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Workgroup Information Animal Agriculture Coordinating Conference |
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| $15,000 | |
| Summary | Goals of Coordinating Conference are to: establish genuine connections and cooperative associations among campus and county-based ANR members working in Animal Agriculture; Increase awareness and understanding of significant issues and opportunities for collaboration in research and extension programming; Identify strategies for promoting collaborative relationships and planning joint projects in ANRs animal agriculture programs. |
| Annual Reports: |
2007 2006 2005 2004 |
| Workgroup Chair Information | |
| Name | Daniel Drake (Co-Chair) |
| Phone | (530) 842-2711 |
| djdrake@ucdavis.edu | |
| Unit: | Siskiyou County |
| Location: |
Cooperative Extension Siskiyou County 1655 South Main Street Yreka, 96097 |
| Name | Alison Van Eenennaam (Co-Chair) |
| Phone | (530) 752-7942 |
| alvaneenennaam@ucdavis.edu | |
| Unit: | Animal Science |
| Location: |
Animal Science One Shields Avenue Davis, 95616-8521 |
| Responsible for Workgroup Administration and Budget | |
| Name | Alison VanEenennaam |
| alvaneenennaam@ucdavis.edu | |
| Phone | 530-752-7942 |
| Membership List | ||
| AES Scientist | ||
| Adams, Thomas | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Biochemical endocrinology; hormone receptor dynamics; endocrine control of reproduction; stress; environmental estrogens; immunocastration. | |
| Adaska, John | School of Veterinary Medicine | |
| Allen-Diaz, Barbara | Associate Vice President - Academic Programs and Strategic Initiatives | |
| Associate Vice President, Academic Programs and Strategic Initiatives, Director of the Research and Extension Centers, and Professor and Russell Rustici Chair in Rangeland Management | Rangeland Ecology and Management | |
| Anderson, Mark | School of Veterinary Medicine | |
| Angelos, John | School of Veterinary Medicine | |
| Ardans, Alex | School of Veterinary Medicine | |
| Baerenklau, Kenneth | Environmental Sciences | |
| Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy Assistant Environmental Economist | Environmental and natural resource economics and policy | |
| Bannasch, Danika | School of Veterinary Medicine | |
| Berger, Patricia | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Fertilization and fertility; gamete membrane interaction at the molecular level, including species comparisons. | |
| BonDurant, Robert | Population Health & Reproduction | |
| Chair Professor of Population Health & Reproduction | Embryo transfer and venereal diseases in livestock | |
| Boyce, Walter | Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology | |
| Associate Professor of Microbiology Immunology | Immunoparasitology; the effect of diseases and parasites on free ranging wildlife | |
| Calvert, Christopher | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Protein metabolism; energy metabolism; homeorhesis; systems analysis. | |
| Carpenter, Tim | Medicine & Epidemiology | |
| Professor of Epidemiology | Livestock production economics | |
| Chang, Ernest | Animal Science | |
| Professor (Bodega Bay Marine Lab) | Endocrinology; comparative biochemistry, physiology, and larval development of invertebrates. | |
| Chomel, Bruno | Population Health & Reproduction | |
| Assistant Professor | Veterinary public health, zoonosis | |
| Conklin, Douglas | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Nutrition of aquatic invertebrates and fish; ecological impact of aquaculture. | |
| Conley, Alan | Population Health & Reproduction | |
| Professor | ||
| Conrad, Patricia | Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology | |
| Associate Professor of Microbiology Immunology | Molecular biology; immunology of pathogenic protozoa; development of parasite-specific DNA probes and immunoassays. | |
| Corbeil, Lynette | School of Veterinary Medicine | |
| Cullor, James | Population Health & Reproduction | |
| Associate Professor Director VMTRC | Bovine mastitis, neonatal Immunology and defense mechanisms of the accessory system | |
| Dahlgren, Randy | Soils & Biogeochemistry Program | |
| Professor Pedologist Soil Mineralogist-AES | Biogeochemical aspects of pedology-interactions of biological, hydrological and geochemical processes in natural and managed environments; processes and products of mineral weathering in the soil environment | |
| Delany, Mary | Dean's Office CA&ES | |
| Programmatic Associate Dean and Associate Professor in the Department of Animal Science | Avian developmental genetics; embryology; cytogenetics; genomics. | |
