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
Chair, Illinois Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation
Recent Publications
Shinnerl, H. E., Banks, I. J., & Dilger, R. N. (2026). A comparative review of chitin occurrence and quantification methodologies with applications to insect sourced materials. Carbohydrate Polymers, 371, Article 124496. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2025.124496
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
Cao, C., Yuan, J., Gilbert, ER., Cline, MA., Lam, F., Li, KC., & Dilger, RN. (2025). Increased Circulating Interleukin Concentrations in Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Obesity Reviews. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13971
De La Guardia Hidrogo, V. M., Oba, P. M., Holt, D. A., Bauer, L. L., Rummell, L. M., Dilger, R. N., & Swanson, K. S. (2025). In Vitro Fermentation Characteristics of Dietary Fibers Using Fecal Inoculum from Dogs Consuming a Dried Brewers Yeast Product. Animals, 15(21), Article 3117. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani15213117
De La Guardia-Hidrogo, V. M., Geary, E. L., Wilson, S. M., Bauer, L. L., Menton, J. F., Vinay, E., Millette, M., Kelly, M. R., Dilger, R. N., & Swanson, K. S. (2025). In vitro fermentation characteristics of acacia fiber using canine fecal inoculum. Journal of animal science, 103, Article skaf152. https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skaf152