Department of Animal Science and Aquaculture
Dr. David Barrett
- Controlled breeding protocols (ovarian follicular wave, heat and ovulation) for sheep and cattle
- Effects of beneficial fatty acids (omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acid) on reproductive performance
- Effects of phytoestrogens from clover and soybean on reproductive performance
Dr. Stefanie Colombo
- Aquaculture nutrition and production
- Fatty acid biosynthesis in fish
- Environmentally sustainable feeds
- Nutrigenomics
- Impact of climate change on nutrition
- Farmed seafood nutritional quality
Dr. Hossain Farid
- Genetic control of mink immune response to infection by the Aleutian mink disease virus
- Genome analysis of the Aleutian mink disease virus
- Inter and intra population genetic variability of sheep and mink using molecular markers
Dr. Alan Fredeen
- Environmental impacts of dairy production
- System effects on the healthfulness of milk
- Challenges confronting pasture-based milk production
- In vitro evaluation of factors affecting digestion in the rumen
Dr. Leslie A. MacLaren
- Agricultural genomics
- Agriculture
- Agroecosystems
- Animal physiology
- Cell and molecular biology
- Food and culture
- Food and health
- Nutritional supplementation
- Physiology
- Placentation
- Pregnancy
- Reproductive hormones
- Ruminants
- Sustainable agriculture
Dr. Sarah Stewart-Clark
- Invasive species
- Aquaculture genomics
- Shellfish production
- Climate change impacts
- Aquaculture ecology