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Department of Animal Sciences

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Faculty - Animal Concentration Areas

Animal Welfare Beef Cattle
Dairy Cattle Equine
Meat Science Poultry
Sheep Swine

Animal Welfare

  • Talita Resende, Assistant Professor, Swine Health Extension Specialist - 330-263-8029 resende.2@osu.edu
    • Swine Infectious Diseases; Swine Production, Management & Welfare; Food Animal Health
  • Jessica Pempek, Assistant Professor - 614-292-6099 pempek.@osu.edu
    • Animal Behavior & Welfare

Beef Cattle

  • Stephen Boyles, Professor – 614-292-7669 boyles.4@osu.edu
    • Beef cattle management
  • Michael Davis, Professor – 614-292-4984 davis.28@osu.edu
    • Beef cattle, Genetics
  • Alvaro Garcia Guerra, Assistant Professor – 614-292-6583 garciaguerra.1@osu.edu
    • Beef and dairy cattle reproduction and management, Reproductive biotechnologies such as in vivo and in vitro embryo production and transfer
  • Chanhee Lee, Assistant Professor – 330-263-3794 lee.7502@osu.edu
    • Nutrition in ruminants, Ruminant physiology, Nutrient excretion, Manure nutrient management, Various gas emissions from animal operations, Improving sustainability of ruminant operation
  • Alejandro Relling, Assistant Professor – 330-263-3900 relling.1@osu.edu,
    • Ruminant nutrition, with research interested in energy utilization and efficiency and how maternal nutrition impact on offspring performance
  • Macdonald Wick, Professor – 614-292-7516 wick.13@osu.edu
    • Beef cattle, Fish, Poultry, Muscle development, Muscle growth
  • Zhongtang Yu, Professor – 614-292-3057 yu.226@osu.edu
    • Gut microbiome, Gut health, Rumen microbiome, Discovery of non-antibiotic alternatives, Prebiotics, Probiotics, Mitigation of methane emissions, Bioenergy, Antibiotic resistance, Metagenomics, Transcriptomics, Metabolomics, Appointment in Infectious Disease Institute, OSU Environmental Science Graduate Program, and OSU Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Nutrition

Dairy Cattle

  • Maurice L Eastridge, Professor – 614-688-3059 eastridge.1@osu.edu
    • Dairy cattle nutrition and management and composition of milk, Adjunct appointment in the Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine
  • Benjamin Enger, Assistant Professor - 330-263-3801
    • Mastitis, Mammary vasculature development and function
  • Jeffrey Firkins, Professor – 614-688-3089 firkins.1@osu.edu
    • Rumen function, Microbiology and metabolism in dairy cattle to improve efficiency of nutrient conversion into milk and decrease environmental impact of dairy production
  • Alvaro Garcia Guerra, Assistant Professor – 614-292-6583 garciaguerra.1@osu.edu
    • Beef and dairy cattle reproduction and management, Reproductive biotechnologies such as in vivo and in vitro embryo production and transfer
  • Jim Kinder, Professor– 614-292-2307 kinder.15@osu.edu
    • Food producing animal reproductive endocrinology and reproductive management, Graduate and undergraduate education in agriculture, Adjunct Academic Central Queensland University
  • Chanhee Lee, Assistant Professor – 330-263-3794 lee.7502@osu edu
    • Nutrition in ruminants, Ruminant physiology, Nutrient excretion, Manure nutrient management, Various gas emissions from animal operations, Improving sustainability of ruminant operation
  • Alejandro Relling, Assistant Professor – 330-263-3900 relling.1@osu edu
    • Ruminant nutrition, with research interested in energy utilization and efficiency and how maternal nutrition impact on offspring performance

Equine

  • Kimberly Cole, Associate Professor – 614-292-2625 cole.436@osu.edu
    • Equine management, Immunology, Equine education, Ohio State Equine Center Supervisor

Meat Science

  • Benjamin Bohrer, Assistant Professor - 614-247-4951 bohrer.13@osu.edu
    • Muscle Biology, Meat science
  • Michael Cressman, Assistant Professor, Clinical – 614-688-5696 cressman.2@osu.edu
    • Poultry, Meat science
  • Lyda Garcia, Associate Professor – 614-292-3642 garcia.625@osu.edu
    • Meat science, Fresh meats
  • Macdonald Wick, Professor – 614-292-7516 wick.13@osu.edu
    • Beef cattle, Fish, Poultry, Muscle development, Muscle growth

Poultry

  • Lisa Bielke, Associate Professor – 330-263-3945 bielke.1@osu.edu
    • Poultry gastrointestinal health, Poultry diseases, Poultry ante mortem food safety, Vaccines, Eimeria and necrotic enteritis, Gastrointestinal microbiome, Probiotics
  • Michael Cressman, Assistant Professor, Clinical – 614-688-5696 cressman.2@osu.edu
    • Poultry, Meat science, BBQ science
  • Sandra G Velleman, Professor – 330-263-3905 velleman.1@osu.edu
    • Avian muscle growth biology, Studies are focused on the myogenic stem cell, satellite cell, which is responsible for all posthatch muscle growth, The growth and quality of the breast muscle is directly impacted by factors influencing satellite cell activity
  • Macdonald Wick, Professor – 614-292-7516 wick.13@osu.edu
    • Beef cattle, Fish, Poultry, Muscle development, Muscle growth

Sheep

  • Alejandro Relling, Assistant Professor – 330-263-3900 relling.1@osu.edu
    • Ruminant nutrition, with research interested in energy utilization and efficiency and how maternal nutrition impact on offspring performance

Swine

  • Sheila Jacobi, Assistant Professor - 330-263-3959 jacobi.1@osu.edu
    • Nutrition, Swine, Immunology and fatty acid metabolism, Nutritional regulation of the neonatal intestinal health and immune function
  • Pasha Lyvers Peffer, Professor – 614-292-3896 lyvers-peffer.1@osu.edu
    • Swine, Nutrition