People

Danika L. Bannasch

  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Population Health and Reproduction - School of Veterinary Medicine
Molecular basis of inherited diseases in companion animals; developing polymorphic markers for the canine Y chromosomes to understand the relationship between different dog breeds.
260 CCAH

Mark Cooper

  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Human Ecology
I am a geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist focused on climate change, agriculture, and the environment. My research draws on and engages political ecology, geographical political economy and economic geography, science and technology studies, applied ethics, critical policy studies, cultural economy, environmental sociology, and animal studies.
1335 Hart Hall, 1221 Meyer Hall

Annie King

  • Professor
  • Department of Animal Science
Production measurements/biochemical functions in poultry associated with climate change; effects of probiotics, horticultural byproducts, and upcycled waste on production/biochemical functions, and nutritional quality of poultry meat and eggs; microbial transfer from laying hens to chicks.
1217 Meyer Hall

Peter H. Robinson

  • Extension Specialist, Dairy Cattle Nutritional Management
  • Department of Animal Science
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.
2203 Meyer Hall

Andrew Rypel

  • Professor
  • Department of Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology
Fish Ecology; Conservation Science; Ecosystem Ecology; Global Change; Macroecology; Fisheries Management; Freshwater Mussels

Andrea Schreier, Ph.D.

  • Associate Adjunct Professor
  • Department of Animal Science
Applying genetic and genomic techniques to answer ecological or evolutionary questions about wild populations, conservation of threatened and endangered species, genetic management of conservation and commercial aquaculture, animal polyploidy.
2235 Meyer Hall

Faculty

Sharif Aly

  • Professor
  • School of Veterinary Medicine
  • Department of Population Health
I am a veterinarian with epidemiology and biostatistical training and my specialty where I practice my training is in dairy cattle health and welfare. My lab, the Dairy Epi Lab