Tag agriculture
Simon Gilroy
Professor, Botany
Expert on plant responses to stressful environments, plants and spaceflight, plant cell biology
Alex Crockford
Admin Program Manager/Department of Plant Pathology
Expert on seed potato production from tissue culture through commercial planting and provide leadership to certification program with the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Jo Handelsman
Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Vilas Research Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, and Director, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Adena Rissman
Professor of the human dimensions of ecosystem management, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Expert on the social and policy aspects of natural resources management and conservation, including land protection, forestry, wildlife habitat, water quality
Matthew Ginder-Vogel
Assistant Professor, Environmental Chemistry, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Expert on chemistry of metals and nutrients in environmental systems, drinking water, and waste disposal.
Todd Newman
Assistant Professor, Department of Life Sciences Communication
Expert on the intersection between science and society
Cara Westmark
Assistant Professor, Neurology
Expert on Alzheimer's disease, fragile X syndrome and the study of dietary interventions in preclinical models
Adel Talaat
Professor of Microbiology; Department of Pathobiological Sciences
Infectious diseases expert with focus on tuberculosis in humans, bovine tuberculosis and Johne's disease in cattle. Expert in food animal vaccines.
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Irwin Goldman
Professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences
Expert on public plant breeding, open source seeds, and the breeding of carrots, onions and beets
Tyler Lark
Researcher, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment
Expert on U.S. agricultural land use, conservation, and federal policy
Heather White
Associate Professor, Dairy Science; Faculty Director, UW Dairy Innovation Hub
Understanding nutrient partitioning to improve feed efficiency and metabolic health in dairy cows
Zhou Zhang
Assistant Professor, Biological Systems Engineering
Expert on data science for agriculture, high-throughput plant phenotyping, hyperspectral remote sensing, sustainable agriculture
Andrew W. Stevens
Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Expert on applied agricultural and food policy with interests ranging from US agricultural production to consumer food demand and food security
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Brian McInnes
Civil Society and Community Studies
Expert on P-12 Indigenous Education policy and practice, world language immersion education, Indigenous environmental stewardship, and Ojibwe/Potawatomi languages and culture.
Vanessa Herald
Senior Farm to Institution Outreach Specialist, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
Expert on linking local and regional foods with the cafeteria setting
Michelle Miller
Associate Director, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
Expert on regional food systems and food supply chains, including food transportation, labor and governance.
Diane Mayerfeld
Senior Outreach Specialist, Division of Extension, Agriculture Institute; Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
Expert on sustainable agriculture
Nan Li
Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Communication
Expert on visual communications of science, environment and agriculture; public opinion; audience psychology
Jennifer Van Os
Assistant Professor, Animal & Dairy Science; Extension Specialist, Animal Welfare
Understanding and improving the welfare (quality of life) of dairy cows and calves
Victor Cabrera
Professor and Extension Specialist in Dairy Management; Animal and Dairy Science
Development of decision support tools for improving dairy farm management. Leading the Dairy Brain project integrating live farm data pipelines for improved decision-making.
Jessica Hite
Assistant Professor, Pathobiological Sciences
Hite's research uses interdisciplinary approaches to gain new insight into how pathogens evolve in response to drugs and immune defense strategies.
John Shutske
Professor Biological Systems Engineering and Director of UW Center for Agricultural Safety & Health
I am an agricultural safety and health specialist, focusing on issues of injury prevention; worker health; mental health; stress management; and risk assessment.
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Jeffrey Hadachek
Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Expert on agricultural water issues and conservation practices
Alexa Kulwiec
Associate Professor, Department of Labor Education; Adjunct Labor Law Professor, UW Law School
Expert on federal and state labor law, labor/management relations, practice before National Labor Relations Board, Collective Bargaining
Joao Dorea
Assistant Professor/Animal and Dairy Sciences
Expert on Digital Agriculture; Sensing Technologies for Animal Monitoring; Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Farm Management
Adela Oliva Chavez
Assistant professor, Department of Entomology
Tick-borne diseases, obligate intracellular bacteria, tick-pathogen interactions, host-pathogen interactions, extracellular vesicles, tick feeding, pathogen transmission, vaccine development, tick biology, Anaplasmosis
Gina Mode
Researcher, Center for Dairy Research
Passionate about butter and cheese making, grading, judging, and history – particularly in Wisconsin.
Jingyi Huang
Assistant Professor
Expert on remote sensing; proximal soil sensing; digital soil mapping; soil physics; soil-vegetation-atmosphere interaction;
Sara Gragg
Associate Professor, Animal and Dairy Sciences; Associate Director, Meat Science and Animal Biologics Discovery
Food microbiologist specializing in food safety, with an emphasis on the meat and poultry industries.