Contact Information
186 Animal Sciences Laboratory
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Animal Sciences
Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Professor, Center for Digital Agriculture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Director, Illinois Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation
Recent Publications
Ahmed, M. W., Sprigler, A., Emmert, J. L., Dilger, R. N., Chowdhary, G., & Kamruzzaman, M. (2025). Non-destructive detection of pre-incubated chicken egg fertility using hyperspectral imaging and machine learning. Smart Agricultural Technology, 10, Article 100857. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2025.100857
Golden, R. K., & Dilger, R. N. (2025). Validating an updated protocol for the novel object recognition task in young pigs. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 19, Article 1480389. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2025.1480389
Metras, B. N., Oba, P. M., Holt, D. A., Bauer, L. L., Miller, M. J., Dilger, R. N., & Swanson, K. S. (2025). In vitro fermentation characteristics of dietary fibers using fecal inoculum from dogs consuming commercial or grain kefir. Journal of animal science, 103, Article skaf022. https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skaf022
Sommer, K. M., Burris, E. S., Jespersen, J. C., Estes, K., Dilger, A. C., & Dilger, R. N. (2025). Graded supplemental choline chloride fed throughout the grow and finish periods elicited minimal influence on growth performance and carcass characteristics of pigs in a commercial setting. Journal of animal science, 103, Article skae386. https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skae386
Sutkus, L. T., Sommer, K. M., Li, Z., Sutton, B., Donovan, S. D., & Dilger, R. N. (2025). Experimentally induced colitis impacts myelin development and home-cage behavior in young pigs regardless of supplementation with oral gamma-cyclodextrin-encapsulated tributyrin. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 19, Article 1484497. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2025.1484497