Research

Projects

• Investigating the impact of fescue toxicosis in beef cattle production and health.
• Exploring the efficacy of methionine supplementation to mitigate heat stress impacts on reproductive performance and embryo development in Holstein cows.

Collaborative Projects

• Effects of paternal diet on DNA methylation and economically important traits of the offspring in the subsequent generations in sheep.
  • PI: Hasan Khatib
  • Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
  • Period: 2021-present

• Exploring the genetic regulation of prolificacy using genome-wide association and transcriptome studies in sheep breeds.
  • PI: Annelin Molotsi
  • Institution: Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • Period: 2021-present

• Effects of paternal diet on sperm DNA methylation and embryo transcriptome in sheep.
  • PI: Hasan Khatib
  • Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
  • Period: 2021-2023

• Characterization of paternal mRNAs in bovine embryos.
  • PI: Hasan Khatib
  • Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
  • Period: 2021-2023

• Identification of miRNA as biomarkers of early pregnancy in cattle.
  • PI: Hasan Khatib
  • Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
  • Period: 2021-2023

• Transcriptomics in familial hypercholesterolemic Wisconsin Mini Swine (WMS) model.
  • PI: Hasan Khatib
  • Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
  • Period: 2021-2023

• Role of RBM20 in skeletal muscle regeneration and growth.
  • PI: Wei Guo
  • Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
  • Period: 2020-2024

• Cytoplasmic trafficking of titin mRNA binding protein 20 in heart failure progression.
  • PI: Wei Guo
  • Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
  • Period: 2020-2024

• Posttranscriptional regulation of RNA binding proteins in heart failure.
  • PI: Wei Guo
  • Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
  • Period: 2020-2024

• Identifying local adaptation and creating region-specific genomic predictions in beef cattle.
  • PI: Jared Decker
  • Institution: University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
  • Period: 2019-2020

• Genomic study and immunological characterization of cattle resistant to bovine babesiosis and analysis of the genetic diversity of Babesia bovis and Babesia bigemina.
  • PI: Henrique Nunes de Oliveira
  • Institution: Sao Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, Brazil
  • Period: 2019-2023

• Genetic aspects of meat production quality, efficiency, and sustainability in Nelore breed animals.
  • PI: Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque
  • Institution: Sao Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, Brazil
  • Period: 2018-2023

• Genomic tools to genetic improvement of direct economic important traits in Nelore cattle.
  • PI: Luca Galvão de Albuquerque
  • Institution: Sao Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, Brazil
  • Period: 2012-2019