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Poultry Research Faculty


Researchers in the Department of Animal Science:

Mohamed E. El Halawani - Avian Endocrinology

Research interests:
Avian reproductive neuroendocrinology
Reproductive problems in avian species
Interrelations between prolactin, gonadotropins, and ovarian function
  

Douglas N. Foster - Avian Endocrinology

Research interests:
Immortalization of avian cells for vaccine substrates
Molecular mechanisms of cellular senescence and immortalization
Regulation of cell cycle events
Cloning of growth specific sequences
Avian endocrinology
Recombinant protein production
 
     

Sally N. Noll - Poultry Nutrition

Research interests:
Nutrition and feeding of market turkeys
Management, health and stress interactions in market turkeys
Improving poultry waste utilization production
  

F. Abel Ponce de León - Avian Genetics

Research interests:

Structural and functional genomics - chickens and cattle
Avian primordial germ cells and cloning
Avian transgenesis



Researchers in Other Departments:

Charles J. Clanton - Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering

Research interests:
Manure management and air quality
Seepage from deep bedded and poultry litter systems
  

Sagar Goyal - Veterinary Population Medicine

Research interests:
Respiratory and enteric diseases
Production disorders
  

Satish C. Gupta - Department of Soil, Water and Climate

Research interests:
Tracing the path of antibiotic resistance
  

David Halvorson - Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Recipient of the 2005 Bruce W. Calnek Applied Poultry Research Achievement Award

Research interests:
Respiratory and enteric diseases
Production disorders

Larry D. Jacobson - Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering

Research interests:
Development of a standard method of odor quantification using olfactometry and chemical analysis
Farmstead odor database
National center for manure and animal waste management
Odor rating systems
Stakeholders air dispersion modeling and ammonia emission project
Stakeholders particulate and volatile organic compounds emission project
    

Kakambi Nagaraja - Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

Research interests:
Salmonellosis, colibacillosis, and pasteurellosis
Enteric viruses: adeno and rotavirus
Vaccines, diagnostics and host parasite interactions
  

Kariuki Njenga - Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

Research interests:
Viral pathogenesis and immunology
Generation of a deletion mutant vaccine to avian pneumovirus
  

Michael M. Pullen - Veterinary Population Medicine

Research interests:
Food safety
Public health
  

Kent Reed - Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

Research interests:
Structural and quantitative genomics
Turkey genome mapping project
  

Jagdev Sharma - Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

Research interests:
Avian cellular immunology
Role of immunity in pathogenic mechanisms of neoplastic and non-neoplastic avian diseases
Mechanisms of immunodepression
Disease prevention by vaccination
  

Jun Zhu - Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering

Research interests:
Treatment and utilization of manure and other agricultural wastes
Manure management
Microbiology and biochemistry of processes for treating and utilizing waste
  


 
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