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F.R. Allaire, Professor, Columbus.
Offers a capstone course where students, working in teams, learn
to manage change that serves a client's vision. Works with the
Agroecosystems Management Program to inform and facilitate
knowledge management networks to support farmers in their
pursuit of systemic change in their respective enterprises and
communities. Works to have animals add value to community life
and land. |
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W.L. Bacon, Professor, Wooster. Dr.
Bacon's main research focus is avian reproduction. The effects
of environmental lighting on semen quality and quantity, and the
control of photorefractoryness in the male turkey are being
studied. The effects of environmental lighting on circulating
hormones at the initiation of photostimulation, and the
ovarian-pituitary relationship during the ovulatory surge in the
female turkey are also being studied. In female Japanese quail,
the effect of yolk precursor lipoprotein concentration on lipid
composition of the precursor, and metabolic rate of the
precursor is determined. |
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S.L. Boyles, Associate Professor,
Columbus. Dr. Boyles is responsible for the state beef
cattle education outreach program. His Extension program
includes coordinating the activities of the OSU Extension Beef
Team and conducting local education workshops. Dr. Boyles'
research program emphasizes improved forage utilization through
grazing strategies and hay storage systems. Dr. Boyles also is
working with commodity organizations on Beef Quality Assurance
programs. |
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M.E. Davis, Professor, Columbus. Dr.
Davis' teaching duties include: Data Analysis and Interpretation
for Decision Making (AS 260), Principles of Animal Improvement
(AS 320), Research Methods in Animal Genetics I and II (AS
820.02 and 820.04). Research responsibilities include genetics
research with the beef herd at the Eastern Ohio Resource
Development Center and emphasize selection for blood serum
insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) concentration,
identification of polymorphisms in genes that influence
economically important traits in beef cattle, and determination
of associations of such polymorphisms with economically
important traits in beef cattle. Dr. Davis also is Director of
the Animal Genetics Lab, which conducts blood and DNA typing for
parentage verification for several of the major beef cattle
breed associations. |
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M.L. Day, Professor, Columbus. Dr. Day's
research program in reproductive physiology emphasizes the study
of puberty, regulation of follicular development and estrous
synchronization in cattle. He teaches the Beef Production and
Management and Introductory Animal Sciences courses and advanced
reproduction and endocrinology for graduate students. He serves
as Faculty Supervisor of the OSU Beef Center. |
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B.A. Dehority, Professor, Wooster. Dr.
Dehority's teaching responsibilities include a course in Rumen
Microbiology taught every other year during the summer quarter
at Wooster, and he advises graduate students. His research
interests are in the area of rumen microbiology, including
studies on the individual roles of the bacteria, protozoa and
fungi in the rumen and their interactions, the isolation and
characterization of rumen bacteria responsible for the breakdown
of forage structural carbohydrates, factors affecting protozoal
numbers, cultivation of rumen protozoa in vitro,
cryopreservation of rumen protozoa, geographical distribution
and specificity of gastrointestinal protozoa, as well as various
other specific studies in rumen microbiology. |
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M.L. Eastridge, Professor, Columbus.
Extension and research responsibilities in dairy cattle
nutrition and serves as the Coordinator of the Extension Program
in Animal Sciences, faculty supervisor for the Waterman dairy
facility in Columbus, and leader of the Ohio Dairy Industry Task
Force. He conducts outreach educational programs in the area of
nutrition. Research includes the impact of fats and feed
additives on animal performance and milk composition, and study
of optimum fiber in diets for lactating cows. Teaching
responsibilities include advising graduate students and
co-teaching and serving as leader for an applied dairy nutrition
course designed primarily for veterinary students. |
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K.E. Fike, Assistant Professor,
Columbus. Dr. Fike's area of research interest is bull
physiology focusing on management techniques that can be used to
decrease age at puberty and enhance fertility. She is
specifically focusing on the use of the hormone GnRH or its
agonists to affect testicular development, testosterone
production, and spermatogenesis. Dr Fike teaches Introductory
Animal Sciences and is the faculty coordinator for the Animal
Sciences undergraduate internship program. |
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J.L. Firkins, Professor, Columbus. Dr.
