Faculty

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

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

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.

Ecological Physiology; Integrative Stress Biology; Environmental Genomics; Climate Change Biology.

Conservation biology of wild vertebrates, primarily reptiles and amphibians.

Ecology, conservation, and genetics of wild carnivores.

Computer modeling of nutrient metabolism systems analysis of dairy feed management and production including prevention of metabolic disease, and evaluating mitochondrial function of dairy cattle.

Effectiveness of teaching methodologies and technologies as they apply to animal science courses; pedagogically sound approaches to curriculum and course development for traditional and non-traditional animal science students; applied livestock nutrition focusing on use of alternative feed ingredients.

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.

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