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Ryan Dilger

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Contact Information

1207 W. Gregory Dr.
186 Animal Sciences Laboratory
Urbana, IL 61801
Professor, Animal Sciences
Research: Interdisciplinary Animal Research for Nutrition and Health

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

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

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