Firkins' research activities include evaluation of by-products
as fiber sources and fat and protein sources for dairy cattle.
He studies how these feeds and feeding combinations affect site
of nutrient digestion and efficiency of microbial protein
synthesis in the rumen of cattle. Dr. Firkins teaches AS 330,
Principles of Animal Nutrition; AS 530, Comparative Animal
Nutrition; and AS 730.02, Research Techniques in Animal
Nutrition. |
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F.L. Fluharty, Research Scientist, Wooster.
Dr. Fluharty's responsibilities include conducting research
in beef cattle and sheep nutrition. His primary research areas
are determining the effects of energy and protein intake on
animal growth and carcass composition and the nutritional
requirements of stressed feeder calves. His research includes
work with ruminal microbiology and digestion, as well as cattle
and sheep performance studies. He currently is conducting
research to determine the effects of nutrition and genetics on
animal growth and meat tenderness and the effects of
early-weaning beef calves on subsequent feedlot performance and
carcass composition. He also teaches AS 540 (Feedlot
Management). |
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J.S. Hogan, Associate Professor,
Wooster. Dr. Hogan's research is in the area of bovine
mastitis: hygiene procedures to reduce bovine intramammary
infection; relationships among normal and transit teat skin
bacterial flora; and milk quality enhancement. He also conducts
research relative to the development of a mastitis vaccine, and
he teaches the undergraduate lactation course. |
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K.M. Irvin, Professor, Columbus. Dr.
Irvin's research focuses on swine genetics. Primary
consideration is made to the combination of population genetics
and molecular genetics. Teaching responsibilities include
Principles of Genetic Improvement; Application of Genetic
Improvement to Swine; Population Genetics I and II; Advanced
Swine Production; Current Issues in Animal Sciences, Capstone
and Third Writing Course; Seminars; Independent Studies; and
Internships. Extension functions include presentations, allied
industry and producer interactions. |
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C. Johnston, Professor, Wooster. Dr.
Johnston's research interests are in the areas of modification
of non-milk ingredients for inclusion in milk replacers for
cattle and sheep, and dietary macromolecular absorption by
cattle and sheep. |
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J.E. Kinder, Professor and Chair, Columbus.
Dr. Kinder along with the Associate chair, Dr. Joy Pate,
provides the leadership for administering the various programs
in the Department of Animal Sciences. Dr. Kinder also
supervises graduate students and conducts research in the area
of hormonal regulation of the reproductive function. The focus
of his research program is on hormonal regulation of sexual
maturation and the reproductive cycle of cattle. He also has an
active research program in developing practical technologies to
control reproductive cycles of cattle. |
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R.C. Kline, Associate Professor,
Columbus. Dr. Kline's responsibilities include teaching the
horse courses: AS 201, AS 271, and AS 541. His extension
activities include conducting eleven state-wide events each year
for the 4-H Program, writing horse materials for both youth and
adult programs, and answering the daily requests for information
from the horse industry. He oversees the University horse herd
and its use for classes and research. Present research involves
equine behavior and reproductive physiology in horses. |
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C.L. Knipe, Associate Professor,
Columbus. Primary responsibilities include processed meat
extension activities for the Ohio meat industry. He is also
involved in research and teaching and has a joint appointment
with the Department of Food Science and Technology. In addition
to providing technical assistance to small and large companies,
within Ohio and nation wide, his extension activities have
focused on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP)
training and implementation assistance for Ohio meat plants.
Dr. Knipe's research interests include: identification of
processing methods which optimize the functional quality of
pork, identification of processing procedures which limit
shelf-life and/or safety of meat products, and shelf-life
determination of such products, maximizing the functionality of
high-collagen meat raw materials. He advises graduate students
in Meat Science and teaches Animal Science 550 (Meat Processing). |
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J.D. Latshaw, Professor, Columbus. Dr.