| DePeters, Edward | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Ruminant nutrition of dairy cattle; mammary gland synthesis of milk protein and fat; nutrient digestion, absorption, and metabolism; evaluation of by-product feedstuffs and forage quality. | |
| Eadie, John | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Waterfowl; avian behavior and ecology; population genetics; wetland and riparian ecology; molecular ecology. | |
| Fadel, James | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Quantitative applications; biological and production systems modeling; feed and fiber evaluations. | |
| Famula, Thomas | Animal Science | |
| Professor Vice Chair | Quantitative genetic theory and statistics, with a particular interest in the genetic evaluation of disease and temperament in dogs. | |
| Gardner, Ian | Medicine & Epidemiology | |
| Associate Professor | Analytical and clinical epidemiology; respiratory diseases of swine. | |
| George, Lisle | Medicine & Epidemiology | |
| Professor of Medicine | Large animal internal medicine | |
| Gershwin, Laurel | Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology | |
| Professor of Microbiology Immunology | Molecular pathogenesis and immune regulation of bovine respiratory syncytial virus infection. | |
| Hansen, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | |
| Associate Dean-Student Programs & Professor of Physiology | Metabolism, biochemistry | |
| Hedrick, Ronald | Medicine & Epidemiology | |
| Professor of Medicine | Effects of infectious diseases on cultured fish and shellfish | |
| Hietala, Sharon | School of Veterinary Medicine | |
| Hird, David | Medicine & Epidemiology | |
| Preventive Medicine Professor of Epidemiology | Analytical epidemiology; epidemiologic study design | |
| Hoar, Bruce | School of Veterinary Medicine | |
| Hovey, Russell | Animal Science | |
| Associate Professor | Hormonal regulation of mammary gland growth and lactation, and breast cancer with specific interests in ovarian and pituitary hormone functions; role of stromal environment in cell function; across-species differences in mammary gland biology and hormone function. | |
| Hung, Silas | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Fish feeding nutrition and biochemistry. | |
| King, Annie | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Prevention of lipid oxidation in poultry muscle, eggs and their products; methodologies for determination of cholesterol and its oxidized derivatives in poultry muscle and eggs. | |
| Klasing, Kirk | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Impact of nutrition on immunochemistry and disease resistance; immunologic basis of stress; nutrition and metabolic adaptation required by carnivorous, granivorous, and nectivorous birds. | |
| Kueltz, Dietmar | Animal Science | |
| Associate Professor | Physiological Genomics, Environmental stress response, Comparative proteomics and genomics of environmental adaptation, Osmoregulation, Fish physiology and biochemistry, Renal cell biology, Stress response of invertebrates in extreme environments | |
| Laca, Emilio | Department of Plant Sciences | |
| Professor | Spatial ecology. Rangelands and climate change. Invasive annual grasses. Precision grazing. | |
| MacLachlan, N | Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology | |
| Chair & Professor of Pathology | Viral pathogenesis, molecular characterization of equine arteritis virus and bluetongue virus. | |
| Medrano, Juan | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Physiological/molecular animal genetics; animal genomics; milk proteins and composition; animal growth. | |
| Mench, Joy | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Animal welfare; environmental enrichment for intensively-managed animals; behavior of poultry and laboratory animals | |
| Millam, James | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Physiology and neurochemical anatomy of the cGnRH I/II neuronal systems and related neuropeptide systems; biology, reproductive management, and welfare of captive parrots; sexual differention of the song control system in zebra finches; avian neuroendocrinology; avian environmental toxicology. | |
| Moeller, Robert | School of Veterinary Medicine | |
| Mullens, Bradley | Entomology CNAS | |
| Entomologist Professor | Biology, ecology and integrated management of anthropod pests of livestock and poultry; epizootiology of vector-borne diseases of veterinary significance | |
| Murray, James | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Use of transgenic animals to study gene expression during growth and differentiation, with particular emphasis on post-natal growth and lipid metabolism; genetic engineering of dairy animals to change the properties of milk for human consumption; molecular genetics; cytogenetics; equine genetics. | |
