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Julie Dawson

Julie Dawson

Associate professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences

Expert on organic agriculture, participatory research, plant breeding, agrobiodiversity conservation

Lori  DiPrete Brown

Lori DiPrete Brown

Associate director, Global Health Institute, Director, 4W Initiative, Distinguised Faculty Associate, SOHE

Global health expert focusing on women, children and highly vulnerable populations. Works to improve quality of health and social services from a human rights perspective.

Beth Olson

Beth Olson

Associate Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences

Dr. Beth Olson is an expert on helping families make healthy nutrition choices for their families.

Lydia Zepeda

Lydia Zepeda

Professor emerita, consumer science

Expert on sustainable consumption, organic and local foods, CSA, farmers' markets, mobile markets,time use, food labels, family farm labor,labor policy

Amaya Atucha

Amaya Atucha

Assistant professor, plant and agroecosystem sciences

Expert on fruit crop production

Jennifer Gaddis

Jennifer Gaddis

Associate Professor, Civil Society & Community Studies

Expert on school food politics and systems change in local, state, national, and international contexts

Dudley Lamming

Assistant Professor, Medicine

Expert on how nutrition can be used to promote healthy aging

Ken Cameron

Ken Cameron

Professor, Botany; Director, WI State Herbarium

Expert on plant biology, especially orchids, Vanilla, and the flora of Wisconsin; natural history science museum collections

Simon Gilroy

Simon Gilroy

Professor, Botany

Expert on plant responses to stressful environments, plants and spaceflight, plant cell biology

Cara Westmark

Cara Westmark

Assistant Professor, Neurology

Expert on Alzheimer's disease, fragile X syndrome and the study of dietary interventions in preclinical models

Adel Talaat

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.

Irwin Goldman

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

Tyler Lark

Researcher, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment

Expert on U.S. agricultural land use, conservation, and federal policy

Heather White

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

Andrew W. Stevens

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

Michelle Miller

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

Diane Mayerfeld

Senior Outreach Specialist, Division of Extension, Agriculture Institute; Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems

Expert on sustainable agriculture

Nan Li

Nan Li

Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Communication

Expert on visual communications of science, environment and agriculture; public opinion; audience psychology

Jennifer Van Os

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

Jessica  Hite

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.