Latshaw's teaching responsibilities include an introductory
course in animal nutrition and one in poultry science. Also,
he teaches half of the second nutrition course and half of a
course combining nutrition and physiology in support of
reproduction. His research interests include documenting all
nutrient deficiencies and excesses in broiler chicks and
examining the use of energy by birds. |
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D.G. Levis, Associate Professor,
Columbus. Dr. Levis's primary responsibility is
coordinating out-reach educational programs of the OSU Ohio Pork
Industry Center (OPIC) and the Ohio Pork Producer's Council.
The OPIC is composed of County Extension Agents, District
Extension Specialists, the Agricultural Technical Institute,
School of Natural Resourses and the following departments:
Animal Sciences; Agricultural, Environmental and Development
Economics; Veterinary Preventive Medicine; Food Science &
Technology; and Food, Agricultural & Biological Engineering.
His research interests are in swine reproductive physiology and
design of swine breeding-gestation facilities. |
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M.S. Lilburn, Associate Professor,
Wooster. Dr. Lilburn's research focuses on different aspects
of avian nutrition and avian embryonic development. His
teaching responsibilities include a graduate course in protein
nutrition and he coordinates a poultry nutrition course in
conjunction with the Midwest Poultry Consortium at the
University of Wisconsin. |
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S.C. Loerch, Professor, Wooster. Dr.
Loerch's primary research responsibilities are in beef cattle
and sheep nutrition and management. Current projects include:
effects of controlling intake on feedlot performance and
proportion of carcass lean and fat; use of extended grazing and
corn as alternative feeds for ewes and wintering beef cows, and
nutritional strategies for stressed feeder calves. He
supervises the OARDC Beef Center, the OARDC Sheep Center, and
the cow herd at the North Appalachian Experimental Watershed
Branch in Coshocton. He teaches an undergraduate practical
nutrition course and a graduate level advanced ruminant
nutrition course. |
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D.C. Mahan, Professor, Columbus. Dr.
Mahan's research responsibilities involve evaluating the
nutritional requirements and feeding programs of swine at
various stages of production, with primary emphasis on the sow
and weanling pig. Nutritional areas of investigation currently
include vitamin E and selenium, where he is evaluating the
efficacy of organic and inorganic selenium sources for sows and
pigs. In addition the studies are evaluating vitamin C and
sodium and chloride requirements of young pigs, and the
evaluation of carbohydrate and energy sources for the weanling
pig. He is involved in using the ileal digestibility technique
in growing pigs to evaluate the effect of different factors to
enhance amino acid digestibility from soybean meal. He currently
teaches undergraduate courses in animal Growth and Development,
and Feeds and Feeding course. |
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K.E. McClure, Assistant Professor,
Wooster. Dr. McClure's research interest is ruminant
nutrition with emphasis on forage utilization. Research efforts
include grazing experiments with legumes and cool-season grasses
using lambs. The objective is meat production that maximizes
lean and minimizes fat for health conscious consumers.
Strategies that involve grazing and/or comparative supplemental
energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals that are adaptable to
the sheep enterprise are a primary objective. Emphasis is also
directed to the use of the corn plant and other forages in the
basal diet of the ewe flock and breeding rams to economically
meet their nutritional requirements. Extension participation
includes phone consultations, forage related farm visits, and
meeting with producer groups. |
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S.J. Moeller, Associate Professor, Columbus.
Dr. Moeller's Extension responsibilities include swine
genetics, production management and mortality composting. He
serves as the leader of the OSU Swine Educators Team and works
with county and state groups to develop training programs and
educational materials for producers in Ohio and the United
States. His primary research interests are in the genetics of
muscle quality and ultrasonic evaluation of fat and muscle in
swine. Teaching responsibilities include undergraduate Genetics
and Swine Production. |
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M. Morrison, Associate Professor,
Columbus. Dr. Morrison is the leader of a research team
called MAPLE (Molecular Analysis of Prokaryotes from Livestock
Environments, see www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ansci/maple).
