• Platelet structure and function
  

• Receptor-ligand-cytoskeleton interactions
  

• Microvascular development
  

• Biomaterial biocompatibility
  

• Immunotoxicology/organophosphate immunoactivity
  

• Imaging, immunolabeling, and correlative microscopy.
  

Evolutionary biology, population genetics, genomic science, biotechnology, ornithology

• Optical fingerprinting of single DNA molecules with luminescent quantum dots

• Transcriptome analysis of a host:pathogen relationship: identification of genes responsible for adhesion of avian pathogenic E. coli O1:K1:H7 to intestinal surfaces in chickens.

• Stem cell-based predictive toxicology models to determine teratogenic and somatic toxicity of chemicals and drugs during early development and adulthood.
  

• Epigenetics as a means to understand tumorogenesis and plasticity of stem cells.

• Improvement in meat tenderness.

• Muscle pigment chemistry as related to meat color.

• Technology for the development of low-fat processed meats.

• Textural defects in sectioned and formed poultry products.

• Molecular cause of skeletal deformities and mechanisms involving in bone repair.

• Effect of Conjugated linoleic acid and other nutrients on immune responses

• Cyclooxygenase, prostaglandin and Leukotriene regulation.

• Applications of use egg yolk antibody to enhance animal growth and improve feed efficiency.

• Mechanisms to monitor and minimize the cachetic response of the immune system in animals and humans.

• Swine Nutrition.
  

• Mineral nutrition and skeletal integrity.
  

• Diminishing returns of nutrient additions to swine diets.
  

• Molecular pathogenesis of Salmonella and host-pathogen interaction using cell culture sytem and animal model of infection

• Pre-harvest food safety

• Statistical problems in quantitative genetics and animal breeding;
  

• Bayesian approaches for inference about parameters of linear and nonlinear models (e.g., for growth and lactation curves), censored (e.g., productive lifespan) and discrete (e.g., fertility and viability) distributions.
  

• International animal breeding and biometry.
  

• Understanding the structure and function of muscle.
  

• Basic studies on how heart and skeletal muscle cells are assembled.
  

• Protein changes that affect meat tenderness, with an emphasis on titan, the largest protein in the body.
  

• Gastrointestinal microbiology.
  

• Host-microbe interactions, particularly zoonoses
  

• The molecular and physiological basis for microbial stress
  tolerance.
  

• Immunogenetics and single-gene inheritance of chickens. Hatchery and production management.
  

• Analysis of genetic variation in reproduction and disease resistance in livestock and laboratory species and refinement of the bovine / human / mouse comparative map.
  

• A primary focus is identification of genes (quantitative trait loci or QTL) contributing to variation in bovine twinning rate. Use of markers linked with twinning rate QTL in selection programs will greatly facilitate increasing or decreasing twinning rate as deemed appropriate by a given cattle management system.
  

• Comparative mapping efforts are targeted to genomic regions harboring QTL and regions lacking comparative map data.
  

• Reproductive physiology.
  

• The biomedical basis and regulation of sperm capacitation.
  

• Factors responsible for male fertility both in vivo and in vitro; control and regulation of cytoplasmic environment in sperm, eggs and embryos.
  

• Research on the phytochemistry of food and livestock feeds and their effects on animal and human health and nutrition.
  

• International animal agriculture with emphasis on feed resources in developing countries.
  

• Lipid oxidation processes that affect quality in muscle foods.

• Mechanisms of lipid oxidation mediated by hemoglobins and myoglobins.

• Contributions of blood components to quality deterioration.

• Developing novel strategies of inhibiting lipid oxidation.

• Meat-animal growth, composition, evaluation, and processing.
  

• Meat quality, livestock evaluation.
  

• Coach UW Intercollegiate Livestock and Meat Evaluation Team.
  

• Beef cattle nutrition and beef (meat) quality.
  

• Quantifying the relationship between dietary vitamin E supplements and the color stability of fresh and frozen beef.
  

• Single-calving-heifer beef production system.
  

• Quality and sensory characteristics of processed meats
  

• Non-meat ingredient functionality in meat products
  

• Investigating intervention strategies to control pathogenic bacteria in meat products

• Sheep production/management and animal genetics.
  

• Genetic improvement of reproduction in sheep.
  

• Dairy sheep production.
  

• Collection and freezing of ram semen and artificial insemination of ewes.
  

• International animal agriculture.