| Oberbauer, Anita | Animal Science | |
| Professor Vice Chair | Cell and molecular biology; animal growth and development of genetic markers. | |
| Pittroff, Wolfgang | Animal Science | |
| Assistant Professor | Modeling livestock production systems;ruminant nutritional physiology; grazing management and livestock economics; international agricultural development in tropics. | |
| Radke, Kathryn | Animal Science | |
| Associate Professor | Retroviral gene expression and pathogenesis; cancer-causing retroviruses of domestic animals | |
| Roser, Janet | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Equine reproductive physiology and endocrinology. | |
| Rowe, Joan | Population Health & Reproduction | |
| Associate Professor | Livestock health, especially dairy cattle and dairy goats clinical epidemiology | |
| Sainz, Roberto | Animal Science | |
| Associate Professor | Ruminant nutrition; growth and body composition; nutritional energetics; modeling. | |
| Santos, Jose | School of Veterinary Medicine | |
| Smith, Wayne | School of Veterinary Medicine | |
| Smith, Bradford | Medicine & Epidemiology | |
| Professor of Medicine | Epidemiology of conditions affecting productivity in food animals (dairy cattle); epidemiology of fetal loss, bovine neospora infections, calf and udder health. | |
| Stott, Jeffrey | Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology | |
| Professor of Microbiology Immunology | Developmental cellular innumology, mucosal immunology | |
| Tomich, Thomas | Agricultural Sustainability Institute | |
| Director | ||
| Tucker, Cassandra | Animal Science | |
| Assistant Professor | Animal welfare, animal behavior, effects of housing design and environmental conditions on dairy cattle | |
| Wakenell, Patricia | Population Health & Reproduction | |
| Assistant Professor | Poultry health, especially viral | |
| Walker, Richard | School of Veterinary Medicine | |
| Weathers, Wesley | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Avian energetics and temperature regulation. | |
| Wilson, Barry | Animal Science | |
| Professor | Neurotoxicology; aquatic and terrestrial ecotoxicology; biomarkers of stress and pesticide exposure; growth and development with focus on muscle and nerve interactions. | |
| Woolcock, Peter | School of Veterinary Medicine | |
| Yilma, Tilahun | Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology | |
| Professor of Microbiology Immunology | Virology, recombinant vaccines for rinderpest, AIDS, etc | |
| Zhang, Ruihong | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Professor | Bioenvironmental engineering. Treatment of agricultural and food wastes for pollution prevention and resource utilization; air quality control for animal and human environments; study of biological, physical, and chemical processing techniques for organic waste conversion and nutrient management; control of gaseous and particulate emissions from animal feedlots and food processing facilities. | |
| Zinn, Richard | Animal Science | |
| Professor & Interim Center Director | Ruminant nutrition; feedlot cattle nutrition and management; factors associated with digestive function. | |
| CE Advisor | ||
| Barry, Sheila | Santa Clara County | |
| Livestock & Natural Resources Advisor | Rangeland Management | |
| Becchetti, Theresa | Stanislaus County | |
| Farm Advisor | Livestock and Natural Resources | |
| Bower, Alan | Humboldt County Office | |
| Livestock/Natural Resources Advisor/County Director | Livestock, Rangeland, and Pasture Management | |
| Castillo, Alejandro | Merced County | |
| Farm Advisor Dairy Science | Ruminants Nutrition | |
| Churches, Kenneth | Calaveras County | |
| Farm Advisor Calaveras County Director 4-HYD Advisor | General agriculture, livestock, range, wine grape and olive production | |
| Collar, Carol | Kings County | |
| Farm Advisor | Dairy, livestock and forage | |
| Crane, Sharon | Kern County | |
| Office Services Technician | Process Newsletters, Meeting Announcements, and Research Papers for Advisors. | |
| Culver, Carrie | Ventura County | |
| Marine Advisor | ||
| Davy, Josh | Tehama County | |
| Livestock, Range, and Natural Resources Advisor | Livestock, Range and Irrigated Pasture | |
| Delmas, Rick | Inyo-Mono Counties | |
| County Director | livestock and renewable natural resources | |
| Doran, Morgan | Solano County | |
| Advisor for Livestock and Natural Resources | Livestock, beef cattle, sheep, nutrition, range & natural resources | |
| Drake, Daniel | Siskiyou County | |