MAPLE is currently involved with several microbiology research
projects including the molecular biology of
cellulose-degradation, bacterial adhesion to surfaces, and the
microbial ecology of antibiotic resistance genes. His
undergraduate teaching responsibilities include Microbiology
661: General Microbial Physiology and a new Freshman Research
Seminar Program open to Honors students, to be offered in
2002. |
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F.V. Muir, Professor, Wooster. Dr.
Muir's primary outreach interests are in the areas of the
management of layers and broilers, especially the application of
computers in the production of eggs and poultry meat. The use
of computers to integrate egg production or growth data, feed
consumption, poultry house environment, feed formulation, and
record keeping are important considerations in remaining
competitive. Course responsibility - Commercial Poultry
Management. |
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K.E. Nestor, Professor, Wooster. Dr.
Nestor's research interests include population genetics of
turkeys and Japanese quail, genetics of disease resistance in
the turkey, genetic relationships between growth and
reproduction, and genetics of leg strength in the turkey. He
advises graduate students and is host to several visiting
scholars. Dr. Nestor is a Fellow of the Poultry Science
Association and a member of Gamma Sigma Delta. |
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H.W. Ockerman, Professor, Columbus. Dr.
Ockerman's teaching responsibilities include Advanced Meat
Technology, Laboratory Analysis of Meat Products, Quality
Control Interpretation, Global Food and Agriculture, Food in
International Agriculture, Meat Science Seminars, as well as
internships and individual studies. He is also involved in
International Education. His research programs include
biochemistry, microbiology, processing, quality, food safety,
shelf life, and economics of muscle tissue from slaughter to
consumption in all species. Extension duties include short
courses, consulting, legal evaluation, and trouble-shooting
industry concerns. |
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J.S. Ottobre, Professor, Columbus. Dr.
Ottobre's research is in the area of reproductive physiology.
The primary focus of this research is the regulation of the
function of the corpus luteum. He teaches Introductory Animal
Science, Reproductive Physiology, and Advanced Reproductive
Physiology. Dr. Ottobre has a joint appointment in the
Department of Physiology in the College of Medicine. |
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D.L. Palmquist, Professor Emeritus, Wooster.
Dr. Palmquist's research is in the area of dairy cattle
nutrition, including digestive physiology and nutrient
utilization of high-energy diets, especially fats, and
regulation of milk synthesis and composition. He teaches
graduate courses in ruminant nutrition, and lipid and energy
metabolism. |
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J.L. Pate, Associate Chair, Columbus.
Dr. Pate is a reproductive physiologist specializing in the area
of corpus luteum function. Primary research interests focus on
the regulation of luteolysis, prostaglandin production by the
corpus luteum, the interactions between the immune system and
the reproductive system, and nutritional/metabolic effects on
fertility. She teaches Physiology of Reproduction and Advanced
Reproductive Endocrinology. |
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W.F. Pope, Professor, Columbus. Dr.
Pope's primary research interests are in embryonic mortality in
swine. Secondary investigations are examining factors affecting
fertilization, estrous cycle control, uterine secretions, and
isoforms of the estradiol receptor. His teaching
responsibilities include the core physiology course (310), and
reproductive physiology (410). Extension duties include working
closely with commercial sheep producers through field days and
site visits. |
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F.L. Schanbacher, Professor, Wooster.
Dr. Schanbacher's research interests are in the areas of
physiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology of bovine
mammary development and milk protein synthesis. Studies are
focused at whole animal, cellular, and molecular biology levels
for synthesis and secretion of milk protein, mammary cellular
growth and development, and growth regulation. He teaches the
advanced course in Physiology of lactation. |
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K.L. Smith, Professor, Wooster. Dr.
