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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
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

Tim Johnson - Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Research interests:
Pathogenomics of bacteria causing disease in production animals; mechanisms of virulence and antimicrobial resistance employed by bacterial pathogens of poultry, swine, and cattle; potential threats that some strains might present towards humans and other animals, or vice versa; the horizontal gene pool and the mechanisms and biology of horizontal gene transfer; the nature of large plasmids encoding virulence, fitness, and drug resistance

Kakambi Nagaraja - Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Research interests:
Salmonellosis, colibacillosis, and pasteurellosis
Enteric viruses: adeno and rotavirus
Vaccines, diagnostics and host parasite interactions

Rob Porter - Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
Research interests:
Pathology

Kent Reed - Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Research interests:
Structural and quantitative genomics
Turkey genome mapping project

Andre F. Ziegler - Veterinary Population Medicine
Research interests:
Applied poultry disease research.

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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