| Farm Advisor | Conducts research and educational programs in the areas of livestock, range and pasturing with emphasis on beef cattle, computer application, animal nutrition, particularly trace minerals and general agricultural marketing economics as key areas | |
| Forero, Larry | Shasta County | |
| Livestock Advisor | Livestock and Natural resources | |
| Frost, Bill | ANR Research and Extension Centers | |
| Associate Director - ANR Research and Extension Centers and Natural Resource Advisor | ||
| Garcia, Sergio | San Benito County | |
| Farm Advisor, Emeritus - Livestock Range and Natural Resources | ||
| George, Holly | Plumas Sierra | |
| Livestock & Natural Resource Advisor, County Director | Youth, Livestock, Multiple Use of Natural Resources | |
| Guerrero, Juan | Imperial County | |
| Area Livestock Farm Advisor, Emeritus | Livestock; alfalfa and irrigated pasture; feedlot cattle; waste management; biosolids | |
| Harper, John | Mendocino County | |
| Mendocino County Director and Livestock & Natural Resources Advisor | Sheep production, range cattle production, rangeland, watershed, water quality, computer applications. | |
| Heguy, Jennifer | Stanislaus County | |
| Farm Advisor | Dairy | |
| Higginbotham, Gerald | Fresno County | |
| Dairy Farm Advisor | Dairy nutrition and management; silage management | |
| Ingram, Roger | Placer-Nevada Counties | |
| Placer-Nevada County Director and Farm Advisor | Grazing management, fencing, nutrition, economics, livestock, range, land use, low-stress livestock handling, California Grazing Academy | |
| Jensen, Wayne | Santa Barbara County | |
| Emeritus County Director | Livestock, natural resources, public issue education | |
| Johnson, Leigh | San Diego County | |
| Marine Advisor | Policy Analysis, Coastal Water Quality, Aquatic Invasive Species, Recreational Boating | |
| Kuney, Douglas | Riverside County | |
| Area Extension Poultry Farm Advisor | Poultry and egg production, emphasizing public and environmental health issues, poultry health and disease prevention, nutrition and general management. | |
| Larsen, Royce | San Luis Obispo County | |
| Area Natural Resource Watershed Advisor | Water Quality and Non-point Source Pollution on Rangelands. Also, othe natural resource issues including: Rangeland Improvements, Noxious Invasive Weeds, Wildland Fires, Grassland Restoration and Endangered Species. | |
| Larson, Stephanie | Sonoma County | |
| County Director and Livestock Range Management Advisor | Sheep management and production, fiber production, rangeland and natural resource management, water quality | |
| Lile, David | Lassen County | |
| County Director | Livestock / Natural Resources | |
| Lobo, Ramiro | San Diego North County Office | |
| Small Farms & Agricultural Economics Advisor | Farm management, marketing, agricultural economics, agricultural tourism, small farms, new/specialty crops | |
| McDougald, Neil | Madera County | |
| Natural Resources Farm Advisor | Range and livestock | |
| Merrill-Davies, Missy | Modoc County | |
| County Director, Livestock & Natural Resources Farm Advisor | Beef Cattle | |
| Nader, Glenn | Sutter-Yuba Counties | |
| Farm Advisor Livestock and Natural Resources | Livestock, forage crops, range and natural resources | |
| Olin, Paul | Sonoma County | |
| Director Sea Grant Extension Program Marine Advisor | Aquaculture, marine fisheries, agriculture and natural resources issues | |
| Oneto, Scott | Tuolumne County | |
| Farm Advisor / County Director | Rangeland management, weed science, home horticulture, livestock | |
| Peterson, Nyles | San Bernardino County | |
| County Director & Dairy Advisor | Dairy Advisor for dairy management, waste management, milk quality and milking managment | |
| Starr, Richard | Santa Cruz County | |
| Marine Advisor | Marine ecology, fisheries, coastal resources | |
| Sullins, Jim | Tulare County | |
| County Director | Livestock, Range and Natural Resources, Public Policy, Community Development | |
| DelNorte, CE | Del Norte County Office | |
| 4-H Program Representative | ||
| Wood, Yvonne | Inyo-Mono Counties | |
| County Director and Natural Resources Advisor | Soils | |
| CE Specialist | ||
| Atwill, Edward | ||
| Berry, Steven | Animal Science | |
| CE Specialist | Dairy management and health; hoof health and lameness in dairy cattle; management , cow comfort and welfare. | |
| Butler, Leslie | Agricultural & Resource Economics | |
| Specialist in Cooperative Extension | Dairy Production, Marketing and Policy, Agricultural and Natural Resource Policy, Biotechnology, Technological Change, Public Policy Issues | |
| Cardona, Carol | Veterinary Medicine Extension | |
| CE Veterinarian | Poultry Specialist | |
| Chebel, Ricardo | Veterinary Medicine Extension | |
| Assistant Specialist in Cooperative Extension | Dairy Herd Health & Food Safety | |
