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Aquatic ecology and toxicology

Systems microbiology, microbial proceses in natural and artificial ecosystems, microbes and microbial enzymes for agricultural, medical, and industrial applications, microbe-host interaction, gastrointestinal microbiology, biofuels, bioproducts, bioremediation, microbial dark matter.

Research Interests: Ontogeny and heritability of stress-coping styles in domestic farm animals; cognitive evaluation of affective states in animals.

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

Aquaculture, aquacultural engineering, cultivation systems, recirculation systems, protected species conservation, hatchery operations, animal behavior, water quality management, sperm, reproduction, nutrition, machine learning, and computational fluid dynamics

Nutrition and metabolism; micronutrient and dietary bioactive compounds; early life nutrition and disease resilience

As a board-certified veterinary dermatologist, my clinical and research interests center on the mechanisms and management of naturally occurring skin diseases in animals. My current projects focus on understanding how and why itch, allergy, and skin cancers occur in dogs, cats, and horses. The ultimate goal of my work is to improve patient care, animal welfare, and treatment outcomes for animals living with chronic skin disease.

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.

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

Mainly focused on clinical nutrition of dogs and cats, nutrient bioavailability, and amino acid nutrition