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Baumgard, Lance: Nutritional Physiology Research focus will be on improving efficiency of animal production and to better understand how nutrient utilization is regulated. Of special interest is how homeostatic and homeorhetic systems control nutrient partitioning to support different physiological states. Areas of research will involve nutritional, biochemical, molecular, and endocrine aspects of metabolism. Lactation: Research will concentrate on mechanisms regulating milk synthesis and production of milk components. This will involve studying the process of how milk fat is synthesized and how environmental factors, including nutrition and ambient temperature, regulate both the yield and composition of milk fat. Goals are to discover techniques to manipulate milk fat production to improve animal performance and well-being and improve the healthfulness of dairy products. Continued efforts will be made to identify the biological mechanisms by which selection mediates increased milk yield and to understand the variation and improve the efficiency of milk production. Growth: Research will focus on understanding lipid metabolism during growth. This will involve studying the process of how nutrients are coordinated and partitioned between accretion of lean and adipose tissue. Efforts will be made to manipulate lipid metabolism to improve efficiency and healthfulness of animal products
Dvorak, Katerina: Cancer Biology, GI cancer, Barrett's esophagus
Foote, Janet:
Going, Scott: Dr. Going is an expert in models and methods for assessment of changes in body composition during growth and aging. He is also an expert in physical activity and fitness assessment and the design of exercise interventions. He is currently researching the effects of chronic exercise and nutritional factors on bone development in adolescent girls; nutrition, exercise and hormone replacement on bone in postmenopausal women; the effects of muscle loss on bone loss and hip geometry in older women; and diet and exercise for pediatric obesity prevention and weight loss in women.
Haussler, Mark: Vitamin D action and receptors for the vitamin D hormone; Osteoporosis and other metabolic bone diseases related to calcium and phosphorus homeostasis, with specific reference to the function of the vitamin D hormone and sex steroids in bone remodeling; Molecular endocrinology: cell culture, monoclonal antibodies and gene structure as tools to study retinoids and steroid hormones as regulators of gene transcription.
Houtkooper, Linda: Investigation of the roles of nutritional status and physical activity in disease prevention, optimal health promotion, and sport performance.
Howell, Wanda: Research focuses on the development and clinical application of metabolic monitoring and body composition techniques including energy expenditure by doubly labeled water and fluid status by bio-impedance spectroscopy; and on the maintenance of a computer managed system to prospectively monitor published data on the effects of diet changes on plasma lipids and lipoproteins.
Jacobson, Elaine: We are developing target specific drugs for skin cancer prevention. Presently we are targeting a unique feature of UV light induced damage in skin dermal proteins in the extracellular matrix, such as collagen, that absorb light and generate ROS. We are also developing agents that scavenge reactive carbonyl species formed in skin by UV light. These studies span both basic and translational aspects of skin cancer prevention.

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