| Conte, Fred | Animal Science | |
| CE Specialist | Fresh water and marine aquaculture production and related public policy and regulatory issues. Computer Software, shellfish sanitation and aquatic animal welfare | |
| George, Melvin | Department of Plant Sciences | |
| CE Specialist IX | Range and pasture improvement, grazing management, rangeland water quality, rangeland management practices, ranch planning, and ecological site descriptions. | |
| Gerry, Alec | Entomology CNAS | |
| Associate Veterinary Entomologist and CE Specialist | Veterinary Entomology | |
| Harter, Thomas | Hydrology Program | |
| Cooperative Extension Specialist | Flow and transport processes in groundwater and in the vadoze zone; non-point source pollution of groundwater; groundwater remediation; groundwater resources management; geostatistics; stochastic analysis; numerical modeling. | |
| Klingborg, Donald | Veterinary Medicine Extension | |
| Associate Dean for Extension, School of Veterinary Medicine and Director, ANR Strategic Advocacy & UC - County Partnerships | Agroterrorism, Food safety, Food Animal Residue Avoidance, Dairy Production, Infectious Diseases, Zoonoses | |
| Lanzaro, Gregory | Mosquito Research Program | |
| Director Mosquito Research Program | Population and molecular genetics of insect vectors of human disease. | |
| Maas, John | Veterinary Medicine Extension | |
| CE Veterinarian | Beef cattle health and food safety; metabolic diseases; herd health management | |
| Meyer, Deanne | Animal Science | |
| CE Specialist | Livestock waste management | |
| Mitloehner, Frank | Animal Science | |
| Associate CE Specialist | Livestock systems air quality; quantification and mitigation of Ag air pollutants | |
| Oltjen, James | Animal Science | |
| CE Specialist | Computer decision support software; beef quality assurance; standardized performance analysis for cattle and sheep ranches. Animal management systems; resource use in animal agriculture; beef cattle growth. | |
| Pettygrove, Stuart | Land, Air & Water Resources | |
| CE Soils Specialist | Soil fertility; land application of wastes and wastewater; dairy manure; winegrape nutrition; precision agriculture. | |
| Robinson, Peter | Animal Science | |
| CE Specialist | On-farm animal management systems; on-farm implementation of strategies to reduce the environmental impact of cows. | |
| Stull, Carolyn | Veterinary Medicine Extension | |
| Animal Welfare CE Specialist | Agricultural animal welfare program; trasport stress, starvation in animals, best management practices | |
| Tate, Kenneth | Department of Plant Sciences | |
| CE Rangeland Watershed Specialist and Vice Chair for Outreach and Extension | Rangeland hydrology, water quality, nonpoint source pollution, grazing management. | |
| Van Eenennaam, Alison | Animal Science | |
| CE Specialist | Animal genomics, biotechnology. | |
| Yates, Marylynn | Environmental Sciences | |
| Professor of Environmental Microbiology, Program Leader – Natural Resources and Animal Agriculture | Water and Wastewater Microbiology | |
| Other ANR | ||
| Karle, Betsy | Glenn County | |
| Dairy Program Representative | ||
| Kramer, Andrew | Amador County | |
| Program Representative and Master Gardener Coordinator | ||
| Meyer, Roland | Land, Air & Water Resources | |
| CE Soils Specialist Emeritus | Soil fertility-plant nutrition, efficiency of fertilizer use, pollution of environment by waste products and fertilizers, application of fly ash and other wastes on forest and agricultural lands, water quality evaluation and concerns, soil-water-plant nutrient interactions and their effect on plant growth | |
| Tindall, Justin | Sierra Foothill Research & Extension Center | |
| Animal Health Technician II | ||
| Tom, Pamela | Sea Grant Extension Program | |
| Program Manager | Seafood HACCP, safety, quality and processing | |
| Other UC | ||
| Johnson, Jerry | Animal Science Department | |
| Beef Operations Manager | Cattle Production | |
| Kass, Philip | Population Health and Reproduction | |
| Associate Professor | Cancer Research Quantitative Epidemiology,(Companion Animal, Laboratory Animal, Primate) Non-experimental inference, epidemiologic methodology and analysis epidemiology of environmental hazards of animals and humans, companion animal epidemiology. | |
| Moller, James | Animal Science | |
| Animal Technician | ||
| Myers, Dan | Animal Science | |
| Beef Operations Manager | ||
| User, Unverified | ||
| Reynolds, Jim | School of Veterinary Medicine | |
| Sehnert, Dan | Animal Science Department | |
| Facilities Manager | ||
| Membership Totals | ||
| Number of Members | 138 | |
| ANR Members | 138 | |
| Non-ANR | 0 | |
| Info Only | 0 | |
