Research disciplines include environmental nutrition, molecular nutrition, Nutritional Physiology, Animal Production Systems, Nutritional Biochemistry, Applied Animal Nutrition. The research ranges from the very applied problems in animal growth to highly fundamental scientific questions of animal growth, production, and health. Research, education, and extension programs in Animal Nutrition currently concentrate on beef cattle, dairy cattle, swine, poultry, and sheep in the following disciplines.
Dr. Baumgard's lab researches nutritional and environmental physiology of dairy cattle, with specific interests in how immune activation disrupts optimal productivity.
Dr. Hansen's research focuses on molecular and applied ruminant nutrition. The Molecular Ruminant Nutrition aspects include mineral metabolism, meat quality and biological mechanisms explaining differences in feed efficiency. The applied ruminant nutrition points include minimizing feed costs, the impact of nutrition and management on climate change, ethanol co-products in cattle diets, preparing cattle for the feedlot and timely topics.
Dr. Greiner will be focusing on the impact of various aspects of nutrition, health, and production on sow reproduction and piglet health.
Animal Science - Nutrition faculty have collaborative opportunities with colleagues in these Departments, Colleges, and USDA laboratories:
- Agronomy
- Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
- Food Science and Human Nutrition
- Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
- Veterinary Medicine
- USDA National Animal Disease Center
- USDA National Swine Research and Information Center
- USDA National Soil Tilth Laboratory
Animal Science - Nutrition faculty serve on other interdepartmental programs which include:
- Nutritional Science - Animal Nutrition Specialization
- Biochemistry
- Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Environmental Science
- Microbiology