Smith's research is in the area of diagnosis, therapy, and
control of bovine mastitis in dairy herds; natural factors of
disease resistance associated with the bovine mammary gland; and
environmental and nutritional factors associated with increased
mastitis in dairy herds. He advises numerous M.S. and Ph.D.
students. |
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P.W. Spike, Associate Professor,
Columbus. Dr. Spike has appointments in Extension and
teaching, including Extension responsibilities in youth work
(4-H and FFA), genetics, and management. His teaching duties
include dairy cattle evaluation, dairy herd management, and
dairy farm management. He also coaches the dairy cattle judging
teams and advises the Buckeye Dairy Club. |
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N.R. St-Pierre, Associate Professor,
Columbus. Dr. St-Pierre specializes in the area of dairy
farm management. Research interest is in the control function of
management. Ongoing research projects are focused on
quantitative methods for evaluating animal systems (production,
reproduction, mammary health); the value of milk urea nitrogen
(MUN) as a nutrition management tool; reduction of nitrogen
excretion by dairy cows and feed cost optimization and
nutritional economics; production risks and risk management for
dairy farms. Extension programs are focusing on three
inter-dependent areas: long-term strategic planning of dairy
enterprises; production and financial benchmarks for evaluating
short-, medium-, and long-term results; and nutritional
management, herd structure and cost control. |
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T.B. Turner, Assistant Professor, Columbus.
Dr. Turner's primary research interest is beef cow
performance, including milk production, preweaning calf
performance, age at weaning, and matching feed resources to
calving and weaning management. His teaching responsibilities
include Beef Cattle Production and Management, Livestock
Selection and Evaluation and Applied Beef Cattle Genetics, and
he coaches the Intercollegiate Livestock Selection and
Evaluation Team. Extension responsibilities include programs in
beef cattle genetic improvement and in livestock selection and
evaluation. He also advises undergraduate and graduate students. |
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S.G. Velleman, Associate Professor,
Wooster. Dr. Velleman's research focuses on how the
extracellular matrix influences skeletal muscle growth and
function. She teaches AS 618, Molecular Events in Tissue Growth. |
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W.P. Weiss, Professor, Wooster. Dr.
Weiss' research is in the general areas of feed evaluation,
energy utilization by dairy cows, and nutritional factors
affecting cow health. Specific research projects include
determining the energy value of corn silages, developing methods
to estimate starch availability to cows, and effects of vitamins
and trace minerals on hoof and mammary gland health. Extension
duties include working with the Ohio Dairy Ration Program, and
teaching dairy nutrition short courses. |
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M.P. Wick, Assistant Professor,
Columbus. Dr. Wick's research focuses on the role of
sarcomeric proteins in the mechanisms controlling skeletal
muscle growth, development, and meat quality. Teaching
responsibilities include AS 355.01, Principles of Meat Science;
AS 620, Applied Animal Molecular Genetics; and AS 868, Molecular
Biology Techniques. |
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L.B. Willett, Professor, Wooster. For
the past 30 years, Dr. Willett has been conducting original
research and has been responsive to issues of chemical agents in
the environment of food producing animals. His studies have
addressed chemicals that have an adverse impact toxicologically
and sociologically on agriculturally important livestock and
human foods produced by livestock. He has created methods to
eliminate or satisfactorily reduce the presence of these
chemicals in the environment, livestock, and/or human foods. He
also studies undesirable and odorous gasses emitted from stored
manures plus physiological adaptive changes that occur in calves
immediately after birth. His teaching responsibilities are in
the graduate toxicology courses and advising graduate students
in physiology and toxicology. Dr. Willett also advises
independent study students in a collaborative effort with the
College of Wooster. |
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D.L. Zartman, Professor, Columbus. Dr.
Zartman's areas of interest and expertise include biotelemetry
to improve animal performance through increased physiological
data for improved decision making or through modification of
cellular processes. He advocates intensive grazing and seasonal
dairying research and also works in genetics, cell culture, and
reproductive physiology. Classes taught include animal
welfare/rights issues and management intensive grazing. |
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H.N. Zerby, Assistant Professor,
Columbus. Dr. Zerby's research interest is in the area of
carcass and meat product quality resulting from different live
animal production and management strategies. He focuses more
specifically in the areas of enhancing taste and tenderness in
whole muscle meat products. Dr. Zerby's teaching
responsibilities include Principles of Meat Science and Meat
Animal and Carcass Evaluation, and he also works with the
Intercollegiate Meat Evaluation Team. |
