Faculty

Air quality research related to livestock production, especially quantification of ammonia, dust, and odor emissions in dairies, beef feedlots, and poultry operations. Environmental physiology research, focusing on effects of air emissions on animal health and welfare.

Physiology; musculoskeletal biology; development, maturation, and repair; extracellular matrix/niche organization; tissue engineering; functional genomics; mouse model; equine; livestock

Reproduction, male reproduction, sperm cell biology, gamete cyropreservation biology, spermatogonial stem cells and transplantation.

Animal waste management.

Applied ethiology, behavioral management, animal well-being, wildlife conservation, behavioral ecology.

My research program focuses on interplay between the behavior, welfare and management of poultry, including ducks, turkeys, laying hens and broilers; development of strategies to help minimize behavior-related poultry management issues while optimizing bird welfare and productions

Use of transgenic livestock to fight diarrheal illnesses; microbiota modulation and resistance to disease; translational research using the pig as an animal model; goat casein genotypes and milk functionality.

Feed ingredient evaluation for pigs and/or poultry; Dietary strategies on prevention and control of pig diseases; Swine nutrition on gut health and immunology; alternatives to in-feed antibiotics.

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

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.