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
Froebel, L. E., Rincker, M. J., & Dilger, R. N. (2026). Establishing an experimental challenge model in broiler chickens exposed to multiple mild stressors of cyclic elevated ambient temperature, feed withdrawal, and coccidiosis infection. Poultry science, 105(2), Article 106290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psj.2025.106290
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
Zhou, M., Zhou, S., Xiong, B., Li, Z., Condotta, I. C. F. S., Dilger, R. N., Li, J., & Tang, X. (2026). Humanoid animal behavior labeler: An interactive annotation agent to accelerate ethological applications in precision management of animals using large vision-language models. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 241, Article 111307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2025.111307
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, 26(12), Article e13971. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13971