Students

Students

Liqi An

Liqi An

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

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 R Bilal

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
Dawn Cayabyab

Dawn Cayabyab

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

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 Done

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

Toni Duarte

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

Vukasin Dukic

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Research interests are endangered fish species particularly from the ecotoxicological standpoint. Major Professor: Bruce G. Hammock
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Rich Duong

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

Perri Gish

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Research interests are: Fibro-adipogenic progenitor cells are stem cells responsible for extracellular matrix deposition and generation of intramuscular adipocytes in skeletal muscle. My research centers on understanding and directing these cells' behavior with the goal to improve meat quality in beef production and cultivated meat. Major Professor: Dr. Payam Vahmani and Dr. Lucas Smith
Cirenio Hisasaga

Cirenio Hisasaga

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

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

Donna Li

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

Katarzyna Malin

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Research interests are: Equine pregnancy, fetal development, reproductive endocrinology, steroidogenesis Major Professor: Dr. Pouya Dini
Conor McCabe

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

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
Leah Mellinger

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

Amanda Morton

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

Youngmin Park

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
My research interests include Monogastric Animal Nutrition and Physiology Major Professor: Yanhong Liu
Eleanor Pressman

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

Jiayi Qu

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

Alice Rocha

Animal agriculture sustainability, using beef and dairy cattle as climate change solutions. Major Professor Frank Mitloehner

Quazi Roddur

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
My research interests are broadly involved in the development of statistical and computational methods for the (genetic) improvement of populations through more accurate, efficient, and biologically meaningful analysis. I have focused on the use of genomics, phenomics, pedigree, and other sources of big data in various species to better predict desired traits. Major Professor: Dr. Hao Cheng
Saleh Salman

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 Sen

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

Yingxin Su

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

Sudipta Talukder

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

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

Maykal Tsonov

  • Animal Biology Graduate Student
Research interests are: I study lipid metabolism in livestock species as it relates to meat quality and healthfulness. I also am interested in how the nutritional profile of cultivated meat compares to that of conventional products. Major Professor: Dr. Payam Vahmani