor: Matthias Hess

Cirenio Hisasaga

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Research Interest: The impact that duck and broiler management practices have on bird welfare. Major Professor: Maja Makagon

Thomas Jara

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Myogenic and adipogenic differentiation of bovine embryonic stem cells for use in cultivated meat; developmental biology and embryology Major Professor: Anna Denicol

Raja Zabeeh Khan

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Applications of thermography in Donkeys and mules, Blood biochemistry of working equines Major Professor: Amy Mclean

Matthew Klein

Quantifying and reducing greenhouse gas emissions related to beef cattle production, improved forage production and grazing management and agricultural policy with a focus on improving connections between various stakeholders. Major Professor: Frank Mitloehner

Lauren Kovanda

  • Animal Biology Graduate Group Student
Effects of organic acids on host defense peptide expression in porcine epithelial cells. Major Professor: Yanhong Liu

Donna Li

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Quantitative genetics and precision livestock farming Major Professor: Hao Cheng

Sebsatian Lobo

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Transgenic animal generation and characterization. Gene editing in embryos. Environmental risk assessment of transgenic animals. Major Professor: Elizabeth Maga

Lauren Maas

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Pathology of sudden cardiac death in thoroughbred racehorses Major Professor: Jessica Morgan

Conor McCabe

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Research Interest: Methane inhibitors for beef and dairy cattle systems and modeling climate neutrality for the beef and dairy sectors. Major Professor: Frank Mitloehner

Stephanie McDonnell

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
  • Animal Biology Graduate Group
Research Interest: Reproductive physiology using the cow as a model. Specifically, preantral folliculogenesis and improved culture systems for preantral follicles. Major Professor: Anna Denicol

Sebastian Mejia Turcios

  • Animal Biology Graduate Group
Ruminant nutrition. Beef cattle. Working towards sustainability and the reduction of greenhouse gases emission from beef cattle production. Major Professor: Frank Mitloehner

Leah Mellinger

  • Animal Biology Graduate Group Student
I am interested in how fish respond to environmental stressors ranging from biotic (such as parasites and pathogens) to abiotic (such as poor water quality and toxicants) and using those responses to map population health and potentially develop management tools for assessing population health. With the increasing threat of climate change and other anthropogenic stressors, developing strategies to assess how fish populations are coping is incredibly important. I am specifically interested in assessing Chinook salmon smolt physiological stress levels during their migration and smoltification as well as assessing forage fish species population health.

Amanda Morton

  • Animal Biology Graduate Group
Researching the effect of FSH on isolated preantral follicles collected from bovine ovaries. Major Professor: Anna Denicol

Eleanor Pressman

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Research Interest: Developing mechanistic models of animal production systems and using these models to identify ways to make animal agriculture more sustainable Major Professor: Ermias Kebreab

Jiayi Qu

  • Animal Biology Graduate Group Student
Linear programming in animal agriculture. Major Professor: Hao Cheng

Saleh Salman

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
The role of Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), Inhibins, and nerve growth factor-beta (NGF-β) in the reproductive performance and fertility of dairy cows Major Professor: Fabio Lima

Arup Ratan Sen

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
My research focuses on improving microbial protein production in rumen by understanding energy utilization by rumen microbes. Major Professor: Timothy Hackmann

Yingxin Su

  • Animal Biology Graduate Group
Population genetics and genomics; wild-life conservation. Major Professor: Michael Miller

Sudipta Talukder

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Research Interest: Antimicrobial Resistance of foodborne bacteria and Gut Microbiome. Major Professor: Xiang (Crystal) Yang

Erin Tracy

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Research Interest: I am broadly interested in the study of both social and ecological aspects of aquatic conservation and in effectively communicating this research to natural resource managers, students, and the public. Major Professor: Dr. Andrew Rypel and Dr. Nann Fangue