Contact Information
186 Animal Sciences Laboratory
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Additional Campus Affiliations
Director, Illinois Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC), Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation
Professor, Animal Sciences
Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Professor, Center for Digital Agriculture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Recent Publications
Bryan, E. E., Bode, N. M., Chen, X., Burris, E. S., Johnson, D. C., Dilger, R. N., & Dilger, A. C. (2024). The effect of chronic, non-pathogenic maternal immune activation on offspring postnatal muscle and immune outcomes. Journal of animal science, 102, Article skad424. https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skad424
Gorenz, B., Oelschlager, M. L., Jespersen, J. C., Cao, C., Smith, A. H., Mackie, R. I., & Dilger, R. N. (2024). Organ growth and fermentation profiles of broilers differing in body growth rate. Poultry science, 103(5), Article 103628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2024.103628
Jespersen, J. C., de Paula Dorigam, J. C., Whelan, R., Dilger, A. C., Oelschlager, M. L., Sommer, K. M., Gorenz, B. E., White, R. R., & Dilger, R. N. (2024). Defining optimal dietary starch, oil, and amino acid inclusion levels for broilers experiencing a coccidiosis challenge. Poultry science, 103(2), Article 103335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2023.103335
Jespersen, J. C., Sommer, K. M., White, C. S., Froebel, L. E., Dorigam, J. C. D. P., Harsh, B. N., & Dilger, R. N. (2024). Effects of a coccidiosis challenge on dietary methionine recommendations in broilers. Poultry science, 103(4), Article 103502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2024.103502
McMath, A., Khan, N. A., Sutkus, L. T., Golden, R. K., Joung, S., Dilger, R. N., & Donovan, S. M. (2024). Pediatric Nutrition: Implications for the Developing Microbiota–Gut–Brain Axis. In N. Hyland, & C. Stanton (Eds.), The Gut-Brain Axis: Dietary, Probiotic, and Prebiotic Interventions on the Microbiota (2 ed., pp. 307-340). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-99971-7.00009-6